Too much ECC?

Too much ECC?

[Dexter Filmore]

I just ran smartctl -d ata on my sATA disks (Samsung) and got these raw 
values:

195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  3344107
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  2786896
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  617712
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  773986

Looking at a 5 year old 40GB Maxtor that's not been cooled too well I see "3" 
as the raw value.
Should I be worried or am I just not properly reading this?

Dex


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Re: Too much ECC?

[Gabor Gombas]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 03:30:55PM +0100, Dexter Filmore wrote:

> 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  3344107

For some models that's perfectly normal.

> Looking at a 5 year old 40GB Maxtor that's not been cooled too well I see "3" 
> as the raw value.

Different technology, different vendor, different meaning of the
attribute.

> Should I be worried or am I just not properly reading this?

If the other attributes are OK then the raw value of
Hardware_ECC_Recovered has not much meaning.

Gabor

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