Hello!

Yesterday I noticed one of my drives had read errors detected and had been taken offline. It's only the second time an error has occured with a drive (and the first time, the drive in question was a shucked old drive so I didn't hesitate to replace it with a new (refurbished) drive.

Now almost a year later from that date, read errors were detected again... from the refurbished drive I bought back then.

I performed an extended smart test (wow, I think it took almost 18 or so hours, I started it the night before around 2 or 3am) and will attach to this post. At first I just wanted to know whether the drive was a loss, or this was a freak occurrence (since it passed both short and long smart tests), but now that I've had a few hours to think upon it, two other possibilities also occur to me:

Since the drive occupies the same "slot" (power and sata) cabling that the replaced drive occupied a year ago, could it be a cabling issue?
Or was I just unlucky, and the drive experienced errors because it's refurbished, and had a higher chance to fail from previous use?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!!

starryskynet-smart-20240202-0821.zip

SMART looks fine, if you didn't reboot since it got disabled post the diagnostics.

Unfortunately, I did reboot the system since then. Would diagnostics still be useful?

Not really, if the emulated disk is mounting and contents look correct, you can replace cables or swap slots to rule that out and rebuild on top, and if it happens again save the diags.

Thank you. I swapped around the suspect drive with it's neighbor and I'll try to rebuild.