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I bought three of these. I suspected the previous comment might be a bit mistaken the on time is shown as hours:minutes. My three drives show 27070:00, or 1,128 days or a little over 3 years. everything seems fine so far. I’m starting my badblocks run over all three now.
smartctl -a /dev/sde
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-53-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: IBM-ESXS
Product: ST14000NM0288 E
Revision: ECH8
Compliance: SPC-5
User Capacity: 13,902,809,137,152 bytes [13.9 TB]
Logical block size: 4096 bytes
LU is fully provisioned
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Form Factor: 3.5 inches
Logical Unit id: 0x5000c500a74282db
Serial number: minehere
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: SAS (SPL-3)
Local Time is: Fri Nov 25 17:04:25 2022 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Temperature Warning: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK
Grown defects during certification <not available>
Total blocks reassigned during format <not available>
Total new blocks reassigned <not available>
Power on minutes since format <not available>
Current Drive Temperature: 26 C
Drive Trip Temperature: 65 C
Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 27070:00
Elements in grown defect list: 0
Error counter log:
Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total
ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected
fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors
read: 0 0 0 0 0 588165.330 0
write: 0 18446744073709551615 18446744073709551615 0 0 463379.080 0
verify: 0 0 0 0 0 26587.494 0
Non-medium error count: 1
SMART Self-test log
Num Test Status segment LifeTime LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
Description number (hours)
# 1 Background short Aborted (by user command) - 6 - [- - -]
Long (extended) Self-test duration: 65535 seconds [1092.2 minutes]
All three disks do show three years of use, but have zero bad blocks. So, they should be good to use. I just wanted to make sure that others knew that these aren’t quite near-“new” disks.
That’s really hard to say. I usually plan (hope) that I can get at least 5 years out of a disk. The disks I swapped these in for were 7 year old 4TB disks that were all still working great. When I do eventually retire them, it’s normally because I’m moving to larger disks, not because they have bad blocks. That being said, you will want to monitor your disks for SMART errors so that you can proactively replace disks if they start having errors.
I’m having a heck of a time getting these to be recognized in my r510! They don’t even show up in the SAS Controller menu on boot. I guess it could be the 3.3v pin, but I’ve put in loads of shucked drives without ever having to make any adjustments.
