[SGVLUG] Fwd: New SMART disk errors detected! (readynas)

[Dan Buthusiem]

You're basically gambling. You can wait as long as you you're feeling lucky
enough that your plan b will work when that drive fails. If the drive's
under warranty and you have a drive you can loan to your nas, I'd call
Seagate and see if you can get the RMA now. Personally, I'd backup the
whole nas to a large external just in case the raid fails before the
rebuild is done. I have great luck having two drives fail in one night. If
only I had that luck when playing the Mega and Powerball. Well, same odds
of 'winning' anyway, since my tickets always fail. =b
On Mar 11, 2013 2:33 PM, "Claude Felizardo" <cafelizardo at gmail.com> wrote:

> So my Netgear ReadyNAS started sending these messages every few days
> for about a week now.  This is disk 1 of 3 in a 4-bay ReadyNAS NV+
> configured for XRAID (ReadyNAS's extended RAID-5).  Looking at the
> status, it's got the lowest temp of 36C (#2 is at 40C, #3 is at 37,
> mainboard is at 36C).  The start stop count is 15 (others are 13 and
> 15) with power on hours of 18603 (18589 and 15575) or 25 months of
> nearly continuous operation (UPS of course).  It's a Seagate 2 TB
> Barracuda green model 32000542AS.
>
> How long do people typically allow these errors to continue before
> replacing the drive or do you just wait for it to fail?  Again it's
> basically RAID-5 so I don't lose data unless I lose a 2nd drive before
> completing the resync.  I had originally started with a pair of 500 GB
> drives that I added a 3rd then replaced with a set of 1.5 TB drives
> and then the current set of 2 TB drives 2 years ago.
>
> Oh, I see the warranty is good till Dec 2015 so I guess I'll give it a
> while yet.  The other drives have 0 reallocation counts.  I may have
> another 2TB drive in my desktop that I've been using as a backup but
> I've started rebuilding my Win7 box using a Samsung 250 GB SSD so the
> existing 500 GB could be repurposed as the local backup drive.
>
> Claude
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:00 AM
> Subject: New SMART disk errors detected! (readynas)
>
>
>
> Reallocated sector count has increased in the last day.
>
> Disk  1:
>   Previous count: 60
>   Current count: 93
>
> Growing SMART errors indicate a disk that may fail soon.  If the
> errors continue to increase, you should be prepared to replace the
> disk.
>
>
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