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arbar
Jun 10, 2010Aspirant
Reallocated sector count continues to climb
I have (3) 24TB 3200's with 4.2.8 firmware. Now 6 months old. From the first day of use, reallocated sector count on one disk has been growing. 24 in the first week of use, then a few each month w...
TeknoJnky
Aug 28, 2011Hero
PapaBear wrote: If you hot pull a drive and immediately plug it back in, most often there will be not impact.
I would think it should be more like this;
If you COLD pull a drive and immediately plug it back in (after testing), there will be no impact (unless the testing has modified the disk).
In my experience, if you HOT pull any drive, there will always be an impact and it will go through a resync cycle.
When you are replacing a disk, this is fine and expected.
If you are just testing and reusing a disk, you can avoid the resync by shutting down the nas and COLD pulling the drive, then returning it before powering up.
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