I’m using KDE Neon with the latest version of Plasma. Sometimes I get a warning that my SSD has poor health and may die soon. When I check the SMART stats the drive seems fairly healthy. Is this just a Plasma bug?

  • @[email protected]
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    9 months ago

    I’d recommend you to make backups either way. I’ve had a SSD with SMART status “good” very suddenly die before, so don’t take any chances!

    • @sosodevOP
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      199 months ago

      Yeah, I keep everything important backed up. I’m definitely fine if it dies. I’m just curious really.

    • Yardy Sardley
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      99 months ago

      This happened to me a few weeks ago and the pain is still fresh. Please tell us your data is safely backed up, OP.

    • @sosodevOP
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      9 months ago

      It’s a relatively recent 1TB Samsung 980.

      rtctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-6.5.3-060503-generic] (local build)
      Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
      
      === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
      Model Number:                       Samsung SSD 980 1TB
      Serial Number:                      S64ANJ0RA44661N
      Firmware Version:                   1B4QFXO7
      PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID:            0x144d
      IEEE OUI Identifier:                0x002538
      Total NVM Capacity:                 1,000,204,886,016 [1.00 TB]
      Unallocated NVM Capacity:           0
      Controller ID:                      5
      NVMe Version:                       1.4
      Number of Namespaces:               1
      Namespace 1 Size/Capacity:          1,000,204,886,016 [1.00 TB]
      Namespace 1 Utilization:            553,282,572,288 [553 GB]
      Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size:     512
      Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64:            002538 da11440dac
      Local Time is:                      Thu Oct  5 13:48:48 2023 PDT
      Firmware Updates (0x16):            3 Slots, no Reset required
      Optional Admin Commands (0x0017):   Security Format Frmw_DL Self_Test
      Optional NVM Commands (0x0055):     Comp DS_Mngmt Sav/Sel_Feat Timestmp
      Log Page Attributes (0x0f):         S/H_per_NS Cmd_Eff_Lg Ext_Get_Lg Telmtry_Lg
      Maximum Data Transfer Size:         512 Pages
      Warning  Comp. Temp. Threshold:     82 Celsius
      Critical Comp. Temp. Threshold:     85 Celsius
      Namespace 1 Features (0x10):        NP_Fields
      
      Supported Power States
      St Op     Max   Active     Idle   RL RT WL WT  Ent_Lat  Ex_Lat
       0 +     5.24W       -        -    0  0  0  0        0       0
       1 +     4.49W       -        -    1  1  1  1        0       0
       2 +     2.19W       -        -    2  2  2  2        0     500
       3 -   0.0500W       -        -    3  3  3  3      210    1200
       4 -   0.0050W       -        -    4  4  4  4     1000    9000
      
      Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1)
      Id Fmt  Data  Metadt  Rel_Perf
       0 +     512       0         0
      
      === START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
      SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
      
      SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
      Critical Warning:                   0x00
      Temperature:                        37 Celsius
      Available Spare:                    100%
      Available Spare Threshold:          10%
      Percentage Used:                    1%
      Data Units Read:                    8,707,548 [4.45 TB]
      Data Units Written:                 16,750,179 [8.57 TB]
      Host Read Commands:                 60,932,777
      Host Write Commands:                210,324,713
      Controller Busy Time:               348
      Power Cycles:                       802
      Power On Hours:                     384
      Unsafe Shutdowns:                   64
      Media and Data Integrity Errors:    1
      Error Information Log Entries:      1
      Warning  Comp. Temperature Time:    2470
      Critical Comp. Temperature Time:    0
      Temperature Sensor 1:               37 Celsius
      Temperature Sensor 2:               47 Celsius
      Thermal Temp. 2 Transition Count:   54637
      Thermal Temp. 2 Total Time:         114793
      
      Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 64 entries)
      No Errors Logged
      
  • @seaQueue
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    159 months ago

    Does your drive do any weird bit packing in its smart data? Some of mine used to do weird shit like store read errors plus total sectors read packed in one field which constantly threw errors until I added the proper data format in a config file. Without specifying a data format smartmon just assumed the drive was throwing absolutely huge numbers of errors and threw warnings every run.

    Try googling the specific error message, or your drive model plus the error and see if anything pops up.

  • @GustavoM
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    9 months ago

    Your SSD: *steps on a lego

    Plasma: “I’m sorry, sir… your death is imminent.”

  • FaizalR
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    19 months ago

    What model of SSD are you using? P lease post the warning prompt.