Got a warning about my SSD from HD Sentinel
 

Yesterday, I got a big warning email from HD Sentinel stating that my
desktop's SSD is about to suffer imminent failure, it said that the Raw
Read Error Rate had crossed a certain threshold. HDS also rated the
drive health at 0%! But when I went in and logged into the machine
itself, and looked in the HDS interface itself, it showed no such
errors, and showed the drive reliability at 99%!

I've asked the developer of HDS for his opinion, he says that he thinks
I should replace the drive anyway, as it's likely indicating an ongoing
problem that's likely to recur. I'm not so sure about that. What's your
opinion?

Yousuf Khan

Got a warning about my SSD from HD Sentinel
 

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Yousuf Khan wrote:
Yesterday, I got a big warning email from HD Sentinel stating that my
desktop's SSD is about to suffer imminent failure, it said that the Raw
Read Error Rate had crossed a certain threshold. HDS also rated the
drive health at 0%! But when I went in and logged into the machine
itself, and looked in the HDS interface itself, it showed no such
errors, and showed the drive reliability at 99%!

I've asked the developer of HDS for his opinion, he says that he thinks
I should replace the drive anyway, as it's likely indicating an ongoing
problem that's likely to recur. I'm not so sure about that. What's your
opinion?
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Got a warning about my SSD from HD Sentinel
 

"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message
...
Yesterday, I got a big warning email from HD Sentinel stating that my
desktop's SSD is about to suffer imminent failure, it said that the Raw
Read Error Rate had crossed a certain threshold. HDS also rated the drive
health at 0%! But when I went in and logged into the machine itself, and
looked in the HDS interface itself, it showed no such errors, and showed
the drive reliability at 99%!

I've asked the developer of HDS for his opinion, he says that he thinks I
should replace the drive anyway, as it's likely indicating an ongoing
problem that's likely to recur. I'm not so sure about that. What's your
opinion?

That we need to see the actual SMART report, not just
some number that steaming turd plucks out of the air.

Got a warning about my SSD from HD Sentinel
 

On 17/11/2015 6:33 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
That we need to see the actual SMART report, not just
some number that steaming turd plucks out of the air.

Here it is:

S.M.A.R.T.
------------
No. Attribute Thre.. Value Worst Data Status Flags
1 Raw Read Error Rate 50 120 120 0 OK Error-Rate, Performance, Statistical, Critical
5 Retired Block Count 3 100 100 0 OK Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical, Critical
9 Power On Time Count 0 81 81 17035 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical
12 Drive Power Cycle Count 0 95 95 5130 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical
171 Program Fail Count 0 0 0 0 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical
172 Erase Fail Count 0 0 0 0 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical
174 Unexpected Power Loss .. 0 0 0 46 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count
177 Wear Range Delta 0 0 0 7 OK (Always passing)
181 Program Fail Count 0 0 0 0 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical
182 Erase Fail Count 0 0 0 0 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical
187 Reported Uncorrectable.. 0 100 100 0 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical
194 Disk Temperature 0 30 30 30; 30; 30 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Statistical
195 On-the-fly ECC Uncorre.. 0 100 100 0 OK (Always passing) Event Count, Error-Rate, Performance
196 Reallocation Event Count 3 100 100 0 OK Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical, Critical
201 Uncorrectable Soft Rea.. 0 100 100 0 OK (Always passing) Event Count, Error-Rate, Performance
204 Soft ECC Correction 0 100 100 0 OK (Always passing) Event Count, Error-Rate, Performance
230 Life Curve Status 0 100 100 100 OK (Always passing) Event Count, Statistical, Critical
231 SSD Life Left 10 99 99 0 OK Event Count, Statistical, Critical
233 Lifetime Compressed Wr.. 0 0 0 17810 OK (Always passing)
234 Vendor-specific 0 0 0 14901 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical
241 Lifetime Writes from H.. 0 0 0 14901 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical
242 Lifetime Reads from Ho.. 0 0 0 31788 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical

Got a warning about my SSD from HD Sentinel
 

Yousuf Khan wrote
Rod Speed wrote

That we need to see the actual SMART report, not just
some number that steaming turd plucks out of the air.

Here it is:

S.M.A.R.T.
------------
No. Attribute Thre.. Value Worst Data
Status Flags
1 Raw Read Error Rate 50 120 120 0 OK
Error-Rate, Performance, Statistical, Critical
5 Retired Block Count 3 100 100 0 OK
Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical, Critical

Not clear why these are flagged as Critical but with 0 for the raw data,
presumably that is a quirk of how the manufacture has implemented
these two in the SMART report, no actual data reported at all.

9 Power On Time Count 0 81 81 17035 OK
(Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical
12 Drive Power Cycle Count 0 95 95 5130 OK
(Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical
171 Program Fail Count 0 0 0 0 OK
(Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical
172 Erase Fail Count 0 0 0 0 OK
(Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical
174 Unexpected Power Loss .. 0 0 0 46 OK
(Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count
177 Wear Range Delta 0 0 0 7 OK
(Always passing)
181 Program Fail Count 0 0 0 0 OK
(Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical
182 Erase Fail Count 0 0 0 0 OK
(Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical
187 Reported Uncorrectable.. 0 100 100 0 OK
(Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical
194 Disk Temperature 0 30 30 30; 30; 30 OK
(Always passing) Self Preserving, Statistical
195 On-the-fly ECC Uncorre.. 0 100 100 0 OK
(Always passing) Event Count, Error-Rate, Performance
196 Reallocation Event Count 3 100 100 0 OK
Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical, Critical

Not clear why this one is flagged as critical either with again with a data
of 0.

201 Uncorrectable Soft Rea.. 0 100 100 0 OK
(Always passing) Event Count, Error-Rate, Performance
204 Soft ECC Correction 0 100 100 0 OK
(Always passing) Event Count, Error-Rate, Performance
230 Life Curve Status 0 100 100 100 OK
(Always passing) Event Count, Statistical, Critical
231 SSD Life Left 10 99 99 0 OK
Event Count, Statistical, Critical

Presumably HD Sentinel is getting its 0% from these two.

They certainly don’t look good at all. Ignore the
Status column, it’s the flag Critical that matters.

Certainly doesn’t look good IMO.

What is the model detail on the SSD ?

233 Lifetime Compressed Wr.. 0 0 0 17810 OK
(Always passing)
234 Vendor-specific 0 0 0 14901 OK
(Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical
241 Lifetime Writes from H.. 0 0 0 14901 OK
(Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical
242 Lifetime Reads from Ho.. 0 0 0 31788 OK
(Always passing) Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical

Got a warning about my SSD from HD Sentinel
 

On 18/11/2015 8:45 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote
Rod Speed wrote

That we need to see the actual SMART report, not just
some number that steaming turd plucks out of the air.

Here it is:

S.M.A.R.T.
------------
No. Attribute Thre.. Value Worst Data
Status Flags
1 Raw Read Error Rate 50 120 120
0 OK Error-Rate, Performance, Statistical, Critical
5 Retired Block Count 3 100 100
0 OK Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical,
Critical

Not clear why these are flagged as Critical but with 0 for the raw data,
presumably that is a quirk of how the manufacture has implemented
these two in the SMART report, no actual data reported at all.

As I said in my original message, the Raw Read Error was the one that
was critical before when the email was sent, and then immediately fixed
itself magically after I logged in to check on it.

9 Power On Time Count 0 81 81
17035 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Event
Count, Statistical
12 Drive Power Cycle Count 0 95 95
5130 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Event
Count, Statistical
171 Program Fail Count 0 0 0
0 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Event
Count, Statistical
172 Erase Fail Count 0 0 0
0 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Event
Count, Statistical
174 Unexpected Power Loss .. 0 0 0
46 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Event
Count
177 Wear Range Delta 0 0 0
7 OK (Always passing)
181 Program Fail Count 0 0 0
0 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Event
Count, Statistical
182 Erase Fail Count 0 0 0
0 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Event
Count, Statistical
187 Reported Uncorrectable.. 0 100 100
0 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Event
Count, Statistical
194 Disk Temperature 0 30 30 30; 30;
30 OK (Always passing) Self Preserving, Statistical
195 On-the-fly ECC Uncorre.. 0 100 100
0 OK (Always passing) Event Count, Error-Rate,
Performance
196 Reallocation Event Count 3 100 100
0 OK Self Preserving, Event Count, Statistical,
Critical

Not clear why this one is flagged as critical either with again with a
data of 0.

I doubt that the Critical flag means anything other than if an error
does occur in this column, then it can be critical. It doesn't actually
mean that something crtical has happened. All you have to do is look at
the status column and it says it's OK. So it's just drawing our
attention to those columns which have a critical flags, to take these
seriously.

201 Uncorrectable Soft Rea.. 0 100 100
0 OK (Always passing) Event Count, Error-Rate,
Performance
204 Soft ECC Correction 0 100 100
0 OK (Always passing) Event Count, Error-Rate,
Performance
230 Life Curve Status 0 100 100
100 OK (Always passing) Event Count,
Statistical, Critical
231 SSD Life Left 10 99 99
0 OK Event Count, Statistical, Critical

Presumably HD Sentinel is getting its 0% from these two.

They certainly don’t look good at all. Ignore the
Status column, it’s the flag Critical that matters.

Certainly doesn’t look good IMO.

Actually, this is completely fine. It means that it's got 99% of its
life left

What is the model detail on the SSD ?

Corsair Force 3 240GB SSD.


Yousuf Khan