Length of Time for SMART Long Test After Badblocks

[mattbbpl]

I don't think any of my hardware matters outside of the size of my drives, but I've included it below as a matter of course.

I've been running through the hard drive burn in process, and the badblocks process finally finished. Now, I'd run the long SMART tests prior to that and it took something like 5 or 10 minutes. I ran it after successful badblocks runs, and it says it's going to take approximately 650 minutes on each drive. That seems.... wrong as I haven't seen any kind of indication on these forums that it will run significantly longer after badblocks runs. But maybe that's something that everyone knows so it's not mentioned, and the tests take longer because the entire disk surface has been "changed".

How long should the long SMART tests run in this case? Should it be minutes or hours?

Installation:
FreeNAS 9.3
Motherboard - Supermicro X10SL7-F
CPU - InteL Xeon 1231 v3
RAM - 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) Samsung DDR3-1600 8GB/1Gx72 ECC
Kingston SSDNow V300 60GB 2.5 inch SATA3 Solid State Drive
10 x 6 GB Seagate SATA STBD6000100 Hard Drives
2U Supermicro CSE-826TQ-R800LPB SuperChassis 12bays
PSU - CP1500PFCLCD

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

SMART Short tests take minutes and SMART Extended tests take hours on large (multi-TB) drives. Conveyance tests take longer than short tests and less time than extended tests. Probably you ran short before and are now looking at the time estimate for extended.

 

[mattbbpl]

OK, thanks for confirming. I must have made a mistake with the commands back in the beginning, but it's good to know that nothing is critically wrong. I could have sworn that it took 2 or 3 minutes per short test and 10 minutes or so for the long tests, but it's probably not worth my time trying to track down what I actually ran.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

10 minutes or so for the long tests

Definitely not, extended tests read every sector of the drive, which can't be done in 10 minutes on 6TB drives. Perhaps you ran conveyance tests before, and if not, consider doing so. Any time a drive has been shipped, you should run a conveyance test, and there's no reason to run one any other time as far as I know.