5 out 6 new Toshiba HDDs Failed SMART Tests

hawks64

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I just upgraded my TrueNAS from Core 12.x to 13 and then to scale this past weekend. I had 5 Hitachi drives (refurbed drives that were 2 years old), 2 of which had bad sectors and were failing SMART tests. So I added an LSI Controller (LSI SAS2308 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 (rev 05)) and attached 6 brand new Toshiba NAS 300 10TB drives, created a new pool, and migrated the data. I removed the old drives and connected the new Toshiba drives to the mobo SATA ports instead of the LSI card and everything was fine yesterday while I was setting up my apps and getting everything finished.

Last night I got warnings that 5 of the 6 drives are failing SMART tests (sda, sdb, sdd, sde, sdf), with the exact same error (Seek_Error_Rate) and status of 73. Re-running sometimes gets a pass on 2 drives however 2 of the 6, never pass.

This morning I shut down and moved the drives from the mobo SATA ports back to the LSI controller, but the tests are still failing for the same drives.

I'm not sure what the issue is and if I should just open an RMA case with Toshiba, just seems odd that 5 of the 6 drives all have the same error with them being new. I think I ruled out cables and mobo ports being the issue by swapping from LSI->MOBO->LSI.

MOBO - MSI MAG B460M
CPU - Intel Core i5-10400
RAM - Teamgroup T-Force 2 x 32GB
SAS Controller - LSI SAS2308 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 (rev 05)
HDDs - Toshiba NAS 300 10TB

Code:
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Toshiba N300/MN NAS HDD
Device Model:     TOSHIBA HDWG11A
Serial Number:    Y3J0A089FBDG
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000039 ce8ca4edd
Firmware Version: 0603
User Capacity:    10,000,831,348,736 bytes [10.0 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    7200 rpm
Form Factor:      3.5 inches
Device is:        In smartctl database 7.3/5319
ATA Version is:   ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 5
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.3, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Mon Jan 29 08:55:56 2024 CST
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: FAILED!
Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA.
See vendor-specific Attribute list for failed Attributes.

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x80)    Offline data collection activity
                    was never started.
                    Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:      (  73)    The previous self-test completed having
                    a test element that failed and the test
                    element that failed is not known.
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:      (1002) 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       -       9341
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       3
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000b   036   030   050    Pre-fail  Always   FAILING_NOW 0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0005   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Offline      -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       46
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0033   100   100   030    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       3
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       3
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       38 (Min/Max 20/40)
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   001   000    Old_age   Always       -       16777245
222 Loaded_Hours            0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       46
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       -       525
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: unknown failure    90%        45         0
# 2  Short offline       Completed: unknown failure    90%        44         0
# 3  Short offline       Completed: unknown failure    90%        44         0
# 4  Short offline       Completed without error       00%        37         -
# 5  Short offline       Completed without error       00%        14         -

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.
 

hawks64

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Since I bought these from Amazon, I am just going to return them at this point and buy Seagate Drives.
 

danb35

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It's more than a little unusual that multiple, brand-new hard drives would be failing SMART self-tests, but that's what's happening for the one you've posted, at least. Definitely cause to return the drive.
 

ChrisRJ

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I would also look at the PSU and SATA cables (speaking from experience :rolleyes:).

As the saying goes: Good judgement comes from experience. And experience comes from bad judgement.
 

thomas-hn

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Since I bought these from Amazon, I am just going to return them at this point and buy Seagate Drives.
Amazon could also be the problem. It is a common problem that the drives are not handled with care at Amazon, especially when shipping from Amazon to the customer. Often the drives are simply thrown into the parcel without sufficient padding to protect them.
This could also be the reason why 5 out of 6 are defect.
I personally will never ever buy harddrives at Amazon again.
 

ChrisRJ

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I have to agree with @thomas-hn , unfortunately. So much so, that I have stopped buying HDDs from amazon (unless they are retail).
 

MrGuvernment

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They were also refurb drives - now question is, were they actual refurb or just returns to amazon someone else had and they put them back up as refurbs (if sold by amazon)

Something Amazon can be great for, other things, stick to computer stores if you can.
 
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