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One thing that helps is when we observe multiple SMART errors. The reality is it can take a fair amount of intelligence (both human and artificial) during the evaluation process to reach the conclusion that an operational drive is going to fail. On its own, such a value means little until combined with other factors. For example, a drive may have a SMART 5 raw value of two, meaning two drive sectors have been remapped. Having a given drive stat with a value that is greater than zero may mean nothing at the moment. Are these stats useful? I’ll let you decide if you’d like to have a sign of impending drive failure 76.7% of the time. That means that 23.3% of failed drives showed no warning from the SMART stats we record. Operational drives with one or more of our five SMART stats greater than zero: 4.2%.įailed drives with one or more of our five SMART stats greater than zero: 76.7%. While no single SMART stat is found in all failed hard drives, here’s what happens when we consider all five SMART stats as a group. SMART Stats We Use to Predict Hard Drive Failureįor the last few years we’ve used the following five SMART stats as a means of helping determine if a drive is going to fail. In this case, the 1TB drive is not marked as a failure, but the SMART data will no longer be logged.

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Sometimes a drive will be removed from service even though it has not failed, like when we upgrade a Storage Pod by replacing 1TB drives with 4TB drives. Drives which have failed are marked as such and their data is no longer logged. You can download these logs files from our website. and create a row in the daily log for each drive.

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We add in a few elements, such as drive model, serial number, etc. This is done once a day for each hard drive. We use Smartmontools to capture the SMART data. While we’ve looked at SMART stats before, this time we’ll dig into the SMART stats we use in determining drive failure and we’ll also look at a few other stats we find interesting. SMART stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology and is a monitoring system included in hard drives that reports on various attributes of the state of a given drive. Click the Close button.What if a hard drive could tell you it was going to fail before it actually did? Is that possible? Each day Backblaze records the SMART stats that are reported by the 67,814 hard drives we have spinning in our Sacramento data center. When the test completes, you will be notified with a pass/fail message.Select the test you wish to perform and click the Start button.VIEW TEST RESULT - displays the latest test results.

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ERASE - writes zeros to the drive with options of Full Erase and Quick Erase.

Test may take several hours to complete depending on the size of the drive.

EXTENDED TEST - performs a Full Media Scan to detect bad sectors.

QUICK TEST - performs SMART drive quick self-test to gather and verify the Data Lifeguard information contained on the drive.

When you select the run tests icon, the 'DLGDIAG - Select an Option' window appears.

Highlight the drive and select the icon on the top row to test or run SMART status.

In the bottom window, the partition information for the selected drive will be displayed. The model number, serial number, capacity, and SMART status of each drive will be displayed.

In the top window, you will see the drives in your system that are available for testing.

On the main program screen, there are two windows.

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Read and accept the license agreement to continue.If running Windows Vista (or later), you will need to Right-Click on the WinDlg_vx_xx.exe file and choose to Run As Administrator. Extract and run the program, WinDlg_vx_xx.exe.Download the Windows Data Lifeguard Diagnostics, WinDlg_vx_xx.zip.

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