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vrspectre
Jan 01, 2017Apprentice
Disk Test Failure
I got an error notice that one of my drives failed from my monthly disk scan scheduled job. Disk test failed on disk in channel 2, model XXXXXXXXXXX, serial XXXXXXXXXX. But for the life of ...
- Jan 04, 2017
The SMART extended self-test failed. The most likely cause is there's one or more bad sectors on the disk, but that sector hasn't been accessed during normal usage. Since all the other disks passed, you should be safe to run a scrub, which should expose the error and correct it automatically.
FramerV
Jan 02, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi vrspectre,
Seems to be working fine for me. Can you send the entire system logs?
How do I send all logs to ReadyNAS Community moderators?
Regards,
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