Benjamin Franz wrote on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:21:35 -0800 (PST): > That would be number of hours the drive has _already_ been running. IOW, > it is telling you that the drive has been on for about two years. Ah, so the opposite of what I thought? Don't confuse the value from the selftest log with the value from smartctl -a. There's also a value Power_On_Hours in smartctl -a which I figured would be the hours it's on. As I see now the RAW value of it is increasing, but certainly much faster as that it could be counting the hours. Ah, confirmed, I ran a second short test about one hour later and the value in the log has increased by one, so it's indeed the power on time it has had already. Thanks. > > The entry that usually tells you if you are developing problems are > Reallocated_Sector_Ct. If that is in the hundreds (or even in the multiple > dozens), you are probably looking at a drive that is going to fail in the > near future. > > Offline_Uncorrectable and Current_Pending_Sector are other ones you don't > want to see values much above '0' on. These are all at 253 (raw incidents = 0). I understand that a drive that looks really well in SMART could still fail next day, but at least there is no indication of that from this side. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com