Finally swapped in an LSI 9201-16i for the old Areca 1231ML, mostly so I can get native communication (drive temps, smart, etc). Effortless swap didn't even have to reassign drives to the array. Came up as if nothing was new. However, on array start, I got a warning that disk 1 reallocation count is 8. The drive was installed 9/2017 and has been on that Areca the whole time (so radio silent lol).

Anything I should do other than watching for another warning? The drive warranty is up next month so I am tempted to RMA it just because.

 

8TB Seagate IronWolf ST8000VN0022-2EL112

tower-diagnostics-20180817-2110.zip

Edited August 18, 20187 yr by interwebtech

Run an extended SMART test or a parity check if you haven't ran one recently, if the number remain stable I would likely keep that one instead of risking a refurbished disk, if you could get it replaced by a new one that would be another story.

3 hours ago, interwebtech said:

reallocation count is 8

That actually means the reallocation of a single physical sector.

 

The drive has 4kB physical sectors, but since it emulates 512-byte sectors the addresses and counters relates to 512-byte blocks.

old Areca 1231ML won't show SMART info, so just prompt after swap LSI ?

2 hours ago, johnnie.black said:

Run an extended SMART test or a parity check if you haven't ran one recently, if the number remain stable I would likely keep that one instead of risking a refurbished disk, if you could get it replaced by a new one that would be another story.

I run a monthly parity check on the 1st. No errors. I'll run an extended SMART in the morning. Thanks.

Short test completed without error. Running the extended now.

Looks okay to me?

ST8000VN0022-2EL112_serial-20180819-0046.txt

1 hour ago, interwebtech said:

Looks okay to me?

Yep.