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Hi all,<br>
Looking at NVME logs, I find them hard to understand.<br>
<br>
Take the following logs (questions inline).<br>
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smartctl pre-7.4 2022-07-17 r5397 [i686-w64-mingw32-w11-21H2(64)]
(CircleCI)<br>
Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.smartmontools.org">www.smartmontools.org</a><br>
<br>
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===<br>
Model Number: KINGSTON OM8PCP3512F-AB<br>
Serial Number: 50026B7683A06967<br>
Firmware Version: ECFK52.3<br>
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x2646<br>
IEEE OUI Identifier: 0x0026b7<br>
Total NVM Capacity: 512,110,190,592 [512 GB]<br>
Unallocated NVM Capacity: 0<br>
Controller ID: 1<br>
NVMe Version: 1.3<br>
Number of Namespaces: 1<br>
Namespace 1 Size/Capacity: 512,110,190,592 [512 GB]<br>
Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size: 512<br>
Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64: 0026b7 683a069675<br>
Local Time is: Tue Dec 20 16:34:31 2022 AST<br>
Firmware Updates (0x12): 1 Slot, no Reset required<br>
Optional Admin Commands (0x0017): Security Format Frmw_DL
Self_Test<br>
Optional NVM Commands (0x0054): DS_Mngmt Sav/Sel_Feat Timestmp<br>
Log Page Attributes (0x0a): Cmd_Eff_Lg Telmtry_Lg<br>
Maximum Data Transfer Size: 512 Pages<br>
Warning Comp. Temp. Threshold: 85 Celsius<br>
Critical Comp. Temp. Threshold: 90 Celsius<br>
<br>
Supported Power States<br>
St Op Max Active Idle RL RT WL WT Ent_Lat Ex_Lat<br>
0 + 5.74W - - 0 0 0 0 0 0<br>
1 + 5.21W - - 1 1 1 1 0 0<br>
2 + 4.95W - - 2 2 2 2 0 0<br>
3 - 0.0490W - - 3 3 3 3 2000 2000<br>
4 - 0.0018W - - 4 4 4 4 25000 25000<br>
<br>
Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1)<br>
Id Fmt Data Metadt Rel_Perf<br>
0 + 512 0 2<br>
1 - 4096 0 1<br>
<br>
=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===<br>
<b><b>>>>>>>>>>>>>> </b>SMART
overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED - I assume this
is good, but a perfect indicator, since I've seen regular drives
say the passed SMART but had read errors.</b><br>
<br>
SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)<br>
Critical Warning: 0x00<br>
<b>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Temperature: 79 Celsius - This seems high -
is that a problem?</b><br>
<b><b>>>>>>>>>>>>>> </b>Available
Spare: 100% - This looks like 100% of the spare
is free. I assume that's a good sign?</b><br>
Available Spare Threshold: 10%<br>
<b><b>>>>>>>>>>>>>> </b>Percentage
Used: 16% - Does this mean that 16% of the
drive is used, or 16% of the spare space is used? </b><br>
Data Units Read: 45,485,417 [23.2 TB]<br>
Data Units Written: 36,626,206 [18.7 TB]<br>
Host Read Commands: 488,277,240<br>
Host Write Commands: 784,953,321<br>
Controller Busy Time: 4,173<br>
Power Cycles: 15,088<br>
Power On Hours: 12,206<br>
<b>>>>>>>>>>>>>> </b><b>Unsafe
Shutdowns: 703 - Do unsafe shutdowns matter? </b><br>
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0<br>
<b>>>>>>>>>>>>>> </b><b>Error
Information Log Entries: 3,470 - Is this a bad thing?</b><br>
Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0<br>
Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 0<br>
Thermal Temp. 1 Transition Count: 96<br>
Thermal Temp. 1 Total Time: 2782<br>
<br>
Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 63 entries)<br>
<b><b>>>>>>>>>>>>>> </b>No
Errors Logged - If there are 3470 log entries, why are no errors
logged?</b><br>
<br>
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Any advice would be appreciated.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
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