Re: [smartmontools-support] Is detecting pre-failure for OCZ SSD possible?

[Jason J. W. W. <jas...@gm...>]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Christian Franke
<Chr...@t-...> wrote:
> sma...@hu... wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> What would be a pertinent value to monitor to detect early cataclysm of OCZ Agility 3 SSD drive?
>> I originally thought I could monitor SSD_Life_Left, but that value is always at 0 even though the drive seems to be operating correctly.
>
> Monitor the normalized value, the raw value is always 0.
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/FAQ#TheSSD_Life_LeftAttributeofmynewSandForcebasedSSDreportszero


We're monitoring the SSD Life normalized value successfully using this
Nagios check we wrote:

https://gist.github.com/1482762

-J