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Drive SMART Errors
Hi all, I have 4x WDC WD2002FAEX drives (identical) in a Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 4 PLUS. I just got a warning at a reboot today that a couple disks have some SMART reported errors. Are these thi...
You should make sure you have multiple important copies of important data regardless.
Probably not enough errors yet to warrant an RMA.
50 Reallocated sectors or ATA errors or a non-zero current pending sector count would probably warrant an RMA.
Western Digital would probably want you to run WD LifeGuard Diagnostics on the disks before returning it. If when they run their tool it finds no issues with the disks they might conclude that the disks didn't need replacing in the first place.
Probably not enough errors yet to warrant an RMA.
50 Reallocated sectors or ATA errors or a non-zero current pending sector count would probably warrant an RMA.
Western Digital would probably want you to run WD LifeGuard Diagnostics on the disks before returning it. If when they run their tool it finds no issues with the disks they might conclude that the disks didn't need replacing in the first place.
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