Latest firmware for HGST Helium drives?

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kevindd992002

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They can or can't? Can they be cross-flashed with an OEM HUH728080AL4200 firmware? The physical label of the drive says HUH728080AL4200.
 

kryten

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sorry can.

i dunno about cross flashing i doubt it. not easily anyway. its no differant to cross flashing any other rebadged drive.
 

kevindd992002

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Gotcha. Here's all data I see in a `smartctl -a /dev/sdb` command:

Code:
smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.1.0-21-amd64] (local build)

Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org


=== START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION ===

Sending command: "Abort SMART off-line mode self-test routine".

Self-testing aborted!

root@epsilon:~# ^C

root@epsilon:~# smartctl -t long /dev/sdb

smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.1.0-21-amd64] (local build)

Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org


Long (extended) offline self test failed [unsupported field in scsi command]

root@epsilon:~# smartctl -t long /dev/sdb

smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.1.0-21-amd64] (local build)

Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org


Long (extended) offline self test failed [unsupported field in scsi command]

root@epsilon:~# smartctl -a /dev/sdb

smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.1.0-21-amd64] (local build)

Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org


=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===

Vendor:               HITACHI

Product:              HUH72808CLAR8000

Revision:             M7K0

Compliance:           SPC-4

User Capacity:        8,001,563,222,016 bytes [8.00 TB]

Logical block size:   4096 bytes

LU is fully provisioned

Rotation Rate:        7200 rpm

Form Factor:          3.5 inches

Logical Unit id:      0x5000cca26110f8a4

Serial number:        VJG9AALX

Device type:          disk

Transport protocol:   SAS (SPL-4)

Local Time is:        Thu May 16 23:48:00 2024 PST

SMART support is:     Available - device has SMART capability.

SMART support is:     Enabled

Temperature Warning:  Disabled or Not Supported


=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===

SMART Health Status: OK


Current Drive Temperature:     41 C

Drive Trip Temperature:        60 C


Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 53597:33

Manufactured in week 03 of year 2017

Specified cycle count over device lifetime:  50000

Accumulated start-stop cycles:  214

Specified load-unload count over device lifetime:  600000

Accumulated load-unload cycles:  1587

Elements in grown defect list: 0


Vendor (Seagate Cache) information

  Blocks sent to initiator = 10387028499759104


Error counter log:

           Errors Corrected by           Total   Correction     Gigabytes    Total

               ECC          rereads/    errors   algorithm      processed    uncorrected

           fast | delayed   rewrites  corrected  invocations   [10^9 bytes]  errors

read:          0        2         0         2    4927234      67882.530           0

write:         0        1         0         1    3647660      54535.452           0

verify:        0        1         0         1      99111          0.952           0


Non-medium error count:        0


SMART Self-test log

Num  Test              Status                 segment  LifeTime  LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]

     Description                              number   (hours)

# 1  Background short  Completed                   -   53596                 - [-   -    -]

# 2  Background short  Completed                   -   52134                 - [-   -    -]

# 3  Background short  Completed                   -   50647                 - [-   -    -]

# 4  Background short  Completed                   -   49206                 - [-   -    -]

# 5  Background short  Completed                   -   47622                 - [-   -    -]

# 6  Background short  Completed                   -   46182                 - [-   -    -]

# 7  Background short  Completed                   -   44623                 - [-   -    -]

# 8  Background short  Completed                   -   43110                 - [-   -    -]

# 9  Background short  Completed                   -   41646                 - [-   -    -]

#10  Background short  Completed                   -   40158                 - [-   -    -]

#11  Background short  Completed                   -   38694                 - [-   -    -]

#12  Background short  Completed                   -   37206                 - [-   -    -]

#13  Background short  Completed                   -   35766                 - [-   -    -]

#14  Background short  Completed                   -   34326                 - [-   -    -]

#15  Background short  Completed                   -   32886                 - [-   -    -]

#16  Background short  Completed                   -   31446                 - [-   -    -]

#17  Background short  Completed                   -   29993                 - [-   -    -]

#18  Background short  Completed                   -   28542                 - [-   -    -]

#19  Background short  Completed                   -   27102                 - [-   -    -]

#20  Background short  Completed                   -   25662                 - [-   -    -]


Long (extended) Self-test duration: 6 seconds [0.1 minutes]

Is it ok if I really don't get SMART information? How do I even know if this drive is dying already if I use it in my array?