March 23, 201610 yr Hi guys, today I encountered this error while inspecting a hard drive that showed 'errors' on the Main Array Devices: No notification were received. Maybe LT should monitor more SMART attributes.
March 23, 201610 yr Hmm, any attribute with the status "failing now" should generate a warning notification.
March 24, 201610 yr SMART can be a confusing and inconsistent world though. When drives include 184, it's often a critical attribute, which in this case would have caused a SMART drive failed error. But with your drive, the manufacturer did NOT mark it as a critical attribute (flag is 0x32 not 0x33, Old-age not Pre-fail). So while it's interesting that it displays 'FAILING NOW', it may actually not be important, just an FYI, for this drive. Technically, if it's not a critical attribute, it's not failing now, even if it says so!
March 24, 201610 yr Author SMART can be a confusing and inconsistent world though. When drives include 184, it's often a critical attribute, which in this case would have caused a SMART drive failed error. But with your drive, the manufacturer did NOT mark it as a critical attribute (flag is 0x32 not 0x33, Old-age not Pre-fail). So while it's interesting that it displays 'FAILING NOW', it may actually not be important, just an FYI, for this drive. Technically, if it's not a critical attribute, it's not failing now, even if it says so! It's failing, a lot of read errors appeared on the main page and on the log. Probably the onboard cache memory is going bad.
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