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[miikew]

Hi
how can i check if drives are properly setup and has maximum performance ?

i have 4x1tb drives, and 1x80gb for system (sda),
hdparm -t /dev/sdx :
sda Timing buffered disk reads: 212 MB in 3.02 seconds = 70.42 MB/sec
sdb Timing buffered disk reads: 428 MB in 3.02 seconds = 142.42 MB/sec
sdc Timing buffered disk reads: 374 MB in 3.02 seconds = 124.42 MB/sec
sdd Timing buffered disk reads: 10 MB in 3.02 seconds = 2.04 MB/sec
sde Timing buffered disk reads: 300 MB in 3.02 seconds = 99.42 MB/sec

moving big files between drives (5GB mkv) for sdd i get ~500KB/s on others i have 10-20MB/s but not stable,
i start googling and i found about some bug in kernels regarding DMA but dont know how to check it , webmin is rejecting any changes on ide parameters tab, can some1 help to figure it out whats going on ? from windows environment i know that transfer between this kind of drives should be on lvl 50-70MB/s

[gerasimos_h]

Hi,

first of all, which kernel do you use and which bug are you referring to?

Also have you try from LiveCD to benchmark with "hdparm -Tt" , and also what is the result of SMART on sdd

[miikew]

here is smart status

root@mediaserv:~# smartctl -d auto -a /dev/sdd
smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [i686-linux-3.14.40-smp] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Green
Device Model: WDC WD10EADS-00R6B0
Serial Number: WD-WCAVY5104214
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 25a215650
Firmware Version: 01.00A01
User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Fri Jan 27 07:43:24 2017 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity
was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (26460) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 303) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x303f) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 144 140 021 Pre-fail Always - 9758
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 845
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 059 059 000 Old_age Always - 30549
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 745
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 711
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 196 196 000 Old_age Always - 14513
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 114 090 000 Old_age Always - 38
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 199 199 000 Old_age Always - 222
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 183 070 000 Old_age Offline - 2732

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]


SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

[miikew]

here my system
System operacyjny Slackware Linux 14.0
Wersja Webmin 1.831
Czas systemowy Fri Jan 27 07:49:17 2017
Kernel i CPU Linux 3.14.40-smp na i686
Informacje o procesorze AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 250u Processor, 2 rdzeni

[gerasimos_h]

Your sdd drive is failing, according to Current pending sectors which are 222 and they will grow when days passed...

gerasimos_h

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[gerasimos_h]