It seems like I have warnings on a number of drives.  I don't think any of them are indicative of a problem, just potential of a problem.  Which drives do you think should be replaced first?  I've tried to attach a screen shot, hopefully it works.

Glad to see folks are still using my myMain plugin for unmenu! Hope you like it.

 

Your drives don't look bad. The real issues are when you see the reallocations and pending reallocations. I don't see any of those.

 

There is some debate about the load cycle counts (LCC) and how bad they are. Western Digital drives are particularly likely to cause a large number of these. See the link below for information about how to change a setting and get the counts to stop increasing so fast.

 

http://forums.storagereview.com/index.php/topic/29334-how-to-stop-excessive-load-cycles-on-the-western-digital-2tb-caviar-gr/

 

BTW, are you aware there is a way to suppress drive warnings for known issues on the screen (the issue will never go away - best that could happen is that they would not get worse)? If you do that, the screen will be "clean", and only if the smart attribute gets worse would you see it pop up again. If not, let me know and I will explain.

 

Happy unRAIDing!

Thanks bjp999.  I knew about the utility just never bothered doing it as it hasn't been increasing that fast.  I'm currently building out a norco 4224 so maybe when I swing the drives over I'll do the fix.  I just figured that as drives get to 3-4 years of constant on, that it might be time to start swapping them out with 3 or 4tb reds and was thinking of creating a backup unraid for the older drives that are only turned on during backups.

 

So no, I don't know how to clear the alerts, poked around but couldn't find anything on it.

 

Thanks

 

 

In my sig you'll see a link for myMain instructions. Follow the link and scroll down to the Smart View instructions, you will see a yellow bubble help explaining how to do it. More details are below.

 

You basically click on the yellow or red highlighted message in the smart view, and it will open a screen to allow you to enter all sorts of data about your drive. It will have created a custom attribute for the smart attribute (with "_ok" added) and value you are seeing in the warning message (see THIS post for an example where high_fly_writes_ok is set to 5. You may want to update the value, because when the actual value exceeds this value it will show up again on the smart view. With many values, like reallocated sectors, you'd want to leave it alone so that if the value increases by even one, it will be shown on the smart view again. But with load cycle counts, which will increase on any drive, you might set it for 100, 1000, even 10000 higher than the current value to stop it from showing up for a while. Once you have decided on the value, update it and hit the Save button. If you then go back to the smart view and refresh the value (not the raw refresh, but the regular one), you will see that the message is suppressed. (Clicking the RAW refresh will ignore the over-ridden values and show you everything.)

 

Silencing the messages is one thing, but I would recommend that you do whatever to slow down the LCCs. Although there is debate what level they need to get to to cause problems, there is no doubt that slowing them down does no harm. I think it would be a very good idea.

 

Here is another post that demonstrates

 

Just an FYI if you're thinking about upgrading your drives to larger sizes. People still pay a good amount of money on eBay for used hard drives. If you don't plan on reusing your drives it's a nice way to help finance the cost if the replacements. I had two WD 2TB Greens that had a warranty that was about to expire. So I RMA'd them (you can make up a reason for the RMA, WD and Seagate in my experience never deny an RMA if the drive is in warranty) and received factory refurbs in return and turned around and sold them both for about $80 on eBay. Even non refurbs people still pay good money for. I sold a 4 year old Hitachi 2TB for $60. Selling those 2 WDs allowed me to get two WD Red 4TBs for essentially $80 bucks.

 

If you sell the used drives remember to wipe them first. I use the preclear script with -W option so it skips the preread and goes straight to zeroing.

Great info.  Thank you both.

I had two WD 2TB Greens that had a warranty that was about to expire. So I RMA'd them (you can make up a reason for the RMA ...

 

Did you take an ethics class in college?? 

I had two WD 2TB Greens that had a warranty that was about to expire. So I RMA'd them (you can make up a reason for the RMA ...

 

Did you take an ethics class in college?? 

 

 

The refurbs don't have an extended warranty. That would maybe be unethical. They carry over the warranty of the original disk. Don't really see it as unethical considering they're getting to working disks they can then refurbish and reuse.

I wasn't referring to selling the refurbished drives ... certainly nothing unethical about doing that (especially if you mention that they're refurbished when you sell them).    My comment was referring to RMA'ing drives that hadn't actually failed [ "... make up a reason for the RMA ..." ]