Questions tagged [smartctl]
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How to interpret Samsung SSD Wear_Leveling_Count over 100?
I have Samsung 840 Pro SSD which is working for a while for a MySQL database server. I felt it has become slow recently, so I tested it with smartctl:
#smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 6.4 2014-10-07 r4002 [x86_64-linux-3.16.0-4-amd64] (local…
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NVMe faulty drive? SMART Error Information Log Entries fastly increasing
The Error Information Log Entries value showed by smartctl -a /dev/nvme0n1 in my NVMe is growing fast, by 1 per second. Is it indicative of a faulty driver?
At the same time, Media and Data Integrity Errors is currently showing a value of 0.
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How to check if external hard drive is spinning or in sleep mode through the command line?
How can I determine through the command line whether or not an external drive that is connected to my system is awake (spinning) or sleeping?
None of the answers here have helped. The Powershell method doesn't work at all, and the smartctl method is…
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How to use smartctl with one raid controller
I using a PERC H730 Mini raid controller :
# lspci -d::0104 -k
02:00.0 RAID bus controller: Broadcom / LSI MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 [Invader] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell PERC H730 Mini
Kernel driver in use: megaraid_sas
Kernel…
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Was my HDD with failed SMART really repaired?
In brief: I want to know if an HDD with failed SMART can be repaired by any means, and if so, is it still reliable enough.
In details: I have a 4 years old 1TB Western Digital HDD (WD10JPVX-08JC3T6) with no previous problems.
disk /dev/sda: 931.5…
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Single SSD in RAID10 array has Wear_Leveling_Count issue
I run a RAID10 machine with 4x Samsung 480GB SSD's. The drives are of identical age.
3 of the drives have a Wear_Leveling_Count 090, but one is now as low as 003. I don't understand why one of the drives is so much worse than the other 3. Their load…
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How to check NVMe ssd with smartctl?
How do you check the health of an NVMe ssd using smartctl on Ubuntu?
My laptop, which has a NVMe solid state drive, has been crashing somewhat frequently recently with strange disk read errors. Fortunately, rebooting has temporarily resolved the…
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Interpreting Seagate SMART value 188 "Command Timeout" data format
A recent smartclt report on a Seagate "Iron Wolf" ST4000VN008-2DR166 included the following that caught my eye since Command_Timeout is on Backblaze's list of SMART indicators of impending disk failure.
188 Command_Timeout -O--CK 100 099…
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smartctl offline test interrupts immediately
When I start offline test like this:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo smartctl -t offline /dev/sda
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [aarch64-linux-5.15.32-v8+] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
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Why SSD serial number is different on Windows and Linux?
On Windows, I use
wmic diskdrive get Name, Manufacturer, Model, InterfaceType, MediaType, SerialNumber
and get 044A_5000_B130_099F. as the SerialNumber.
However, on Linux, I use
sudo smartctl -i /dev/nvme0
and get SS0L25186X2RC11X12CZ as the…
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Looking for smartctl NVMe log error explanation (0xa013 0x8004 and 0x9016 0x8004)
For my 1TB NVMe smartctl -a /dev/nvme0n1 first reported this:
Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 256 entries)
Num ErrCount SQId CmdId Status PELoc LBA NSID VS
0 129 0 0xa013 0x8004 0x000 0 0 …
Artem S. Tashkinov
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High HDD load-count after short smart test
I use an old laptop as a DIY NAS with Debian 9.6 with a HGST HTS541010B7E610 HDD.
The HDD had Power_On_Hours of more than 37k with a Load_Cycle_Count of only 380.
After doing a short smart test with smartctl the Load_Cycle_Count started to increase…
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Why MDADM removes disk with no errors from array and marks it as failed
I have a Raid6 that keeps automatically marking a disk (/dev/sdi) as Failed and removing it from the array even though the long test does not show any errors:
Test results
sudo smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdi
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen,…
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Are SMART self-tests encapsulated to the HDD firmware?
Background
I recently had a new WD Red Pro connected via USB external dock fail a running SMART long test with Completed: read failure (lacking a LBA at the point of failure). The drive successfully went through a badblocks run, SMART short test,…
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smartctl + how to found the XXX MBps throughput on disk
we want to know - How fast can a single storage volume read or write, in Megabytes per second
for example - 125MBps throughput.
so we used the smartctl command in order to capture the XXXMBps throughput. value
but we not found this info from…
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