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miogpsrocks
May 24, 2016Tutor
How concerned should I be with these error messages?
Sun Jun 7 01:52:36 EDT 2015 Reallocated sector count has increased in the last day. Disk 1: Previous count: 0 Current count: 89 Growing SMART errors indicate a disk that may fail soon. If the...
miogpsrocks
May 24, 2016Tutor
Right but how soon? Like replace immediately or be prepared to replace it in the near future?
Thanks.
JennC
May 24, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hello miogpsrocks,
Immediately. As soon as possible.
Regards,
- miogpsrocksMay 25, 2016Tutor
Ok, I'm on it black widow.
- JennCMay 25, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hello miogpsrocks,
Alright. For you to be sure too, you may try testing the disk that you removed with a diagnostic tool.
Regards,
- StephenBMay 26, 2016Guru - Experienced User
89 bad sectors might pass seatools, but I agree the disk should be replaced.
BTW, one of the other disks is showing ~50 command timeouts, and a third has an ATA error.
Email alerts don't seem to be configured correctly (yahoo is rejecting your "from" address).
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