Hi there,
I just noticed that my main drive (system drive) is not showing the SMART status. Any idea?
I own a MacBook Pro Early 2011 13 Inch i5 Processor.
Logic Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
Boot into the recovery partition and select Disk Utility.
Run Disk Utility>First Aid, verify and Repair.
If the disk cannot be repaired, it will have to be replaced.
Ciao.
But why has it suddenly stopped showing? Because I remember seeing the SMART status some time back. Now I can't even find it.
Your HDD may be failing, hence my directions in my initial response.
woofmatix wrote:
Now I can't even find it.
What can you not find?
Ciao.
I ran disk repair on Recovery mode and it repaired without a fuss.
Here's what I have. I don't see the SMART Status anywhere.
What happens when you click on the top most MACKINTOSH HD?
Ciao.
Nothing. I repaired both and it repaired without a problem.
And this is after the repair (this one was done not in Recovery Mode)
Cannot see your screenshot.
Take a look at Apple icon > About this Mac > System Report > Hardware > SATA etc. and it should be there. In Disk Utility with Yosemite and running on an SSD it does not show SMART status but it is shown as verified in System report. Don't know what would happen with a hard disk drive.
Found it!! It's there Cunnla. It say's "SMART status: Verified". So I guess it's all good then? I do not have an SSD btw. Just a normal hard disk.
I have attached the screenshot below. That should be it right?
Sorry, I cannot see any of the screenshots -- something to do with forum software issues.
Guess you can relax. Maybe Yosemite's DU skips showing the SMART status.
No worries. So if the SMART status shows as "verified" in System Information then all is good?
Sure. If your computer is working normally as well that's all that matters.
Good luck.
Thank you.
Wow... coming back to this place after almost a year coz I had another concern regarding this matter. Even though it says "verified" in the System Report when I checked using a software called SMART Utility it said that the hard disk was failing since there were some bad sectors. I have posted this question in elsewhere and they advice me to replace my HDD immediately (link to question:Re: Hard Disk Failing). I'm confused now.
S.M.A.R.T. Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology;
SMART is known not to be perfect technology by any means.
It can say verified and still the HD can be failing !
http://www.macworld.com/article/1143561/smartutility.html
from the comment section of the referenced MW article:
Hi I'm the developer of SMART Utility. First off, I'd like to thank Dan for the great review. It was a fair review of the app and SMART in general. The one thing I'd like to address is his closing comments, where he would like a menu icon instead of a dock icon, as well as some more notifications for failures. The menu icon feature is coming in version 3.0, which will be due out in the first quarter of 2010. The additional notifications feature is one I had not considered, but I am adding to the feature list for a future version (most likely 3.1).
I would also like to add that while SMART is not a perfect indicator of drives failing (I've seen ones that are fine in SMART but drop dead the next day), I have found that when SMART does indicate a problem, it usually is correct. Bad sectors are the biggest indication, but I've seen other errors too. However, I have found that SMART can sometimes be too insensitive to flagging a drive as having a problem. For instance, most drives won't trip a SMART failure until it finds 1000 bad sectors. I have found that even 1 bad sector can cause a continuous problem, and by the time a drive has about 50 it is really toast. That is the reason I wrote SMART Utility, to alert to these errors before they become a problem. Sometimes they don't, and the worst that happens is a user backs up their data. But when it does become a problem, its a big life saver.
As always, anybody that has any questions or comments at all can email me.
Hi,
At least you got another year out of it.đ However, the general consensus, in the other thread, seems to be that your drive is failing and to replace it immediately. Lex Shellings has some good advice there.
What exactly are the symptoms of possible failure that your computer is showing now? Compile a list and post it here.
Did the early 2011 Macbook Pro come with an install disk? If so, boot from that by holding down the C key and run Disk Utility and Repair Disk.
To save money, you may want to replace the disk yourself. It's not very hard and you can find "How to" videos and guides at OWC and iFixit and other places.
Regards
SMART Status Not Showing
