September 23, 20241 yr Hey everyone, one of my drives (Seagate Skyhawk) is showing some SMART errors. Since I have no idea how to interpret them, and it also seems like values have different meanings with different manufacturers, it seems very intimidating - but maybe it's not so bad after all? I'd appreciate any input on which values should be cause for concern, and if any, how close I should expect the drive to be to failing.
September 23, 20241 yr The main issue is the pending sector, if real, run an extended SMART test to confirm.
September 24, 20241 yr Author 22 hours ago, JorgeB said: The main issue is the pending sector, if real, run an extended SMART test to confirm. Thank you for the fast reply. I actually had a parity sync in progress (first time, the parity disk is brand new) which found 30 parity errors with the disk. I found this a little weird since the parity disk is brand new so I don't understand how there can be parity errors on the first parity sync? Anyway, I tried to run the extended self test and got the following error:
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