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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/hewhodared on 2024-01-24 13:23:00+00:00.

Last night while I was in bed I received an email from my Synology noting the # of bad sectors has increased. 16 as of this last night. Unknown to me, I guess there were IO errors last week so I am just catching this now. I jumped out of bed and began an extended SMART test and not long after I received another email saying the drive failed. I am pretty sure it did not even complete the whole test.

I have three Seagate Ironwolf 6TBs in SHR1 in my 920+. The first two drives I bought together in December 2021. Third parity drive I bought later in July 2022 from BHPhotoVideo. Thankfully, the drive in question is still under warranty so I will initiate a RMA with Seagate for the drive in bay 1.

Does Seagate do advanced RMAs where I can pay for a new drive and send my current one for service in the same packaging and then receive it back? For the time being I ordered another drive last night, a Western Digital Red Pro from BHPhotoVideo as I did not want my array in a degraded state for too long.

Something I was thinking of last night… We’re having construction done at home, namely the kitchen being redone which is the room on the other side of the wall. I really did not think too much of it but was worried if vibrations from equipment had killed this drive potentially. I was thinking of powering down my 920+ and then doing the rebuild over the weekend when they are not working I believe.