Confused monitoring my SSD's health

Sylvain Utard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi guys,

I'm a bit lost trying to monitor the health a my SSD drives. I read a lot of blog posts about it but I'm still confused about how to interpret what appears to be "important metrics" like Reallocated_Sector_Ct and Media_Wearout_Indicator.

Could you guys help me analyze this SMART output? How would you monitor a drive's health automatically? In an ideal world, I want to plug a probe that would trigger an alert if the disk should be changed.

Thank you very much for your help!

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=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     INTEL SSDSC2BB300G4
Serial Number:    BTWL313400P8300PGN
LU WWN Device Id: 5 001517 8f35f82c9
Firmware Version: D2010350
User Capacity:    300,069,052,416 bytes [300 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   8
ATA Standard is:  ATA-8-ACS revision 4
Local Time is:    Tue Jun 10 10:52:30 2014 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Warning: This result is based on an Attribute check.

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x02)	Offline data collection activity
					was completed without error.
					Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0)	The previous self-test routine completed
					without error or no self-test has ever 
					been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection: 		(    2) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: 			 (0x79) SMART execute Offline immediate.
					No Auto Offline data collection support.
					Suspend Offline collection upon new
					command.
					Offline surface scan supported.
					Self-test supported.
					Conveyance Self-test supported.
					Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)	Saves SMART data before entering
					power-saving mode.
					Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01)	Error logging supported.
					General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time: 	 (   1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 (   2) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 (   2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: 	       (0x003d)	SCT Status supported.
					SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
					SCT Feature Control supported.
					SCT Data Table supported.

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
 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0032   097   097   000    Old_age   Always       -       8
 9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       7975
12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       12
170 Unknown_Attribute       0x0033   099   099   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
171 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       7
172 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
174 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       9
175 Program_Fail_Count_Chip 0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       206269710972
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0033   100   100   090    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   073   062   000    Old_age   Always       -       27 (Min/Max 9/39)
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       9
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       27
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
225 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       15146712
226 Load-in_Time            0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       65535
227 Torq-amp_Count          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       4294967295
228 Power-off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       65535
232 Available_Reservd_Space 0x0033   099   099   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x0032   001   001   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
234 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       15146712
242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       104922

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%       722         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%       718         -
# 3  Short offline       Completed without error       00%       717         -
# 4  Short offline       Completed without error       00%       717         -
# 5  Short offline       Completed without error       00%        27         -
# 6  Short offline       Completed without error       00%        22         -
# 7  Short offline       Completed without error       00%        21         -
# 8  Short offline       Completed without error       00%        21         -
# 9  Short offline       Completed without error       00%         8         -
#10  Short offline       Completed without error       00%         6         -
#11  Short offline       Completed without error       00%         6         -
#12  Short offline       Completed without error       00%         1         -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
   1        0        0  Not_testing
   2        0        0  Not_testing
   3        0        0  Not_testing
   4        0        0  Not_testing
   5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
 After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

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Sylvain Utard
VP of Engineering
+1 (415) 712-0091 | +33 6 15 14 27 47 | @sylvainutard




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