A few weeks back I chose to run an extended smart test on my drives and noticed one had pending sectors. After looking into what that meant since I am new to everything NAS related I found they are not good generally. Soon after I bought a replacement drive and intended to simply swap them out. However I ran multiple more on that drive in the time it took the replacement to arrive and my most recent test showed no pending sectors. Should I still replace the drive or is it safe to keep my data on and can simply use the new drive as an additional one?
Also when learning about the pending sectors I came across info that a parity check might remove them so since I didn't have a parity drive I added one. The parity came up with around 100 or so errors the first time so I ran one again a week or so later and the number dropped to 73. Is there anyway to get a clean parity at this point? I have my data backed up so I could format everything and transfer the data again if that is the only way.
This is my first time posting so if I attached the files incorrectly or made any other mistake please let me know. Thank you for any help/advice/info.
ST8000DM004-2CX188_ZR119PN7-20220321-2012.txt
ST8000DM004-2CX188_ZR119PN7-20220402-0352.txt