Offline_Uncorrectable increasing, SSD dying?

[Niluge_KiWi]

Hello,

I bought this summer a ssd gskill falcon 64GB in Paris, France, and I
have found last week it has 8155 Offline uncorrectable sectors, and the
value is increasing (at an increasing rate). (now 13989)


Here is an output of smartctl --all /dev/sda :

smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: G.SKILL FALCON 64GB SSD
Serial Number: *****************
Firmware Version: 1571
User Capacity: 64 023 257 088 bytes
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 7
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Tue Nov 17 22:55:30 2009 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
See vendor-specific Attribute list for marginal Attributes.

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 0) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x1d) SMART execute Offline immediate.
No Auto Offline data collection support.
Abort Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
No Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x00) Error logging NOT supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 0) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 0) minutes.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x0000 007 000 000 Old_age Offline In_the_past 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0000 069 003 000 Old_age Offline - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0000 096 000 000 Old_age Offline In_the_past 0
184 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 063 000 000 Old_age Offline In_the_past 0
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x0000 000 000 000 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 0
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0000 000 000 000 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0000 000 000 000 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0000 165 131 000 Old_age Offline - 13989
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0000 048 021 000 Old_age Offline - 15039
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 109 030 000 Old_age Offline - 370
201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 0x0000 141 087 000 Old_age Offline - 164
202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0000 139 048 000 Old_age Offline - 1
203 Run_Out_Cancel 0x0000 114 048 000 Old_age Offline - 1
204 Shock_Count_Write_Opern 0x0000 000 000 000 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 0
205 Shock_Rate_Write_Opern 0x0000 160 134 000 Old_age Offline - 1
206 Flying_Height 0x0000 001 000 000 Old_age Offline In_the_past 0
207 Spin_High_Current 0x0000 203 009 000 Old_age Offline - 0
208 Spin_Buzz 0x0000 157 000 000 Old_age Offline In_the_past 0
209 Offline_Seek_Performnce 0x0000 100 000 000 Old_age Offline In_the_past 0
210 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 237 000 000 Old_age Offline In_the_past 0
211 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 000 000 000 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 0

Warning: device does not support Error Logging
Warning! SMART ATA Error Log Structure error: invalid SMART checksum.
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

Warning! SMART Self-Test Log Structure error: invalid SMART checksum.
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]


Device does not support Selective Self Tests/Logging

So is this an issue? Is my ssd dying? Should I send it back for repair to GSkill?

[Niluge_KiWi]

I received an answer to an email to rma requests sent 5 november 2009, so this thread is of no use now.

[sirius69]

good to know !