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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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Hardware Checks after Air Conditioning Failure

We had an overnight air conditioning failure. We discovered that the temperature in the server room had reached about 110-115°F (43-46°C). We powered off everything that hadn't already and had the A/C fixed. Now that it's fixed, I'm concerned of the…
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SSD Wear_Leveling_Count = 17

I have just checked my SSD drive (Samsung SSD 750 EVO 120GB) with smartctl. The result is: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 …
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Current Pending Sector S.M.A.R.T

Hello I have a Linux Server mounted with BTRFS in RAID-1 and I would like that someone more expert than me could solve my doubts. I have 3 HDD of 6TB each, in one of them every so often smartd detects errors in some sector. When it happens I use…
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Smartd supress/change level for FAILURE PREDICTION THRESHOLD EXCEEDED

I'm using smartd to monitor drive health It started compaining about FAILURE PREDICTION THRESHOLD EXCEEDED for one drive, but I extensively tested that drive and it's fully functional That drive is one of many in this machine How can I disable or…
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Enable new disk in raid

I had a server with 2 disks in a raid and one of them failed. Called the provider and had them change the disk. After a reboot I still see only one disk: cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]…
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HGST He8 S.M.A.R.T. test extended-self test polling time variability

I recently received a batch of 6 brand new HGST He8 drives and when running an initial long self-test on them, I noticed that the extended self-test routine recommended polling time exhibit a very large degree of variability. for f in /dev/sd[u-z];…
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Filesystem set to read-only mode, which drive is faulty?

I woke up today to find out my CentOS server's filesystem has been set to read-only mode. I'm running RAID 1 on this server. # mkdir test mkdir: cannot create directory `test': Read-only file system I did some research and found that this is…
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Lycom PE-115 firware update possible? Otherwise `smartctl` on FreeNAS reports errors

I have Lycom PE-115 SATA 3 2 Port 6Gbps Low Profile PCI-e 2.0 Host Adapter in my machine running FreeNAS. It seem have some trouble with SMART of SanDisk SSD Plus I connected to it. I've seen reports people had to do a firmware updates for USB…
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In smartctl, what does means "Percentage used endurance indicator too short"?

I use Bacula to make backups. When i use smartctl # smartctl -H -l error /dev/st0 smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [x86_64-linux-2.6.32-431.1.2.el6.x86_64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen,…
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Is my drive good or going bad?

I just ran SMART on my server's drives but I'm not too sure how to interpret it. My results seem like the drive is doing fine, but I would like a second (or third) opinion, just to be safe. Here are the results: Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with…
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Windows Tool to read S.M.A.R.T. attributes on SATA drive in HP D2700 Enclosure using P812 Controller

I've got two HP DL380 G7 servers + P812 controller + D2700 enclosure. They're database servers with 144 Gb RAM. P812 firmware is 6.40, D2700 is at 0147 They both worked great with 18 OWC Mercury Extreme SSDs (SATA). After I added 6 more SSDs in…
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smartd rule does not work

I have an issue with smartd. I've studied its man page, and then I've set the SMART daemon to run long test of the hard disks two times a month and alert to the specified mail address in case of faults such as high temperature. Those rules are…
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DegradedArray event after rsync but later mdadm and smartctl do not show any issue

I have in my cron rsync active and I started to get emails after each rsync This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm running on titan707 A DegradedArray event had been detected on md device /dev/md/2. Faithfully yours,…
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How to silence "Disk Utility" "A hard disk is reporting health problems"

I'm working on repairing a raid member, and I know I have a bad disk. This dialog appears by the hundreds (a new crop is minted every time anything touches anything related to a mount, so closing them does no good): Check, got it. How can I make…
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Drive is failing but LSI MegaRAID controller does not detect it

smartmontools reports an increasing number of unreadable sectors on a drive that is used in a RAID1 configuration. I thought that the LSI MegaRAID controller also checks the SMART status of its disk drives and therefore should recognize the drive as…
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