Questions tagged [smart]
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
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PERC MegaRAID S.M.A.R.T. Status is not matching smartctl's - looking for clues what's wrong with the HDD
I'm getting strange SMART error from MegaCli on Dell R720xd and PERC H710P with five 4Tb SATA drives in RAID5
/opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -PDList -aALL
gives me some "Failure Seq Event Number"
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SMART Extended self-test routine changes duration
I purchased a new Western Digital Elements 3TB a couple of weeks ago.
As usual, I did all SMART tests, then badblocks, then SMART tests again.
When I first got the drive, SMART showed this:
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Troubleshooting `Buffer I/O error` on software-raid/md-device
I've got a RAID-5 mdadm array that reliably causes Buffer I/O error on dev md0, logical block 1598030208, async page read to be written do dmesg when reading that block. Of course, the read also ...
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Is this disk about to die?
I have a WD Red 4 TB disk (WD40EFRX-68WT0N0, firmware 82.00A82) that is occasionally showing uncorrectable read errors in the SMART error log, e.g.:
Error 43 [18] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: ...
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ZFS keeps repairing the same disk when scrubbing - what does that mean?
I have a ZFS pool comprised of 6 disk, arranged in 3 stripped mirrors. The server is a Supermicro X11SSM-F with a Xeon CPU, 32 GB of ECC RAM running Ubuntu 17.04. I'm using 2 Icy Dock MB154SP-B to ...
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How to add to excludes alerts on smartmontool
I faced with problem and hope for your help.
Started getting notifications from smart on Debian 10 server:
Device: /dev/nvme1, Critical Warning (0x04): Reliability
Found that this alert causing ...
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Detect if hard drive SMART data has been reset
I want to detect if a hard drive's SMART data has been reset, e.g. by an unscrupulous vendor selling refurbished drives as new. Google shows page after page of results about techniques and tools for ...
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Does calling storcli on a hard disk drive induce read/write latency?
I am calling
storcli /c0/eall/sall show all
on some 4TB Western Digital hard disk drives to get their SMART code status. When I do this it causes significant write latency to the disks, is that ...
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Backup drive on Linux system keeps getting corrupt. How to troubleshoot?
My webserver (Debian BullsEye) has an internal 2TB harddrive which sole purpose is to hold a backup of the server's main HD. Every day a cronjob is started that creates a backup using rsync. But every ...
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APC change to smart slot / card interface
I bought a new APC SMT1000C 1000VA UPS, which has the smart card interface on the back. I was planning to reuse my old AP9606 network card, but I discovered that APC has modified the slot to block ...
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How to interpret smartctl output
I ran a SMART scan of the ssd of my server, and I'm having difficulties to understand the output. Any insights please ?
Thanks
smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [x86_64-linux-3.10.0-1160.71.1.el7.x86_64] (...
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How to monitor Segate HDD health under Linux?
I'd need to monitor the health of several Seagate ST16000NM002G SAS HDDs hosted in a disk server running CentOS 7. As far as I understand, Seagate disks do not expose S.M.A.R.T. attributes due to a ...
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smartctl "Elements in grown defect list" vs. RAID controller "Media error count"
I am using a hardware raid50 with PERC810 controller in my server and recently encountered a metric I am not sure about. Until now, I have been using a smartctl metric "Elements in grown defect ...
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SMART test failures on harddrive
i have probably problem on my system with SMART failures on my harddrive.
There is used OS: SLES 11.2 i586.
Problem is, that recently there appeared some errors in SMART print of status of my device (...
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UDMA CRC SMART Reporting, Alternative Software/logs for Diag
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As it turns out the human readable portion of SMART reporting numbers is pretty useless for the UDMA CRC errors and you just have to track the RAW value. After flushing through over a dozen ...
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How to derive bytes written from SMART's host_write_commands?
Using either smartctl 7.0 or nvme 1.7, I get the following data from the SMART log
data_units_written : 350,371,149
host_write_commands : 2,974,115,785
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Something's wrong w Fedora Core 31 gnome-disks; drops SMART data for unknown reason, THEN doesn't show available disks at all
As discussed here, I've been working to load a great many smaller disks' data to a larger storage repository. The system in question is Fedora Core Server 31 - out just a week ago or less. Of course, ...
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How to collect historical data using smartctl?
I'm trying to do some analysis on the SMART stats of disk drives. Unfortunately, I'm not collecting/storing smart stats data daily for the analysis. I will be writing some procedure to collect it from ...
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Smartd supress/change level for FAILURE PREDICTION THRESHOLD EXCEEDED
I'm using smartd to monitor drive health
It started compaining about FAILURE PREDICTION THRESHOLD EXCEEDED for one drive, but I extensively tested that drive and it's fully functional
That drive is ...
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Filesystem set to read-only mode, which drive is faulty?
I woke up today to find out my CentOS server's filesystem has been set to read-only mode. I'm running RAID 1 on this server.
# mkdir test
mkdir: cannot create directory `test': Read-only file system
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Generating SMART errors to make sure I'm detecting them correctly
I wrote a script that checks various server's HDDs for SMART errors and takes some action if it finds any.
Non of our servers are reporting any SMART errors and instead of waiting to see if my script ...
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Setting up VLANs using GS724T & Draytek 2860n-Plus
I am having a world of problems here and can't see what is going wrong!
The Plan:
Use the Draytek to connect to the internet and provide WLAN access.
Single port to connect to the GS724T and tag ...
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smartd rule does not work
I have an issue with smartd.
I've studied its man page, and then I've set the SMART daemon to run long test of the hard disks two times a month and alert to the specified mail address in case of ...
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Many drives in two RAID6 arrays simultaneously failed, seem to be working after reboot except SMART long test
in my storage server, I operate three RAID6 Linux software arrays. Everything was working fine until it was not.
There are two RAID6 arrays and one RAID5 array, all consisting of SATA drives, all ...
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Drive failed or can be still used?
I've the following WD drive (3TB) that gave me a problem (I was unable to access any file: even an ls command on it caused a never ending wait).
Here some details on the disk:
Disk /dev/sda: 2.7 TiB, ...
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S.M.A.R.T spin retry count
Monitoring the spin retry count of a 2-months-old HDD I don't fully trust (noise), I wonder:
If "current" is 134, why is "worst" indicated as 100 and "threshold" as 30? ...
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Does this SMART report indicate a bad disk?
On a remote server, I have 2x3TB drives set in raid 0 with SLI raid card.
I tried to run SMART tests to see if drives have a problem because server become unresponsive and one drive had to be put back ...
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G-sense errors in new disks
I have a Synology DiskStation. It used to contain 3xTB drives, I now have 2xTB, 2x8TB drives. The old drives were "Seagate NAS" drives, the new ones are from the same(?) series, named "Ironwolf".
The ...
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Is it possible to reset S.M.A.R.T. Spin_Retry_Count?
I have a 20-bay nas that uses Norco 5 in 2 hard drive cages.
It's been at about half capacity most of it's life, but I recently added 5 new drives too it and ever since I've just been having sporadic ...
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Windows Server - WMI Permission?
This question is related to this one.
I am trying to get some disk sensor data via WMI (W2012R2). Therefore I added a user wmiagent and granted some rights. I did it exactly like in this guide.
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Unable to get SMART metrics from Seagate Disks on Debian OS
Referring to the question here, I too am trying to get all attributes out, as explained in this blog here.
I am using Debian 6 as OS, and installed smartmontools version 6.3 using apt-get. My 6 disks ...
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smartctl error end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector
I have a Scientific Linux 6.5 server with a RAID with SSD disks. I see several error on dmesg file but there is no alert or errors provided by the utilities of the RAID controller (LSI controller).
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Nagios change threshold values
I'm using nagios checkmk 1.2.2 to monitor some hosts.
How can I adjust specific smart values per host so they won't create a critical alert?
For example:
CRIT - Reallocated sectors: 2CRIT
I only ...
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SMART: Raw Read Error Rate Errors on Mirrored Drives
Thanks for reading.
I have a pair of 150GB WD Velociraptors that have failed SMART status.
The only fail they have is the Raw Read Error Rate, which is as follows.
.........Status:....Value:.......
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Should I run extended offline self tests using smartd?
A while ago I setup smartd on all my servers do do a daily "Short Offline" test and a weekly "Extended Offline" test. The config for that is "-s (S/../.././00|L/../../7/04)".
Today I noticed one of ...
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Cannot perform smartctl self-test after migrating servers from SLES to Scientific Linux
I maintain several Linux servers, that we are in the process of migrating from SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (version 10.4) to Scientific Linux (version 5.9). The six SAS hard drives on each machine ...
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Only notify when unreadable sectors increases
Is there a way to only be notified when the amount of unreadable sectors increases on a certain disk?
The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], 4 Currently ...
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