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  • BIT 6 - S.M.A.R.T. False Failure?

    I had two units today that both failed for SMART Threshold exceeding condition detected.

    They were both new hard drives that were OS restored. On one unit, I had the tech replace the drive and do OS again. Afterwards, it failed again 48 minutes in. I didn't have him do anything to the other unit yet.

    The HDD is a Toshiba HDD and I've attached the log.

    PassMark BurnInTest Log file - http://www.passmark.com
    ================================================== ======

    Date: 01/04/01 15:08:26

    BurnInTest V6.0 Pro 1030
    (64-bit)Logging detail level: Result summary

    **************
    SYSTEM SUMMARY
    **************
    Windows 7 Home Premium Edition build 7600 (64-bit),
    1 x Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4300 @ 2.10GHz,
    2.9GB RAM,
    Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family,

    CD-RW/DVDRW,

    GENERAL
    System Name: HP-PC

    CPU
    CPU manufacturer: GenuineIntel
    CPU Type: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4300 @ 2.10GHz
    Codename: Penryn
    CPUID: Family 6, Model 17, Stepping A, Revision R0
    Socket: Socket P (47
    Lithography: 45nm
    Physical CPU's: 1
    Cores per CPU: 2
    Hyperthreading: Not capable
    CPU features: MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 DEP PAE Intel64
    Clock frequencies:
    Measured CPU speed: 2095.1 MHz
    Multiplier: x10.5
    Scalable Bus Speed: 199.5 MHz
    Front Side Bus: 798.1 MHz
    Cache per CPU package:
    L1 Instruction Cache: 2 x 32 KB
    L1 Data Cache: 2 x 32 KB
    L2 Cache: 1 x 1024 KB

    MEMORY
    Total Physical Memory: 3003MB
    Available Physical Memory: 2026MB

    **************
    RESULT SUMMARY
    **************
    Test Start time: Thu Jan 04 15:08:26 2001
    Test Stop time: Thu Jan 04 15:17:27 2001
    Test Duration: 000h 09m 01s

    Test Name Cycles Operations Result Errors Last Error
    CPU 139 122 Billion PASS 0 No errors
    Memory (RAM) 4 20.135 Billion PASS 0 No errors
    2D Graphics 10 10906 PASS 0 No errors
    3D Graphics 9 18526 PASS 0 No errors
    Optical disk (E 4 717 Million PASS 0 No errors
    Disk (C 115 13.984 Billion FAIL 2 SMART Threshold exceeding condition detected.
    TEST RUN FAILED

    *******************************************
    SERIOUS ERROR SUMMARY FOR THE LAST TEST RUN
    *******************************************
    SERIOUS: 2001-01-04 15:17:23, Disk, SERIOUS: SMART Threshold exceeding condition detected. (x 2)

    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Is this truly a failure or a false failure? It seems odd that 3 hard drives failed for the exact same thing at exactly the same time.

  • #2
    Maybe download DiskCheckup and see which attribute has exceeded it threshold.
    http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm

    It might just a temperature warning, or something not so serious.

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