On 6/25/23 06:33, Rich Shepard wrote: > Good morning, group: > > On 2022-02-06 I purchased 4 WD Red 2T 5400rpm hard drives from Amazon for > the MediaSonic Pro external hard drive. ... > About a week ago (I forget the exact date) as I prepared to log in to my > desktop server/workstation I found a long display of /dev/sde1 errors on the > console. The kernel (I assume) told me to umount /dev/sde1 and run > xfs_repair on that drive. After reading the xfs_repair man page that's what > I did. > > This morning I found a shorter message about an error on /dev/sde1 when I > woke up the monitor. Another run of xfs_repair put the drive back to what it > should be. > > I assume that WD Red drives are supposed to last more than 16 months so I > could contact them about it. However, since daily incremental backups are > critical for my business I'm asking for your professional advice: should I > replace that drive (perhaps both backup drives)? If so what brand/model > should I purchase? My internal hard drive is 2T so all the external hard > drives are 2T. All previous external backup drives have been the size of the > internal drive so I don't think a larger drive is warranted. > > Reccomendations wanted. >
Rich, I'd start with a check of the drive's S.M.A.R.T reported health status and run some tests. As root run 'smartctl' to get overall health: # smartctl -a /dev/sdX A nice HOW-TO is here: https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardware:smart_hdd_diagnostics and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/S.M.A.R.T. If the drives are failing within the warranty period, get them replaced! I have two WD Red Plus 6TB NAS drives in my Synology NAS and they seem fine. But given recent WD legal history, I may pass on additional WD drives. I'm also slowly swapping out the old WD and Seagate 500 GB and 1 TB mechanical drives (now > 5 yrs old) with NVMe and SSD 1 TB drives as cash and sales permit (4 TB replaced, 4 TB to go!). Mechanical vs solid state both have their pros/cons and for me solid state is a better choice. -Ed
