ATA Disk: vendor - Seagate, out of range smart data

[Nicholas Skaggs]

Vasudevan, again this is something to troubleshoot iIf your disk is 
actually giving you trouble. However, I don't see any bad values here, 
so unless your disk is misbehaving your probably fine. I

If your disk is actually giving you trouble, remember to troubleshoot 
the power, the cables, the motherboard connection as well as the disk 
itself. I just went through a nightmare of disk failures and pc crashes 
before discovering I had a bad power connector on one of my disks.  I'd 
recommend reading the definitions of what those smart values mean to get 
a handle on it. Each vendor reports things differently, but for example 
"power on hours" is some representation of how many hours (or whatever 
measure of time they want to use :-) ), the disk has been in use.

Nicholas

On 04/15/2013 12:23 PM, Vasudevan Kottilil wrote:
> 'SMART' data from 'Disks' app shows lot of out of range values - 
> quantal and raring beta2
>
> read error rate - 101,746,920 (normalized 116, threshold 6, worst 100)
> start/stop count - 474 (normalized 100, threshold 20, worst 100)
> seek error rate - 2,500,638 (normalized 63, threshold 30, worst 60)
> power on hours - 14 days and 3 hours ( I rebooted 2 hours ago)
> airflow/temperature 49 C/120 F (normalized 51, threshold 45, worst 44) 
> - Assessment - 'Failed in the past'
>
> Does these indicate h/w problems (brand new hardware - only a few 
> weeks old) or tool reporting issues? Thanks much.
>