07 Seek Error Rate Seagate
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Smartphones More Software Memory Power Supplies Peripherals Displays Automotive PSUs Android Your question Get the answer Tom's Hardware>Forum>Storage>Seek error rate> Seek error rate Tags: Hard Drives Seagate Storage Last response: January 5, 2011 5:42 AM in Storage Share drevin January 3, 2011 3:36:57 AM seagate raw read error rate I have some questions about the seek error rate SMART attribute. I have a Seagate 500Gb seek error rate western digital 7200.10 (about 3 years old) that has a high seek error rate. I know that the raw data field has a different structure for different seek error rate fix vendors and is thus not very meaningful. However, what concerns me is that the "current" and "worst" fields have also decreased a lot. I believe they initially start from 100, and have dropped to 47/42. The threshold is 30. For comparison, what is seek error rate I have an older 120Gb Seagate (almost 2x power on hours) and its current/worst are 80/60. HD Sentinel reports that the HDD health and performance are still 100% and the drive has more than 1000 days left. How can this be, seeing as the seek error rate has dropped from 100 to 42, is pretty close to the threshold and it is supposed to be a critical attribute. Other SMART attributes are still OK, no reallocated or pending sectors. Do you think
What Does Seek Error Rate Mean
this is a cause for concern or not? More about : seek error rate Reply to drevin sminlal a c 415 G Storage January 3, 2011 7:24:29 AM The seek error rate means that the drive is over- or under-shooting the correct track when it moves the heads, and it has to do another (small) re-seek to acquire the track before it can read or write the data. By itself, it's going to be a performance concern, but probably not that big a concern as far as data integrity goes. As far as data integrity, pay more attention to the "Reallocation Count", and "Pending Sector Count" values as they indicate failures to read the data from the disk itself. If those numbers are high or increasing, then you should consider the drive to be unreliable and plan to get you data off it ASAP. Reply to sminlal m 2 l fzabkar a c 459 G Storage January 5, 2011 5:42:59 AM The normalised value of Seagate's Seek Error Rate is logarithmic. A value of 60 indicates that the drive has recorded 1 seek error in 1 million seeks, 70 indicates 1 error in 10 million, and 80 is 1 in 100 million. A value of 30 is 1 error in 1000, and 40 is 1 in 10,000. A drive begins life with an SER of 100. After it records 1 million seeks the SER is recomputed to reflect the actual SER. Prior to that, the
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a large number for Seek error rate attribute (note that I edited the output for readability): Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VAL WOR THR TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 253 006 Pre-fail Always - http://sgros.blogspot.com/2013/01/seagate-disk-smart-values.html 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 098 098 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 826 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 072 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 17262017054 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 087 087 000 Old_age Always error rate - 1153810 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 034 Pre-fail Always - 012 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 838187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 067 043 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 33 (0 17 33 31 0)191 G-Sense_Error_Rate seek error rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 809193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0022 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 351945194 Temperature_Celsius 0x001a 033 057 000 Old_age Always - 33 (0 11 0 0 0)195 Hardware_ECC_Recovere 0x0012 097 044 000 Old_age Always - 196225726197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x003e 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0000 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 1200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0202 Data_Address_Mark_Errs 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0254 Free_Fall_Sensor 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 It's not the first time I saw such a large raw values which, while not problematic (VAL/WOR/THR should be actually monitored) are nevertheless interesting, to say at least. While searching around I stumbled on a postSeagate's Seek Error Rate, Raw Read Error Rate, and Hardware ECC Recovered SMART attributes. In this post, the author explains that all the values are actually 48 bits, and due to the way they are encoded it follows that those values are large. More specifically, raw value of theSeek error rate attribute should be converted to hexadecimal and then upper 16 bits are numbe