I received a warning today that my parity drive might be failing. Weekly parity checks have been clean, and previous SMART tests looked fine. I ran the diagnostics through ChatGPT, and it pointed to the drive itself.

Before I kick off an RMA, could someone double-check the logs? Would really appreciate a second opinion.

tower-diagnostics-20250529-1548.zip

It's logged as a disk problem, so may be better to replace it, you can also run an extended SMART test.

P.S.: there appears to be a container constantly restarting, check their uptimes.

On 5/30/2025 at 2:41 AM, JorgeB said:

It's logged as a disk problem, so may be better to replace it, you can also run an extended SMART test.

P.S.: there appears to be a container constantly restarting, check their uptimes.

Thank you for confirming. I ran an extended SMART test that I've attached below.

And yeah, I saw those errors as I was going through the logs, I'll need to look into that as well.

WDC_WD40EFPX-68C6CN0_WD-WXM2A13ME249-20250531-1111.txt

SMART test passed, so the disk should be OK for now.

Thank you! Could those errors be from a different setup issue? Should I take this drive off Parity and make it just a data drive?

I would swap cables/slots with a different drive, leave as parity for now, and if the errors follow the drive, replace it.