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sdchew
Apr 16, 2013Aspirant
SMART errors - What do you do?
I got a message from my READYNAS informing me one of the disk is experiencing a SMART event which may point to an impending drive failure. I looked at the SMART table and its basically the 'Current Pe...
StephenB
Apr 16, 2013Guru - Experienced User
Recertified is the right word of course. It wouldn't be cost effective to try and repair them.
They certainly do wipe the SMART stats. I got one a couple weeks ago from Seagate with 1 reallocated sector, so I guess they leave some of them alone. But not power on hours, spin ups, load cycle, etc.
They certainly do wipe the SMART stats. I got one a couple weeks ago from Seagate with 1 reallocated sector, so I guess they leave some of them alone. But not power on hours, spin ups, load cycle, etc.
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