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SMART errors on EDA500 not reported in log
I have two EDA500's attached to my RN516. Current firmware is 6.9.2, but this has apparently been going on in 6.7.5 and 6.8.1 before it (I skipped everything else in between). I have two drives with increasing SMART errors in one of the EDAs, and there is not one word about it in the main log. One has 153 reallocated sectors and 4 pending sectors and the other 41 reallocated sectors. smart_history.log shows these have been creeping up for months. They were not new when I put them in, and they have 64k and 25k hours respectively, so maybe that's to be expected at least on the one, but I also expect for the log to warn me about this. I only noticed this because the volume scrub locked up and the subsequent re-boot resulted in the volume being out of sync. I looked at the SMART stats to see if there was a clue there and, sure enough, it looks like one or both of those drives could be the culpret.. Note that I do not have an email address entered in the NAS, so I get no email notifications. But I really don't think that should matter. There are no SMART errors on the drives in the 516 itself or the other EDA, so I don't know if log entries would be made for those or not. Is there a bug, or is it just the way it is that these errors on an EDA500 go unreported? If it's intentional, it needs to be re-thought.
Using readynas formatted disks in a EDA 500
I have one slot available in my readynas 516. If I switch out all my hard drives with higher capacity disk, is it possible to use my old drives in the eda500 as they are still good, they are just less capacity. I am curious as a new volume will be created in the EDA500, so I hupothetically believe this will work, but it is a pricy gamble for me to test this out. Thank you and have a nice day, Frank
