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Gaming Smartphones Tablets Windows 8 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: 5 January 2011 13:42 in Storage Share drevin 3 January 2011 11:36:57 I have some questions about the seek what is seek error rate error rate SMART attribute. I have a Seagate 500Gb 7200.10 (about 3 years old) that has
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a high seek error rate. I know that the raw data field has a different structure for different vendors and is thus not very
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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, I have an older
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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 3 January 2011 15:24:29 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 5 January 2011 13:42:59 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 rec
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use to use a 1TB drive and need to upgrade since I have many more files on 3 separate 500GB drives. So I decided to buy a 2TB to replace that drive and put the 1TB in a separate https://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/hardware/threads/408155/seek-error-rate-i-m-concerned-should-i lower power pc just for downloading / seeds. I bought the drive online and received it today, so I started transferring files; my one major file (800GB) to the new 2TB drive and watched for a little over http://www.2brightsparks.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=6341 1/2 hour and had to leave. Coming back I had 2 different programs, and a windows notification telling me the SMART info indicated ... pretty much a dying drive. I looked up the info / log monitor error rate and it looks like the smart values steadily decreased over time. It currently says my threshold, value, and worst (for seek error rate) is at a 67. (I'll upload a pic). It also says it has only been on for a little more than 200 hours, so it is not a long lived drive either, assuming once used for back-ups. PS. When I received it, I immediately ran SMART tests and looked for any issues, seek error rate like this, before starting the transfer (especially UPS delivering). I want to know if this is from the large volume of transferred data, the rate is about 50 MB/s and transferring non-stop. The speed really has not decreased in the transfer rate. Should I run tests after the transfer, if so, like what? I just hate to transfer everything, wipe my other drive and have this one fail. I especially do not have the money to buy a backup drive, it was a push to buy this; why I use SMART on all of my other systems. (UPDATE- I am so confused, I just went to post and the value changed, it went up a little but it is still telling me to back-up / the value is good & the drive I am transferring from, is even worse, so is it the volume of data? EDIT - THE VALUE OF THE 1TB WENT UP TOO...) Thanks for your help!! drive error hard seek smart storage transfer Attachments You Only Live Once.. mah300274 5 146 posts since Feb 2011 Community Member 2Contributors 2Replies 4Views 4 YearsDiscussion Span 4 Years Ago Last Post by rubberman 0 rubberman 1,067 4 Years Ago 1. A large transfer like this really stresses a drive. 2. New drives, if they are going to have problems, will exhibit them earl
Advanced Search Web Store 2BrightSparks Home Forum Home SyncBack Product Line SyncBackPro (commercial) Search smart readout claims a failure (seek error rate=warning) For technical support visit http://support.2brightsparks.com/ Post Reply Search Advanced search 4 posts • Page 1 of 1 vanish Newbie Posts: 3 Joined: Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:27 pm smart readout claims a failure (seek error rate=warning) Quote Postby vanish » Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:46 pm Dear all, A couple of days ago syncback pro 5 started to report hdd failure/warning messages fo a newly bougt internal hdd, which it didn't do in the beginning (around 2 weeks ago). The drive is a seagate 7200.11 st31500341as. The error entry in the syncback log is as follows: S.M.A.R.T. Raw Read Error Rate=OK,Spin Up Time=-,Reallocated Sector Count=OK,Seek Error Rate=Warning,Spin Retry Count=OK According to every other s.m.a.r.t. reading program (everest & hd tune) the drive is ok and healthy. The smart walues for seek error rate are: threshold: 30, value: 61, worst: 60, data: 1372739 The seatools by Seagate report as well that the smart status is OK. I assume this is a misinterpretation of smart values of seagate drives? (Someone else reported an apparently very similar problem here: http://www.2brightsparks.com/bb/viewtopic.p ... ight=smart) I use the most rercent version of syncback pro. Do you have any ideas? Best wishes, Sebastian Top mickyj 2BrightSparks Staff Posts: 8423 Joined: Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:51 pm Quote Postby mickyj » Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:12 am Hi, it looks like Seagate drives report their seek error rate differently. We'll see if we can fix this. I may need your help as we're not using Seagate drives... Top vanish Newbie Posts: 3 Joined: Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:27 pm Quote Postby vanish » Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:52 am mickyj wrote:Hi, it looks like Seagate drives report their seek error rate differently. We'll see if we can fix this. I may need your help as we're not using Seagate drives... Thanks alot for your kind reply. Good to hear that you see it as well as not a hardware problem I will of course help if I can! Just tell me what you need. Sebastian Top vanish Newbie Posts