Hello,
I have a problem with Toshiba MQ01ABD075.
Every time after data is written (and synced) it starts to make really loud head activity noises (like when system is heavily swapping). Duration depends on the amount of data written, for 10GB it can last up to 20 seconds, while for 60GB up to 150-180 seconds.
Swap is turned off, so actual swapping is not really taking place of course.
It happens only after writing, reading is not affected.
If during this time I will try to read/write something, the drive will stop this activity and perform new task at full speed (no performance drop), then once idle head will start going mad again (until X seconds pass).
Testing with:
- iotop
- echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/block_dump
Does not pick up any disk activity when this happens, which makes it appear to be out of OS scope.
I am trying to figure out what is this related to, and if this is a tweakable behavior (like APM).
Is the drive (on it's own) trying to reposition written data for better read access?
Or maybe some additional data integrity checks?
Overall performance is fine, I have no complaints about it, but this constant head activity noise after (and I mean explicitly after) writing, which can last up to few minutes, can be really annoying.
dmesg output related to the drive:
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[ 4.558633] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 4.570269] libata version 3.00 loaded.
[ 4.573616] ahci 0000:00:17.0: version 3.0
[ 4.573861] ahci 0000:00:17.0: AHCI 0001.0301 32 slots 1 ports 6 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
[ 4.573863] ahci 0000:00:17.0: flags: 64bit ncq pm led clo only pio slum part deso sadm sds apst
[ 4.574130] scsi host0: ahci
[ 4.574275] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf0136000 port 0xf0136100 irq 123
[ 4.890860] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 4.891775] ata1.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:e0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 4.891781] ata1.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:e0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 4.925670] ata1.00: ATA-8: TOSHIBA MQ01ABD075, AX0A4M, max UDMA/100
[ 4.925677] ata1.00: 1465149168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 32), AA
[ 4.927217] ata1.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:e0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 4.927225] ata1.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:e0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 4.928204] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 4.929113] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA TOSHIBA MQ01ABD0 4M PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 4.947364] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1465149168 512-byte logical blocks: (750 GB/699 GiB)
[ 4.947415] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 4.947423] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 4.947473] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 5.098647] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10
[ 5.115598] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
SMART appears to be fine:
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=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Toshiba 2.5" HDD MQ01ABD...
Device Model: TOSHIBA MQ01ABD075
Firmware Version: AX0A4M
User Capacity: 750,156,374,016 bytes [750 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Thu Mar 24 17:21:39 2022 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: (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: ( 120) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No 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: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 189) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 100 100 001 Pre-fail Always - 1676
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 3426
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 077 077 000 Old_age Always - 9347
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0033 168 100 030 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 3384
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 779
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 308
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 26723
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 32 (Min/Max 6/52)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
220 Disk_Shift 0x0002 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
222 Loaded_Hours 0x0032 083 083 000 Old_age Always - 7043
223 Load_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
224 Load_Friction 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
226 Load-in_Time 0x0026 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 266
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0001 100 100 001 Pre-fail Offline - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
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% 9223 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 9221 -
# 3 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 8968 -
# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 8965 -
# 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 8965 -
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.
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