Questions tagged [smartctl]
smartctl is a command-line utility for analysing various types of hard drives (ATA, SATA, SCSI, SSD etc.) and predicting drive failures. It is part of the smartmontools package.
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Samsung 970 EVO Plus: critical warning, not really dead?
My question: is it possible that my "failed" Samsung NVME drive is actually OK? I have a hunch Samsung are staging a con...
I have a Debian 11 system running on a 250 GB Samsung 970 EVO Plus ...
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Filesystem becomes read-only at random
Debian crashed on Laptop (Acer Aspire 3, about 4 years old, HDD replaced with ADATA SU650 240GB SSD) and started throwing console errors reading "failed to rotate /var/log/journal: read-only ...
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SMART test and suspend or reboot
What is the behaviour if I start a long test with smartctl (i.e., sudo smartctl -t long /dev/...), and then I suspend the machine or shut it down and restart it later? Will the test "suspend"...
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Weird failure and "Smartctl open device: /dev/nvme0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable"
in WIN11 I have the issue that my screen is frozen but mouse can move.
Used my Debian boot stick to check if it is hardware that is failing. Memory seems to be OK but the SSD is giving me some ...
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Wear level and total bytes written in SATA SSD
On a Samsung SATA SSD, i.e. non NVMe disk, the following are the SmartCtl values that are obtained by running the command sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda,
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 1
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Reassemble Raid5 Array after disabling TPM
Edit: Both /dev/sdd and /dev/sde are missing super blocks. I assume this cannot be fixed. I am whipping the drives and starting over.
I just finished coping 8TB worth of data to a new raid5 array. I ...
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How to recreate file system in an external hard drive from scratch?
I've got a Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Elements 25A2. This is the way it introduces itself through the lsusb command.
Unfortunately, I cannot format it. Through Gnome Disk Utility the command ...
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smartctl & device type mismatch
I will keep it short, I am trying to better understand the different standards of storage type interfaces, but the output of smartctl is confusing me a little. Is this an actual problem in my system (...
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HDD hiccups randomly, no SMART errors
I use an SSD as boot drive and an HDD as /home drive.
For about the last 2 weeks, the HDD randomly "hiccups" and the system takes one or two seconds to come back to itself. It does not ...
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smartctl lies that NVME has lifespan of ~2800TBW? What is the real lifespan of my NVME?
smartctl -x on my Samsung SSD 860 EVO M.2 2TB shows:
Device Statistics (GP Log 0x04)
Page Offset Size Value Flags Description
0x01 ===== = = === == General Statistics (rev 1) ...
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ATA error count increased / failing ssd?
So, being annoyed with the constraints of a "fixed" disk layout on my desktop, the other day I decided to migrate my / and /home to a LVM based configuration. A part of this process I did an ...
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Disable automatic S.M.A.R.T. tests
I have a small (single-board) Zimaboard server that is running Debian 12 (bookworm) 24/7 in my bedroom. This server has a single HDD hooked-up, which remains unmounted and in sleep mode except for a ...
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What's the difference between SMART "long" and "offline" tests?
What's the difference between the two below? What exactly is tested by each test?
smartctl -t offline /dev/sda
smartctl -t long /dev/sda
According to the smartctl documentation:
offline - [ATA] ...
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Is this drive dead?: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB
Having bought a used PC and now installing smartd on it, I'm getting smartd "Critical Warning (0x04): Reliability" emails about it (full pastebin). The Percentage Used: 112% is concerning. ...
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Editors crashing with certain characters, programs crashing, how to diagnoze?
I'm having strange problems with my PC and don't know what to do. It all started with the fact that certain characters (Devanagari characters) could no longer be displayed in my Emacs. Whenever I ...
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