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NVMe Media and Data Integrity Errors

NVMe Media and Data Integrity Errors is the SMART / Health Information log counter of unrecovered data-integrity errors detected by the controller.

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Examples include uncorrectable ECC, CRC checksum failures and LBA tag mismatches. Errors introduced by Write Uncorrectable may or may not be included. The 128-bit field occupies bytes 160 through 175 of log 02h; it is separate from the lifetime count of Error Information log entries. [2]

Relations

related

nvme-smart-log, nvme-critical-warning, nvme-unexpected-power-losses, nvme-error-information-log-entries

Limitations

• The total does not identify affected files or provide a bit-error rate: interpreting it requires the error details and an appropriate observation interval and denominator. [1, 2]

Citations

1. libnvme: struct nvme_smart_log, media_errors member (accessed 2026-10-14)
2. NVM Express Base Specification 2.3, section 5.2.12.1.3, Figure 210, p. 216: Media and Data Integrity Errors (accessed 2026-10-14)

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