[smartmontools-support] is my drive dying?

[Alexander Shaduri]

Hi,

The value you should be looking at is the Normalized value,
which presumably changes from 100 to 0.
In your case it's 100, which is good.
The "FAILED" condition will be triggered once it reaches 010.

Cheers,
Alexander

On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:26:29 +0000 (UTC)
James wrote:

> The help in gsmartcontrol says a value of 0 for SSD_Life_Left means the
> drive is dying yet smartctl says the overall-health is good.
> Why doesn't keep logs of the self tests?
> 
> SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
> 231 SSD_Life_Left           0x0013   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always
>       -       0
> SMART Error Log not supported
> SMART Self-test Log not supported
> 
> 
> 
> smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.10.0-33-generic] (local
> build) Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
> www.smartmontools.org
> 
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Model Family:     SandForce Driven SSDs
> Device Model:     OCZ-VERTEX3
> Serial Number:    OCZ-45A1W9X0I9798NNC
> LU WWN Device Id: 5 e83a97 ef0619604
> Firmware Version: 2.25
> User Capacity:    90,028,302,336 bytes [90.0 GB]
> Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
> Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
> Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
> ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS, ACS-2 T13/2015-D revision 3
> SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
> Local Time is:    Wed Sep 13 13:43:43 2017 EDT
> SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
> SMART support is: Enabled
> 
> === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
> SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
> 
> General SMART Values:
> Offline data collection status:  (0x02)	Offline data collection
> activity was completed without error.
> 					Auto Offline Data Collection:
> Disabled. Self-test execution status:      (   0)	The previous
> self-test routine completed
> 					without error or no self-test
> has ever been run.
> Total time to complete Offline
> data collection: 		(    0) seconds.
> Offline data collection
> capabilities: 			 (0x7b) SMART execute Offline
> immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
> 					Suspend Offline collection upon
> new command.
> 					Offline surface scan supported.
> 					Self-test supported.
> 					Conveyance Self-test supported.
> 					Selective Self-test supported.
> SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)	Saves SMART data before
> entering power-saving mode.
> 					Supports SMART auto save timer.
> Error logging capability:        (0x01)	Error logging supported.
> 					General Purpose Logging
> supported. Short self-test routine
> recommended polling time: 	 (   1) minutes.
> Extended self-test routine
> recommended polling time: 	 (  48) minutes.
> Conveyance self-test routine
> recommended polling time: 	 (   2) minutes.
> SCT capabilities: 	       (0x0021)	SCT Status supported.
> 					SCT Data Table supported.
> 
> SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
> Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
> UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   120   120   050    Pre-fail  Always
>       -       0/0
>   5 Retired_Block_Count     0x0033   100   100   003    Pre-fail  Always
>       -       0
>   9 Power_On_Hours_and_Msec 0x0032   080   080   000    Old_age   Always
>       -       18161h+31m+11.470s
>  12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always
>       -       1139
> 171 Program_Fail_Count      0x0032   000   000   000    Old_age   Always
>       -       0
> 172 Erase_Fail_Count        0x0032   000   000   000    Old_age   Always
>       -       0
> 174 Unexpect_Power_Loss_Ct  0x0030   000   000   000    Old_age
> Offline      -       210
> 177 Wear_Range_Delta        0x0000   000   000   000    Old_age
> Offline      -       0
> 181 Program_Fail_Count      0x0032   000   000   000    Old_age   Always
>       -       0
> 182 Erase_Fail_Count        0x0032   000   000   000    Old_age   Always
>       -       0
> 187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always
>       -       0
> 194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   030   030   000    Old_age   Always
>       -       30 (Min/Max 30/30)
> 195 ECC_Uncorr_Error_Count  0x001c   100   100   000    Old_age
> Offline      -       0/0
> 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0033   100   100   003    Pre-fail  Always
>       -       0
> 201 Unc_Soft_Read_Err_Rate  0x001c   100   100   000    Old_age
> Offline      -       0/0
> 204 Soft_ECC_Correct_Rate   0x001c   100   100   000    Old_age
> Offline      -       0/0
> 230 Life_Curve_Status       0x0013   100   100   000    Pre-fail  Always
>       -       100
> 231 SSD_Life_Left           0x0013   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always
>       -       0
> 233 SandForce_Internal      0x0000   000   000   000    Old_age
> Offline      -       614
> 234 SandForce_Internal      0x0032   000   000   000    Old_age   Always
>       -       1133
> 241 Lifetime_Writes_GiB     0x0032   000   000   000    Old_age   Always
>       -       1133
> 242 Lifetime_Reads_GiB      0x0032   000   000   000    Old_age   Always
>       -       1771
> 
> SMART Error Log not supported
> 
> SMART Self-test Log not supported
> 
> SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
>  SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
>     1        0        0  Not_testing
>     2        0        0  Not_testing
>     3        0        0  Not_testing
>     4        0        0  Not_testing
>     5        0        0  Not_testing
> Selective self-test flags (0x0):
>   After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
> If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute
> delay.
>