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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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Detect if hard drive SMART data has been reset

I want to detect if a hard drive's SMART data has been reset, e.g. by an unscrupulous vendor selling refurbished drives as new. Google shows page after page of results about techniques and tools for resetting SMART data, but none about how to…
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Does calling storcli on a hard disk drive induce read/write latency?

I am calling storcli /c0/eall/sall show all on some 4TB Western Digital hard disk drives to get their SMART code status. When I do this it causes significant write latency to the disks, is that normal? Is there a way to get the SMART status of…
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Tests with smartctl vs smartd

I am looking into setting up smartmontools. I'd like to control when the tests run. I was thinking of running: /usr/sbin/smartctl --test=short /dev/sdX (every week) /usr/sbin/smartctl --test=long /dev/sdX (every month) And send an email/alert if…
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How can I change a SMART attribute value?

I have a drive which has signaled a SMART error (Current_Pending_Sector is 1) and I've run a "long offline test" against the drive which reported zero errors. This was after running a "short offline test", identifying an unreadable sector, forcing…
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SMART error (CurrentPendingSector) detected on host

Smart is reporting the following error each day one one of my data centre server SSDs: This message was generated by the smartd daemon running on: host name: x DNS domain: x The following warning/error was logged by the smartd…
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smartctl drive Media_Wearout_Indicator values outside normal bounds

I was attempting to put some monitoring in place to track the health of my SSD RAID on my production database. Normally I would expect a value of between 100 (new) and 0 (dead) for the Media_Wearout_Indicator, but I'm getting some large arbitrary…
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S.M.A.R.T Power_On_Hours wrap around with Seagate Baracuda?

I have a well used Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 with 80 GB. The smart report shows Power_On_Hours 0x0032 094 094 000 Old_age Always - 5646 But that can't be right. 5646h is only 235 days or less than eight month. The…
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How to interpret failure data provided by SMART and zfs

In a small server system, I have a zfs file system with a mirrored pair of consumer grade drives (Seagate Barracudas). Recently, during a periodic scrub operation the following result was given: pool: storage state: ONLINE status: One or more…
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Weird smartctl output. Is my disk in danger?

I have a disk, that gets me kinda weird smartctl output. I have never seen such large nubmbers on other disks. Does anyone now how to interpret these ? Is the disk likely to be faulty ? SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor…
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S.M.A.R.T long self test. Does the test continue after finding bad blocks?

I've been watching a SMART enabled HDD closely recently (connected to an OSX Server, which is not very helpful with SMART output out of the box). The drive is definitely failing- the heads click, SMART tests fail (despite SMART overall-health…
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SMART attribute 231 mystery: Mushkin SSD

Following from this question: How do I convince smartmontools that my SSD is not a hard drive? ... I now have the Mushkin MKNSSDCR120GB-MX's SMART attributes reading as "SandForce Driven SSDs". However I am still getting weird values from SMART…
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How do I convince smartmontools that my SSD is not a hard drive?

I'm running Debian Wheezy, stock smartmontools package (smartctl 5.41). An SSD, Mushkin MKNSSDCR120GB-MX, is reporting usage lifetime information in SMART attribute id 231 (decimal). For hard drives this attribute is Temperature_Celsius, and…
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hp smart array p400 - failed disk - hot spare

I am having an issue with a failed disk in a HP DL380 G5 smart array p400. The array setup is RAID 5, 7 disks + hot spare. One disk failed some weeks ago and the hot spare automatically took over, so long so good. I replaced the failed drive but I…
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Is there a way to read SMART attributes for drives in a SAN?

We are running an SSD array in a SAN, and the performance is great. But we need to monitor the write endurance SMART attributes so that we can determine when the drives are close to wearing out. We tested these drives and confirmed that we could get…
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SMART short offline test never ends for all drives of a RAID1

I'm having a strange situation here. After some three years in a low traffic server, one of two Samsung drives in a RAID1 has failed yesterday: Personalities : [raid1] md0 : active raid1 sdb1[2](F) sda1[0] 732572608 blocks [2/1] [U_] Since…
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