[smartmontools-support] your opinion about a seagate harddrive

[Christian Franke]

Gerard Berto wrote:
>
> I have bought a new hard drive and I would like to have your opinion 
> about my new hard drive. Here is the smart report:
>
> $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb
> smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.15.0-47-generic] (local 
> build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, 
> www.smartmontools.org
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Device Model:     ST1000DM010-2EP102
> ...
> ...
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      
> UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   083   066   006 Pre-fail  
> Always       -       204319511
> ...
>   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   100   253   045 Pre-fail  
> Always       -       552644
> ...
> 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   004   001   000 Old_age   
> Always       -       204319511
> ...
>
> I notice that Raw_Read_Error_Rate and Seek_Error_Rate have already 
> high RAW values. ||||Does this drive have a problem? Do you think I 
> may return it?

High raw values for these attributes are normal and no sign of trouble.


> I read some articles saying that seagate RAW values are often high. Is 
> it right?
>

This observation is not limited to seagate. Raw values are vendor 
specific and may encode more than one value. The format is not 
documented in many cases.

Thanks,
Christian