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claytonb
Apr 05, 2016Aspirant
Hard Drve Failure
I got an email notification this morning saying "Disk test failed on disk in channel 2, model WDC_WD4000F9YZ-09N20L0, serial WD-WMC1F1268766." But NETGEAR RAIDar diagnostics shows the drive is heal...
- Apr 10, 2016
I have already replaced drive 2 with a spare 4TB and all is back to normal, if another drive fails I think it's best I look for a different drive and will replace the next failed 4TB drive with either a 6TB or 8TB drive.
I don't know where I would backup 6TB of data too? one at a time every week should do it and I'll bite the bullet and go for 8TB drives, model Seagate ST8000VN0002 US$550 each with a 5yr warranty.
BrianL2
Apr 05, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi claytonb,
Before pulling out and replacing the said drive with a new one, you may also want to take a look at your system device logs to check the health of the drive with the corresponding S/N (serial number).
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
claytonb
Apr 06, 2016Aspirant
I tried running Lifeguard but was going to take 952 hours to complete and was stuck at a certian sector count, so I ran Hard Drive Sentinel and it reported
Hard Disk Summary
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Hard Disk Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 0
Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : S-ATA Gen3, 6 Gbps
Disk Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller (AHCI) [VEN: 8086, DEV: 1E02] Version: 11.1.0.1006, 2-1-2012
Hard Disk Model ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : WDC WD4000F9YZ-09N20L0
Firmware Revision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 01.01A01
Hard Disk Serial Number . . . . . . . . . . . . : WD-WMC1F1268766
Total Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 3815445 MB
Power State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Active
Current Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 40 °C
Power On Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 779 days, 23 hours
Estimated Remaining Lifetime . . . . . . . . . . : 827 days
Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : #################--- 89 % (Excellent)
Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : #################### 100 % (Excellent)
There are 19 weak sectors found on the disk surface. They may be remapped any time in the later use of the disk.
At this point, warranty replacement of the disk is not yet possible, only if the health drops further.
It is recommended to examine the log of the disk regularly. All new problems found will be logged there.
No actions needed.
- StephenBApr 06, 2016Guru - Experienced User
claytonb wrote:
I tried running Lifeguard but was going to take 952 hours to complete and was stuck at a certian sector count,
Frankly that's not a good sign.
- BrianL2Apr 06, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi claytonb,
From what it looks, this hard drive needs to be replaced.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team- claytonbApr 07, 2016Aspirant
3rd Hard Drive in 2 years to be replaced, I know Stephen told me awhile back that these models run hot.
I'm going to get a new 92mm ultra quiet fan to replace and will up the fan speed with the new firmware, doing it now with the orinigal fan is rather noisey.
Still have 3 years left on the warranty and will change to 8TB drives one at a time, any recommendations on hard drives for my readynas 314?
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