Hey all!
I just installed four brand-new unopened WD Red SA500 2TB SSD drives for a completely new Proxmox server.
Although the drives are brand new, I had them in storage for a while because they were bought for another project, but never used.
However, when I first plugged them in proxmox, I get that the wearout is 99%
Which is a bit alarming, I did full long tests on them
And the results are a bit weird
This is one of them, the other change in the "Total Bad Blocks" attribute, but you can see the Power_On_Hours and the Power_Cycle are 0.
I'm puzzled.
Again, these drives have been sitting on a shelf for 2 years, but I peeled opened the invidudual packages myself this morning. They (should) be solid.
I just installed four brand-new unopened WD Red SA500 2TB SSD drives for a completely new Proxmox server.
Although the drives are brand new, I had them in storage for a while because they were bought for another project, but never used.
However, when I first plugged them in proxmox, I get that the wearout is 99%
Which is a bit alarming, I did full long tests on them
Code:
smartctl -t long /dev/sdXAnd the results are a bit weird
Code:
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: WD Blue / Red / Green SSDs
Device Model: WDC WDS200T1R0A-68A4W0
Serial Number: 22425T445208
LU WWN Device Id: 5 001b44 4a596b389
Firmware Version: 411010WR
User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
TRIM Command: Available, deterministic, zeroed
Device is: In smartctl database 7.3/5319
ATA Version is: ACS-4 T13/BSR INCITS 529 revision 5
SATA Version is: SATA 3.3, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Wed Oct 15 12:37:42 2025 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 0) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x11) SMART execute Offline immediate.
No Auto Offline data collection support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
No Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
No Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 10) minutes.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 4
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 2
165 Block_Erase_Count 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0
166 Minimum_PE_Cycles_TLC 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0
167 Max_Bad_Blocks_per_Die 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 50
168 Maximum_PE_Cycles_TLC 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0
169 Total_Bad_Blocks 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 641
170 Grown_Bad_Blocks 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0
171 Program_Fail_Count 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0
172 Erase_Fail_Count 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0
173 Average_PE_Cycles_TLC 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0
174 Unexpected_Power_Loss 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 076 027 --- Old_age Always - 24 (Min/Max 21/27)
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0
230 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x0032 001 001 --- Old_age Always - 0x000000000000
232 Available_Reservd_Space 0x0033 100 100 004 Pre-fail Always - 100
233 NAND_GB_Written_TLC 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0
234 NAND_GB_Written_SLC 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0
241 Host_Writes_GiB 0x0030 253 253 --- Old_age Offline - 0
242 Host_Reads_GiB 0x0030 253 253 --- Old_age Offline - 0
244 Temp_Throttle_Status 0x0032 000 100 --- Old_age Always - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 0 -
Selective Self-tests/Logging not supportedThis is one of them, the other change in the "Total Bad Blocks" attribute, but you can see the Power_On_Hours and the Power_Cycle are 0.
I'm puzzled.
Again, these drives have been sitting on a shelf for 2 years, but I peeled opened the invidudual packages myself this morning. They (should) be solid.
