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?

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

Hi @apandey, thanks for clarifying! I'll replace it ASAP.