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

Here’s the smartctl info:

smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.8.0-55-generic] (local build)  
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org  
                                                                             
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===                                         
Model Family:     Western Digital Red (CMR)                                  
Device Model:     WDC WD80EFPX-68C4ZN0                                       
Serial Number:    WD-XXXXX                                         
LU WWN Device Id: xxxxxxxx                                   
Firmware Version: 81.00A81                                                   
User Capacity:    8,001,563,222,016 bytes [8.00 TB]                          
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical                     
Rotation Rate:    5640 rpm                                                   
Form Factor:      3.5 inches                                                 
Device is:        In smartctl database 7.3/5660                              
ATA Version is:   ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 5                                
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)                     
Local Time is:    Sun Mar  9 10:26:24 2025 EDT                               
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.                   
SMART support is: Enabled                                                    
AAM feature is:   Unavailable                                                
APM feature is:   Unavailable                                                
Rd look-ahead is: Enabled                                                    
Write cache is:   Enabled                                                    
DSN feature is:   Unavailable                                                
ATA Security is:  Disabled, NOT FROZEN [SEC1]                                
Wt Cache Reorder: Enabled                                                    
                                                                             
Warning! SMART Attribute Thresholds Structure error: invalid SMART checksum.                                    
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED        

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