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@pop78 did you ever figure this out? I'm having the exact same issue.

TBH I returned one and kept one, I've been using it as a parity drive since and have had no issues, although, it does still report "Seek error rate" as "failing now" and a bunch of other attributes as pre-fail. Whatever, it works I guess. I've given up on trying figure it out and it seems that loads of people are getting these issues and Toshiba are not acknowledging them. The drive hasn't missed a beat though.

After almost a month waiting for the RMA to get looked at I had the drive refunded. Not the best info for anyone looking at these drives. I can say that the second drive I had experienced a similar issue but seems to be going OK.

I've sent the drive off for RMA. I can update this topic with how that goes.

I've recently picked up 2 N300 8TB drives and added them into my server, one as parity and one as storage in the array. The parity drive started throwing errors for Seek Error Rate so I swapped the good drive into parity and ran tests on the supposedly failing drive. SMART report before running a preclear over it: TOSHIBA_HDWG180_6160A0TBFAUG-20220118-1331.txt Ran a preclear over it: preclear_disk_6160A0TBFAUG_13092.txt Looks okay now, ran another SMART test: TOSHIBA_HDWG180_6160A0TBFAUG-20220120-0948.txt I'm a bit lost on what I should do with this drive. Do I RMA this or just move on and run it? From what I've read around it seems possible it's a firmware issue or some kind of compatibility issue with Unraid, however, I'm not sure how true that is as there's a bunch of folks that have had zero issues with their drives. I'm currently running just the known good one as parity and have left the other out of the array for now so any help/opinions/advice would be much appreciated.

Yeah, I've just done a preclear over that drive and it appears to be okay. Passes SMART tests now but still has a mark saying it failed previously: 7 Seek_Error_Rate PO-R-- 100 037 050 Past 0 Unsure what to do, RMA or just keep it?

I've just bought two 8 tb N300 drives and I'm getting a pre-failure for Seek Error Rate on the one I've set as parity. 7 Seek_Error_Rate PO-R-- 038 038 050 NOW 0