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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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Monitoring disks from ServeRAID array

I am looking for a way to monitor individually the disks an array on a ServeRAID device using smartctl. The RAID is seen as a single disk /dev/sda by Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The ServeRAID is a ServeRAID - 5i (adaptec) from an IBM eServer serires x345 with…
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smartctl for fedora 17

I got myself a hard drive that is making funny noises. I want to check for errors, I want to use smartctl, This command [root@defiant ~]# smartctl -V produces an error: bash: smartctl: command not found... yum install smartctl doesn't work. …
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Ubuntu 12.04 Server Software RAID1 - Faulty Spare - Smart Output Passed - Confused

I think I'm having an issue with one of the hard drives on my array and I'm just trying to troubleshoot what's happening. Its saying Faulty Spare and then after reboot it just says removed: /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Wed Aug…
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Skipping scheduled self-tests and predicting drive EOL

For a few weeks now, smartd has been reporting that it is skipping some of its scheduled self-tests on the weekends: Apr 24 18:29:32 calvin smartd[4758]: Device: /dev/sda, skip scheduled Offline Immediate Test; 40% remaining of current…
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What is a Linux device name for RAID of sas drives?

I have a RAID1 using Promise FastTrack TX2650 consisting of 2 SAS drives. What is a Linux device name for them? Like sda is for first sata drive. I have Windows server so I can't look it directly but need this information for smartctl usage. UPDATE.…
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How to interpret smartctl output

I ran a SMART scan of the ssd of my server, and I'm having difficulties to understand the output. Any insights please ? Thanks smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [x86_64-linux-3.10.0-1160.71.1.el7.x86_64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen,…
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smartctl "Elements in grown defect list" vs. RAID controller "Media error count"

I am using a hardware raid50 with PERC810 controller in my server and recently encountered a metric I am not sure about. Until now, I have been using a smartctl metric "Elements in grown defect list" as a hint that drive is failing and should be…
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Rebuild RAID5 with uncorrectable sectors on multiple disks

My software RAID5 (mdadm) system consists of five disks. Recently, I get I/O errors when reading certain files. Most of the other files are still readable. At first, I was planning to find out which disk is broken (using smartctl) and quickly…
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invalid JSON to monitor SMART on Zabbix

I've followed these steps on github: https://github.com/v-zhuravlev/zbx-smartctl to monitor the SMART disks in my Winsows servers on Zabbix. BUt when I add the template to the host I'd configured, on the frontend, it shows me this error as "not…
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How to interpret conflicting status data between `smartctl` and `mdadm`?

I have a HDD which is a member of a RAID10 array. smartctl and mdadm give me conflicting indications of its status. smartctl claims that the disk is FAILED: $ sudo smartctl -H /dev/sdf smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883…
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Fixing a readonly-filesystem on Raid-1?

I have an Ubuntu 18 server using a software RAID-1 array, and smartctl is indicating that my /dev/sda is failing. Both Throughput_Performance and Reallocated_Sector_Ct are listed as "FAILING_NOW". However, this has not triggered a RAID failure, as…
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How to determine disk connection type in Linux

So this might be an obvious question, but I am managing several servers over a network and I would like to be able to find out what type of connector each server is using (i.e. SATA, SCSI, IDE, etc...) without powering off the machine and looking…
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linux + how to identify disk health

we have linux redhat server version 7 we are suspects that one of the disks (/dev/sdc ) in the machine HW ( dell ) is in bad state, ( and that because required to do fsck from dmesg ) but we not sure , machine is on new HW and new disks we found…
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HDD Bad sectors not realloated but no smart errors

I have a pair of WDD drives and recently one got kicked out of the RAID1 array. SMART is showing that there's IO errors on some sectors, but all the SMART attributes appear to be looking fine: root@nas:~# smartctl -a /dev/sdb smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07…
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Trouble Getting the smartd Attributes of a Western Digital 4TB HHD

I am trying to get the smartd attributes of a Western Digital 4TB HHD model WD4001FYYG-01SL3. I would like to get the following attributes: SMART 5 Reallocated Sectors Count SMART 187 Reported Uncorrectable Errors SMART 188 Command Timeout SMART…
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