Hello, I was recently looking at my 'dashboard' in the UnRAID GUI. I noticed everything in the SMART section was thumbs up except for my parity drive, it had a ! in the SMART section. I looked at the Attributes and out of the list the only one that was highlighted orange was....

 

197 Current pending sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old age Always Never 38

 

I did a SMART short test and no errors were reported. Should I RMA the disk in question before it get worse?

 

Here is the SMART report attached.

 

I am concerned about this, thanks.

 

my POWER ON HOURS ON THIS DRIVE = 22162 (2y, 6m, 10d, 10h)

SMART-WDC_WD40EFRX.txt

You might just try a correcting parity check to see if it will reallocate the pending.

Will do, thank you.

It seems you can select 'acknowledge' on the disk, and it goes back to 'green thumbs up' however that pending sector is still highlighted.

I will do a parity later tonight. Thank you for the response

After  doing a parity check it seems the same result stants on the drive in question

 

Parity Disk

 

(highlighted orange)

 

197 Current pending sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old age Always Never 39

 

any thoughts ?

 

I have also done a SMART EXTENDED SELF-TEST - to which the drive passed... I am not sure if this highlighted area of the disk should be a concern or not. :-/

If it passed the extended SMART test it's OK for now and the pending sectors are false positives, still there's a bigger chance of getting more in the near future, keep it and monitor the value or replace it.

OK, so it did go from 38 to 39 over a two to three day span --- for general knowledge when should I be worried??

 

Sorta sucks I am seeing this on the parity drive, being it isn't that old -- however, it would still be within warranty to RMA it as well ... think it would be wise just to try to RMA it for the sake of it, or leave it for a bit till it gets worse.

I guess parity would be a drive that has more read/writes on it then others.....

 

There is nothing i'd hate more then 2 drives failing (i'd be screwed) -- thanks for the response, and let me know your thoughts

If the number is changing I would replace it.

One last question, if I do RMA this drive (because the number is changing) I assume UNrAID supports 6TB drives with no issue. Just pre-clear the drive and good to go ?

One last question, if I do RMA this drive (because the number is changing) I assume UNrAID supports 6TB drives with no issue. Just pre-clear the drive and good to go ?

 

Yes.