March 19, 20233 yr Hi everyone! My parity disk is reporting errors so I ran the SMART self-test. This is what I got: Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 45560 21740232 # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 45559 - I can't replace the drive immediately. Is there anything else I can do?
March 20, 20233 yr Solution Extended smart test runs completely in drive firmware without any influence from the rest of the system, so if that comes back with errors, the best course of action is to replace the drive. There is not much you can do about already failing hardware. Since this is parity, you aren't immediately losing data, but you are one step closer to that if another disk fails while you are waiting to replace
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