SMART detecting defect?

[valttin]

Hello,

This is the first time when I see this error and I can understand what does it mean. I also did some research on google and unfortunately I didn't found anything about this error.

root@server [~]# smartctl -H /dev/sdc 
smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Please note the following marginal Attributes:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   000   000   000    Old_age   Always   FAILING_NOW 270522811001257

This is a SSD .

Disk /dev/sdc: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table

Thank you for your help.

Sincerely,
Valentin Olaru

[Christian Franke]

The smartmontools version 5.38 is more than 4 years old. This old version actually reports an attribute as failing even its if its threshold is 0. The fix r2983 is included in smartmontools 5.39 or later.

Please update to smartmontools 6.0. This should also provide a more reasonable output for the attribute 9 raw value (which is likely from a SandForce based SSD).