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Disc Fail Resync Question
Happy Thanksgiving. I have (2) 4 TB discs in my unit. The admin page showed the "disc state" for the disc 2 as having failed. I decided that I should reboot the unit and make sure it wasn't som...
David_Smith wrote:
I see 1963 reallocated sectors and after well over 24 hours the resync is only 1.74% complete.
I generally replace disks before they reach 50 reallocated sectors, so I think it is a bad disk.
You can check warranty status and execute the return from WDC's web page. If you are in the US, they offer a service to send you the replacement first, with a return label. It's a reasonable deal, and is the fastest way to get the replacement.
I have known of "green" drives that produced that when the self-parking of the heads caused a problem with the RAID. A failing drive can also come up and look OK for a while and the NAS will attempt to resync with it. It may fail the sync, or it may complete and the drive will fail again later. Check the SMART statistics.
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