gfjardim Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Hi guys, today I encountered this error while inspecting a hard drive that showed 'errors' on the Main Array Devices: No notification were received. Maybe LT should monitor more SMART attributes. Quote Link to comment
bonienl Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Hmm, any attribute with the status "failing now" should generate a warning notification. Quote Link to comment
RobJ Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 SMART can be a confusing and inconsistent world though. When drives include 184, it's often a critical attribute, which in this case would have caused a SMART drive failed error. But with your drive, the manufacturer did NOT mark it as a critical attribute (flag is 0x32 not 0x33, Old-age not Pre-fail). So while it's interesting that it displays 'FAILING NOW', it may actually not be important, just an FYI, for this drive. Technically, if it's not a critical attribute, it's not failing now, even if it says so! Quote Link to comment
gfjardim Posted March 24, 2016 Author Share Posted March 24, 2016 SMART can be a confusing and inconsistent world though. When drives include 184, it's often a critical attribute, which in this case would have caused a SMART drive failed error. But with your drive, the manufacturer did NOT mark it as a critical attribute (flag is 0x32 not 0x33, Old-age not Pre-fail). So while it's interesting that it displays 'FAILING NOW', it may actually not be important, just an FYI, for this drive. Technically, if it's not a critical attribute, it's not failing now, even if it says so! It's failing, a lot of read errors appeared on the main page and on the log. Probably the onboard cache memory is going bad. Quote Link to comment
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