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smartctl controls the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives.

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Is my Hard Drive Failing?

I just tried to run a test on my hdd and it doesn't want to complete a self test. Here is the result: smartctl --attributes --log=selftest /dev/sda smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.13.0-32-generic] (local build) === START OF READ SMART…
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How to interpret this smartctl (smartmon) data

We have a linux server that has been in heavy use for 3 years. We're running a number of virtualized servers on it, some that have not been well behaved, and for a significant time the server's io capacity was exceeded leading to bad iowait. It's…
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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 one block? I'd like to know what file got…
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How are SMART selftests related to badblocks?

The smartctl tool allows initiating a long self-test (smartctl -t long /dev/sda). However there's also badblocks that I can run on a drive. How are the two related? If badblocks detects bad blocks, does the drive automatically update its SMART…
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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=yes # uncomment to pass additional options to…
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Is smartd really reporting this drive is too hot?

"SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 146 to 150". This is on CentOS 6.6. What does this really mean? Is the drive really hot or is this perhaps a software bug? The drive is an eSATA 2TB drive and it feels cool to the touch…
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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 Seagates report? Look at Raw_Read_Error_Rate and…
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How to use hdparm to fix a pending sector?

SMART is stating one pending sector on of my server's hdd. I've read lot's of articles recommending using hdparm to "easily" force the disk to relocated the bad sector, but I can't find the correct way to use it. Some info from my "smartctl": Error…
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S.M.A.R.T. lifetime hours resetting to zero

I use S.M.A.R.T. selftest to test all of my hard drives and SSDs. I run a short test daily and a long test monthly. One of my SSD is showing odd behavior in that the lifetime hours seem to reset back to zero. Is this normal? Why would it do this?…
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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" Slot Number: 4 ... Last Predictive Failure Event…
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How do I determine the failed/removed HDD in mdadm raid?

My current mdstat: $ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] md0 : active raid6 sde[8] sdh[4] sdg[1] sdd[6] sdb[5] sdc[7] 9766914560 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 512k chunk,…
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smartctl & megaraid: how to find the right device node for an adapter #

I can list physical drives on all megaraid adapters using: megacli -PDList -aALL This will display an adapter # for each adapter, and then list the physical drives attached to them. The individual devices in the PDList output also have a Device Id…
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S.M.A.R.T data from disks behind LSI MegaRAID Controller in ESXi 5.1

I was looking at ways to get S.M.A.R.T info and R/W stats from drives behind LSI MegaRAID controller (9260-4i) in ESXi 5.1. ESXi has a command "esxcli storage core device smart get" to get S.M.A.R.T data from drives but it doesn't work for disks…
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smart long test - what is the performance impact on busy server?

I have a busy server with a RAID 1 setup. The application (runs in PHP) is very read/write intensive to the database (MariaDB). A cronjob runs smartctl short test every day and checks the output of smartctl -H and mdadm -D. I would like to run a…
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What's the top normal S.M.A.R.T. temperature for HGST Helium Ultrastar 8TB 7200 RPM SAS 12Gb/s enterprise drives?

I've just received new Dell R730xd 2U server with faceplate 12 * 3.5" drive bays + 4 * 3.5" mid-body tray, located above RAM modules & CPUs. I've plugged 16 * HGST Helium 8Tb 7200 RPM SAS 12Gb/s drives and started 2 * 8 * 8Tb RAID6 volumes…
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