What should I do about this drive?

[wgstarks]

I rebooted after updating to v6.1.4. The reboot was paused due to a SMART error. The message was something like "SMART failure disk 1 press F1 to continue". Can't remember it exactly. After proceeding with the reboot I ran an extended test on Disk 1 which it passed. Now I'm not sure how to handle this. I've attached the Smart Report. Hopefully someone can give me some advice.

brunnhilde-smart-20151119-1336.zip

[garycase]

That message is most likely from the system BIOS -- and indicates the drive was failing SMART.

 

Note that "disk 1" in the BIOS does not necessarily correlate to disk 1 in your array.    Check the SMART data for ALL of your disks => you may find that you actually have one that's failing.

 

If not, then you likely just had a "glitch" whereby the BIOS didn't receive the right status from the drive in the time it was allowing.    This could be a bad or poorly seated cable, or could have just been a timing issue with the drive.    If it doesn't happen consistently I wouldn't be overly concerned.    But the key thing here is likely that you're assuming "disk 1" is disk 1 in the array -- which it likely is not.

 

[trurl]

... The message was something like "SMART failure disk 1 press F1 to continue"...

If that message came up before the unRAID boot menu then it was definitely from the BIOS as gary said.

[wgstarks]

Yes. Got the message prior to the unRaid boot. Had to use IPMI to resume the startup. Would it be best to run an extended test for all the drives or would the short test be sufficient?

[garycase]

The short test should be fine => in fact, I'd think the Dashboard would show the failing drive on the SMART status line (e.g. a Red "thumbs down" icon).    If the Dashboard isn't showing a drive that has a "failed" SMART status, then clearly something's wrong with the display logic.