04-21-2008, 05:40 AM
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 Re: Recommended hard drive temperature
On 17 Apr 2008 20:56:34 GMT, Arno Wagner put finger
to keyboard and composed:
>Seek errors are due to modern drives
>starting reading before the heads have settled. This usually works,
>but when it does not work it becomes a seek error. Some
>manufacuters list these in the SMART data, other do not. The
>number seen does not mean much, which is well known to people
>that work a lot with SMART data.
>
>Arno
I demonstrated elsewhere in another NG that in Seagate's case the
"seek error rate" figure is actually a count, not a rate, and it is a
count of the total number of seeks, not seek errors. I did this by
performing a zero fill operation on a 13GB drive and recording the
SMART "seek error rate" parameter before and after.
See ...
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...c63d875bfaf0d4
.... for my results.
- Franc Zabkar
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