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Identifying a failing drive
Hi all, I'm running an original NV with 3x1TB drives. In the last day or so, one of the drives has gotten pretty noisy - it sounds almost like a drive is constantly running and the normal noise th...
Netgear suggests replacement when the count reaches 50. Sometimes a drive will have a few of these, and then stabilize - other times the count just climbs like crazy.
gibxxi wrote: This is also a SMART value you should note with concern:
Reallocated Sector Count 11
That value indicates sectors that have ALREADY gone bad and have been reallocated with spare sectors by the drive itself. As soon as you see this value go above 0, you need to keep an eye on it and budget for a replacement ASAP.
Pending sector count is related to reallocated sector count, for replacement purposes you should sum them! So definitely replace this drive, since the combined count is way over the 50 limit.
Sectors are reallocated when a write fails, pending sector count is incremented when read fails.
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