Another one bites the dust(WD Green HDD's)

the last of my WD green HDD’s has finally started to show signs of failure(already hit and miss with recording according to smartctl its been powered for 3.5 years had it for about 4 would be my guess) i needed more space anyway not a bad drive was dirt cheap and kinda slow but worked well for what i used it for(it handles mostly recordings which prob helped in its fate more then anything and used to hold my videos with another 2TB green till that one failed and i ran out of space. was being used for steam games but now just started to reuse it to expand my video collection)

thinking of replacing it with something like this: WD3003FZEX http://www.umart.com.au/umart1/pro/Products-details.phtml?id=10&id2=129&...

* oneday i should do a post about mythtv its such a good media center solution and most of the development is focused on linux(although mac/and to a far lesser extent windows works with reduced features) :)

[df -BG]
Filesystem 1G-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 58G 23G 33G 42% /
/dev/sda3 850G 134G 673G 17% /mythtv
/dev/sdb1 193G 177G 6G 97% /mythtv/Recordings
/dev/sdb2 48G 1G 46G 1% /mythtv/LiveRecordings
/dev/sdc1 3668G 3411G 71G 98% /mythtv/Videos
tmpfs 2G 1G 2G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb3 1594G 1G 1512G 1% /mythtv/Videos2

[dmesg]
[5760958.992543] ata3: EH complete
[5760958.992679] ata3.00: exception Emask 0×0 SAct 0×0 SErr 0×0 action 0×0
[5760958.992682] ata3.00: irq_stat 0×40000001
[5760958.992684] ata3.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT
[5760958.992689] ata3.00: cmd 25/00:08:61:45:6b/00:00:18:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in
[5760958.992689] res 61/04:08:61:45:6b/00:00:18:00:00/e0 Emask 0×1 (device error)
[5760958.992692] ata3.00: status: { DRDY DF ERR }[5760958.992694] ata3.00: error: { ABRT }
[5760958.998524] ata3.00: failed to enable AA (error_mask=0×1)
[5760959.004451] ata3.00: failed to enable AA (error_mask=0×1)
[5760959.004456] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 (device error ignored)
[5760959.004478] ata3: EH complete
[5760959.004620] ata3.00: exception Emask 0×0 SAct 0×0 SErr 0×0 action 0×0
[5760959.004623] ata3.00: irq_stat 0×40000001
[5760959.004626] ata3.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT
[5760959.004640] ata3.00: cmd 25/00:08:61:45:6b/00:00:18:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in
[5760959.004640] res 61/04:08:61:45:6b/00:00:18:00:00/e0 Emask 0×1 (device error)
[5760959.004642] ata3.00: status: { DRDY DF ERR }
[5760959.004644] ata3.00: error: { ABRT }
[5760959.010528] ata3.00: failed to enable AA (error_mask=0×1)
[5760959.016459] ata3.00: failed to enable AA (error_mask=0×1)
[5760959.016465] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 (device error ignored)
[5760959.016487] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb]
[5760959.016489] Result: hostbyte=0×00 driverbyte=0×08
[5760959.016491] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb]
[5760959.016492] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
[5760959.016495] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[5760959.016497] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[5760959.016504] 18 6b 45 61
[5760959.016508] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb]
[5760959.016509] ASC=0×0 ASCQ=0×0
[5760959.016511] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB:
[5760959.016512] cdb⁰=0×28: 28 00 18 6b 45 61 00 00 08 00
[5760959.016519] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 409683297
[5760959.016531] ata3: EH complete
[5760959.016560] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb2): __ext4_read_dirblock:908: error reading directory block (ino 2, block 0)

[smartctl —all /dev/sdb]
smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [x86_64-linux-3.10.17] (local build)
Copyright © 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

= START OF INFORMATION SECTION =
Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Green (Adv. Format)
Device Model: WDC WD20EARS-00J2GB0
Serial Number: WD-WCAYY0155187
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 25a608f79
Firmware Version: 80.00A80
User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Sat Aug 9 09:20:33 2014 EST
SMART support is: Available – device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled