What do you do with failed disks pulled out of your FreeNAS box?

[danb35]

Looks like it might take a while...

That's what ultra-wide vdevs will do to you.

 

[Chris Moore]

That's what ultra-wide vdevs will do to you.

It is a cold storage server and the goal was to maximize storage capacity, not speed.
Still, it can't really rebuild any faster than it can write to the target disk.

 

[Jailer]

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Nice family pic. ;)

 

[nightshade00013]

Nice family pic. ;)

Thanks, I need to get a family pic of another sorts. .223 .300BLK and 22lr out of that family the only one born outside my home was the 22lr

 

[joeschmuck]

I took one drive, removed the cover and installed a plexiglass cover so you can see the guts. The drive was actually still good and I used it for a few years. I think it's still in the basement in a box somewhere. For a drive failure I typically take the drive apart and havest the magnets. You never know when you will need a super strong magnet. But I like some of the other ideas posted too. Target practice sounds very good and the clock kits for a platter and selling them on the internet, who doesn't like money.

 

[garym]

Many times we replace disks even on the slightest signs of failure. Some have very few bad sectors, some have many. What would you do?

The problem is many people are very quick to say that a drive is bad. I would test and evaluate it with SpinRite. Depending on the results I would continue to use it, move it to a less demanding or important role, or lastly, do the responsible thing and recycle it.

 

[joeschmuck]

I would test and evaluate it with SpinRite.

That software is still made? Holy cow, I used SpinRite decades ago in the late 80's and early 90's. It was one of the best hard drive tools out there at the time. I wonder if I still have the program on floppy disk in the basement, I very likely do. I used the tool to remap the bad sectors as good sectors and then test the drive to lock out any bad sectors.

About the testing of the hard drives, I have a suspect drive and I'm running badblocks on it right now for five complete passes which should take a few days to complete. I know I have one failed sector and no pending sectors right now but badblocks should bring to light any more defects. If I don't have any more defects then the drive will be placed back in service. If it fails then I'm harvesting some magnets.

 

[danb35]

I would test and evaluate it with SpinRite.

I think I saw a recommendation for SpinRite in another thread. Aside from the lunacy of its developer, does it do anything badblocks doesn't do?

 

[joeschmuck]

I think I saw a recommendation for SpinRite in another thread. Aside from the lunacy of its developer, does it do anything badblocks doesn't do?

SpinRite is being sold now as a recovery program these days but it will do the testing too.

 

[danb35]

Yeah, I checked out the grc.com website a little while ago. I doubt that SpinRite will recover all Linux filesystems (after all, ZFS is a Linux filesystem, and so is btrfs), but some is better than none, I guess. But exaggerated, bordering on fantastic, claims permeate just about every page of his site. There's some good information there, and some useful tools, but the SNR is pretty low.

 

[Chris Moore]

The problem is many people are very quick to say that a drive is bad. I would test and evaluate it with SpinRite. Depending on the results I would continue to use it, move it to a less demanding or important role, or lastly, do the responsible thing and recycle it.

Are you getting a commission as a salesperson? That software is worthless. I wouldn't use it if they gave it away for free.

 

[joeschmuck]

That software is worthless. I wouldn't use it if they gave it away for free.

Now now, I don't think it's that bad of a product but many of us would rather use a good free tool vice pay $90 for any similar product. I'm not sure how useful SpinRite would be on a SSD though.

 

[Stux]

Now now, I don't think it's that bad of a product but many of us would rather use a good free tool vice pay $90 for any similar product. I'm not sure how useful SpinRite would be on a SSD though.

Last I checked it didn't know about SATA.

 

[joeschmuck]

Last I checked it didn't know about SATA.

It appears that version 6 is pretty robust but that could be just the propaganda from it's website. But since it runs on current day machines and SSDs, it must work on SATA drives. I'm not trying to sell it but I don't see the need to bash it other than the fact that there are generally free options that exist to do basically the same stuff. And I think we have gotten way off topic for this thread as well. Maybe we could open up a "SpinRite - Love It or Hate It" thread to discuss it further? Of course it would be nice to actually have participation by people who actually have the current version of that product. Eh, what do I know. Hey, my new truck tires came in and now I need to schedule the installation. I hope they balance the tire properly; you know when you take the heavy side of the tire and place it opposite of the heavy side for the wheel so you can minimize the amount of weights you need to add.