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Samsung Spinpoint F1 errors
Hi, I have a Pro Pioneer, with 6 Samsung Spinpoint F1s disks installed. They have been in there for a few years, and I have a disk with a few SMART errors; Raw Read Error Rate - 3 Read Sector E...
The NAS will warn you once the drive goes "DEAD". Whether you want to wait that long is up to you. You might want to try a ReSync / RAID scrubbing combo. If it passes both those tests, and the NAS doesn't warn you of problems with the drive, ignore it for now.
I've seen that sometimes SMART can be a cause for paranoia rather than being helpful. It's not designed for interpretation by the user, but by the host system, and different manufacturers seem to use it / implement it in different ways.
The other option is to put it in a removable USB caddy, and attach that to your Mac and find some test software that will run a scan on it.
I've seen that sometimes SMART can be a cause for paranoia rather than being helpful. It's not designed for interpretation by the user, but by the host system, and different manufacturers seem to use it / implement it in different ways.
The other option is to put it in a removable USB caddy, and attach that to your Mac and find some test software that will run a scan on it.
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