[smartmontools-support] same version under different distros has different output.

Sergey Ivanov icegood1980 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 7 10:28:17 CEST 2025


Hello there.

I wonder how smartmontools could return next two reports for the very same
device:

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     TS256GSSD360S
Serial Number:    04306186D15138020046
LU WWN Device Id: 0 000000 000000000
Firmware Version: P0226A
User Capacity:    256,060,514,304 bytes [256 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
Form Factor:      2.5 inches
TRIM Command:     Available
Device is:        Not in smartctl database
ATA Version is:   ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Sat Jun  7 11:21:43 2025 EEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled


under ubuntu and openwrt.

1) *Under Ubuntu 25.04:*

smartctl -A /dev/sda
*smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.14.0-15-generic] (local
build)*
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

Warning! Drive Identity Structure error: invalid SMART checksum.
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 1
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       0
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0002   100   100   050    Old_age   Always
    -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       197
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       10011
160 Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt 0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       0
161 Valid_Spare_Block_Cnt   0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       158
162 Cache_Block_Count       0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       1
163 Initial_Bad_Block_Count 0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       32
164 Total_Erase_Count       0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       436474
165 Max_Erase_Count         0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       236
166 Min_Erase_Count         0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       184
167 Average_Erase_Count     0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       210
168 Max_Erase_Count_of_Spec 0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       3000
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       5239
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       37
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       107696
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       451
241 Host_Writes_32MiB       0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       299715
242 Host_Reads_32MiB        0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       632526
245 TLC_Writes_32MiB        0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       1044238

more or less clear

2) under

DISTRIB_ID='OpenWrt'
DISTRIB_RELEASE='24.10.1'
DISTRIB_REVISION='r28597-0425664679'
DISTRIB_TARGET='x86/64'
DISTRIB_ARCH='x86_64'
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION='OpenWrt 24.10.1 r28597-0425664679'
DISTRIB_TAINTS=''

I obtained:

smartctl -A /dev/sda
*smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.6.86] (localbuild)*
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 1
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED
 WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       0
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0002   100   100   050    Old_age   Always
    -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       197
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       10012
160 Unknown_Attribute       0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       0
161 Unknown_Attribute       0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       158
162 Unknown_Attribute       0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       1
163 Unknown_Attribute       0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       32
164 Unknown_Attribute       0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       436715
165 Unknown_Attribute       0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       237
166 Unknown_Attribute       0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       184
167 Unknown_Attribute       0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       210
168 Unknown_Attribute       0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       3000
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       5240
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       30
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       107708
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       451
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       299716
242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       632542
245 Unknown_Attribute       0x0000   100   100   050    Old_age   Offline
   -       1045112

What data should I trust? I'm interest in calculating of TWB but i don't
know if is it
Total_LBAs_Written or  Host_Writes_32MiB? Not sure what multiplicator
should be (32Mb or sector=512b)?

How it comes that the very same version number present?
-- 
Kind regards,
Sergey Ivanov
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