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19th May 2020, 02:25 | #1 | Link |
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Is my HDD going to fail?
Hi there,
my computer began to fail to boot randomly when I use Fedora: sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't. Generally, when it boots, it shows a list with a series of logs of the things that are starting 'till it gets to the login page (it's how Fedora works), however when it doesn't it just shows a blank black screen, no logs, no messages, nothing, just a black empty screen. If I reboot and I try two or three times without changing anything, it finally boots and everything works as expected. I even tried with 10 different kernels with no success: it still behaves the same (with the exception that on top of this, newer kernels can't detect my fan so it's a "no no" for me). I have two drives, an old Toshiba HDD from 2016 which has Fedora and a relatively new NVME Intel SSD from 2018 which has Windows 10 and my beloved Windows XP. This is the output of the S.M.A.R.T Test for both of them: SATA HDD from 2016 with Fedora: Code:
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Toshiba 2.5" HDD MQ01ABD... Device Model: TOSHIBA MQ01ABD100 Serial Number: 76GJT8W0T LU WWN Device Id: 5 000039 7219070e9 Firmware Version: AX0R2J User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm Form Factor: 2.5 inches Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated) SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Mon May 18 23:52:35 2020 BST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 120) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 238) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported. SCT Error Recovery Control supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 100 100 001 Pre-fail Always - 1326 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1796 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 044 044 000 Old_age Always - 22509 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0033 135 100 030 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1779 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 46 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 385 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 048 048 000 Old_age Always - 520262 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 36 (Min/Max 12/47) 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 220 Disk_Shift 0x0002 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 222 Loaded_Hours 0x0032 055 055 000 Old_age Always - 18192 223 Load_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 224 Load_Friction 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 226 Load-in_Time 0x0026 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 268 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0001 100 100 001 Pre-fail Offline - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 22506 - # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 9637 - # 3 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 9637 - # 4 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 6676 - # 5 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 6673 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. Code:
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Number: INTEL SSDPEKNW010T8 Serial Number: BTNH90810PRS1P0B Firmware Version: 002C PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x8086 IEEE OUI Identifier: 0x5cd2e4 Controller ID: 1 Number of Namespaces: 1 Namespace 1 Size/Capacity: 1,024,209,543,168 [1.02 TB] Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size: 512 Local Time is: Mon May 18 23:54:08 2020 BST Firmware Updates (0x14): 2 Slots, no Reset required Optional Admin Commands (0x0017): Security Format Frmw_DL Self_Test Optional NVM Commands (0x005f): Comp Wr_Unc DS_Mngmt Wr_Zero Sav/Sel_Feat Timestmp Maximum Data Transfer Size: 32 Pages Warning Comp. Temp. Threshold: 77 Celsius Critical Comp. Temp. Threshold: 80 Celsius Supported Power States St Op Max Active Idle RL RT WL WT Ent_Lat Ex_Lat 0 + 4.00W - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 + 3.00W - - 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 + 2.20W - - 2 2 2 2 0 0 3 - 0.0300W - - 3 3 3 3 5000 5000 4 - 0.0040W - - 4 4 4 4 5000 9000 Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1) Id Fmt Data Metadt Rel_Perf 0 + 512 0 0 === START OF SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature: 33 Celsius Available Spare: 100% Available Spare Threshold: 10% Percentage Used: 0% Data Units Read: 7,937,553 [4.06 TB] Data Units Written: 9,910,024 [5.07 TB] Host Read Commands: 185,445,136 Host Write Commands: 62,433,576 Controller Busy Time: 2,095 Power Cycles: 351 Power On Hours: 4,628 Unsafe Shutdowns: 43 Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0 Error Information Log Entries: 0 Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0 Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 0 Thermal Temp. 1 Transition Count: 609 Thermal Temp. 1 Total Time: 7024 |
19th May 2020, 02:59 | #2 | Link |
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Greetings FranceBB! Of course you should backup immediately! And you should be doing that on a regular basis. I backup my full system every two days. Macrium Reflect if you are wondering.
Yes, your HDD is going to fail. It's only a question of when. I would replace all HDDs with SSDs. Sure, they fail too but I believe with a higher MTBF and they are a boat-load faster, which makes frequent backing up feasible. My system backs up in 30 minutes, running quietly in the background and not interfering with my work. Thank you shadow volume service! Sorry, can't help with linux systems. Been thinking bout buying me one (extra points for identifying the reference there). Hint: Got enough money for a coca-cola. Last edited by videoh; 19th May 2020 at 03:06. |
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The only potential problem I can see is:
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I use Macrium Reflect too, it's a very solid backup tool. Can 100% recommend.
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19th May 2020, 12:01 | #5 | Link |
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Macrium Reflect[free edition] will cope with anything, even if it dont recognise the filesystem on partition.
On W10/Android Tablet/Laptop 2-in-1 type thingy, will backup/restore all (approx 15) partitions of W10/Android without knowing what they all are. EDIT: You dont get much sound from a 2.5 in drive, for 3.5 inch drives can often hear when a drive is on its last legs. Listen to Spin-up on switch on, one of my machines sometimes dont spin up on power-on, and needs 3 or 4 power ups [on occasion] before it works OK, need a new drive for it. Any drive that 'ticks' is also a sure fire warnig that is gonna die soon. [think 'tick' is track seek failure with reset/retry] EDIT: And always have a good working image of all your operating systems, if problems, (hard drive, malware, whatever], just restore the good image, no sweat involved.
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19th May 2020, 16:50 | #6 | Link |
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Immediately replace the drive.
Hard drives are not to be trusted. The second they step out of line, they get taken out back and shot Another vote from Macrium Reflect. Great app for migrating disks! |
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dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512b conv=noerror,sync status=progress this command basically copies an HDD mounted in sda to another mounted in sdb with a block size as little as 512 Bytes (0.512 KB) so that it's less prone to error (i.e errors in a certain block will only affect that block but since it's very small it's not gonna be substantial). It's slow and it's painful to sit there and watch the terminal update as you can't do anything else, but it's probably the safest method. I promised myself to do that periodically and I do but only once every 3 months as it's a drag, let's be honest... I think dd it's like super old fashioned and there are probably more modern alternatives, so I'm gonna try Macrium Reflect since you all suggested it. Quote:
In my own personal case, though, I never heard any bad sound coming from my personal hard drives. Every time an HDD died it was because I was starting to see re-allocated sectors but I never heard any noise. The only ones who were making a noise after they died (2) had the classic "click of death". My first hard drive was a very slow PATA with 40 GB happily running Windows98SE. I've changed many hard drives in my whole life, but guess what? That drive still works as of today (I don't use it of course, but if I plug that in, it works and it has been serving files regularly for years before I put it in my shelf). Last edited by FranceBB; 20th May 2020 at 01:27. |
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My first hard drive cost me about £400.00, and was 20MB.
(I still got the enclosure, but with 512MB drive [16 partitions would you believe], for Atari ST, still got that too). [My first double density 3.5 (720KB) floppy drive was about £160.00, with interface, Sinclair QL, might have had some memory expansion too, 128KB or 256KB or thereabouts]. I like to keep OS and data physical drives completely separate. I use OS drive only for temp stuff, eg downloads, until I decide where to put it. OS image is good idea, I like to take it back to an early image every now and then, start fresh with any updates, get rid of accumlated crud. Dont really need backup of OS installer, W7, W10, Linux, Android x86, setup images easily downloadable. I never ever use "My Documents" for anything, losing OS and data simultaneously would not taste good, and I dont bother to move My Documents to separate partition/drive, just dont like being told where to put stuff. Any OS stuff put on my data drive is swiftly dealt with[deleted], I dont care what it puts on OS drive, but my data drives are mine. [Sometimes a pain where eg M$ Office used to write crud 'cache' on biggest drive, gets deleted quickly, need to uninstall, and reinstall with all data drives offline so it cant 'crud them up'.] Data requires separate backup, currently No1 machine 2 internal drives, and 4 external [EDIT: actually 5], also right in front of me I see 5 x 2.5 inch external USB drives which can be used for backups, so I generally like plenty of space for stuff. TestDisk and Photorec also invaluable every now and then when you lose some data on corrupt drive or maybe just due to accidental deletion. TestDisk:- https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk PhotoRec:- https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
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400 quids?! Shut the front door, that's insane! O_O
I just found a website showing prices from 1955 to today and apparently they used to be way more expensive than I thought: https://jcmit.net/diskprice.htm Quote:
As a side note, I stopped playing videogames after several years, in late 2012, when I realized my childhood was long gone. Same here, I don't use "My documents" or the default music directory etc. I have them in a separate NTFS partition that can be accessed both by Linux and Windows, 'cause it would be a pain to be able to listen to my music from only one OS (since I have a multi-boot with GRUB). Last edited by FranceBB; 20th May 2020 at 14:16. |
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Yep, I can confirm that.
You can get a 16TB drive now for about 450 bucks. Just for fun, calculate what that storage space would have cost back then.
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EDIT: Got an Amiga 1200 with 10MB RAM, sadly only a 128MB hard drive, I need one [EDIT: 2.5 inch internal] in the 2GB range which will be about max supported unless I hack it. (Max supported size for the ATARI was about 128MB I think, I had to hack the driver (loaded from first HD track), to get it running with 512 MB drive. 10MB on Amiga is monstrous, I give 2MB to RAM disk cos I dont know what else to do with it. EDIT: Can fit another 2MB PCMCIA card to Amiga 1200 for max possible RAM of 12MB, maybe I find one some day, and also must keep lookout for the MC68000 floating point co-processor [68001 or something like that] and a appropriate speed crystal. Then will be pretty much max'd out. EDIT: FranceBB hard/floppy drive price DB puts price of 720KB 1984 floppy drive at about $400.00, perhaps I underestimated cost of mine a little bit, but 1986 20MB @ $498 looks about right for price and year of mine [although exchange rate woulda been different then].
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Storing data reliably for a long period of time is really hard.
Ever since a hard drive failure wiped out all my photos and videos from a ~5 year period of my life I've never trusted single drives. Anything important needs at least 2 copies, and really ideally 4-5 copies. Here's my strategy: 1) Main desktop PC has several SSDs and several mechanical drives. I spread out my libraries of data across the disks according to performance requirements. 2) Backblaze backs up everything important to their cloud, all encrypted of course 3) I have nightly robocopy scripts replicate important things (namely my photo libraries) from one local drive to another so I have 2 fast and simple local copies 4) Other nightly robocopy scripts also replicate important things to my server, which is an older PC with a pair of 8 TB drives in a Windows Storage Spaces mirrored software RAID and a ReFS filesystem on top of it. 5) Really really important cold data gets some special treatment outside this system |
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Please welcome two new Samsung 1TB 2.5'' Sata III SSD.
So now I'm totally HDD free: - Intel NVME 1 TB for Windows 10 and Windows XP - Samsung EVO 2.5'' Sata III 1TB for Fedora Linux and Android - Samsung QVO 2.5" Sata III 1 TB for data storage and archive. |
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FranceBB, hope you noticed the XP x265/ffmpeg thing I posted yesterday in "General Discussion\SORTED Windows 7 Pro Sux big time", thread.
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I think it should be publicized here on Doom9 though 'cause it took me quite a bit of time to find someone who was still maintaining XP compatible builds. This reminds me that perhaps I should make a new H.266 VVC XP compatible build since no one has done that and I was the only one who did it last time... |
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I have the same drive, very fast and reliable. For storage and backup purposes I still rely on mechanical enterprise drives in my NAS units.
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The thing I like about HDDs compared to SSDs is that when SSD dies, it often goes without warning you much. When HDD starts its death spiral, it will start giving you small hints of things to come.
Being a cheap b*****d, I have many old HDDs in my PC and replace them as they start dying, maybe 1-2 every year. The average age must be around 5 years, and the oldest one will soon turn 9 Whatever your choice is, I can recommend Hard Disk Sentinel for monitoring. I've been a registered user for years, and it has saved me from a lot of work a few times.
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HDDs can have the same sudden death failure mode SSDs had but HDDs also have the "dust" failure mode that is more of a slow death.
SSDs are getting much better, the issue was that they had unreliable control boards at first. HDDs are so mature that a control board sudden death event was really rare before SSDs even came out. Now that SSDs are more mature they die even more predictably than HDDs, in line with total TBW. Monitoring can also warn effectively for SSDs, and they have less of that "any second now" feel that HDDs have once they start going. The speed of that spiral can vary a lot and it is hard to know how fast it is going to be until things have progressed along. Over the years I have had HDDs that were worrying for a few years and others that spiraled down in a few hours.
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Well, found some stuff on my first 20MB hard drive, has two dates on doc, 1990, and 1991, I was pretty sure it was more like 1986/1987,
maybe only the doc was from those dates and item was from earlier, dont know. Code:
Specifications for ST-125N This text file can be obtained by ftp. ASCII linedraw characters are used that display normally in textmode. Windows based environments can use the Letter Gothic Line TrueType font to display and print ASCII linedraw characters. SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1-800-SEAGATE http://www.seagate.com (C)opyright 1991 ST-125N SCSI /---+ | O |12 | O |G | O |G | O |5 SCSI Connector \---+ -----P-W-A---+-------------------------+-------- o o o o o |::::::::::::::::::::::::1| o o o o o +-------------------------+ 4 2 1 | P +------1+------1+------1 --+-- | | +------++------++------+ | | | + Resistor Termination Packs | | | | | +- Parity Check enable | +--- Not Used +------- Drive ID's, ID 0 (none) for single drive system ST - 125N UNFORMATTED CAPACITY (MB) ________________25 FORMATTED CAPACITY (26 SECTORS) (MB) _____21.5 ACTUATOR TYPE ____________________________STEPPER TRACKS ___________________________________1,628 CYLINDERS ________________________________407 HEADS ____________________________________4 DISCS ____________________________________2 MEDIA TYPE _______________________________THIN FILM RECORDING METHOD _________________________RLL TRANSFER RATE (mbits/sec) ________________7.5 SPINDLE SPEED (RPM) ______________________3,600 INTERFACE ________________________________SCSI TPI (TRACKS PER INCH) ____________________824 BPI (BITS PER INCH) ______________________16,546 AVERAGE ACCESS (ms) ______________________40/28* SINGLE TRACK SEEK (ms) ___________________8 MTBF (power-on hours) ____________________150,000 POWER REQUIREMENTS: +12V START-UP (amps) _2.0 +12V TYPICAL (amps) __0.35 +5V TYPICAL (amps) ___0.9 TYPICAL (watts) ______9 MAXIMUM (watts) ______29 BUFFERED STEP PULSE RATE (micro sec) _____3-200 WRITE PRECOMP (cyl) ______________________N/A (408) REDUCED WRITE CURRENT (cyl) ______________N/A (408) LANDING ZONE (cyl)________________________AUTO PARK IBM AT DRIVE TYPE ________________________0 or NONE *ST125-0/ST125-1 Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications. (6/26/90) together with pre-amble, header, checksums and gaps, and then data and postamble CRC and stuff. Formatted capacity is nothing to do with file system, [EDIT: raw number of physical sectors] and of course user data capacity is reduced further when filesystem formatting is actually written to the disk. [EDIT: The term 'formatted capacity' caused manufacturers no end of hassle by constant new user complaints.] Some more here:- https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/hard-dr...-SCSI1-SE.html Its this sexy curvy green thing here:- https://www.google.com/search?q=ST-1...1iQVzN_oIzA-MM It came in a case not unlike the one titled as "Intergra External 20MB SCSI Hard drive", [EDIT: although mine for ATART ST with ACSI instead of SCSI interface] There is now a 512 MB drive in the case, but I think I also added the old drive in there too (not sure). Just came across the doc on it so thought I'de give ya a treat. EDIT: I (a few days ago) picked up a bunch of second hand XBOX 360 2.5 inch SATA hard drives, 10 x 20GB drives (£0.50 each) and 3 x 60GB drives (£1.00 each) [oops + 1 x 80GB], added them to my collection of backup drives (had to dismantle from XBOX cases), I like having distinct drives for some backups, maybe 1TB or 500GB drives for most stuff, but nice to have 2nd backup for some too. Great to have two hard drive docks that can accept 3.5/2.5 IDE PATA and SATA bare drives, love the flexibility. Also picked up about 8 x 4GB full sized hi speed SD cards at £1.00 each [or maybe £0.50, not sure], great for small boot tools eg Macrium Reflect, or SystemRescueCD tools [SystemRescueCD a Linux Gentoo based recovery suite, real good and handy]. EDIT: Spotted a fancy eSata hard drive dock a few days back, I'm gonna want that one too I think. EDIT: Spent a helluva a long time full formatting and then full scanning each of the XBOX, and sd card drives [+ some others], all perfect working order. SystemRescueCD [useful for Linux or Windows]:- https://www.system-rescue-cd.org/ Can easily connect to WiFi and internet from within SRCD. One of the most useful tools I've got, and I got a lot of bootable tool images. EDIT: Recover files from unbootable windows system, or [using TestDisk] recover files from corrupt drives [to eg external USB drive].
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