The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/FabadaLosDomingos on 2024-12-06 19:30:22.

I just bought a 16TB HDD from seagate (from amazon). The drive is brand new, I had a problem mounting it and when i ran a healthcheck and realised I have 0 idea what any of it means. Does this mean that I formatted my drive incorrectly (ext4) or maybe that I should overriwrite the whole drive?

server@linux:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.10.11-200.fc40.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     ST16000NM000J-2TW103
Serial Number:    ZRS1FQXE
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 0e899264f
Firmware Version: SN02
User Capacity:    16,000,900,661,248 bytes [16.0 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    7200 rpm
Form Factor:      3.5 inches
Device is:        Not in smartctl database 7.3/5528
ATA Version is:   ACS-4 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.3, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Fri Dec  6 20:25:51 2024 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:  (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:  (1424) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time:  (   2) minutes.
SCT capabilities:        (0x70bd)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   050   050   044    Pre-fail  Always       -       36361577
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   098   098   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always       -       2
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       28
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   100   253   045    Pre-fail  Always       -       46649
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   097    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always       -       2
 18 Unknown_Attribute       0x000b   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   001   001   000    Old_age   Always       -       108
188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   069   066   000    Old_age   Always       -       31 (Min/Max 27/34)
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       2
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       8
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   031   040   000    Old_age   Always       -       31 (0 23 0 0 0)
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       98
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       98
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      -       0 (65 187 0)
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       36146800
242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       214777

SMART Error Log Version: 1
ATA Error Count: 195 (device log contains only the most recent five errors)
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 195 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1 hours (0 days + 1 hours)
  When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

  After command completion occurred, registers were:
  ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
  -- -- -- -- -- -- --
  40 53 00 08 c9 00 00  Error: UNC at LBA = 0x0000c908 = 51464

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC   Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  ----------------  --------------------
  25 00 01 08 c9 00 40 00      00:51:21.067  READ DMA EXT
  25 00 40 00 c9 00 40 00      00:51:16.658  READ DMA EXT
  25 00 01 08 c9 00 40 00      00:51:13.611  READ DMA EXT
  25 00 40 00 c9 00 40 00      00:51:10.587  READ DMA EXT
  25 00 40 00 49 00 40 00      00:51:09.722  READ DMA EXT

Error 194 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1 hours (0 days + 1 hours)
  When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

  After command completion occurred, registers were:
  ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
  -- -- -- -- -- -- --
  40 53 00 08 c9 00 00  Error: UNC at LBA = 0x0000c908 = 51464

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC   Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  ----------------  --------------------
  25 00 40 00 c9 00 40 00      00:51:16.658  READ DMA EXT
  25 00 01 08 c9 00 40 00      00:51:13.611  READ DMA EXT
  25 00 40 00 c9 00 40 00      00:51:10.587  READ DMA EXT
  25 00 40 00 49 00 40 00      00:51:09.722  READ DMA EXT
  25 00 40 40 08 00 40 00      00:51:08.859  READ DMA EXT

Error 193 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1 hours (0 days + 1 hours)
  When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

  After command completion occurred, registers were:
  ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
  -- -- -- -- -- -- --
  40 53 00 08 c9 00 00  Error: UNC at LBA = 0x0000c908 = 51464

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC   Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  ----------------  --------------------
  25 00 01 08 c9 00 40 00      00:51:13.611  READ DMA EXT
  25 00 40 00 c9 00 40 00      00:51:10.587  READ DMA EXT
  25 00 40 00 49 00 40 00      00:51:09.722  READ DMA EXT
  25 00 40 40 08 00 40 00      00:51:08.859  READ DMA EXT
  25 00 40 00 08 00 40 00      00:51:08.212  READ DMA EXT

Error 192 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1 hours (0 days + 1 hours)
  When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

  After command completion occurred, registers were:
  ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
  -- -- -- -- -- -- --
  40 53 00 08 c9 00 00  Error: UNC at LBA = 0x0000c908 = 51464

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC   Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  ----------------  --------------------
  25 00 40 00 c9 00 40 00      00:51:10.587  READ DMA EXT
  25 00 40 00 49 00 40 00      00:51:09.722  READ DMA EXT
  25 00 40 40 08 00 40 00      00:51:08.859  READ DMA EXT
  25 00 40 00 08 00 40 00      00:51:08.212  READ DMA EXT
  25 00 40 80 00 00 40 00      00:51:08.210  READ DMA EXT

Error 191 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 0 hours (0 days + 0 hours)
  When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

  After command completion occurred, registers were:
  ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
  -- -- -- -- -- -- --
  40 53 00 68 14 00 00  Error: UNC at LBA = 0x00001468 = 5224

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC   Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  ----------------  --------------------
  60 00 08 68 14 00 40 00      00:35:01.663  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 00 08 60 14 00 40 00      00:35:01.645  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 00 08 58 14 00 40 00      00:35:01.423  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 00 08 50 14 00 40 00      00:35:01.369  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 00 08 40 14 00 40 00      00:35:01.166  READ FPDMA QUEUED

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
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