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DuBa
May 13, 2021Aspirant
Help adding a OK disk with SMART warnings
I have a HDD that got the SMART Raw Read Error Rate value set to 148 and Multi Zone Error Rate set to 1 after removing it from a secure data overwrite device without disabling the port first. It is a...
- May 13, 2021
A SMART test isn't just reading SMART stats. If the disk is failing the SMART test then you shouldn't use the disk.
As you have the 2100 v2 (I assume that's what shows on the homepage of Frontview) and you have no data on the unit you might wish to consider putting OS6 on the unit.
The 2100 v2 can run OS6 (though unsupported) whereas the v1 cannot as the v1 has a 32-bit x86 CPU.
mdgm
May 13, 2021Virtuoso
A SMART test isn't just reading SMART stats. If the disk is failing the SMART test then you shouldn't use the disk.
As you have the 2100 v2 (I assume that's what shows on the homepage of Frontview) and you have no data on the unit you might wish to consider putting OS6 on the unit.
The 2100 v2 can run OS6 (though unsupported) whereas the v1 cannot as the v1 has a 32-bit x86 CPU.
- DuBaMay 13, 2021Aspirant
mdgm wrote:A SMART test isn't just reading SMART stats. If the disk is failing the SMART test then you shouldn't use the disk.
As you have the 2100 v2 (I assume that's what shows on the homepage of Frontview) and you have no data on the unit you might wish to consider putting OS6 on the unit.
The 2100 v2 can run OS6 (though unsupported) whereas the v1 cannot as the v1 has a 32-bit x86 CPU.
Well, the SMART status of the drive is OK and these parameters are generally not considered critical so this HDD should be fine to use for non-critical storage. If only ReadyNAS would let me. If it was increasing reallocated sectors counts or something like that, it would be a completely different thing.
But OS6 sounds like an interesting idea. Maybe that would work. I'll give it a try unless someone here thinks otherwise.
- DuBaMay 13, 2021Aspirant
I upgraded to OS6 and so far it looks really good. It is currently syncing. It seems OS6 have better handling of SMART.
I will update here when the sync is completed and I have done some tests.
- DuBaMay 21, 2021Aspirant
Well, OS6 was the solution to the SMART-issue, but it introduced instability. The NAS becomes unresponsive if it is doing more than just simple file shares, like a backup job, and requires power cycling. Maybe it is a low RAM issue, so I'll see if I have some suitable spare RAM modules.
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