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Copy First, Ask Later? What To Do When SMART Turns Yellow

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  1. Vera B.
    @verab560

    hmmmm ok got this today:

    Disk health

    Disk health
S.M.A.R.T. status: BAD

Reallocated sectors count: 1,872 (threshold exceeded)
Back up your data and replace the disk as soon as possible.

    the NAS drive holds a lot of my backups and this is the first SMART warning i've ever seen. reallocated Sectors went from zero to a small number. should i replace it right away, or is it normal for a few sectors to go bad? 馃う i've read conflicting advice, so i'd like to hear from people who actually watched a drive with a warning like this... did it fail fast, or did it last for years? what am i doing wrong??

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  2. Emeka K.
    @subnet_den

    uhh whats the raw value of Available Spare, and has it changed since u first saw it? ?

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  3. Tariq Jensen
    @tariq_polar

    wowww ok ok update: did what @mateoe531 said and its fine now. bump 馃敟 still happening with hard-drive for me

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  4. Zoe Jensen
    @night_owl114

    bump ;) still happening with hard-drive for me

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  5. Lars Celik
    @lars.celik64

    which version are you on?... this, so much this

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  6. Kai Kim
    @kaik790

    long time lurker first post lol ok this thread just saved my weekend pls help 馃檹

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  7. Nico
    @nico_rusty

    @mateoe531 what did u end up doing in the end ?

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  8. Esme Torres
    @esmet145

    dude finally got it working, thx everyone u guys are the best!!!

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  9. Emeka K.
    @subnet_den

    @rmendes what did u end up doing in the end ?

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  12. Kofi Stone
    @kofi.stone40

    back up first, diagnose second... copy the most improtant files to another drive before running any long tests, because heavy reads can push a failing drive over teh edge. lmk how it goes

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  13. Mateo Eriksen
    @mateoe531

    ok so reallocated and Pending Sectors on a hard drive are the most predictive SMART attributes for failure 馃槫 A small, stbale number can stay stable for a while, but a growing number means replace it soon.

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  15. Nico
    @nico_rusty

    so annoyed rn spent two days on reallocated and im still not done any ideas??

    thinking

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  20. Dario Tanaka
    @patch_ranger

    After the backup, compare SMART again in a week. If the counts are climbing, the drive is actively degrading. good luck man!

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