Correction, the non-problem drive has a higher "ECC fast" error count,
but the problem drive has a significantly higher "Corrective algorithm
invocations" count.
On 10/1/12 5:33 PM, Stephen Thompson wrote:
>
>
> On 10/1/12 4:06 PM, Alan Brown wrote:
>> On 01/10/12 23:38, Stephen Thompson wrote:
>>>
>>> More importantly, I realized that my testing 6 months ago was not on
>>> all 4 of my drives, but only 2 of them. Today, I discovered one of my
>>> drives (untested in the past) is getting 1/2 the throughput for random
>>> data writes as the others!!
>>
>> "smartctl -a /dev/sg(drive)" will tell you a lot
>>
>> Put a cleaning tape in it....
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> Cleaning tape did not improve results.
>
> I see some errors in the counter log on the problem drive, but I see
> even more errors on another drive which isn't having a throughput
> problem (specifically SL500 Drive 1 is the lower throughput, but C4
> Drive 1 actually has a higher error count).
>
>
>
> SL500 Drive 0 (~60MB/s random data throughput)
> =============
> Error counter log:
> Errors Corrected by Total Correction
> Gigabytes Total
> ECC rereads/ errors algorithm
> processed uncorrected
> fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9
> bytes] errors
> read: 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
> 0
> write: 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
> 0
>
>
> SL500 Drive 1 (~30MB/s random data throughput)
> =============
> Error counter log:
> Errors Corrected by Total Correction
> Gigabytes Total
> ECC rereads/ errors algorithm
> processed uncorrected
> fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9
> bytes] errors
> read: 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
> 0
> write: 10454 0 0 0 821389 0.000
> 0
>
>
> C4 Drive 0 (~60MB/s random data throughput)
> ==========
> Error counter log:
> Errors Corrected by Total Correction
> Gigabytes Total
> ECC rereads/ errors algorithm
> processed uncorrected
> fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9
> bytes] errors
> read: 2 0 0 0 2 0.000
> 0
> write: 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
> 0
>
>
> C4 Drive 1 (~60MB/s random data throughput)
> ==========
> Error counter log:
> Errors Corrected by Total Correction
> Gigabytes Total
> ECC rereads/ errors algorithm
> processed uncorrected
> fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9
> bytes] errors
> read: 2 0 0 0 2 0.000
> 0
> write: 18961 0 0 0 48261 0.000
> 0
>
>
>
>
> Stephen
>
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404.538.7077 (phone) University of California, Berkeley
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