PhilipJFry Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 Hi guys, Recently I emptied an older 1TB WDC drive and added it to the array. It was originally one of those desktop usb style drives that i gutted and installed into the server. This morning, during the scheduled parity run, the drive has been flagged with read errors. SMART report attached along with its attributes. Should I retire this drive? or is it still safe to use for a little longer. And the big picture question: "At what point in a drives lifecycle should it be deemed no longer viable?". Obviously, the bad sector(s) are a pre-emptive indication that the drive will fail completely at some point. But until that happens, could it still be used for non-critical data and/or as a temporary scratch share (e.g for docker containers working directory)? With thanks PJF futurama-smart-20221010-0709.zip Quote Link to comment
Solution JorgeB Posted October 10, 2022 Solution Share Posted October 10, 2022 It's logged as disk problem, you can run an extended SMART test to confirm, it it fails replace it, or depending on the situation, you might try to do a full disk write, pending sectors should go back to zero then see if they come back again soon or not. Quote Link to comment
PhilipJFry Posted October 28, 2022 Author Share Posted October 28, 2022 On 10/10/2022 at 8:03 PM, JorgeB said: It's logged as disk problem, you can run an extended SMART test to confirm, it it fails replace it, or depending on the situation, you might try to do a full disk write, pending sectors should go back to zero then see if they come back again soon or not. Cheers 4 the info @JorgeB. Try as I might, SMART extended test kept returning read errors... so guess that's a negative for continued use. I tried unsuccessfully to remove it from the array. My fault for not following the instructions properly. But its now gone.. yay... sort of. PJF Feedback: it would be nice if the guides (and the required actions) were a little more newbie focused... i.e 1 click (old school clippy comes to mind 🙂 ). For many of us oldies, we don't breath unRaid everyday 😜. 1 Quote Link to comment
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