March 15, 201313 yr 2013-03-05 (a warranty replacement 2tb disk) 2013-07-24 2013-11-27 (2tb) 2014-03-05 2014-03-05 (2tb) 2014-04-12 2014-07-15 2014-07-15 2014-08-17 (2tb) 2012-12-29 2013-03-14 2013-05-31 2013-09-08 2014-01-28 2014-01-28 2014-02-28 2014-03-21 2014-04-03 2014-04-23 2014-06-13 2014-07-21 2014-11-11 2014-12-05 These are the warranty expiration dates of the disks in my servers. The list does not include four 1tb Spinpoint disks which are expired, but run very cool and I would rather not replace them. None of the other disks are throwing errors, so it's tough to choose. The two most recent disks now bring the warm spare pile to a count of four. How do you choose?
March 17, 201313 yr You don't use warranty expire date to select a drive for replacement. For replacement, you use SMART reports. You use warrant expire date to buy a drive.
March 22, 201313 yr The smart reports will give you information on possible errors that you have not noticed yet, disks fix those errors themselves and only when this does not work it throws an error on unraid level (bit simplified but thats how it works). It is not unlikely that a quite new disk can be bad and an older one is rocksolid... So indeed. Check out the smart stats of the drive,there is info on the wiki about how to interpret them.
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