So I ran a speed test on my 500gb Maxtor drive (it's an old one) the speed test gave me a 1mb/s reading but I thought the drive just was reporting funny due to its age. I left it overnight not thinking anything of it. When I woke up the drive had a nice fat red X next to it.. I immediately took the array offline and ordered a new drive to replace it (WD 4TB red)

 

Just for grins I wanted to see if this drive just had a hiccup (which i will not be trusting any data to it) or is it dying.

 

Attached is a copy if its smart report.

 

Please let me know what you guys with more experience then me thinks. 

 

Thank you so very much for sharing that experience.

Maxtor_6H500F0_H810Q79H-20160130-1728.txt

SMART looks good, but healthy SMART does not always equal healthy drive, and being such a small and old disk I would not use it for the array anymore.

Yeah. that's what i was thinking as well. It is going to be replaced when my WD drive comes in. Thank you.