Questions tagged [smart]
S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a monitoring system for computer hard disk drives to detect and report on various indicators of reliability, in the hope of anticipating failures.
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recurrent zfs read and write errors while smart tests are ok
I'm using OpenZFS 2.1.5 on Ubuntu 22.04.
zpool status -v show recurrent read and write errors on one of my mechanical drives. However, SMART test doesn't show any problem with the disk. By recurrent I ...
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Unable to read SMART data from internal disks
I've been trying to read SMART data from my internal drives, but nothing works.
I've used:
Cristal Disk Info
GsmartControl
hd sentinel
hd tune
None of these programs were able to read SMART data ...
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How to remove forced disk read only mode? (failure might be imminent msg on boot)
Woke my PC up from sleep and got blue screen. On reboot it said that my boot disk's failure is imminent and didn't let me chose it as a boot disk even when I tried to force it through bios. I hooked ...
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SSD has SMART test PASSED but fails self-testing
I have an external SSD that suffered some file corruption earlier this week. Model is
Model Family: Crucial/Micron RealSSD m4/C400/P400
Device Model: M4-CT256M4SSD2
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iTunes Smart Playlist w/podcasts - not picking up all episodes
Using iTunes for Windows from Microsoft Store. Would rather not use 3rd party programs if there's a way to do what I need with Podcasts.
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I have a lot of mp3 files (~1000) from different ...
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nvme m.2 SSD stopped booting Windows 10 after 1 year of working fine. How to get Windows to boot again without reinstalling?
For background, I did not update any software in the recent days. I did not have any power outages. I did not make any changes to my computer. I didn't update Windows and had windows updates turned ...
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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 does CrystalDiskInfo show "B1 Vendor Specific" as a bad disk health indicator?
I have bad performance when processing large files and I ran CrystalDiskInfo and it shows disk health status as "bad" with row ID=B1 and "Vendor Specific" marked in red.
I tried ...
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Hard Drive Failure? - Reallocated Sector Count
I recently noticed Windows was extremely slow and some programs failed to run.
The hard disk is checked during boot randomly. Sometimes checks go to Stage 5: 100s of thousands of sectors.
After a ...
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SMART error on disk used with ZFS and mdadm
For some time now I've been getting emails like the following after every time I reboot my workstation (which is called 'charm').
Subject: SMART error (ErrorCount) detected on host: charm
This ...
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Are my HD failures caused by a SATA port issue or is the hard drive just failing?
I'm currently trying to figure out whether a new HD that I purchased a few weeks back is faulty or if it's a problem with the SATA port (if that's even possible).
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smartctl: Confusing attributes and selftest results
The server where I keep old photos, videos and the like contains a bunch of spinning 3TB disks (WD Caviar Green). I rarely switch it on.
I recently looked at my disks' SMART data. One of the disks ...
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My G-Raid Thunderbolt 3 Health & spin up time going down fast?
My G-Raid Thunderbolt 3 Health & spin up time going down fast,im using macbook pro m1 & G-raid system in Raid 1,does anyone know the reasons ??
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New laptop's SSD SMART reported about 1.4TBs of total read and 1.4TBs of total write and 6 hrs of power on time
It's a 512GB m.2 drive.
Is this normal somehow?
Definitely not normal for my limited experiences with the newly purchased SSDs and computers.
For about 1.4TBs of total read and write and 6 hours of ...
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Two SMART properties check programs, different results of End-to-End error
Take a look at SMART-ID value D8:
Which one of the two is correct and is the current state really critical? The RAW values are NOT different:
Crystal reads 11h = 17
Passmark reads 17 = 11h
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What, if anything, should I do about an SSD reporting low temperatures?
Kubuntu's disk monitoring feature has recently (last few weeks) started giving me alerts about an imminent disk failure on my NVMe M.2 SSD (a Crucial P2) at boot. I have been running sudo smartctl -a ...
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How to read SMART stats of hard drives connected via Silicon Image Raid controller on Windows 10?
I am using a PCI card in my Windows 10 (Enterprise) pc, which is correctly listed under Windows device management as "Silicon Image Sil 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller". No RAID is enabled on the ...
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S.M.A.R.T. on Windows Server 2012 R2
One of hard drives on my Windows Server 2012 R2 starts to fail and I detected this too late - only when I was not able to read one file and got some strange errors on read.
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Do USB memory sticks and memory cards not have S.M.A.R.T. data on-board?
As I understand it, USB memsticks (and memory cards) use the same basic technology as SSD disks.
But then why does CrystalDiskInfo detect and show all kinds of information for all my HDDs and SSDs, ...
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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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Can faulty motherboard cause these absurdly high Read/Seek error rates?
I have two similar Seagate HDDs used in a laptop. The laptop suffered from various problems caused by faulty motherboard. Now, I need to use one of these for temporary storage and both of these drives ...
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3 year old SSD under normal use suddenly reports 3% health in its SMART values (97% "Percentage used")
I think this is my first time posting on SuperUser and I'm not super experienced with the subject so please bear with me if I leave out some details on first attempt.
So. We have a 3 year old HP ...
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Testing a harddrive using badblocks and gsmartcontrol
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To test the health of an empty Western Digital 1TB SATA disk I found in the dumpster, I ran sudo badblocks -svw /dev/sdb > badblocks.txt on it in Ubuntu 20.04. It ran for approx. >...
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Get SSD Host Writes in Windows via Command Line
In CrystalDiskInfo, I can see how many GB have been written to an SSD. This is helpful to monitor its usage over time:
If possible, I would like to run a script automatically that pulls this ...
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SMART showing bad block but ECC recovered is 0 without erase failure on a Samsung 870 EVO SSD
Have a question about SMART attributes of an SSD drive. Namely Samsung 870 EVO, the deal is that there are 6 bad blocks and 6 blocks used from the reserve, also 6 reallocated sectors.
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What does the “raw value” of the spin-up time in SMART parameters actually mean?
I have an offer to buy a used HGST HUS724020ALA640. The seller sent a screenshot of SMART parameters that are made using CrystalDiskInfo. I have checked these parameters and they are in the reference ...
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SSD S.M.A.R.T. (SMART) 'Soft ECC Correction' attribute high on newish drive - Is this normal?
On a 5-month old SATA SSD, the S.M.A.R.T. (SMART)* 'Soft ECC Correction' attribute's value is already large (58000).
Is this normal?
For reference, the 'Soft ECC Correction' attribute is SMART ...
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Does Enabling the Host Protected Area increase available reserved space on SATA SSD?
I got an old SATA SSD which is on it's last leg with regard to available reserved space.
If i perform a SSD overprovising as described in the linked article will that increase available reserved space ...
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Computer occasionally complains that the hard drive could not be found. Hard drive is missing some S.M.A.R.T. data but shows no errors otherwise
One of the computers at my workplace sometimes displays an error that the hard drive could not be found. Each time, our IT guy fixed it simply by reseating the cables. So far, the issue has not come ...
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HDD SMART Caution changed to Good
This is a strange happening. I had a disk whose SMART status was displayed as Caution in CrystalDiskInfo when I powered it up after a few years. It had uncorrectable sector and pending sectors, and ...
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SMART test results show "Aborted by host"
I have run a long-form SMART test on a disk local to a Linux system, using the following command:
sudo smartctl -t long -d sat /dev/sdc
Once I was certain the test completed, I requested a report on ...
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Lock a file in hard drive sector from accessing by any process
I have C5 Current Pending Sector Count is 1 on my HDD after writing on it.
I found the file in that bad sector (a folder hash computing with 7zip just stopped on that file).
Then I moved the file to a ...
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Reallocation_Event_count has a large value while Reallocated_Sector_Count is zero
I was checking my laptop's HDD (Seagate ST500LT012-1DG142) when I found out that the Reallocation_Event_count has a large value while Reallocated_Sector_Count is zero.
$ sudo smartctl --attributes /...
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HDD SMART Recovery [duplicate]
I am performing data recovery on a HDD that has SMART failure. I need to get all the data copied off this disk. The disk contains a Windows C partition, that is all. I have many softwares and external ...
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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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wear leveling count low on smart check
My wear levelling count went really down.
How much should I be concerned, how long will it last?
I saw the recommendations to always back up and saw some topics where people said it will still work ...
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What happened to read error rate on my 7 month old WD HDD? Is this a concern?
I have a WD Black 7200RPM Laptop HDD and it is the secondary drive. I bought it like 7 months ago. And I don’t use it much for any heavy work. Just saving some files and that’s it.
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Does the information about bad sectors provided by S.M.A.R.T. and badblocks survive formatting? [closed]
I have read many questions and answers on SuperUser, ServerFault, and other websites about this topic, but I am still a little bit confused about S.M.A.R.T. and badblocks.
I saw that S.M.A.R.T. stores ...
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Seek Error Rate correlation between normalized and raw SMART value (Seagate HDD's)
According to the only documentation that I could find on the Internet regarding the Seek Error Rate SMART attribute of Seagate HDDs, we have to perform the following calculations in order to get the ...
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How do I fix WRITE FPDMA QUEUED messages if the SMART report isn't showing any errors?
This is an OCZ Vertex SSD. I'm told that the first value (raw read error rate) is irrelevant for SSDs. I'm getting a lot of "WRITE FPDMA QUEUED" errors in terminal (why I'm in terminal is ...
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Temperature threshold CrystalDiskInfo value
Could you please help me get understand what this value (C2 Temperature Threshold 70) means and do I have to worry about ssd or do i need to replace? :
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Show to visualize SMART data of the HDDs and SSDs on a Megaraid 9361 8i controller
Is there a way to see the SMART disk data of my drives when using a Megaraid 9361 i8?
The Megaraid storage controller doesn't seam to have such a feature.
Would be nice to see how much data was ...
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Why WD HDD has different set of values when comparing to other WD HDDs?
I have a newly brought laptop hard disk WD blue 5400 RPM HDD. And today when I replaced this new HDD with a laptop I checked HDD details from CystalDiskInfo and I saw there are differences between ...
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Frequent file corruption but HDD passes all tests
My laptop (MSI GL63-8RD) has a 1 TB HDD with NTFS partitions. OS is on SSD.
My code files keep on getting garbage data in them or they just vanish.
I ran chkdsk /f /r /x on the volume, which deletes ...
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Can an external hard drive damage an internal hard drive?
I have an external hard drive of 2TB that accidentally felled and it wasn't showing data on my laptop. I searched to find out if its a hardware damage then I found out that pc is detecting an external ...
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How bad is Spin-Up Time in HDD?
I have a newly brought laptop and it has WD Black 7200 RPM HDD. And yesterday I took a screenshot from CystalDiskInfo and I kept it and today I just opened CystalDiskInfo and compared the values with ...
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How bad is Error Rates in HDD?
Since a few days ago I'm experiencing slowness in HDD. It is a Transcend HDD with 5400 RPM. That HDD 3 - 4 years old and 4267 power-on hours and 1605 power-on count. I am using CrystalDiskInfo ...
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Reset Smart values to factory defaults for a Samsung NVMe SSD?
Here https://askubuntu.com/a/687455/974560 is a quesion regarding resetting smart values to factory defaults on old spinning S-ATA disks. In the comments is a link to a youtube video which is not ...
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How to evaluate SSD & HDD time to failure (remaining lifespan) and can their health be restored?
I'd like to calculate the longevity of my SSD and mechanical hard drives as of right now.
The calculated remaining lifespan would help me to take timely measures such as increasing backup frequency. I'...
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Hard disk suddenly disappearing
In my Windows 10 computer, I have a Toshiba 6TB HDD [D:] and occasionally the disk completely disappears (there is no more D: disk), with the disk remaining invisible until a reboot, always returning ...
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