SpinRite Time Rising - 77 Hours

[m1dori]

I have an Seagate BarraCuda 8 TB drive [ST8000DM004] that I started running level 5 SpinRite on because it has been having big problems. It has been running now for 4 hours and 23 minutes, with 77 hours and 22 minutes to go, however when I started it was at 70 hours estimated time. It doesn't seem to ever go down in time below the 22 minutes, just goes to 24 back to 22 and repeats.

I am concerned completing this level 5 run is a waste of time? Does the fact that this is so slow and will take this long show that there may be a physical failure?

I appreciate any insight with this.

 

[ColbyBouma]

On the Real-Time Activities screen there are 8 labels with numbers to their right. Are any of those numbers greater than 0?

Are there any error messages in the Detailed Technical Log screen? Use the arrow keys or PgUp/PgDwn keys to scroll.

Is anything colored red on the S.M.A.R.T. System Monitor screen?

You can also hit ESC to cancel this scan, write down the scan percentage, then ZIP and upload your .LOG files from the SRLOGS folder here so we can look at them.

 

[m1dori]

Thank you for your quick reply.

I do not see any error messages on the Detailed Log Screen however the S.M.A.R.T. System Monitor Screen shows ECC Corrected sitting at 73/94, which is the only red section.

I stopped the scan at 5.7868% and my logs are attached.

Much thanks for your help.

 

[ColbyBouma]

I don't see any issues. I suspect that initial estimate of 70 hours was just too optimistic, and it corrected itself after a while. It's a Seagate, so the "ECC corrected" value can be ignored.

I recommend updating to Release 4, but I doubt that will affect the speed at all. It looks like SRPR-R3a was a pre-release for Release 3 where Steve was trying to fix an issue with Via controllers.

https://gitlab.grc.com/Steve/spinrite-v6.1/-/issues/649#note_8016

 

[m1dori]

I will upgrade and let it run, thank you again for your quick support!

 

[PHolder]

ST8000DM004

According to this https://www.seagate.com/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/3-5-barracudaDS1900-14-2007US-en_CA.pdf that drive is SMR. This is why it's so slow doing all that rewriting.

 

[ColbyBouma]

According to this https://www.seagate.com/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/3-5-barracudaDS1900-14-2007US-en_CA.pdf that drive is SMR.

Ah, that's why the estimator is struggling. Good catch! It will be interesting to see how long a full scan actually takes. I looked back through my logs, and my 6 TB WD SMR drive took 97 hours to do a Level 5.

https://gitlab.com/GRC-Community/SpinRite-Logs/-/blob/main/6.1/Colby Bouma - RC/56.LOG

 

[Greg S]

I am concerned completing this level 5 run is a waste of time?

Is there anything on that drive that you can't live without? Hard drives are inexpensive these days.

 

[m1dori]

To be honest, I took this drive out a while ago because it kept causing errors on my truenas [I know this isn't a NAS drive and probably not the best for my NAS] and had it sitting around so I thought I'd run level 5 to see if it would improve it. Turns out it took 98 hours to complete

Thanks for all the help!