Questions tagged [smartctl]
smartctl is a command line utility designed to perform SMART tasks such as printing the SMART self-test and error logs, enabling and disabling SMART automatic testing, and initiating device self-tests.
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Are SMART self-tests encapsulated to the HDD firmware?
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Does this indicate two of my drives have bad sectors?
Looking at smartctl output on 4 drives. Does this indicate a fatal error? Should I just replace the drives?
sdd1:
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status ...
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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, ...
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smartctl + what are the Total uncorrected errors means
we performed some tests with smartctl command on our datanode physical servers,
and the results are as the following ( example from one disk - sdd )
as we can see below - SMART Health Status: OK
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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 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 ...
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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) ...
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Identify a drive mounted as a folder using smartctl for Windows
I'm trying to spin down hard drives from the command line in Windows 10. If I have a drive represented by a drive letter, this is easy to achieve using SmartMonTools. I can enter:
smartctl.exe -s ...
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I ran smartctl to see my hard disk health and I got this much error should I need to be worry?
I ran smartctl to see my hard disk health andI got this log for a 2TB hard disk. Is having this much error normal thing ?
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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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Getting message - Read NVMe Identify Controller failed: NVME_IOCTL_ADMIN_CMD: Bad address - when using smartctl command
I am trying to check certain specifications of a hard drive on a computer with no operating system installed. I am using a Knoppix bootable disk (v8.6.1) to run a bash script with the line
smartctl -...
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