Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Curt wrote:
> 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/

Those URLs are identical. (OMG ! Is it contageous ?)

Number 2 would match my suspicion that some layer in the disk driving
gets confused and mixes up the serial numbers.


> But you said *similar*.

By "colliding serial numbers" i mean indeed "identical serial numbers".

How cheap the disks may ever be, that would be no excuse for not making
them individually distinguishable.


> As Gene's threads have too many movable parts
> for me to follow, on that point I couldn't say.

This one begins to gain presence in the web. So one can use search engines
and AI to untangle its sub-threads. I meanwhile participate in two of them:
serial number collision, rsync caused OOM killer (solved now, but how ?).


Have a nice day :)

Thomas