Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB

iProb8 wrote:

I originally had requested the RMA for both drives because I was concerned that the second one would show additional reallocation errors. However, I must confess that I am not so eager to exchange the second drive (drive 4 in my array) at this point. My log shows that on December 26, 2008, the reallocation count went from 0 to 2 on that drive. Since then, though, I have not had any other error messages for Drive 4. In contrast, Drive 1 was up to 41 reallocated sectors as of today, with almost daily increases. So, there's no doubt in my mind about exchanging Drive 1. Still a bit on the fence for Drive 4. In the meantime, knock on wood, I've had no error messages for Drives 2 and 3.

I've still got one of my drives now holding steady at 1 reallocated sector now... for 2 weeks now. I've still got another one handy to swap in if necessary, but I've been running this thing into the ground for 2 weeks and gain more confidence in it each day. (on SD1A firmware). One other drive is worrying me more (jumped to two spin retries after one week, now holding steady for another) - but the ReadyNAS doesn't seem to be as concerned about spin retries as reallocated sectors (ie, doesn't proactively alert me the way it does with reallocated sectors)... which I guess makes me feel at least a little better :)