Hard Drive Failure - How bad is it?

[jschmok]

Hi All,

I took a look at the thread about diagnosing drive failures and just wanted to know how severe my particular failure is. I ran a short test and came up with these results:

Code:

root@freenas:~ # smartctl -a /dev/ada0
smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Western Digital Red
Device Model:     WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0
Serial Number:    WD-WMC1T1118726
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 602e3af15
Firmware Version: 80.00A80
User Capacity:    3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Sun Jun 21 19:19:07 2020 PDT
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

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity
                                        was never started.
                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      ( 118) The previous self-test completed having
                                        the read element of the test failed.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection:                (40080) 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:        ( 402) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (   5) minutes.
SCT capabilities:              (0x70bd) 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   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   184   165   021    Pre-fail  Always       -       5766
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   097   097   000    Old_age   Always       -       3733
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   017   017   000    Old_age   Always       -       60599
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       139
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       84
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   199   199   000    Old_age   Always       -       3648
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   107   102   000    Old_age   Always       -       43
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
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   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       1

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: read failure       60%     60585         1565557560
# 2  Short offline       Completed: read failure       60%     60536         1565557560
# 3  Short offline       Completed: read failure       60%     60488         1565557560
# 4  Extended offline    Completed: read failure       10%     60443         1565557560
# 5  Short offline       Completed: read failure       60%     60392         1565562080
# 6  Short offline       Completed: read failure       60%     60344         1565562080
# 7  Short offline       Completed: read failure       60%     60296         1565562080
# 8  Short offline       Completed: read failure       60%     60248         1565562096
# 9  Short offline       Completed: read failure       60%     60200         1565562096
#10  Short offline       Completed: read failure       60%     60152         1565562080
#11  Extended offline    Completed: read failure       10%     60107         1565562080
#12  Short offline       Completed: read failure       60%     60082         1565562080
#13  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     60032         -
#14  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     59984         -
#15  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     59936         -
#16  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     59888         -
#17  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     59840         -
#18  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     59792         -
#19  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     59745         -
#20  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%     59700         -
#21  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     59649         -

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.

I'm currently running a long test which will finish in a few hours I'm hoping but just wanted to get the ball rolling with troubleshooting and if I should worry yet or not.

Thanks!

 

[Fredda]

Your drive is failing. When Short and Extended SMART test fail it is a pretty good indication to replace the drive in question.
The drive is almost 7 years old. Such things can happen ...

 

[jschmok]

ok so in short.... buy a new 3TB drive and swap it out as soon as possible? lol!

I'll get to it... Thanks for the 2nd set of eyes @Fredda :)

 

[jschmok]

1 more question..... This is for a home NAS to backup hobby photos. They are important but are not my source of income or anything...

Longevity wise, would you say a WD Blue would be fine, or is it definitely worth the extra money for the WD Red???

Also, WD30EFAX vs WD30EFRX ??

 

[c77dk]

Also, WD30EFAX vs WD30EFRX ??

Stay away from EFAX - AFAIK they're SMR, and should not be used for NAS (WD should pull them from market)

 

[Fredda]

For a NAS I would suggest a disc which is designed for 24/7 usage. The WD30EFAX is a SMR drive, these should be avoided for FreeNAS,
take a look at this resource:

List of known SMR drives

Hard drives that write data in overlapping, "shingled" tracks, have greater areal density than ones that do not. For cost and capacity reasons, manufacturers are increasingly moving to SMR, Shingled Magnetic Recording. SMR is a form of PMR (Perpendicular Magnetic Recording). The tracks are...

www.ixsystems.com

 

[subhuman]

Stay away from EFAX - AFAIK they're SMR

That is correct in the context of this thread. EFAX drives from 2-8TB are SMR. However, larger EFAX drives are CMR and acceptable for RAID/RAIDz use.

1 more question..... This is for a home NAS to backup hobby photos. They are important but are not my source of income or anything...

Longevity wise, would you say a WD Blue would be fine, or is it definitely worth the extra money for the WD Red???

How much space do you need? There are respectable for this application 500GB SSDs in the $60 range, and 1TB ones in the $100 range.
Emphasis on "for this application" because it sounds like you have a light workload that many consumer-grade SSDs would be applicable for.
If you can built an acceptably-sized array affordably and eliminate most mechanical failures, it may be worth considering.

For longevity, purples are also worth considering. They're designed to be abused, with max operating temps, maximum operating g-force, and maximum annual workload that exceeds blues and equals or exceeds the reds.