unraid smart check - dead WD green drive

Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +1300

errors on unraid GUI - sometimes its a loose cable, sometimes its an issue with the drive.

Run this command to check smart status

smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda or if you are using a newer SATA controller smartctl -a -A /dev/sda

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Troubleshooting

unfortunately in my case, looks like drive is pretty much dead… not too bad for a drive almost 5 years old.

its pretty typical of a WD green drive in its default config to die in this type of environment, no plans to replace it with a similar type drive. You can see below the incredibly high LCC count which indicates the drive header has parked this many times over its life. This is probably part of the problem - there is a tool you can run (check this vid, link for WDIDDLE3 also in comments - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2eYyRI_F98) which disables the intellipark feature of the green drive. I never disabled the park timeout before this drive died (which defaults to 8 seconds!) – note: i have disabled it completely on my other green drives.

4k sector hard drives and zfs

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +1200

I hit this as a problem recently. One of my disks died in my raidz so i ran down to the store and grabbed me a replacement WD10EARS (Western Digital 1Tb Green) drive.

BUT…

The one thing the store didn’t mention to me is the new 4K cluster sizing on the drive. I guess they assume most people run windows (though the issues are also present in XP). See these posts…

Wd10ears on sigtar.com

unraid smart check - dead WD green drive

4k sector hard drives and zfs