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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is running smartctl safe?
I cant seem to find a super easy answer for this and I am sure that RTFM applies here but I am hoping this question, asked simply, will also help many other noobs out there.
I am running freenas and getting a bunch of CAM STATUS errors and…
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Does this SMART report indicate a bad disk?
On a remote server, I have 2x3TB drives set in raid 0 with SLI raid card.
I tried to run SMART tests to see if drives have a problem because server become unresponsive and one drive had to be put back "online" manually.
Drive ids are 4 and 5, this…
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Testing faulty disk
I have a degraded RAID-1 setup and I'm trying to troubleshoot the problem whether it's completely dead (and need to send the drive back to the vendor) or it can be brought back.
So I ran smartctl:
root@linux:~# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda
smartctl…
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Linux centos 6.5 Disk performance monitoring using smartctl
i installed smartctl utility in centos 6.7 but cant get output of smartctl , i fire
# smartctl -i /dev/sda
smartctl 5.43 2016-09-28 r4347 [x86_64-linux-2.6.32-573.el6.x86_64] (local build)
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Does this SMART result indicate brand new drive?
Bought a Seagate Exos 7e drive from an OEM reseller (no Seagate warranty). Are these SMART results valid for a drive that is supposed to be brand new?
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