Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
This used to monitor a hard drive's state and reliability. It tries to predict failures and warns the user when a disk is degrading.
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Drive failed or can be still used?
I've the following WD drive (3TB) that gave me a problem (I was unable to access any file: even an ls command on it caused a never ending wait).
Here some details on the disk:
Disk /dev/sda: 2.7 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors
Disk…
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How Can I Understand this Vendor-Specific SMART Attribute?
There are two contexts for this question, a general and a specific.
Generally, how does one find the meaning for vendor-specific S.M.A.R.T. attributes? I have searched the web high and low but found only partial information. Are there hard-to-find…
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S.M.A.R.T spin retry count
Monitoring the spin retry count of a 2-months-old HDD I don't fully trust (noise), I wonder:
If "current" is 134, why is "worst" indicated as 100 and "threshold" as 30? As I understand that value, lower is better.
Zsolt Szilagy
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Understanding smartd
I have two servers that are set up exactly the same way (same SSD's, RAM etc.). They both have ESXI running on them. One of the boxes had a quest host that had a lot of complaints about writing to the disk. It turns out that the host did not have…
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Does this SMART report indicate a bad disk?
On a remote server, I have 2x3TB drives set in raid 0 with SLI raid card.
I tried to run SMART tests to see if drives have a problem because server become unresponsive and one drive had to be put back "online" manually.
Drive ids are 4 and 5, this…
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CentOS 7 server rebooted itself into rescue mode - how can I find out why?
I've switched it back to regular boot and it seems to boot up fine.
So why did it reboot?
Running "last" doesn't even show a log OF a reboot. What does that suggest?
When I try "smartctl -a /dev/sda1" I get "SMART support is: Unavailable - device…
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Both hard disk fault at same time
Today one of the my computers have strange log.
At 8:00 both hard disks start to have errors like this:
Feb 9 07:24:48 bill2 kernel: ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=62726607
Feb 9 07:24:48 bill2 kernel:…
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Adaptec 6405 RAID controller turned on red LED
I have a server with an Adaptec 6405 RAID controller and 4 disks in a RAID 5 configuration. Staff in the data center called me because they noticed a red LED was turned on in one of the drive bays.
I have then checked the status using 'arcconf…
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Only notify when unreadable sectors increases
Is there a way to only be notified when the amount of unreadable sectors increases on a certain disk?
The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], 4 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
I have been getting…
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VMWare ESXi 4.1.0 - Checking SMART info
I'd like to know if there's a way to check the SMART info for hard drives on VMWare ESXi 4.1.0? Thank you.
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Does this SMART result indicate brand new drive?
Bought a Seagate Exos 7e drive from an OEM reseller (no Seagate warranty). Are these SMART results valid for a drive that is supposed to be brand new?
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RAID 0 - disk failure probability - need help to verifying my experience
I have HP DL380 G7, with 8x300GB disks. The disks are not HP genuine, they are OEM.
I configured RAID 0 for all disks, as i need speed and i have backup plans.
within 1 month:
1 Disk threw SMART error, and
1 disk completely failed (aka click of…
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