Plasma randomly warns that my SSD is going to die?
I'm using KDE Neon with the latest version of Plasma. Sometimes I get a warning that my SSD has poor health and may die soon. When I check the SMART stats the drive seems fairly healthy. Is this just a Plasma bug?
I'd recommend you to make backups either way. I've had a SSD with SMART status "good" very suddenly die before, so don't take any chances!
Yeah, I keep everything important backed up. I'm definitely fine if it dies. I'm just curious really.
This happened to me a few weeks ago and the pain is still fresh. Please tell us your data is safely backed up, OP.
Always have backups. "If you only have one, you have none".
as said before: backup first. the rest afterwards...
Does your drive do any weird bit packing in its smart data? Some of mine used to do weird shit like store read errors plus total sectors read packed in one field which constantly threw errors until I added the proper data format in a config file. Without specifying a data format smartmon just assumed the drive was throwing absolutely huge numbers of errors and threw warnings every run.
Try googling the specific error message, or your drive model plus the error and see if anything pops up.
Your SSD: *steps on a lego
Plasma: "I'm sorry, sir... your death is imminent."
What model of SSD are you using? P lease post the warning prompt.