AndyHancock <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
> My Toshiba Satellite A660 has been in for servicing quite a bit over
> the last 8 months for ongoing problems, and it seems over them now.
I've since had another Toshiba Satellite with a hard drive failure,
replaced under warranty, only just by one week, quite literally.
> I just managed to do a SMART report, and all seems normal except
> for a rather large number that I'm not sure what to make of I already
> followed the wikipedia breakdown of the parameters). I've attached an
> extract of the report below, and I removed the VALUE column preceding
> the WORST column because all the figures were the same except for #10,
> Spin_Retry_Count (102 instead of 100). Also, #194, Temperature_Celsius
> as the note "(Min/Max 24/53)" after the RAW_VALUE figure.
That's not really all that bad with a laptop.
> This edits are attempts to keep text rows below 80 characters
> in order to avoid wrap-around.
> What I really caught my attention was Power-Off Retract Count raw
> value, 2293768. The normalized values seem to indicate that all is well,
Likely its just some quirk with how Toshiba chooses to do that
particular value, its not a simple count like some of the others are.
And according to wikipedia its likely the number of head retracts
that don't involve powering off the drive, so that's not at all unusual
for a laptop drive given that they do tend to do that for safety.
> and I tried googling typical values. The only hit that seemed relevant is
> http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop-...es/td-p/359927,
I don't see that one as relevant, because its not a Toshiba drive.
> which reports a raw value of 63.
> The Load_Cycle_Count 3871 also seems high,
Not for a laptop its not. They do power down
the drive to increase the time on the battery.
> but Wikipedia says typical HDs can sustain 300K to 600K.
Specially with laptop drives.
> Further googling says that some linux systems
> can drive up the count, but this is Windows 7.
But is a laptop, nothing surprising about that with a laptop.
> Is the large raw number ignorable considering
> the healthy-looking normalized number?
Yes, it's ignorable.
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> smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [i686-pc-cygwin-win7(64)]
> (cygwin-5.43-1)
> Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Device Model: TOSHIBA MK6476GSXN
> Serial Number: Y1DQC0GOT
> LU WWN Device Id: 5 000039 3a3f854e2
> Firmware Version: GB001M
> User Capacity: 640,135,028,736 bytes [640 GB]
> Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
> ATA Version is: 8
> ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
> Local Time is: Thu Jul 26 01:09:18 2012 EDT
> 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
>
> <...snip...>
>
> SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
> Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED
> RAW_VALUE
> 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 100 050 Pre-fail Always -
> 0
> 2 Throughput_Performance 100 050 Pre-fail Offline -
> 0
> 3 Spin_Up_Time 100 001 Pre-fail Always -
> 2025
> 4 Start_Stop_Count 100 000 Old_age Always -
> 106
> 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 100 050 Pre-fail Always -
> 0
> 7 Seek_Error_Rate 100 050 Pre-fail Always -
> 0
> 8 Seek_Time_Performance 100 050 Pre-fail Offline -
> 0
> 9 Power_On_Hours 099 000 Old_age Always -
> 405
> 10 Spin_Retry_Count 100 030 Pre-fail Always -
> 0
> 12 Power_Cycle_Count 100 000 Old_age Always -
> 106
> 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 100 000 Old_age Always -
> 1
> 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 100 000 Old_age Always -
> 2293768
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count 100 000 Old_age Always -
> 3871
> 194 Temperature_Celsius 100 000 Old_age Always -
> 38
> 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 100 000 Old_age Always -
> 0
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector 100 000 Old_age Always -
> 0
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 100 000 Old_age Offline -
> 0
> 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 200 000 Old_age Always -
> 0
> 220 Disk_Shift 100 000 Old_age Always -
> 8255
> 222 Loaded_Hours 100 000 Old_age Always -
> 213
> 223 Load_Retry_Count 100 000 Old_age Always -
> 0
> 224 Load_Friction 100 000 Old_age Always -
> 0
> 226 Load-in_Time 100 000 Old_age Always -
> 305
> 240 Head_Flying_Hours 100 001 Pre-fail Offline -
> 0
That's a fine, the drive is doing fine.
> 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%
> 125 -
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