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?
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!
Yeah, I keep everything important backed up. I’m definitely fine if it dies. I’m just curious really.
This happened to me a few weeks ago and the pain is still fresh. Please tell us your data is safely backed up, OP.
Always have backups. “If you only have one, you have none”.
as said before: backup first. the rest afterwards…
The SMART stats in question and SSD model name would definitely help in answering that question.
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 LoggedMedia and Data Integrity Errors: 1
Is most likely the reason for the alert. But as long as this number does not increase it is fine.
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The issue was with the 980 pro / 990 pro, the 980 is a very different SSD and isn’t affected
Well that’s worrying… thanks for the heads up!
Some of the newer Samsung Drives have bad firmware.
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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.
Your SSD: *steps on a lego
Plasma: “I’m sorry, sir… your death is imminent.”
What model of SSD are you using? P lease post the warning prompt.
