HDDs on their way out?

TheLegendOfMart · 2 Jun 2013 at 09:03

I have three Samsung HD204UI drives in a NAS in RAID, lately I have been getting stalled transfers and warnings of SATA Resets, I checked SMART and there seems to be problems with all three:

Are they about to fail?

darael · 2 Jun 2013 at 11:01

I'd be more worried if I saw any number other than 0 in Reallocated Sector Count. Check or renew your SATA cables, especially for disk 1.

CaptainCrash · 2 Jun 2013 at 11:17

The critical SMART attributes are all OK, but I'm not really sure what the high "Program Fail Count Total" values mean - it seems to be a manufacturer-specific attribute, and I'd be inclined to ignore it if it weren't for the fact that you're actually experiencing issues.

It may be a HDD controller problem rather than the drives themselves (a bit unlikely that they'd all develop the same symptoms at the same time). Do you have another PC or NAS you coud try the drives in?

TheLegendOfMart · 2 Jun 2013 at 11:39

Thanks for the replies guys.

I am resigned to the fact that I am going to lose all my data regardless and I don't have other means of backing up 6TB so I've taken the HDDs out and am running Seagate(Samsung) tools.

So I ran the tools and all three drives passed the Seatools tests, HDTune didn't pick anything up even on the drive that had 9 SATA Resets.

Could it be the NAS then?

darael · 2 Jun 2013 at 13:53

Does the drive pass the full/thorough test or quick/basic test?

TheLegendOfMart · 2 Jun 2013 at 13:57

The drive that had 9 SATA resets passed the advanced full sata erase using seagate tools.

Looks like the NAS was making the drives error out.

morfmedia · 2 Jun 2013 at 20:51

Cable or power issue maybe?

TheLegendOfMart · 2 Jun 2013 at 21:22

Power issue maybe, the drives interface directly with the board on the NAS, there are no cables.