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Aspirant

Sep 14, 2011

ATA error count has increased in the last day.

I have a ReadyNAS Duo.

Drives from "Status":

I had a "Disk fail event occurred on SATA channel 1." on May 3, that I finally noticed and replaced the drive on May 31. The RAID rebuilt, and it was all good. I had had two of the Hitachi drives, but I put in the WD drive then.

Starting the next day, intermittently, but at an increasing frequency, I get these in the log:

ATA error count has increased in the last day. Disk 1: Previous count: 84 Current count: 90 Growing SMART errors indicate a disk that may fail soon. If the errors continue to increase, you should be prepared to replace the disk.

I hate to replace a drive that isn't bad, but I do have a second Hitachi drive I could put in.

Suggestions?

Adding Disks

11 Replies

taylord01
Guide
Oct 12, 2011
Hi MDGM.

Firstly, thanks for the very quick response to my newbie post. I wasn't sure what sort of turnaround time to expect someone to respond.

I appear to have successfully completed the 5 steps you outline (many thanks for keeping things simple - much appreciated). Details pasted below of the updated FrontView HOME screen which I think confirm all has gone ok with the upgrade?

I've hovered over the 'green light' against the Disk status in FrontView and although green, I still appear to have some form of ATA Errors message (now up to 18 ATA Errors).

At a bit of a loss as to next steps. Appreciate your guidance.

Btw, I do have the second WD drive to hand if there's some mileage in adding it into the DUO at this stage?

Thanks once again.

Hostname: <deleted>
Model: ReadyNAS Duo [X-RAID]
Serial: 24M31170014DC
Firmware: RAIDiator 4.1.8 [1.00a043]
Memory: 256 MB [2.5-3-3-7]
IPv4 address:: <deleted>
Volume C: Online, X-RAID, Single disk, 0% of 1846 GB used

Disk 1 WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 1862 GB , 31 C / 87 F , Write-cache ON