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smartctl controls the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives.

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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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e2fsck found no errors, but S.M.A.R.T. self test fails

I have an external Freecom HDD (Samsung drive inside), connected via USB and using it's own power supply. The disk disconnects itself on random interval of time (from few hours up to a month). I tend to blame the operating system because the same…
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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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freenas disc problems - smart error - how to repair zfs raid?

My problem was that hdds of my zfs raid partly degraded and partly destroyed after a lightning. I was able to detect the problem with zpool status: zpool status myzfs pool myzfs state: DEGRADED (DESTROYED) The good news. ZFS seems to be really…
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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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Is my hard disk failing?

I've just had the hard disk on my server replaced. It was part of a RAID 1 array. The sdb1 partition keeps failing every few hours now. # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [multi …
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Does regularly running smartctl negatively affect disks?

I have many servers in different data centers. Lately I had some disk failures that I probably could've detected beforehand, so I started automatically running smartctl -t periodically on each disk. I'm short testing disks twice a week and long…
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smartctl says test result PASSED but Extended offline tested complete immidiately with read failure (in linux)

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdd smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.11.0-18-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC…
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WDC WD40PURZ-85AKKY0 is missing smartclt attributes?

I d like to share a weird thing I came across with the above aforementioned disk. I have two of these WDC WD40PURZ-85AKKY0 WDC WD40PURZ-85TTDY0 both are purple 4tb drives. Before use them in an array (along with other 4tb drives) I wanted to check…
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HDD SMART interpretation

I need your opinion if the drive below is failing. When I run "smartctl -a /dev/sda -d megaraid,1", 2 errors are posted at the end of the output, stating "Error: WP at LBA". I don't see anything suspicious in the SMART parameters. Here is the…
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S.M.A.R.T. Attributes from OWC Mercury Rack Pro

I'm having difficulty getting SMART Attributes from drives in an OWC Mercury Rack Pro. I can successfully get all the drive info, but I get nothing past the START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION. It is currently connected via eSATA to a…
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How to derive bytes written from SMART's host_write_commands?

Using either smartctl 7.0 or nvme 1.7, I get the following data from the SMART log data_units_written : 350,371,149 host_write_commands : 2,974,115,785 Via smartctl, the first line also shows [179 TB], which is…
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How to collect historical data using smartctl?

I'm trying to do some analysis on the SMART stats of disk drives. Unfortunately, I'm not collecting/storing smart stats data daily for the analysis. I will be writing some procedure to collect it from now. I was thinking, that disk drives has its…
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