In message , David Higton
 writes
>At three years old, it's already reached the end of its life, so the
>MTTF specification no longer applies.  It is (or should be!) up for
>replacement already.
>

Weekly smart report generated overnight :

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART STATUS RETURN: incomplete response, ATA output registers missing
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Warning: This result is based on an Attribute check.

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:                (25320) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:                    (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                                        Auto Offline data collection
on/off support.
                                        Suspend Offline collection upon
new
                                        command.
                                        Offline surface scan supported.
                                        Self-test supported.
                                        Conveyance Self-test supported.
                                        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:        (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        ( 255) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (   5) minutes.
SCT capabilities:              (0x703d) SCT Status supported.
                                        SCT Error Recovery Control
supported.
                                        SCT Feature Control supported.
                                        SCT Data Table supported.

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     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always
-       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   177   169   021    Pre-fail  Always
- 4141
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always
-       129
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always
-       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always
-       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   075   075   000    Old_age   Always
-       18474
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always
-       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age   Always
-       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always
-       30
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age Always
-       11
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always
-       147
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   114   102   000    Old_age   Always
-       33
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age Always
-       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age Always
-       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   253   000    Old_age
Offline -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age Always
-       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   100   253   000    Old_age
Offline -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]


SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute
delay.

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