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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
Jun 20, 2014Guru - Experienced User
FYI, Acronis Disk Monitor is a freeware tool that will show you the SMART stats. There are others. Of course the NAS will also show them to you.
Generally the vendor diags have a fairly high threshold set - minimizing their returns. I use lower thresholds (double digits on reallocated sectors+pending sectors is concerning, anything above 50 is replaced, anything that is rapidly climbing is replaced).
Generally the vendor diags have a fairly high threshold set - minimizing their returns. I use lower thresholds (double digits on reallocated sectors+pending sectors is concerning, anything above 50 is replaced, anything that is rapidly climbing is replaced).
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