Re: [smartmontools-support] Should I worry?

[Michal S. <so...@zi...>]

Jon Hardcastle wrote:
> I have a Model Family:     Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and 7200.7 Plus
> family Device Model:     ST380011A
> 
> and I have just noticed - only after i read somewhere about it - that
> my 'Seek_Error_Rate' keeps increasing? I have also now noticed that
> the 'Raw_Read_Error_Rate' and the 'Hardware_ECC_Recovered' are also
> increasing...
> 

This is normal with seagate drives. They are just extra verbose on those 
attributes.

> What does this mean? I did notice that that Reallocated_Sector_Ct was
> set to 2.. I do short test daily and a long test 1 a week and it
> reports nothing...
> 

Drive remapped 2 sectors so far. 7200.7 are pretty old drives (2003ish 
?), so 2 sectors remapped during whole that time is probably nothing to 
really worry about. Depending on perspective and context, maybe even a 
reason to be proud of the drive ;) Either way, if you have important 
data, remember about backups (whenever the drive is 5 years old, or 5 
days old).