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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"predictable" device names in smartd.conf on various linux-like systems
To configure S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, there is a configuration file at /etc/smartd.conf. That control file and several web pages I've seen, indicate that the configuration file should be customized by ...
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Are those S.M.A.R.T. errors indicate some serious HDD health issues and should I suspect that those S.M.A.R.T. data are tampered?
I've just bought some used hard drive. Using smartctl tool, I found that the Device Error Count value is 16566. Displayed number of reallocated sectors is zero, but should I worry that someone ...
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Interpreting dmesg output: Drive failure imminent or sys admin error?
Last week I swapped out a 1TB drive for a 2TB drive I have lying around. I now get the following in my dmesg output.
[Fri Feb 16 16:15:48 2024] ata5.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x20000 SErr ...
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Extremely slow read speed on hard disk
I have a 4TB hard disk on a NAS which I only use to store media files and play them from there using my local network. Its about 50% filled. It worked fine for for years but I recently noticed that ...
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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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Secure erase verification methods for different storage media?
Do secure erase technologies available on different types of media set a status or verification flag?
Is there a industry standard to verify when a drive has gone through the process?
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I need a Network design to manage smart home devices across two networks
I have a planned design but I need opinions and comments.I am not a professional.
My family has two apartments (Apt A, Apt B), each with its own ISP modem (300 Mbps) and WI-FI 6 tri-band router. Each ...
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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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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
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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
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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 ...
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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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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 /...
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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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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 ...
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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
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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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