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How can I check the SMART status of a SSD or HDD on current versions of Ubuntu 14.04 through 20.04?

Ubuntu 16.04 This answer is migrated from a duplicate question closed here (What happend to SMART data (disk selftest option)). The question above has been changed to require Ubuntu versions after ...
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SMART data self test is greyed out in Disks?

From How can I check the SMART status of a SSD or HDD on current versions of Ubuntu 14.04 through 18.10?: SMART option greyed out This can happen with NVMe SSD's. You need to install NVMe SSD ...
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Can't check SMART data on SSD?

Since SSD drives are designed to use completely different parameters than HDDs, most SMART utilities do not report SSD data correctly. The smartmontools package for Linux contains a utility to scan ...
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How to reset SMART results

The point of current / worst attributes like temperature is exactly this: to tell you if the drive has ever been outside its max operating temperature, and thus might have suffered permanent damage. ...
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How to trigger Offline data collection with Smartmontools?

referring to the smartmontools site: Column Updated Some SMART attributes values, that are updated only during off-line data collection activities are labeled "Offline" in column "UPDATED". ...
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How to fix read failure on Hard Drive

You don't recover or repair 'read failures' of this type on SMART tests. These failures are indicative of device and drive failure, or pre-failure, especially if you actually try and read data off ...
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How to trigger Offline data collection with Smartmontools?

According to the smartmontools site: Note that a one-time offline test can also be carried out immediately upon receipt of a user command. See the -t offline option, which causes a one-time ...
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Issues with SSD : rising CRC errors , freezing, sometimes read-only

Replace your SSD People have tried a lot of things in the comments, but this SSD seems to have some issues. Judging by the S.M.A.R.T readouts, your drive has not seen a lot of action (~250 power on ...
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Disk is likely to fail soon (37° C / 99° F)

Those SMART errors mean that disk failure is imminent. You will need to replace the disk soon. If you don't have sufficient backups, make them now before it's too late.
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Smartmontools 7.3 on Ubuntu 22.04

First a few notes for this solution: When you download and install a package manually, you get no updates for it. You have to manually update to a later version of the package. And you have to check ...
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Are these SATA errors dangerous?

This error is unlikely to damage your hard drive but is highly likely to corrupt your filesystem(s). Begin by determining which drive is throwing the errors. This usually be determined easily by a ...
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How can I fix hdd's health

This is a common misunderstanding; I got confused the first time I ran these tests, too. But there's nothing to worry about; despite the scary-sounding terms, the results are totally fine (don't ...
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Read Error Rate is more than 5000... Do I need to replace my Hard disk?

Install smartmontools. sudo apt-get install smartmontools Then run sudo smartctl --all /dev/sdX (X = your drive's letter) to get all the data concerning the disk. You will see more detailed ...
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How can I configure postfix to send emails via gmail (2FA problems)?

As George suggested, 2FA was indeed a factor. I wrote down the full procedure below that solved my problems: Install packages sudo apt-get install postfix mailutils libsasl2-2 ca-certificates ...
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NVME Samsung SSD 970 EVO (500GB) wrong SMART Power On Hours?

As far as I can tell, 970 EVOs report their power on hours in 8ths of an hour instead, so multiply by 8 to get the true value. This is true for me using both smartmontools and CrystalDiskInfo on ...
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How to fix read failure on Hard Drive

To bad block your disk, follow this procedure. If it fails, your disk is bad...     Note: do NOT abort a bad block scan!     Note: do NOT bad block a SSD     Note: backup your important files FIRST!...
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Is my Hard disk failing?

The SMART test failed, which tells you that the disk is failing. Your file system turning read-only is a failsafe that is generally associated with a failing drive. You cannot repair a failing hard ...
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Nvme faulty drive? SMART Error Information Log Entries fastly increasing

The drive is OK. The counter that really matters is the Media and Data Integrity Errors counter. The Error Information Log Entries counter on the nvme drive on my system increases by one during every ...
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Issues with SSD : rising CRC errors , freezing, sometimes read-only

Some time before May 11, 2017 you updated your SSD Firmware. However a new version was released in September 2017 and you should apply it using Windows. Run fstrim to discard unused blocks in the ...
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What should I do about the ''HDD dying'' messages on my laptop?

The underlying gist of the message you've received is that your HDD may fail without any further warning, or data might be lost even if you think the HDD is working correctly. The large number of ...
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snap and SMART errors when attaching external drive

If lsusb detects a JMicron Technology bridge, you have your answer. Some of them are not fully compatible with SMART and this causes the error unfortunately.
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NVME can't see S.M.A.R.T. in gnome-disk-utility

This is a known issue in the underlying udisks program used by gnome-disks. There already exist a issue on the gitlab page https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility/issues/50 and upstream on ...
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SMART data dialog appears on each return from TTY to GUI

Having remembered that all authentication requests go into /var/log/auth.log, I've reproduced the dialog by switching to TTY1 and returned to GUI. After the dialog appeared and I canceled the password ...
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Disks application not reading SMART data correctly?

S.M.A.R.T. data is not known for being user-friendly. When evaluating the information from the output of smartctl, the key to remember is that: Each metric is considered to have failed when WORST ...
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How to avoid excessive hard disk load cycles

As of May 2017, the discussion is still valid, at least for certain types of hard disks and the old solutions are still doing the job. The trick is to set the power management level to less aggressive....
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How to reset SMART results

A stupid thing about SMART is that it permanently stores one time transient things that did no damage at all. I had a drive that recorded a power failure in its SMART and forever after the computer ...
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Smartctl ceased to work after recent updates

Acording to a ticket in a smartctl tracker, this is a known bug and modern kernels disable SAT ATA PASS-THROUGH for seagate enclosures, when in UAS mode due to problems with some of them. Fortunately,...
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How to disable SMART checks for removable drives

I found the following workaround: After removing the drive, restart the SMART monitoring daemon: sudo systemctl restart smartmontools.service This will prevent further e-mails. To silence the initial ...
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Health check of external hard drives

You've already mentioned the use of the SMART features found in the Disks app, Tests & Data, and gsmartcontrol. A+ Another quick thing that you can do is to monitor /var/log/syslog* in terminal, ...
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Gnome Disks utility locked HDD

Finally after some more searching found the answer for my question on the disks gitlab page, provided by user advantes. "Found it! I didn't pay attention before to the fact the Gnome Disk Utility is ...
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