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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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Reliability of S.M.A.R.T. Selftest

I let smartd check my hard drives regularly. Recently I have been notified about a failed short selftest on one of my hard-drivers. smartctl 6.4 2014-10-07 r4002 [x86_64-linux-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce…
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What's the top normal S.M.A.R.T. temperature for HGST Helium Ultrastar 8TB 7200 RPM SAS 12Gb/s enterprise drives?

I've just received new Dell R730xd 2U server with faceplate 12 * 3.5" drive bays + 4 * 3.5" mid-body tray, located above RAM modules & CPUs. I've plugged 16 * HGST Helium 8Tb 7200 RPM SAS 12Gb/s drives and started 2 * 8 * 8Tb RAID6 volumes…
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Finding out which cciss disk is what /dev/sdX disk (smartmontools & cciss raid controller)

I have a HP server, which has a hardware RAID array (that mostly isn't being used for raiding, the disks are just passed through to the Linux OS). I have 6 SSD disks. 2 are riad mirrored together by the array, the other 4 are exposed to the OS. One…
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Smartctl reporting read failure for block -- How to mark as 'don't use'?

On one of my hard disc I've got a bad test result from smart like this: # 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 19889 128652505 # 2 Short offline Completed: read failure 10% 19882 …
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How to access SMART attributes when using RAID with a Dell Perc 4e (LSI)

I can't easily shut down this windows server, so I'd like 'online' solutions. I tried the following unsuccessfully: Seatools Enterprise: caused a BSOD smartmontools: scan only showed virtaul RAID drives that said don't support SMART; doesn't seem…
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smartctl not actually running self tests?

I want to run the smartctl self tests to check the health of the drives in my RAID array (PERC 5/i). The array is on sda and comprises six drives. I can check the status using sudo smartctl /dev/sda -d megaraid,0 -a And I see that SMART is…
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Inexplicably slow Western Digital WD15EARS disk

I have four disks, of which two are WD15EARS, in a server and I'm trying to put the two WD15EARS's in Linux mdadm RAID, but for some reason, the array's performance is very slow (it syncs at about 15 MB/s). At first I thought it was an alignment…
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Physical/portable Hard drive tester/diagnostics tool

Are there any tools that I can plug into a hard drive and perform diagnostics such as displaying if there are SMART errors? I work with a lot of commodity hardware and need to check if some of the disks laying around are good. It's a pain to put…
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Why are SMART error rates going down?

I have a hard drive that's part of a Linux software raid5 array. SMART has reported that its multi_zone_error_rate was 0, then 1, then 3. So I figured I better start backing up more frequently and prepare to replace the drive. Now, today, the…
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Bad sectors, S.M.A.R.T., SpinRite, firmware on platter and drive id questions

Is it possible for S.M.A.R.T. to give false readings (say I was fiddling with lots of recovery programs, transfers, so on and so forth) or is it absolutely a read-only direct correlation to the physical status of a drive? Does SpinRite level 5…
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Is this disk about to die?

I have a WD Red 4 TB disk (WD40EFRX-68WT0N0, firmware 82.00A82) that is occasionally showing uncorrectable read errors in the SMART error log, e.g.: Error 43 [18] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 13157 hours (548 days + 5 hours) When the…
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SATA disks being identified as SCSI

I have two identical servers with same hardware and cloned Linux OS. They both have Supermicro HBA AOC-S3008L. Yet one server identifies SATA disks as SCSI while the other one correctly identifies them as SATA. My problem is that I need to use…
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ZFS keeps repairing the same disk when scrubbing - what does that mean?

I have a ZFS pool comprised of 6 disk, arranged in 3 stripped mirrors. The server is a Supermicro X11SSM-F with a Xeon CPU, 32 GB of ECC RAM running Ubuntu 17.04. I'm using 2 Icy Dock MB154SP-B to physically host the disks, and there are 8 SATA 3…
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S.M.A.R.T. Errors of previous hdd or need to replace?

I ran s.m.a.r.t and came up with some weird errors, although the disk is pretty fresh Power_On_Minutes 427h+41m I'm curious, are these the errors of previous hdd? Error 1 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 13729 hours (572 days + 1 hours) When…
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S.M.A.R.T attribute saying FAILING_NOW

I have the following SMART attribut staying at FAILING_NOW, but with a raw value of just 1. Is it not suposed to change to IN_THE_PAST later ? ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 184…
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