Re: Possible bug in Intel 330 series SSD

Noel Kuntze wrote:
> I might have found a wrong behaviour of smartctl or a bug in the firmware of the Intel 330 series SSD.
> The bug I found is, that the Attribute Power_On_Hours_and_Msec with the ID 9 on the device SSDSC2CT120A3
> doesn't get shown properly in smartctl.
> It is shown as 895681h+08m+16.520s, which translates to about 37.320 days of permanent usage, which is just impossible.
> I do not suspect a drive failure of the drive I looked at, as I noticed a similiar insane value for that attribute shortly after I bought it.

This is a known bug also present in Intel 520 series firmware:
https://communities.intel.com/message/152232
https://communities.intel.com/message/156444

(At least 320 and 710 series are not affected)

The Device Statistics Log (smartctl -l devstat or -x) should provide a 
more reasonable power on hours count.

Thanks,
Christian


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