tested the healthy of the harddrive with SMART - see the results

dilbertone · November 19, 2015, 7:38pm

hello dear Linux-experts,

i have a notebook that i wanted to test with SMART

this will print SMART data


smartctl -a /dev/sda

and this will run a long test


smartctl -t long /dev/sda


man smartctl

see the results:

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Passwort: 
linux-a9sq:/home/martin # smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 6.3 2014-07-26 r3976 [x86_64-linux-3.16.7-7-desktop] (SUSE RPM)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Hitachi Travelstar 5K500.B
Device Model:     Hitachi HTS545050B9A300
Serial Number:    101011PBN403B7KBEDWL
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 5f0ef78f4
Firmware Version: PB4OC64G
User Capacity:    500.107.862.016 bytes [500 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    5400 rpm
Form Factor:      2.5 inches
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 6
SATA Version is:  SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s
Local Time is:    Thu Nov 19 19:10:48 2015 CET
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

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity
                                        was never started.
                                        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:                (  645) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:                    (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                                        Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new
                                        command.
                                        Offline surface scan supported.
                                        Self-test supported.
                                        No 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:        (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        ( 158) 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: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000b   100   100   062    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  2 Throughput_Performance  0x0005   100   100   040    Pre-fail  Offline      -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   142   142   033    Pre-fail  Always       -       2
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1420
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   005    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000b   100   100   067    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0005   100   100   040    Pre-fail  Offline      -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   084   084   000    Old_age   Always       -       7434
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   060    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1394
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x000a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       25
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0012   043   043   000    Old_age   Always       -       574307
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0002   161   161   000    Old_age   Always       -       34 (Min/Max 3/57)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0008   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
223 Load_Retry_Count        0x000a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

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.

linux-a9sq:/home/martin #

hmm - all looks interesting!

dilbertone · November 20, 2015, 2:44pm

good day ,

well i gotta have to run a long test with this:


smartctl -t long /dev/sda

this will make more sense

kerijan2003 · November 20, 2015, 6:09pm

And the question is?

dcurtisfra · November 20, 2015, 8:12pm

Hi Dilbert,
did you enable “SMART” in systemd?


# systemctl status smartd.service 
smartd.service - Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/smartd.service; enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fr 2015-11-20 19:13:30 CET; 53min ago
     Docs: man:smartd(8)
           man:smartd.conf(5)
 Main PID: 774 (smartd)
   CGroup: /system.slice/smartd.service
           └─774 /usr/sbin/smartd -n

Nov 20 19:13:33 xxx smartd[774]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], found in smartd database: Seagate Laptop SSHD
Nov 20 19:13:33 xxx smartd[774]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Nov 20 19:13:33 xxx smartd[774]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], state read from /var/lib/smartmontools/smartd.ST1000LM014_1EJ164-W380FTYG.ata.state
Nov 20 19:13:33 xxx smartd[774]: Monitoring 1 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
Nov 20 19:13:33 xxx smartd[774]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel changed from 65 to 63
Nov 20 19:13:33 xxx smartd[774]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 35 to 37
Nov 20 19:13:33 xxx smartd[774]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], state written to /var/lib/smartmontools/smartd.ST1000LM014_1EJ164-W380FTYG.ata.state
Nov 20 19:43:33 xxx smartd[774]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed from 115 to 117
Nov 20 19:43:33 xxx smartd[774]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel changed from 63 to 60
Nov 20 19:43:33 xxx smartd[774]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 37 to 40
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Cheers
DCu