Recent content by diskrainfallrolls

Thank you for the detailed explanations. The resources in the previous two replies helped me better understand what is going on. I am trying to use the fio utility to perform some tests. My first goal was to replicate the HD Tune Pro graph. I used the following job file and obtained the...

Does this work? I don't mind doing a secure erase. Will try when I get the time. SMART attributes before and after is sufficient?

Your Google-fu is much better than mine. That's a lot of discussions I couldn't find. Short test (~3m): UDMA_CRC_Error_Count goes up by 8162 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate goes up by 2917 Nothing else changes. Long test (~80m): UDMA_CRC_Error_Count goes up by 434655 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate goes up by...

Posting the tests as I complete them. Read 5GiB from start of disk and toss into /dev/null. I cut out the attributes that didn't change. sudo smartctl -A /dev/sdb sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null status=progress count=10M sudo smartctl -A /dev/sdb 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 100...

I tried it out in a different system at 3 Gb/s and unfortunately there is no difference in behavior. While searching for answers I came across this Reddit thread about a Toshiba drive displaying similar behavior...

I tried what you have suggested. While playing closer attention to the SMART attributes over time I noticed a few things. There is a slow background increase in attributes C7 (UDMA) and C8 (Write Error / Multi Zone Error?). During read intensive workloads the attributes C7, C8 and F2...

I was given a Toshiba MQ01ACF050 (fw: AV001D) by a friend who no longer needed it. In it's previous life it was used as the primary storage in a laptop. It is currently inside an Orico USB enclosure (JMS578) and is serving as an additional offline backup. Ever since I got it, the drive has shown...