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What does SMART ATA error mean exactly?
Hi, so NAS started sending me mails about one of my HDs failing, at every start. It's a Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (I got two identical in mirror mode) which is also in compatibility list (http://k...
There is a general explanation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.
danizmax wrote: ...So what do exactly the following mean:
- Current Pending Sector
- Offline Uncorrectable
- ATA Error
Current Pending Sectors: Those are sectors that could not be read. The NAS would have to reconstruct the data from the redundant part of the raid array.
Offline Uncorrectable: The total count of uncorrectable errors when reading/writing a sector. In your case these are due to the pending sectors
ATA error: The SATA controller on the ReadyNAS was unable to communicate with the hard drive.
Check on the seagate site to see if your drive firmware is down-rev. https://apps1.seagate.com/downloads/req ... kie=en_US_
You will need the drive serial number and part number to do the search. If it indicates that your drive firmware needs updating, you can do that in a Windows PC.
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