This computer has a 1 TB Seagate HDD as a second drive at /dev/sdb, formatted as ext4.
Recently the HDD started performing really, really slow. For example, it took almost 20h to copy ~89 GB of data from an external USB drive to the HDD:
sent 89,704,992,410 bytes received 47,132 bytes 1,281,363.28 bytes/sec
total size is 425,224,910,218 speedup is 4.74
real 1166m47,065s
user 4m3,929s
sys 10m54,856s
It doesn't seem the problem is the USB drive, as normal operations sometimes are very slow too, like deleting files or even using tab completion in a terminal.
Running smartctl -t long /dev/sdb, I got this output:
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.10-arch1-1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Mobile HDD
Device Model: ST1000LM035-1RK172
Serial Number: (removed)
LU WWN Device Id: (removed)
Firmware Version: LVM2
User Capacity: 1.000.204.886.016 bytes [1,00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 3b
SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Tue Dec 28 19:23:54 2021 -03
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: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
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: ( 0) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x71) SMART execute Offline immediate.
No Auto Offline data collection support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
No 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: ( 165) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x3035) SCT Status 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 083 064 034 Pre-fail Always - 196192348
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 099 099 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 994
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 082 060 045 Pre-fail Always - 155079043
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 080 080 000 Old_age Always - 17728 (70 194 0)
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 706
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 100 098 000 Old_age Always - 8590065670
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 063 050 040 Old_age Always - 37 (Min/Max 28/45)
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 9
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 19
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 697945
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 037 050 000 Old_age Always - 37 (0 22 0 0 0)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
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
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x000f 096 096 030 Pre-fail Always - 4235 (41 1 0)
254 Free_Fall_Sensor 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
ATA Error Count: 2
CR = Command Register [HEX]
FR = Features Register [HEX]
SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
ER = Error register [HEX]
ST = Status register [HEX]
Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.
Error 2 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 17662 hours (735 days + 22 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
04 51 00 00 00 00 00 Error: ABRT
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 06:23:01.410 NOP [Abort queued commands]
b0 d4 00 82 4f c2 00 00 06:22:01.104 SMART EXECUTE OFF-LINE IMMEDIATE
61 00 50 ff ff ff 4f 00 06:21:58.086 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
61 00 00 ff ff ff 4f 00 06:21:58.086 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
b0 d0 01 00 4f c2 00 00 06:21:57.812 SMART READ DATA
Error 1 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 17662 hours (735 days + 22 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
04 51 00 00 00 00 00 Error: ABRT
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 06:17:33.736 NOP [Abort queued commands]
b0 d4 00 83 4f c2 00 00 06:16:33.565 SMART EXECUTE OFF-LINE IMMEDIATE
ea 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 06:16:33.546 FLUSH CACHE EXT
61 00 20 ff ff ff 4f 00 06:16:30.631 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
61 00 08 ff ff ff 4f 00 06:16:30.631 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 17728 -
# 2 Extended offline Interrupted (host reset) 00% 17702 -
# 3 Extended captive Interrupted (host reset) 90% 17662 -
# 4 Conveyance captive Interrupted (host reset) 50% 17662 -
# 5 Short captive Completed without error 00% 17662 -
# 6 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12481 -
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.
From what I've researched:
- those 2 errors (
Interrupted (host reset)) are not critical and mean the test was interrupted by a system reboot at some point;
- the disk is supposedly fine if
VALUE and WORST are above THRESH;
- the huge read/seek error rates aren't really meaningful. I got a value of zero doing that math;
From these results, is the disk ok? If it is, how can I find out why it is so slow?
