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berillio
May 21, 2014Aspirant
resinch a dieing disk or add new disk & resinch?
Apologies again. I posted the same message in the "Test" board, and got complete unnoticed / unseen. As it is rather urgent, I am re-posting it here, where I hope it will be seen. I could not find a b...
StephenB
May 26, 2014Guru - Experienced User
If you have an identical disk ready to go, then just hot-insert it into the NAS (replacing the failed disk). Personally I run the vendor diags before insertion, but that is up to you.
A > 1000 ms read time is certainly not healthy, no matter what seatools/lifeguard say. Though remapping data blocks also can hurt performance, since it forces more seeks. What you could do with HD1 is run the destructive write Seatools test. This often finds errors that the non-destructive tests miss, and also returns the drive to an unformatted state.
A > 1000 ms read time is certainly not healthy, no matter what seatools/lifeguard say. Though remapping data blocks also can hurt performance, since it forces more seeks. What you could do with HD1 is run the destructive write Seatools test. This often finds errors that the non-destructive tests miss, and also returns the drive to an unformatted state.
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