12TB Seagate 3.5" 256MB 7200RPM SATA Enterprise Hard Drive (Refurb) Expired

I cannot believe how noisy these drives are. I just cloned my 5TB music drive to it in under 6 hours so that was nice but man when I fired up my computer the next day (I have the drive sitting in a inateck bay) I was like what is that noise? lol

LOUD!!

Disk-Filltest

HDDScan or Victoria.

I cannot believe how noisy these drives are. I just cloned my 5TB music drive to it in under 6 hours so that was nice but man when I fired up my computer the next day (I have the drive sitting in a inateck bay) I was like what is that noise? lol

LOUD!!

# time badblocks -t random -w -s -b 4096 /dev/sdm
Testing with random pattern: done
Reading and comparing: done

real 2042m56.563s
user 13m4.269s
sys 28m4.914s

smartctl --all /dev/sdm
smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.5.13-1-pve] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: ST12000NM0127
Serial Number: XXXXXXX
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 0c2a95255
Firmware Version: G005
User Capacity: 12,000,138,625,024 bytes [12.0 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Form Factor: 3.5 inches
Device is: Not in smartctl database 7.3/5319
ATA Version is: ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 5
SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Wed Feb 28 06:44:56 2024 EST
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: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
was completed without error.
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: ( 567) 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: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: (1104) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x50bd) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 080 065 044 Pre-fail Always - 109370944
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 096 096 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 4
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 071 061 045 Pre-fail Always - 13831549
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 56
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 4
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 067 061 040 Old_age Always - 33 (Min/Max 27/39)
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 5
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 5
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 033 040 000 Old_age Always - 33 (0 18 0 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 009 009 000 Old_age Always - 109370944
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0023 100 100 001 Pre-fail Always - 0
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 37 (2 155 0)
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 23462000640
242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 23437779968

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.

Mine was super quiet. You'll want to stress test it before trusting it. My three days are up today.

https://sam.gleske.net/blog/engin...rives.html

Can you please tell me which exact hard drive enclosure you are using? Thanks!

I tried to copy 3TB of data over an external USB enclosure and it took about 17 hrs (tested with sabrent and fideco enclosures w/ a fan). No small size files or documents Average speed was about 30MB/s. Range 15-70MB/sec during transfer.

Also, my drive was very quite during the transfer process. I only hear it when it's reading/seeking data. 0 bad sectors on extended surface or SMART scan

EDIT:

Nvn. I think the problem was my source hard drive (WD my passport), which caused slow transfer speeds. WD black external gives me 100MB/s and USB 3.0 flash drive about 180MB/s

In summary - I was really hesitant to buy this drive. I hate refurbished stuff and I know Seagate doesn't have a good track record. But so far I'm satisfied with the purchase. I realize this is still like winning the hard drive lottery and it could crap out on me tonight. So I plan on only using it for disposable and already backed up files.

For someone looking into hard drive enclosures - I recommend this one by Fideco

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0...asin_title

The fan helps keep the hard drive cool (<30°C) and enclosure is really quite while writing. HDD itself makes noise while seeking or reading, but nothing to do with the enclosure. It uses an ASmedia chip which is supposed to be more reliable.

I tried this one made my Sabrent, but it didn't keep it as cool. Temps were in 40-43° range. Fan is in bottom and blows air in, not out, which is a stupid design choice. Enclosure also made a weird low "munching" noise when reading/ writing. Also, it uses a Jmicron chip, which can cause issues.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0...asin_title

Is there a USB device that allows you to power multiple drives at once and have each be assigned their own drive letter in Windows? Not looking to clone anything, I have one of those docks. Just looking to load them all at once and run the filltests on them all simultaneously.

For those planning on installing in Synology NAS be aware of a limitation I just learned of the hard way:

When you want add a drive or drives to an existing storage pool you can only add drives of larger capacity than the smallest drive already in the pool. In my case, with a 4-bay DS-423+, I was blocked from adding 2 of these drives to a pre-existing storage pool of 2 16TB drives.

The interesting thing is that you can combine different size drives if you build the storage pool initially with one of the smallest drives you intend to use. So it is not that you can't combine different size drives, but you must do it in increasing size order--so plan ahead. I wish I had known about this limitation when I first set up the NAS.

Also, it doesn't mean I can't use the drives, but it means I have to set up a separate storage pool which is a major disadvantage from a storage capacity standpoint.