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smartctl not actually running self tests?

I want to run the smartctl self tests to check the health of the drives in my RAID array (PERC 5/i). The array is on sda and comprises six drives. I can check the status using sudo smartctl /dev/...
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Why does unpartitioned Hitachi HDS5C3020 drive start consuming 50% more power 15 minutes after boot?

In a Debian 6.0.6 system there are 74 pieces of 2TB Toshiba DT01ABA200 drives. These drives are identified as Hitachi HDS5C3020BLE630 drives running firmware revision MZ4OAAB0. 64 Drives attached via ...
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Is my hard drive about to die?

I have two hard drives set up as a RAID 1 array on my server (Linux, software RAID using mdadm) and one of them just got me this "present" in syslog: Nov 23 02:05:29 h2 kernel: [7305215.338153] ata1....
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The best nagios plugin for SMART? [closed]

I've tried the best plugin for nagios to SMART monitoring. There are some, but only monitoring temperature. But with smartctl we can find more data. Do you have some better plugins with all data from ...
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Understanding the S.M.A.R.T. values from a Synology 1812+ device

I have a Synology 1812+ NAS with 8 3TB drives configured as RAID 5. Its running DSM 4.1. It was purchased to replace USB drives, consolidate storage and short term OS X backups using Time Machine. ...
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RAID1 rebuild fails due to disk errors

Quick info: Dell R410 with 2x500GB drives in RAID1 on H700 Adapter Recently one of drives in RAID1 array on server failed, lets call it Drive 0. RAID controller marked it as fault and put it offline. ...
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Possible to reset SMART logs?

I got two 2TB seagate disks that show SMART error on bootup. I ran the seagate disk utility check and it passed the full test. But the SMART error says both drive have exceeded 70C in temperature so ...
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SMART with Megaraid under windows

Is there a way to read RAW HDD SMART value that is behind a MegaRaid raid? apparently that is possible with smartmontools under linux, is there something similar possible with windows? Thanks.
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Is smartd properly configured to send alerts by email?

I just configured a Debian server as follows apt-get install smartmontools vi /etc/default/smartmontools - and here uncommented these 2 lines # uncomment to start smartd on system startup start_smartd=...
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Understanding smartctl -a output

I have 6 drives in a NAS box. Two of them are Seagates, and they return high RAW_VALUES for errors; see below. My other drives show far lower values. Is this cause for alarm? Or just the way ...
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Adaptec 6405 RAID controller turned on red LED

I have a server with an Adaptec 6405 RAID controller and 4 disks in a RAID 5 configuration. Staff in the data center called me because they noticed a red LED was turned on in one of the drive bays. ...
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smartd: Device: /dev/sda, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW

System: Centos 5.5 64bit RAID: Linux Soft RAID with 2 Disks Mirror Smartd complains about the disk failure in system log: [root@xxx ~]# tail /var/log/messages Jul 3 10:22:45 w11 smartd[6043]: ...
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Can't get any SMART or temperature data from HDDs

I have a PC with recently installed Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 MB. I've encountered some weird problem with getting SMART data or temperature for HDDs. Every single tool I've tried in Windows 7 just can't ...
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Monitor SMART Values of a SAS/SCSI drive with Munin

I'm trying to monitor my two SAS drives using the SMART Tools Plugin for MUNIN. On SATA drives its no problem, all SMART values are being shown. It seems that smartctl doesn't output valuable SMART ...
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how to use a disk with high reallocated sector count?

After 3 years in 24x7 service a 1TB Seagate Barracuda ES.2 enterprise drive is showing signs of failure. S.M.A.R.T. reallocated sector count is high. Wikipedia article suggests that the drive can ...
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How do you monitor SSD wear in Windows when the drives are presented as 'generic' devices?

Under Linux, we can monitor SSD wear fairly easily with smartmontools whether the drive is presented as a normal block device or a generic device (which happens when the drive has been hardware RAIDed ...
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is UNC S.M.A.R.T. Error serious? need to take action?

I have a 300G Western Digital Raptor, recently showing UNC SMART, wondering anyone who has experience knows should I replace it and get warranty form WD? Details of smartctl -a as follows: smartctl ...
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Getting Proliant P212 disk SMART diagnostics in Centos 6.2/RHEL

Does anyone know how I can monitor (either gui or shell) the health status of my SATA disks via the P212 (256Mb) controller card of my ProLiant ML110 G6 ? I've currently got Centos 6.2 64bit installed ...
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Inexplicably slow Western Digital WD15EARS disk

I have four disks, of which two are WD15EARS, in a server and I'm trying to put the two WD15EARS's in Linux mdadm RAID, but for some reason, the array's performance is very slow (it syncs at about 15 ...
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HP Smart Array P400/256MB SAS Controller BATTERY

This is probably a dumb question. I recently purchased a couple of refurbished HP SB40C storage blade for our HP Bladesystem c3000 enclosure. Each comes with an HP Smart Array P400/256MB SAS ...
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Read SMART status on Windows Server 2008 R2

How can I read my hard drives SMART status on Windows Server 2008 R2? I'm using IBM X3630 X3 server with IBM ServeRAID M5015 disk drives
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1TB Seagate Barracuda ST31000528AS - Unexpected "Offline uncorrectable sectors"

I bought a 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 - ST31000528AS drive about 18 months ago because it had a 5-year warranty, and used it alongside a Samsung Spinpoint under Ubuntu Server as one half of a ...
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Server is giving me a SMART Failure Predicted

I have an older xSeries 306 that has started giving me a SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 2: SATA Port 0 message, a warning about backing up, and a message to Press F1 to continue. It's my ...
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Collect smart hard disk data

How can I view SMART data on hardrives either on individual machines or (prefered) across an enterprise under windows 7/2008 r2?
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run and track SMART tests of harddisks

At our shop we have nagios checks for the SMART status of hard disks in linux servers, but it hasn't been really useful so far: by the time we get a SMART alarm the system already had problems so we ...
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How can I locally analyze SMART logs from a server?

I have Ubuntu 10.04 server running on a desktop at home. I rebooted, and the machine was unreachable after 10 minutes or so. At this point I should have connected a console (monitor using VGA cable). ...
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Can i remapped bad block on Live RHEL5 system using following command

I am getting following disk error on one of my server smartd[4235]: Device: /dev/sda, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Can i apply following command to repair bad block on live RHEL5 system ....
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SCSI error: return code = 0x08000002, sense key: Aborted Command

The kernel logs: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7fffffff SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata2.00: irq_stat 0x40000008 ata2.00: cmd 61/08:f0:6f:5b:97/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 30 ncq 4096 out res 41/10:...
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Does this SMART selftest indicate a failing drive?

I'm wondering if the results of this SMART selftest indicate a failing drive, this is the only drive that comes up with 'completed: read failure' in the results. # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sde ...
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Quick method to determine SSD drive health?

I have an Intel X-25M drive that was marked "failed" twice in a ZFS storage array, as noted here. However, after removing the drive, it seems to to mount, read and write in other computers (Mac, PC, ...
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Current Pending Sector S.M.A.R.T. attribute

Today I noticed that in one SATA HD that I'm monitoring has the "Current_Pending_Sector" with RAW_VALUE=1 when inspecting the SMART attributes with smartmontools. Here is the output from smartctl.exe ...
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Why do I get "Device does not support SMART" on WD RE4?

I have my hard disks being set up remotely on a Dell R200 server using Ubuntu OS. When I tried to verify the disk specs (which are supposed to be WD RE4 set up in RAID1 array) I get this message: "...
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Causes of hard drive SMART failure?

Specifically, can faulty system memory cause a hard drive SMART failure and can a bad hard drive connector cause a SMART failure?
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ProLiant DL380 G4 ESXi host - How to check RAID status of local storage

In a data center we have a few ESXi hosts. We're migrating all the data off the machines, but first we would like to check the RAID/SMART status of the local drives. Is there any way to do this via ...
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Using smartd to monitor eSATA hard drive?

I'm using smartd to monitor the S.M.A.R.T. health of the internal hard drives on my file server and alert me to signs of impending doom. I would also like to monitor the external eSATA hard drives I'...
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SMART values HIGH and growing, but indicator green?

After drive started to freeze up, i them plugged another drive with ubuntu to see SMART data using disk utility. Now i read that "Disk is healthy". Now i'm not familiar with SMART parameters, but ...
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APC Smart UPS network shutdown issue

Here is a bit about our setup: We have 2x Smart-UPS RT 6000 XL units with network management cards We are running Powerchute from a network server Powerchute is connected to the management cards of ...
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HP Smart Array p400i with Intel X25-M 160 SSD

I have a pair of x25-M 160 Intel SSD's in an HP DL360 G5 with a p400i Smart Array running 512 BBWC. The disk performance I am getting on this box and another identical one does not come close to ...
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Setting thresholds via smartd.conf

We currently use smartd to monitor SMART health on our disks. I would like to set the 'thresholds' that smartd uses to report. For example: 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 ...
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Physical/portable Hard drive tester/diagnostics tool [closed]

Are there any tools that I can plug into a hard drive and perform diagnostics such as displaying if there are SMART errors? I work with a lot of commodity hardware and need to check if some of the ...
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is it possible to force SMART to re-check Offline sectors?

I have got a HDD drive which has gone into pre-failure state with big count of relocated sectors. However I figured out that the problem is possibly with a HDD slot (cable) but not with a disk — when ...
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S.M.A.R.T Status of ServeRAID M5015 on Lenny?

any experience with checking smart status of a ServeRAID M5015 under debian 5 lenny? thanks!
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Monitoring health (SMART data, temperatures etc.) of many remote computers

Is there any software that would allow you to view the system health data of lots of remote windows computers over the internet? Preferably not overly complex, and free would be a big plus! I would ...
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smart Raw_Read_Error_Rate

Need experts opinions. Have disk. Here is smart output of Seagate "Barracuda 7200.10 family": ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 ...
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Why are SMART error rates going down?

I have a hard drive that's part of a Linux software raid5 array. SMART has reported that its multi_zone_error_rate was 0, then 1, then 3. So I figured I better start backing up more frequently and ...
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smartctl -t long isn't finishing

I been running smartctl -t long on a drive for about 2 days now and it seems to be stalled at 10%. short and conveyance both passed. I have to send 1 of 2 drives purchased back I found badblocks with ...
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Skipping scheduled self-tests and predicting drive EOL

For a few weeks now, smartd has been reporting that it is skipping some of its scheduled self-tests on the weekends: Apr 24 18:29:32 calvin smartd[4758]: Device: /dev/sda, skip scheduled Offline ...
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Bad sectors, S.M.A.R.T., SpinRite, firmware on platter and drive id questions

Is it possible for S.M.A.R.T. to give false readings (say I was fiddling with lots of recovery programs, transfers, so on and so forth) or is it absolutely a read-only direct correlation to the ...
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SMART warns me but I don't trust it

I've got a server with four Samsung hard drives. All drives are the same model and have been bought together. The drives are SAMSUNG HE753LJ with firmware 1AA01113. I'm getting SMART errors but I ...
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How do I easily repair a single unreadable block on a Linux disk?

My Linux system has started throwing SMART errors in the syslog. I tracked it down and believe the problem is a single block on the disk. How do I go about easily getting the disk to reallocate that ...
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