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PatrickVdC
Mar 14, 2017Aspirant
Uncorrectable errors reported but drive status is shown as OK
About a week ago (March 8) I started getting alerts on one of my two 4TB Seagate NAS HDD ST4000N000 drives. Since then I've been getting an increasing amount of alerts, the latest one stating:
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- Mar 14, 2017
PatrickVdC wrote:I can understand that the Volume icon is green since technically no disk has failed (yet), but I would expect to see the disk that's generating the alerts to at least show as yellow (like the blinking yellow icon next to the alerts in the log).
This icon shows the status of the RAID members. As the HDD is still a synced member of the RAID array, it's green.
From memory, it becomes blinking yellow during resync.
That's the design of the "RAIDiator 4" system.
That said, I agree that it could be clearer, with something like a little warning road sign or something. But as the product is End of Life, I don't think this will ever be changed. I'm not even sure there is an icon somewhere showing a different color when there are "just" errors on a HDD is "ReadyNAS OS6" system (the current one). Sill on OS6, these are the, imho insane, levels for the email alerts: https://kb.netgear.com/30046/ReadyNAS-OS-6-Disk-Failure-Alerting
Hope this helps ;)
mdgm-ntgr
Mar 15, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
I would suggest replacing that disk. It is failing.
PatrickVdC
Mar 18, 2017Aspirant
Yup, replacing the disk is planned.
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