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From: 3877 on 30 Dec 2009 00:01 Arno wrote > ANTant(a)zimage.com wrote >> I noticed my five(?) years old office PC's HDD is getting slower and >> slower these days. I wonder if it is dying. I don't see anything in >> SMART colors to show any issues. The technical values confuse me: > Looks healthy. Yes. > Likely just fragmented like crazy Wont be that. > or low on free space. Or that either. Neither will produce those symptoms. >> smartctl -a sda >> smartctl version 5.38 [i686-mingw32-xp-sp2] Copyright (C) 2002-8 >> Bruce Allen >> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > >> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === >> Model Family: Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 family >> Device Model: Maxtor 6Y080M0 >> Serial Number: Y22BP5AC >> Firmware Version: YAR51HW0 >> User Capacity: 80,000,000,000 bytes >> Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] >> ATA Version is: 7 >> ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 0 >> Local Time is: Tue Dec 29 15:33:24 2009 PST >> SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. >> Enabled status cached by OS, trying SMART RETURN >> STATUS cmd. >> SMART support is: Enabled > >> === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === >> SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED > >> General SMART Values: >> Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection >> activity was completed >> without error. Auto Offline >> Data Collection: Enabled. >> Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test >> routine completed without >> error or no self-test has >> ever been run. >> Total time to complete Offline >> data collection: ( 241) seconds. >> Offline data collection >> capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline >> immediate. Auto Offline data >> collection on/off support. >> Suspend Offline collection >> upon new command. Offline >> surface scan supported. >> Self-test supported. No >> Conveyance Self-test >> supported. Selective Self-test supported. >> SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before >> entering power-saving mode. >> Supports SMART auto save >> timer. >> Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. >> No General Purpose Logging >> support. >> Short self-test routine >> recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. >> Extended self-test routine >> recommended polling time: ( 36) minutes. > >> SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 >> Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: >> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE >> UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 >> 224 224 063 Pre-fail Always - 7747 4 >> Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age >> Always - 65 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 253 >> 253 063 Pre-fail Always - 0 6 Read_Channel_Margin >> 0x0001 253 253 100 Pre-fail Offline - 0 7 >> Seek_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age >> Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0027 248 237 >> 187 Pre-fail Always - 38101 9 Power_On_Minutes >> 0x0032 141 141 000 Old_age Always - 614h+43m >> 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x002b 253 252 157 Pre-fail >> Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x002b 253 252 >> 223 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count >> 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 72 192 >> Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always >> - 0 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 >> Old_age Always - 0 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0032 >> 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 50 195 >> Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always >> - 924 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0008 253 253 000 >> Old_age Offline - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0008 >> 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 198 >> Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 253 253 000 Old_age >> Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0008 199 >> 199 000 Old_age Offline - 0 200 >> Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always >> - 0 201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 243 000 >> Old_age Always - 15 202 TA_Increase_Count 0x000a >> 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 203 >> Run_Out_Cancel 0x000b 253 252 180 Pre-fail Always >> - 2 204 Shock_Count_Write_Opern 0x000a 253 252 000 >> Old_age Always - 0 205 Shock_Rate_Write_Opern 0x000a >> 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 207 >> Spin_High_Current 0x002a 253 252 000 Old_age Always >> - 0 208 Spin_Buzz 0x002a 253 252 000 >> Old_age Always - 0 209 Offline_Seek_Performnce 0x0024 >> 191 191 000 Old_age Offline - 0 99 >> Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 253 000 Old_age >> Offline - 0 100 Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 >> 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 101 Unknown_Attribute >> 0x0004 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 > >> SMART Error Log Version: 1 >> No Errors Logged > >> SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 >> Num Test_Description Status Remaining >> LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline >> Completed without error 00% 35352 - # 2 Extended >> offline Completed without error 00% 29236 - # 3 >> Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 >> - > >> SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 >> SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS >> 1 0 0 Not_testing >> 2 0 0 Not_testing >> 3 0 0 Not_testing >> 4 0 0 Not_testing >> 5 0 0 Not_testing >> Selective self-test flags (0x0): >> After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. >> If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute >> delay. > > >> What do you guys think? 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From: Rod Speed on 30 Dec 2009 00:02 ANTant(a)zimage.com wrote: > I noticed my five(?) years old office PC's HDD is getting slower and > slower these days. I wonder if it is dying. I don't see anything in > SMART colors to show any issues. The technical values confuse me: Check if the DMA has got turned off somehow.
From: Ant on 30 Dec 2009 00:24 On 12/29/2009 6:42 PM PT, Rod Speed typed: > Its still fine, nothing that matters has changed in the SMART report. Thanks again. :) -- "The tiny ant dares to enter the lion's ear." --Armenian /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil./Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: philpi(a)earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant(a)zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
From: Ant on 30 Dec 2009 00:24 On 12/29/2009 6:59 PM PT, Arno typed: >> I noticed my five(?) years old office PC's HDD is getting slower and >> slower these days. I wonder if it is dying. I don't see anything in >> SMART colors to show any issues. The technical values confuse me: > > Looks healthy. Likely just fragmented like crazy or low on free > space. I actually did defrag, but that didn't seem to help. Hmm! Nothing odd in task manager. I did notice lots of disk activities. -- "The tiny ant dares to enter the lion's ear." --Armenian /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil./Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: philpi(a)earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant(a)zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
From: Ant on 30 Dec 2009 00:26
On 12/29/2009 9:00 PM PT, Franc Zabkar typed: > On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:42:18 -0600, ANTant(a)zimage.com put finger to > keyboard and composed: > >> I noticed my five(?) years old office PC's HDD ... > > Model Family: Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 family > > 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always > - 65 > > 9 Power_On_Minutes 0x0032 141 141 000 Old_age Always > - 614h+43m > > Hmmm, you have an old generation HDD that has run for only 614 hours > and has been power cycled only 65 times ??? The PC is mostly on 24/7. Very rare that it is off. It does get rebooted like every two weeks or so due to Windows Updates or whatever. >> ... is getting slower and slower these days. > > Check whether it has been downgraded from DMA mode to PIO. Would that be in XP Pro. SP2's Device Manager? >> I wonder if it is dying. I don't see anything in >> SMART colors to show any issues. The technical values confuse me: > >> 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 50 > > The temperature is about 10C too high for my liking. It's a Dell Optiplex GX270 or 280 (always get them mixxed up) case. :( -- "One day he sprained an ankle rather than crush an ant." --Les Miserables /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil./Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: philpi(a)earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant(a)zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |