Warning! SMART Attribute Thresholds Structure error: invalid SMART checksum

[Tony__T]

Warning! SMART Attribute Thresholds Structure error: invalid SMART checksum

I purchased a new WD Red Plus from Amazon and received this warning. Returned and bought another direct from Western Digital and received the same warning on the 2nd drive. The WD Red Plus that I have from a year ago does not receive this warning, so I suspect that WD made a change to the firmware

Attached are output from 'smartctl -x -a /dev/sdX' and 'smartctl -r ataioctl,2 -A /dev/sdX'

I realize that this is just a warning and as a long test completes without error I can just ignore it, but still thought this was worth a ticket

[Christian Franke]

Please provide the outputs of the following commands as plaintext attachments:

smartctl -x -a /dev/sdX
smartctl -r ataioctl,2 -A /dev/sdX

Optionally add -q noserial option to suppress serial number and WWN.

[Tony__T]

smartctl -x -a /dev/sdX

[Tony__T]

smartctl -r ataioctl,2 -A /dev/sdX

[Christian Franke]

===== [SMART READ ATTRIBUTE THRESHOLDS] DATA START (BASE-16) =====
000-015: 10 00 01 33 c8 c8 c8 c8 c8 c8 c8 c8 00 00 03 15 |...3............|
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^--- Should be zero filled
                  ^^--------------------------------- Attribute 1 threshold: 51 (OK?)
               ^^------------------------------------ Attribute ID: 1 (OK)
         ^^-^^--------------------------------------- Revision: 16 (OK)
...
496-511: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b5
                                                      ^^-- Checksum

Conclusion: Device firmware returns garbage in the reserved fields of the SMART threshold sector. This is a (usually harmless) firmware bug which needs to be fixed by the drive vendor.

Use -b ignore to suppress the warning.

Other data looks sane.

[Christian Franke]

This is a drive firmware bug which cannot be fixed by smartctl.