Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help
On 2024-01-17, Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
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> This is just weird.
> I still have difficulties to believe that any disk manufacturer would
> hand out disks with colliding serial numbers. I googled for this
> phenomenon, but except two mails of Gene nothing similar popped up.
I discovered a couple of discussions of the phenomenon, the upshot of which
were:
1) That's what you get when you purchase cheap SSDs.
https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/s0rrpo/two_sata_ssds_with_identical_serial_numbers/
2) SSDs belonging to the same software RAID show identical serial numbers
in software, but these numbers don't match the serial numbers printed on the SSDs themselves.
https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/s0rrpo/two_sata_ssds_with_identical_serial_numbers/
But you said *similar*. As Gene's threads have too many movable parts
for me to follow, on that point I couldn't say.
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