Subj : Clunk. Clunk. Clunk.
To   : Daniel Path
From : Accession
Date : Sat Nov 02 2024 18:14:14

On Sat, Nov 02 20:10:34 -0500, you wrote:

 A>> My server is fairly old, and I don't even know how to look up how many
 A>> hours each hard drive has been used. But there's no clunking, yet, so
 A>> here's hoping we just let it ride and hope for the best!

 DP> smart tells you.
 DP> on linux you can check:

That's assuming you have it installed and configured, yes?

Doesn't seem to come with Archlinux, but it is a part of the package smartmontools, which I just installed.

 DP> # smartctl -a /dev/sda
 DP> [...]
 DP>   9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   021   021   000    Old_age
 DP> Always -     57908
 DP> [...]

 DP> 57908/24 = 2412 days, approx 6 years :)

$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.11.5-arch1-1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               VMware
Product:              Virtual disk
Revision:             2.0
Compliance:           SPC-4
User Capacity:        536,870,912,000 bytes [536 GB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
LU is fully provisioned
Device type:          disk
Local Time is:        Sat Nov  2 18:07:14 2024 CDT
SMART support is:     Unavailable - device lacks SMART capability.

[...]

Error Counter logging not supported

Device does not support Self Test logging

[EOF]

Not looking too good so far, but at least VMWare tells me this:

Date/time on host
Saturday, November 02, 2024, 21:32:46 UTC
Install date
Friday, October 13, 2017, 16:51:03 UTC

However, I bought the server used off ebay, so I have no idea how long it was ran before that. :)

Regards,
Nick

.... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
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