Oracle F320 (MS1PC2DD3ORA3.2T) Critical Warning on SMART?

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kanyestan

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Jan 26, 2022
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Hi everyone,

I recently had a spare Oracle F320 (MS1PC2DD3ORA3.2T) that I had plugged into a U.2 to PCI-E adapter, intending to use on my workstation PC. Currently using one that's at 100% health with no issues whatsoever.

Upon boot with it plugged in, the BIOS detects an "imminent failure" to the hardware. I decided to use smartmontools/smartctl to look at the SMART data of the drive. It displays the following:

Code:
=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
- volatile memory backup device has failed

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning:                   0x10
Temperature:                        38 Celsius
Available Spare:                    100%
Available Spare Threshold:          10%
Percentage Used:                    0%
Data Units Read:                    667,382,716 [341 TB]
Data Units Written:                 3,256,546 [1.66 TB]
Host Read Commands:                 5,398,930,997
Host Write Commands:                25,679,853
Controller Busy Time:               4,371
Power Cycles:                       545
Power On Hours:                     705
Unsafe Shutdowns:                   518
Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
Error Information Log Entries:      0

Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 256 entries)
No Errors Logged
Doing a bit of Googling around doesn't really elaborate much on that particular critical warning error. As you can see, the drive does have quite a bit of data units read/written, but the usage and spare percentages are pristine. For reference, my other current working drive is as follows:

Code:
=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning:                   0x00
Temperature:                        42 Celsius
Available Spare:                    100%
Available Spare Threshold:          10%
Percentage Used:                    0%
Data Units Read:                    55,427,535 [28.3 TB]
Data Units Written:                 42,616,373 [21.8 TB]
Host Read Commands:                 360,804,605
Host Write Commands:                232,288,622
Controller Busy Time:               672
Power Cycles:                       2,189
Power On Hours:                     11,639
Unsafe Shutdowns:                   359
Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
Error Information Log Entries:      0

Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 256 entries)
No Errors Logged
Both drives have been updated to the newest firmware that was found on here, and the new drive has already been through a full format and trim. Has anybody encountered this issue before? I will obviously not pursue using the drive on a daily basis because of this, but would love an opinion or two.
 

azev

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Jan 18, 2013
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I have bunch of these same drives in various servers deployment, all of them still working fine even ones with more usage when compared to yours.
I think these drives are a great combination of price, performance and durability.

Can you clarify what is throwing the error ?? Motherboard bios ?? maybe it need an update ?