How to interpret this smartctl (smartmon) data

In my experience, Seagates have weird numbers for those two SMART attributes. When diagnosing a Seagate I tend to ignore those and look more closely at other fields like Reallocated Sector Count. Of course, when in doubt replace the drive, but even brand new Seagates will have high numbers for those attributes.


For Seagate disks (and possibly some old ones from WD too) the Seek_Error_Rate and Raw_Read_Error_Rate are 48 bit numbers, where the most significant 16 bits are an error count, and the low 32 bits are a number of operations.

% python
>>> 200009354607 & 0xFFFFFFFF
2440858991
>>> (200009354607 & 0xFFFF00000000) >> 32
46

So your disk has performed 2440858991 seeks, of which 46 failed. My experience with Seagate drives is that they tend to fail when the number of errors goes over 1000. YMMV.