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From: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: Preventative replacement of active RAID1 disks
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:09:49 +0200
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On 18.01.2012 19:04, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
> List,
> 
> I have two 2-partition RAID1 sets, each with a spare. The SMART info for
> both active disks suggests that I should replace them. Both of them. I
> based this on the Seek_Error_Rate in the smartctl -a output (below).

[...]
> Model Family:     Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 family
> Device Model:     ST3500418AS
>   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   079   060   030    Pre-fail 
> Always       -       93484948
[...]
> Model Family:     Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 family
> Device Model:     ST3500418AS
>   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   079   060   030    Pre-fail 
> Always       -       97304022
[...]

I don't think these indicate any issue with the drives, all of my
Seagate disks have random big values in that attribute (from 11717390 to
103488378525).

-- 
Anssi Hannula