Am 08.07.2013 17:58, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On 08/07/2013 17:39, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Paul Hartman >> <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> ST4000DM000 >> >> As a side-note these two Seagate 4TB "Desktop" edition drives I bought >> already, after about than 100 hours of power-on usage, both drives >> have each encountered dozens of unreadable sectors so far. I was able >> to correct them (force reallocation) using hdparm... So it should be >> "fixed", and I'm reading that this is "normal" with newer drives and >> "don't worry about it", but I'm still coming from the time when 1 bad >> sector = red alert, replace the drive ASAP. I guess I will need to >> monitor and see if it gets worse. >> > > > Way back when in the bad old days of drives measured in 100s of megs, > you'd get a few bad sectors now and then, and would have to mark them as > faulty. This didn't bother us then much > > Nowadays we have drives that are 8,000 bigger than that so all other > things being equal we'd expect sectors to fail 8,000 time more (more > being a very fuzzy concept, and I know full well I'm using it loosely :-) ) > > Our drives nowadays also have smart firmware, something we had to > introduce when CHS no longer cut it, this lead to sector failures being > somewhat "invisible" leaving us with the happy delusion that drives were > vastly reliable etc etc etc. But you know all this. > > A mere few dozen failures in the first 100 hours is a failure rate of > (Alan whips out the trust sci calculator) 4.8E-6%. Pretty damn > spectacular if you ask me and WELL within probabilities. > > There is likely nothing wrong with your drives. If they are faulty, it's > highly likely a systemic manufacturing fault of the mechanicals (servo > systems, motor bearing etc) > > You do realize that modern hard drives have for the longest time been up > there in the Top X list of Most Reliable Devices Made By Mankind Ever?
Does it make sense to apply some sort of burn-in-procedure before actually formatting and using the disks? Running badblocks or something? I ask because I wait for that shiny new server and doing so might not hurt before installing gentoo. Or is that too paranoid and a waste of time? Thanks, greets, Stefan
