Daniel Rock wrote:
> "Dave (from the UK)" <see-my-signature@southminster-branch-line.org.uk> wrote:
>
>>Cheers, I'll do that. Any idea what might be normal for a new disk?
>>Clearly 6360 hours (1 year) would not be reasonable for a new disk, but
>>would 100, or 1000?
>
>
> I just checked a few disks. The counter should be close to zero when the disk
> arrives at you.
>


I managed to check this one - as I suspect, it is not need or in good condition:


smartctl version 5.37 [sparc-sun-solaris2.10] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Device: SEAGATE ST3146854LC Version: D403
Serial number: 3KN0HQGS
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: Parallel SCSI (SPI-4)
Local Time is: Fri Mar 9 11:22:25 2007 GMT
Device supports SMART and is Enabled
Temperature Warning Enabled
SMART Health Status: FAILURE PREDICTION THRESHOLD EXCEEDED [asc=5d, ascq=0]

Current Drive Temperature: 36 C
Drive Trip Temperature: 68 C
Elements in grown defect list: 18
Vendor (Seagate) cache information
Blocks sent to initiator = 1482912841
Blocks received from initiator = 497223568
Blocks read from cache and sent to initiator = 19484506
Number of read and write commands whose size <= segment size = 9919506
Number of read and write commands whose size > segment size = 38340
Vendor (Seagate/Hitachi) factory information
number of hours powered up = 1131.05
number of minutes until next internal SMART test = 116

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: 135210 48 67 135325 143957 629.868 43
write: 0 0 0 0 0 292.758 0
verify: 9293750 736 969 9295455 9554127 33331.441 1579

Non-medium error count: 16

SMART Self-test log
Num Test Status segment LifeTime LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
Description number (hours)
# 1 Background long Completed - 1 - [- - -]
# 2 Background short Completed - 0 - [- - -]

Long (extended) Self Test duration: 2125 seconds [35.4 minutes]

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