Is this drive failing?

[theaddies]

Below are the results of smartctl on the drive.

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
was completed without error.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 116) The previous self-test completed having
the read element of the test failed.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (25440) 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: ( 277) 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 200 199 051 Pre-fail Always - 5
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 171 169 021 Pre-fail Always - 6416
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 123
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 012 012 000 Old_age Always - 64800
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 - 122
183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 75
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 47
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 118 106 000 Old_age Always - 32
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 200 200 000 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 - 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: read failure 40% 64784 7960785
# 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 20% 64765 7961256
# 3 Short offline Completed: read failure 30% 64736 7961256
# 4 Short offline Completed: read failure 30% 64712 7961256
# 5 Short offline Completed: read failure 30% 64688 7961256
# 6 Short offline Completed: read failure 30% 64664 7961256
# 7 Short offline Completed: read failure 10% 64640 7961256
# 8 Short offline Completed without error 00% 64616 -
# 9 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 64605 -
#10 Short offline Completed without error 00% 64568 -
#11 Short offline Completed without error 00% 64544 -
#12 Short offline Completed without error 00% 64520 -
#13 Short offline Completed without error 00% 64496 -
#14 Short offline Completed without error 00% 64472 -
#15 Short offline Completed without error 00% 64448 -
#16 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 64438 -
#17 Short offline Completed without error 00% 64400 -
#18 Short offline Completed without error 00% 64376 -
#19 Short offline Completed without error 00% 64352 -
#20 Short offline Completed without error 00% 64328 -
#21 Short offline Completed without error 00% 64304 -

 

[danb35]

Consistently failing the last several SMART self-tests? Yes, I'd say so.

 

[Ericloewe]

Look at it this way: Manufacturers have all the incentive in the world to fudge SMART tests and avoid RMAs. When SMART tests fail, that's them throwing in the towel and admitting defeat.