Sharing an update on this previously shared story. This article also includes ways you can check other manufacturers' disks, even without specialized log data. One of my 6TB Seagates has over 50k...
Sharing an update on this previously shared story. This article also includes ways you can check other manufacturers' disks, even without specialized log data.
One of my 6TB Seagates has over 50k hours discrepancy, the other lists matching hours for smart and farm but trips a script error on the docker farm check (trying to get smartmontools 7.4 on my system was a failed, arduous nightmare) but I would guess that one is fine... If it weren't for the odd behavior that prompted me to buy the "newer" drive to act as a mirror.
So I'm in the market for two new 6TB disks, Best buy has on sale some wd blacks for $130 and I might pull the trigger on those. The plan is to configure raid10 with the two new drives mirroring the two old drives. I wanted to expand anyway, was hoping to do some smaller drives and toss them in my btrfs pool, but this plan seems more prudent now.
It's also worth noting the article is incorrect about drives with FARM. The article states only Exos, Ironwolf, and Ironwolf Pro NAS have farm values. Check your drives any way. My drive's model name is just "Desktop HDD" according to a datasheet that is... 10 years old, but still had the FARM logs.
Sharing an update on this previously shared story. This article also includes ways you can check other manufacturers' disks, even without specialized log data.
One of my 6TB Seagates has over 50k hours discrepancy, the other lists matching hours for smart and farm but trips a script error on the docker farm check (trying to get smartmontools 7.4 on my system was a failed, arduous nightmare) but I would guess that one is fine... If it weren't for the odd behavior that prompted me to buy the "newer" drive to act as a mirror.
So I'm in the market for two new 6TB disks, Best buy has on sale some wd blacks for $130 and I might pull the trigger on those. The plan is to configure raid10 with the two new drives mirroring the two old drives. I wanted to expand anyway, was hoping to do some smaller drives and toss them in my btrfs pool, but this plan seems more prudent now.
It's also worth noting the article is incorrect about drives with FARM. The article states only Exos, Ironwolf, and Ironwolf Pro NAS have farm values. Check your drives any way. My drive's model name is just "Desktop HDD" according to a datasheet that is... 10 years old, but still had the FARM logs.