I have a SFF PC ( Shuttle XS35v2 ) where SATA disks are connected to the machine directly, and without SATA / power cabling.
I have bought a brand new KINGSTON SA400S37960G SDD and connected it to the machine via a laptop to SATA caddy (the direct slot has been occupied by the OS SSD). My intention is to turn this machine into a Samba file server (it runs Linux). This caddy has been used in the past flawlessly.
Upon powering on, and checking the SMART attributes of the new disk, following SMART attribute caught my attention : 199 SATA_CRC_Error_Count had value 524546
With very light usage so far, this attribute has been increased by 1 thus now has the value of 524547
Should I trust this disk to store my data? Should I try to switch slots, meaning install the big new SSD to the direct slot and the OS old SSD to the caddy adaptor? Or should I return the disk?
Full output of smartctl -a /dev/sda follows.
smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.12.95+deb13-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Phison Driven SSDs
Device Model: KINGSTON SA400S37960G
Serial Number: 50026B73843BB1A1
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0026b7 3843bb1a1
Firmware Version: SBFKZ1.3
User Capacity: 960,197,124,096 bytes [960 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
TRIM Command: Available
Device is: In smartctl database 7.3/5528
ATA Version is: ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 4
SATA Version is: SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Thu Jul 16 11:53:54 2026 EEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (65535) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x11) SMART execute Offline immediate.
No Auto Offline data collection support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
No Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
No Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
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 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 223
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 6
148 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
149 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
167 Write_Protect_Mode 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
168 SATA_Phy_Error_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
169 Bad_Block_Rate 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 9
170 Bad_Blk_Ct_Lat/Erl 0x0000 100 100 010 Old_age Offline - 0/8
172 Erase_Fail_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
173 MaxAvgErase_Ct 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 1
181 Program_Fail_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
182 Erase_Fail_Count 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
192 Unsafe_Shutdown_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 3
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 029 037 000 Old_age Always - 29 (Min/Max 20/37)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
199 SATA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 524547
218 CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
231 SSD_Life_Left 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 100
233 Flash_Writes_GiB 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
241 Lifetime_Writes_GiB 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 15
242 Lifetime_Reads_GiB 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
244 Average_Erase_Count 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
245 Max_Erase_Count 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 1
246 Total_Erase_Count 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 48
SMART Error Log not supported
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 -
# 2 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 0 -
Selective Self-tests/Logging not supported
The above only provides legacy SMART information - try 'smartctl -x' for more
