Burn in test on used Seagate Constellation 2TB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SAS

[Dave Hob]

Hope to not waste anyones time here with this question.

I bought this used drives (3 of them) for my backup truenas that is used for home use. Decided to do a burn in test on them and not used to read the output that is different than what I am used to see on SATA drives.

Would you please advise if this 3 drives are decent to keep? Thank you

da6
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p9 amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: SEAGATE
Product: ST32000445SS
Revision: MS02
Compliance: SPC-3
User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Form Factor: 3.5 inches
Logical Unit id: 0x5000c50034193863
Serial number: 9WM5ESTE00009137070M
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: SAS (SPL-3)
Local Time is: Wed Sep 15 22:55:15 2021 PDT
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

Current Drive Temperature: 35 C
Drive Trip Temperature: 68 C

Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 37137:34
Manufactured in week 16 of year 2011
Specified cycle count over device lifetime: 10000
Accumulated start-stop cycles: 28
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime: 300000
Accumulated load-unload cycles: 28
Elements in grown defect list: 0

Vendor (Seagate Cache) information
Blocks sent to initiator = 2121237934
Blocks received from initiator = 3715522900
Blocks read from cache and sent to initiator = 1629640541
Number of read and write commands whose size <= segment size = 187082731
Number of read and write commands whose size > segment size = 51988870

Vendor (Seagate/Hitachi) factory information
number of hours powered up = 37137.57
number of minutes until next internal SMART test = 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: 1753286490 5 0 1753286495 1753286495 105131.657 0
write: 0 0 0 0 0 105294.032 0
verify: 68298 0 0 68298 68298 0.000 0

Non-medium error count: 61

SMART Self-test log
Num Test Status segment LifeTime LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
Description number (hours)
# 1 Background long Completed - 37136 - [- - -]
# 2 Background long Completed - 37087 - [- - -]
# 3 Background short Completed - 37082 - [- - -]

Long (extended) Self-test duration: 6 seconds [0.1 minutes]

da7
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p9 amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: SEAGATE
Product: ST32000445SS
Revision: MS02
Compliance: SPC-3
User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Form Factor: 3.5 inches
Logical Unit id: 0x5000c50034192b07
Serial number: 9WM5ESED00009137L59L
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: SAS (SPL-3)
Local Time is: Wed Sep 15 22:58:37 2021 PDT
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

Current Drive Temperature: 34 C
Drive Trip Temperature: 68 C

Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 37488:21
Manufactured in week 16 of year 2011
Specified cycle count over device lifetime: 10000
Accumulated start-stop cycles: 35
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime: 300000
Accumulated load-unload cycles: 35
Elements in grown defect list: 0

Vendor (Seagate Cache) information
Blocks sent to initiator = 2624286100
Blocks received from initiator = 582310646
Blocks read from cache and sent to initiator = 1558169415
Number of read and write commands whose size <= segment size = 180990868
Number of read and write commands whose size > segment size = 48487325

Vendor (Seagate/Hitachi) factory information
number of hours powered up = 37488.35
number of minutes until next internal SMART test = 18

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: 2339163005 7 0 2339163012 2339163012 102936.791 0
write: 0 0 0 0 0 101488.604 0
verify: 30854 0 0 30854 30854 0.000 0

Non-medium error count: 7

SMART Self-test log
Num Test Status segment LifeTime LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
Description number (hours)
# 1 Background long Completed - 37487 - [- - -]
# 2 Background long Completed - 37438 - [- - -]
# 3 Background short Completed - 37433 - [- - -]

Long (extended) Self-test duration: 6 seconds [0.1 minutes]

da11
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p9 amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: SEAGATE
Product: ST32000445SS
Revision: MS02
Compliance: SPC-3
User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Form Factor: 3.5 inches
Logical Unit id: 0x5000c5003432a9a7
Serial number: 9WM5QPM300009141R52K
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: SAS (SPL-3)
Local Time is: Wed Sep 15 22:59:03 2021 PDT
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

Current Drive Temperature: 37 C
Drive Trip Temperature: 68 C

Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 37136:31
Manufactured in week 18 of year 2011
Specified cycle count over device lifetime: 10000
Accumulated start-stop cycles: 23
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime: 300000
Accumulated load-unload cycles: 23
Elements in grown defect list: 0

Vendor (Seagate Cache) information
Blocks sent to initiator = 2361220247
Blocks received from initiator = 455290052
Blocks read from cache and sent to initiator = 1680284884
Number of read and write commands whose size <= segment size = 180990841
Number of read and write commands whose size > segment size = 7394605

Vendor (Seagate/Hitachi) factory information
number of hours powered up = 37136.52
number of minutes until next internal SMART test = 46

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: 367400913 16 0 367400929 367400929 103261.663 0
write: 0 0 0 0 0 57441.995 0
verify: 587467 0 0 587467 587467 0.000 0

Non-medium error count: 8

SMART Self-test log
Num Test Status segment LifeTime LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
Description number (hours)
# 1 Background long Completed - 37135 - [- - -]
# 2 Background long Completed - 37086 - [- - -]
# 3 Background short Completed - 37081 - [- - -]

Long (extended) Self-test duration: 6 seconds [0.1 minutes]

 

[HoneyBadger]

For SAS devices the key lines are the SMART self-test log at the bottom, and the lines Elements in grown defect listand
Non-medium error count

For the former, thankfully all of your drives show 0 for that value. If it climbs up, note it as you would a bad sector on a SATA drive. The latter indicates potential issues with a backplane/cable or controller, rather than the drive (medium) itself. If that one goes up, check your cables (data and power) and reseat the drive if you're using a hotswap backplane.

 

[Dave Hob]

For SAS devices the key lines are the SMART self-test log at the bottom, and the lines Elements in grown defect listand
Non-medium error count

For the former, thankfully all of your drives show 0 for that value. If it climbs up, note it as you would a bad sector on a SATA drive. The latter indicates potential issues with a backplane/cable or controller, rather than the drive (medium) itself. If that one goes up, check your cables (data and power) and reseat the drive if you're using a hotswap backplane.

Thank you for your very helpful feedback

Got it. So now I should just make note of Non-medium error count count and assume maybe these errors build-up prior to me getting the drives?

I am using this in a R730xd with hotswap backplane.

Once the drive becomes part of the pool what test should I run? I relied mostly on the truenas automatically sending me an alert that one of the drives is failing in the past.

 

[HoneyBadger]

Got it. So now I should just make note of Non-medium error count count and assume maybe these errors build-up prior to me getting the drives?

Yes. Something as simple as a hotswap operation could trigger a "non-medium error count" so don't worry to greatly about those unless they suddenly skyrocket.

Schedule SMART tests in the TrueNAS UI and set up email notifications in order to receive the alerts or results of the tests.

Once the drives are installed, you can use @jgreco 's excellent solnet-array-test script, available here:

solnet-array-test

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Is your R730XD using an HBA (eg PERC HBA330, or LSI equivalent?)