k2skaterii
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I bought 5 x cheap "White label" 4TB drives off Ebay last week for my home lab - a place where I can screw around with stuff, learn and tinker. Production data - NO. Other people's data - NO. In the event of data loss, who will be upset - Me. That being said, please resist the urge to remind me that I should have purchased better, high quality, branded, etc drives for my setup!!
When my new drives showed up, I dove in head first working to get the new drives installed:
1. I backed up the data that was residing on my 7x 2TB RAIDz2 storage pool.
2. Exported / Disconnected the old storage pool
3. With the system powered down, removed the 7x 2TB drives and installed my new 5x 4TB drives.
4. Setup a new storage pool / vDEV / created shares / etc.
5. Migrated the data to the storage pool with the new drives
So Far so good. 36 hours later - there are alerts similar to "Device: /dev/ada1, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors". When that happened I kicked off long SMART tests on all of my new drives (smartctl -t long /dev/ada[0-4]). When the long test was complete, ada1's status changed to failed.
Obviously there are issues with the drive, and I will be contacting the seller to replace the failed drive. As I am reviewing the results using (smartctl -a /dev/ada[0-4]), the "Lifetime(hours)" values caught my eye - See Below. I've attached the entire output from the failed disk incase that helps any.
Could the SMART test results #6 & #7 with 51,000+ hours be from my old 2TB drives, or was I sold a "New drive" that is actually a Refurb?
Thank you!
Ken
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% 54 -
# 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 43 950437684
# 3 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 39 950437684
# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 30 -
# 5 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 6 950437684
# 6 Short offline Completed without error 00% 51202 -
# 7 Short offline Completed without error 00% 51200 -
When my new drives showed up, I dove in head first working to get the new drives installed:
1. I backed up the data that was residing on my 7x 2TB RAIDz2 storage pool.
2. Exported / Disconnected the old storage pool
3. With the system powered down, removed the 7x 2TB drives and installed my new 5x 4TB drives.
4. Setup a new storage pool / vDEV / created shares / etc.
5. Migrated the data to the storage pool with the new drives
So Far so good. 36 hours later - there are alerts similar to "Device: /dev/ada1, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors". When that happened I kicked off long SMART tests on all of my new drives (smartctl -t long /dev/ada[0-4]). When the long test was complete, ada1's status changed to failed.
Obviously there are issues with the drive, and I will be contacting the seller to replace the failed drive. As I am reviewing the results using (smartctl -a /dev/ada[0-4]), the "Lifetime(hours)" values caught my eye - See Below. I've attached the entire output from the failed disk incase that helps any.
Could the SMART test results #6 & #7 with 51,000+ hours be from my old 2TB drives, or was I sold a "New drive" that is actually a Refurb?
Thank you!
Ken
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% 54 -
# 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 43 950437684
# 3 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 39 950437684
# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 30 -
# 5 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 6 950437684
# 6 Short offline Completed without error 00% 51202 -
# 7 Short offline Completed without error 00% 51200 -