[Smartmontools-database] Is it ok to upload more drives here?

[Christian Franke]

Andrey Ponomarenko wrote:
> I have about 500 SSD and 300 HDD drives not in smartctl database.

Thanks for this project.

BTW: Please consider to keep the first output line of smartctl as it 
reports smartctl version and platform.


>   Is it ok to upload all of them here (after checking against latest drivedb.h)?

Please don't. We could easily collect info directly from this 
repository. It won't speed up database additions if existing info is 
duplicated to this list.


> Or should I prepare the drivedb.h patch by myself and then submit it to you for review?

Patches for drivedb are welcome. Please create a ticket in out trac or 
send it to this list.


> In the last case I need some intro on how to identify unknown attributes.

That is the difficult part as SSD vendors continue to invent new 
attribute sets. This is one reason for our long backlog of still not 
added entries.

Possible information sources are:
- Data sheets
- Outputs from vendor specific SMART tools
- Existing drive database entries for similar drives (e.g. same 
controller) with same attribute set.
- ...


> See: https://github.com/linuxhw/SMART

I added this to the "Links" page of smartmontools wiki.

Thanks,
Christian