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<p dir="auto">Hi there</p>
<p dir="auto">I just tried to check my new <strong>Samsung SSD 980 1TB</strong> and <code style="padding: 0 0.25em; background-color: #E4E4E4;">smartctl</code> does not give any SMART info back:</p>
<pre style="margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px; padding: 5px; border: thin solid gray; overflow-x: auto; max-width: 90vw; background-color: #E4E4E4;"><code style="padding: 0 0.25em; background-color: #E4E4E4;">$ smartctl -a disk5s1
smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [Darwin 23.5.0 arm64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: Samsung SSD 980 1TB
Serial Number: S649NU0WB52614W
Firmware Version: 3B4QFXO7
Device is: Not in smartctl database 7.3/5528
ATA Version is: [No Information Found]
Local Time is: Fri Jul 5 22:14:49 2024 AEST
SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show if SMART supported.
SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 85-87 don't show if SMART is enabled.
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.
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<p dir="auto">Does this mean the device does not have SMART info or smartmontolls cannot read it or do I do something wrong?</p>
<p dir="auto">Many thanks,<br>
Leo</p>
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