Every day the same S.M.A.R.T error mail

[daschmidt]

Hi,

I get every day the same email that 3 sector on my ssd are bad. The SSD had less than 1000 hour.

Spoiler: mail

This message was generated by the smartd daemon running on:

host name: pve
DNS domain: fritz.box

The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:

Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 3 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors

Device info:
P3-1TB, S/N:9P50915005072, WWN:0-000000-000000000, FW:HT5310B3, 1.02 TB

For details see host's SYSLOG.

You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation.
The original message about this issue was sent at Thu Dec 11 08:19:13 2025 CET
Another message will be sent in 24 hours if the problem persists.

 

[fireon]

Well, even new SSDs can have a fault... What does smartlog say?

smartctl -a <device>

A long smarttest can be startet with:

smartctl -t long <device>

You can see the progress with:

smartctl -a <device> | grep "of test remaining"

 

[daschmidt]

smartctl -a <device>

Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       0
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       1031
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       3
160 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       0
161 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       22884
163 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       607
164 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       611
165 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       171
166 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       1
167 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       74
168 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       0
169 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       100
175 Program_Fail_Count_Chip 0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       83886080
176 Erase_Fail_Count_Chip   0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       6794784
177 Wear_Leveling_Count     0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       3
181 Program_Fail_Cnt_Total  0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       0
182 Erase_Fail_Count_Total  0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       2
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       54
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       0
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       3
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       0
232 Available_Reservd_Space 0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       100
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       272390
242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       35998

SMART Error Log Version: 0
No Errors Logged

My main problem is why I get every day the email with the 3 bad sectors?

 

[Impact]

Translate and take a look at this.

 

[daschmidt]

thanks I give it tomorrow a try.