unRAID just sent me an email with his warning. How serious is this?

 

Should i order a new drive? Or is this fixable?

 

Replace it, then you can try to preclear it, minimum 3 passes. If all of them goes away and don't return you can have it as a spare, if not RMA it.

I have seen, occasionally, a relatively young disk with pending sectors and no reallocated sectors or other SMART issues, that clear themselves after a parity check. And that is it not a harbinger of failure. This is not normal, but I have seen it several times, even with pending sectors into the 1000s.

 

I'd give that a try - run a parity check - if they get worse or don't reset, you should look to replace the disk. Based on power on hours, it seems it might still be under warranty.

Thanks guys. I will start a check now and failing that take strike's advice

 

 

Edited June 25, 20179 yr by superderpbro

Just make sure it's a non correcting check.

So uncheck the write corrections box?

Yes, running a correcting check with a possibly bad disk is very bad idea, it can corrupt your parity and in case the disk really needs to be replaced you then will rebuild a corrupt disk.

Wow. Thanks! heh .. Just so i am 100% clear.. un-checking this

Is ALL i need to do?

Yes

Thanks

Just before i started the check.. it started saying this 

 

 

I'm gonna buy a new drive .  I have 4 WD 6TB Blues in there. Can i buy ANY 6TB or does it have to be WD Blue? Or WD?

Edited June 25, 20179 yr by superderpbro

If those are real pending sectors, and they probably are, you'll get some read errors during the parity check, those are expected, then either unRAID will successfully writes those sectors back to the disk or there will be a write error and it will be disabled, if it's disabled replace it, if not run another non correcting check, if there are more read errors replace it, if not you can give it a second chance.

2 minutes ago, superderpbro said:

I'm gonna buy a new drive .  I have 4 WD 6TB Blues in there. Can i buy ANY 6TB or does it have to be WD Blue? Or WD?

 

Any 6TB disk will work.

Alright. Thanks again

 heh

 

 

EDIT: Should i shut the box down while waiting for the drive to ship ?

Edited June 26, 20179 yr by superderpbro

It's up to you and it depends if you have backups or not, it would be safer.

Thanks. Shut it down for now  heh

 

What is the best way to make sure you are taking the right drive out? I am pretty sure i know which is which physically.. but SATA does not always agree! heh

8 minutes ago, superderpbro said:

What is the best way to make sure you are taking the right drive out?

The drive serial number is listed in the error, and on the main GUI, and several other places in the GUI. If you've already downed the box, just look in the screenshot you posted a couple posts back.

Thanks. Thought so. Just don't want to make any stupid mistakes heh

Thanks to Canada Day 4 day weekend the drive is finally here! Don't know if i have the patience to do preclear  I think im going to order another to have a spare on hand