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SMART disk errors or NO SMART disk errors?
I got an email this morning (generated 4 a.m.) from my ReadyNAS NV that said reallocated sector count on disk 1 has increased from 227 to 228. I've never received an error notice for this drive befor...
I keep a spare on hand, since if a drive in the array goes bad, it is good to replace it promptly (since a second drive failure destroys the array). So maybe you should delete the partitions off the good drive (or zero it with Seatools) and keep it as a spare.
nicheplayer wrote: ...Of course, the downside is that I just replaced what was probably a perfectly fine drive. Suppose I can run disk tools on the two drives I removed to determine which one was actually bad...
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