July 20, 20232 yr Afternoon all, I have had a really good browse around on the forums to come to a conclusion of what to do but wanted to check with you first. Recently I got a warning regarding errors on my parity drive. There are three errors recorded with the "read failure" status, please note that these errors occurred during extended offline self-tests I don't want to replace the drive sooner than is required. It's just below 20k hours and I've read on here that people run drives to 50k so it feels early. SMART is passing but I'm concerned about these errors. Do you have any advice? My conclusion from reading is that its safer to replace the drive and just live with the fact it was half the life I was expecting. If its not required, then I'd rather spend elsewhere. Thanks, Max tower-diagnostics-20230720-1541.zip tower-smart-20230720-1533.zip
July 20, 20232 yr 35 minutes ago, darksupernova said: There are three errors recorded with the "read failure" status A drive that fails the extended SMART test should be replaced.
July 20, 20232 yr Author Thank you, but as far as I can tell it's not, the diagnostics say that SMART is passing. === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
July 20, 20232 yr That's basically useless, it will only reports failed if there's a failing now SMART attribute, a drive with pending sectors and/or a failed SMART test needs to be replaced and will still show PASSED.
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