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Interpret the output of smartctl for SSD and hard drive
I have dropped my external hard drive on the floor recently and wanted to know if the electronic parts and mechanical parts were damaged. I have no idea how to find this out from the output of ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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/...
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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 ...
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