jamesbt

thanks for help. to be honest i'm not sure how to read smart report or what it means. attached here. smartlog.txt

since i didn't know how to get to it, i figured it out, restarted pre-clear again and here is a log after a few minutes of pre-read step. syslog02.txt

hi. i am a noob to unraid and pre-clear. i mainly wanted to use unraid and pre-clear to clear the drive and verify that its 'good to go' for other uses. so i run unraid from usb stick and do one drive at a time on a pretty decent machine w/ 5 gigs of ram. (memtested ans passed) i ran pre-clear from 'console' w/o remoting. i did one 2TB drive and it all worked well, and took a little over 24 hrs, which seemed normal and seemed easy todo. now i am trying to pre-clear a different drive, 2TB WD20EADS (32MB Cache) and Pre-Read and Post-Read steps take very very long time. First time i attempted, it took few days and it seems like it froze on Post Read, so i rebooted and tried again. now its been about 18 hrs and Pre-Read is only 1% done. bytes read and elapsed time don't update often. So... should i forget about this drive then? is it fubared now?