June 5, 201610 yr unRAID recently started reporting an error with a drive. I ran an extended SMART test on the drive (attached), which did not complete due to an error. This drive is my parity drive and it is currently a 4Tb drive. My first question, is the drive beginning to fail? I assume so, since not being able to complete a SMART test is generally a bad thing. My second question is, if I want to take this opportunity to upgrade to an 8Tb drive do I have to do anything other than adding the new drive to the array? ST4000DM000-1F2168_Z3026PBE-20160604-2113.txt
June 5, 201610 yr Community Expert My first question, is the drive beginning to fail? I assume so, since not being able to complete a SMART test is generally a bad thing. 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 098 000 Old_age Always - 8 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 098 000 Old_age Offline - 8 Replace it. My second question is, if I want to take this opportunity to upgrade to an 8Tb drive do I have to do anything other than adding the new drive to the array? You may want to preclear it first to make sure it's reliable than just add it.
June 5, 201610 yr Author Thank you. I have ordered a new 8 Tb drive, and the old drive is still in warranty to it is going through the RMA process now.
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