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1. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 20:42:17 EDT Clarissa Walker
   Bad sector count is now 9 from 8 as previously. SMART Device Error count remains at 22, which was there about a month before the first bad sector count (which was at 2).
   
   Reference:
   http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/gnu-social/public/notice/90
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 13:37:43 EDT Clarissa Walker

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     Seems the file corruption issue no longer occurs after these reallocation events as well. I'll keep watch; will have to get a replacement HDD if it gets nearly bad enough.
     
     On another note, my main webserver OS drive (where this very microblogging instance is hosted) actually has 14 reallocated sectors from the original 0 over the years... and the original issue was a stuck UNC that a zero-write cleared (and the bad sector count remained at 0). That was back in October 2011, when the server was migrated to Linux.
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 16:36:08 EDT Clarissa Walker

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     Oof, bad sector count is now 21 from 9 as previously. SMART Device Error count remains at 22. I think this happened after the RAID check. So these consistency checks actually do their job, it seems.
     
     Reference:
     http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/gnu-social/public/notice/102
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 13:26:21 EDT Clarissa Walker

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     Same day I made that previous post, I ordered a replacement drive, same model. It arrived today and I am testing it now.
     
     First step: error-checking the drive
     Second step: benchmark the drive
     
     Then - Replace the not-yet-failing drive with this one in the main NAS RAID5 if things are smooth with those two steps.
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 00:16:42 EDT Clarissa Walker

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     Replacement drive has passed with flying colors!
     
     Also realized during benchmarks that the Orico enclosure I own has a strange limit of 100MB/s vs. my older Vantec NexStar 3 enclosure, which is higher than 100MB/s...
     
     I would've used the NexStar in order to check the drive for errors faster, but then the drive would go past 50°C in this room...
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 01:31:53 EDT Clarissa Walker

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     Swapped the suspect drive with the replacement and the array is rebuilding as of this post. Should be done by morning.
     
     The old 4TB Toshiba Enterprise drive is now a scratch disk, as is the older 1TB Western Digital Blue drive.
     
     ...I think I have an idea of what to do with the 4TB drive, though.
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 20:20:36 EDT Clarissa Walker

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     Now the 1TB drive has pending sectors! This particular scratch disk has become a system backup image disk, however.
     
     The 4TB scratch disk needs more write tests before I can use this one further. Add data to the drive before sending it to the main NAS.
     
     The second 80GB system drive had to be directly imaged to another 80GB drive because that one developed bad sectors. The Seagate 80GB drive... the original NAS system drive, with over 112K Power-On-Hours, still reigns supreme. No known bad sectors so far.
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 11:37:12 EDT Clarissa Walker

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     That second 80GB system drive is dead. Seems I lucked out mirroring the original Windows XP data AND the NAS system data off that same drive before this! 😮