Ok I know once a new drive is put in it cleans it and formats it, however what about a drive that has been in the system? I had a drive it is about four years old start to get some errors in SMART attributes so I moved all the content off the drive. I was thinking if I formats it again it may mark the bad sectors and it can be used. I did buy a new one to replace it but hate to waste drives. I did a self-test and it came back with no errors. Any help on this would be great since I did not see any plugins or dockers that allowed for formating a disk in the array even if you shut it down.

 

Thanks

 

Greg

Formatting will not help anything. Post SMART attributes for the drive.

Here is a screen shot of attributes. I take that back I ran a extended self test and got errors so replacement it is...  I attached the SMART report too.. 

 

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16

Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG    VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE

  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x002f  200  200  051    Pre-fail  Always      -      20394

  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027  178  171  021    Pre-fail  Always      -      4091

  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032  096  096  000    Old_age  Always      -      4524

  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct  0x0033  200  200  140    Pre-fail  Always      -      2

  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x002e  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032  064  064  000    Old_age  Always      -      26435

10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

12 Power_Cycle_Count      0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      129

192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      71

193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032  159  159  000    Old_age  Always      -      123571

194 Temperature_Celsius    0x0022  114  105  000    Old_age  Always      -      33

196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032  198  198  000    Old_age  Always      -      2

197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      112

198 Offline_Uncorrectable  0x0030  200  200  000    Old_age  Offline      -      51

199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate  0x0008  200  194  000    Old_age  Offline      -      37

WDC_WD20EZRX-00DC0B0_WD-WCC300403949-20160911-1840.txt

112 Pending sectors, replace it.

Ok thanks I have spare brand new ones so onward and up. Thanks for all the help.