[smartmontools-support] Strange SMART value with TOSHIBA drive through eSATA

[Pascal Darré]

ok
Can you tell me which are the "The important attributes" ?

thanks

Le ven. 7 mai 2021 à 11:52, Claudio Kuenzler <napsty at gmail.com> a écrit :
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>> Well when I read "old" and "pre-fail", doesn't it mean that the
>> threshold value have been exceeded and so the disk has some issues??
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> No, you can take a look at the "raw" values (which are usually counters) to find out if there are issues. The important attributes, which indicate a failing drive, are all OK on your Toshiba drive.
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>> If not, such messages are confusing
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> To the human eye maybe, but the SMART table is (at best guess) supposed to be read and parsed by a machine or script.
> I highly recommend the Wikipedia page on SMART, it's a great read (even for advanced users) and explains a lot.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.
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> cheers,
> ck