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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.
