SOLVED New 3TB NAS Drives (ST3000VN000)

[fanix]

Hi,

Today I bought x3 3TB drivers, so that I can create a RAIDZ ZFS Volume.
I noticed that when all 3 drivers are connected, the noise coming the drivers is really load. Occasionally it doesn't even go behind the BIOS post, it freezes at the SMART CHECK screen.

I currently have one of the drives connected, and this is what smartctl shows: I'm not sure what is going on, if the drivers are faulty of if it is something else.

Code:

smartctl -a /dev/ada0
smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
 
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:    ST3000VN000-1H4167
Serial Number:    Z300MY6H
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 063e531eb
Firmware Version: SC43
User Capacity:    3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:    512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    5900 rpm
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:  ACS-2, ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 3b
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Thu Oct 17 00:12:13 2013 EST
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:  (0x82)    Offline data collection activity
                    was completed without error.
                    Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:      (  0)    The previous self-test routine completed
                    without error or no self-test has ever
                    been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection:        (  128) 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:      (  1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:      ( 426) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time:      (  2) minutes.
SCT capabilities:            (0x10bd)    SCT Status supported.
                    SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
                    SCT Feature Control supported.
                    SCT Data Table supported.
 
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG    VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x000f  115  100  006    Pre-fail  Always      -      85351088
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003  093  092  000    Pre-fail  Always      -      0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032  100  100  020    Old_age  Always      -      32
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct  0x0033  100  100  010    Pre-fail  Always      -      0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x000f  100  253  030    Pre-fail  Always      -      16170
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      3
10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013  100  100  097    Pre-fail  Always      -      0
12 Power_Cycle_Count      0x0032  100  100  020    Old_age  Always      -      38
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0032  100  100  099    Old_age  Always      -      0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
188 Command_Timeout        0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
189 High_Fly_Writes        0x003a  099  099  000    Old_age  Always      -      1
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022  070  063  045    Old_age  Always      -      30 (Min/Max 28/30)
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      -      32
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      56
194 Temperature_Celsius    0x0022  030  040  000    Old_age  Always      -      30 (0 24 0 0 0)
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable  0x0010  100  100  000    Old_age  Offline      -      0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      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 without error      00%        3        -
# 2  Short offline      Completed without error      00%        1        -
 
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.

 

[paleoN]

I noticed that when all 3 drivers are connected, the noise coming the drivers is really load. Occasionally it doesn't even go behind the BIOS post, it freezes at the SMART CHECK screen.

This is a hardware issue that you need to resolve. As for "noisy" try the disks one at a time.

 

[fanix]

This is a hardware issue that you need to resolve. As for "noisy" try the disks one at a time.

I did exactly that, I tried the disks one by one, creating a ZFS stripe volume for each. The disks were noticeable quieter, and didn't make any loud clicking noises... Very strange, I don't know if I should return the x3 3TB Seagates and maybe get WD RED drives. Sick and tired of noisy Seagate drivers

 

[cyberjock]

You can always do read tests... dd if=/dev/(yourdisk) of=/dev/null bs=1m

That'll read the entire disk sequentially, then you can find the clicker. gstat will tell you the read rates for the disks so you should be able to do all the disks at the same time, then look at gstat to see which disk is intermittently performing.

Alternately, you can post the SMART data for all of the questionable disks. Quite a few people here may be able to point you to the bad disk. :)

 

[fanix]

I took the disks back and got them replaced with WD RED 3TB. My god what a difference!