I have a SAMSUNG SSD 970 Evo Plus (NVMe) running internally in a ASUS PN42 (Intel N100) on OMV Release: 6.9.8-1.
On every boot (power cycle) I get a warning (via e-mail), that the Error Count has increased. Actually it's the parameter "Error Information Log Entries:", which increases quite exactly parallel to "Power Cycles:".
=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 37 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 10%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 43,865 [22.4 GB]
Data Units Written: 164,898 [84.4 GB]
Host Read Commands: 545,416
Host Write Commands: 638,228
Controller Busy Time: 2
Power Cycles: 29
Power On Hours: 2
Unsafe Shutdowns: 3
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 31
Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0
Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 0
Temperature Sensor 1: 37 Celsius
Temperature Sensor 2: 30 Celsius
Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 64 entries)
Num ErrCount SQId CmdId Status PELoc LBA NSID VS
0 31 0 0x0010 0x4004 - 0 0 -
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As also shown, there're no media or dara errors, so I would say: This brand new SSD is totally ok.
Google mentions, the "Error Information Log Entry" may arise from an invalid command. I expect, chances to locate and suppress this command are quite low. Remaining options are:
* stop smart monitoring this drive - bad idea
* get a false warning on each startup (which occurs daily) - bad idea, but could possibly mitigated by an dedicated e-mail filter
Are there better options? Is it possible to make the smart monitoring "smart" enough to ignore this special value/parameter?