I have a drive. Done about three and a half years according to the stats, but it’s failing at a relatively high LBA. I think it was just outside warranty when it died. (extra time has been piled on with testing, as I didn’t want to let it go… it’s always hard to take when something dies just after the warranty expires! I’m sure everyone’s been there.) I’ve been sitting on it for a few years and I’ve either got to do something with it, or trash it.
The question is… given the below… what are people’s opinions of creating a partition that’s just lower than the failure point, and continuing to run it, as my tests seem to be fine until it hits that point. Or has it run out of re-mappable sectors and be too risky to chance. Grateful for thoughts.
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Model Family: Western Digital Red
Device Model: WDC WD60EFRX-68L0BN1
Serial Number: WD-WXN1H26HDZ5C
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2b8c84a65
Firmware Version: 82.00A82
User Capacity: 6,001,175,126,016 bytes [6.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5700 rpm
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-2, ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 3b
SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sun Jun 26 11:55:08 2022 BST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
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SMART Status not supported: Incomplete response, ATA output registers missing
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Warning: This result is based on an Attribute check.
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 121) The previous self-test completed having
the read element of the test failed.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 8624) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
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: ( 740) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x303d) 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 0x002f 186 186 051 Pre-fail Always - 2144
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 207 196 021 Pre-fail Always - 8608
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 095 095 000 Old_age Always - 5680
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 198 198 140 Pre-fail Always - 79
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 188 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 057 057 000 Old_age Always - 31755
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 50
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 35
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 197 197 000 Old_age Always - 10595
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 114 102 000 Old_age Always - 38
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 175 175 000 Old_age Always - 25
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 1
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age 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 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 31755 206765432
# 2 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 31755 206765432
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.
