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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
What is the warranty status of your unit? Would you be willing to try a different drive model? (for instance a WDC "Red" 3 TB drive?)
berillio wrote: Fri Jun 20 00:03:01 PDT 2014
Disk failure detected.
This time is HD3
Disk 3 ST3000DM001-1CH166 2794 GB (28 °C / 82 °F, Write-cache On). Status: Spare inactive
No. I just look at the SMART stats - either on the NAS or on Windows (with acronis disk monitor).
berillio wrote: regarding the failure thresholds - you must have other diags which allow to do so (or maybe you wrote them yourself).
What firmware are you running?
berillio wrote: btw, is it better to upgrade the firmware now, before hot-inserting the newly cleaned HD1 in bay4, or viceversa? Or it is immaterial?
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