G+_Volkan Paksoy Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 Hello everyone, I have a Synology DS214Play. 2 drives are in RAID1 configuration. The other day one of the drives started showing 1 bad sector. I've replaced it just to be safe but I'm wondering if I can make use of that drive now. For example I'm planning to purchase a larger/more powerful Synology these days (possibly DS1517+). I'm wondering if using the drive with 1 bad sector among the 5 would be a terrible idea or can I get away with it? Throwing away a 6TB drive because of 1 bad sector sounds too wasteful but I don't want to risk data loss either. What do you think? Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Black Merc Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 Spinrite! End of story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Rud Dog Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 Agreed on SpinRite and if you go this route please post results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Volkan Paksoy Posted August 12, 2017 Author Share Posted August 12, 2017 Thanks. So by SpinRite route you mean it will fix the drive so it can go back to NAS with no issues? Do you know any similar tools? I recall trying out SpinRite in the past but it didn't run on my machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 Spinrite doesn't run in windows, you'll have to put it on a bootable USB. How old is the drive? Is it still under warranty? I think WD Red have a 3 year and Seagate's NAS drives are the same. Lastly, if the drive is in a failing state, I probably wouldn't trust it in a storage group with less than 2 drive redundancy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 Has anyone ran Spinrite on a 6TB drive? Will it even work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Black Merc Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 Ben Reese why not? Didn't Steve say size matters not? It just runs longer to finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 Black Merc I thought I read somewhere that it gives errors\warnings on anything over 2TB. I could be wrong though, or the warnings didn't mean anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Volkan Paksoy Posted August 13, 2017 Author Share Posted August 13, 2017 Ben Reese Thanks. I'll look into it again. The drive which WD Red is 2 years old now so still should be under warranty. I didn't know warranty covered bad sectors. I'll look into that as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 Volkan Paksoy it may not cover bad sectors, but worth looking into. A bad sector could be an indicator of a bigger problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Volkan Paksoy Posted August 13, 2017 Author Share Posted August 13, 2017 I didn't think a drive repaired by a software like SpinRite would good as new and can fail again. I guess my best bet at this point is give SpinRite a go and if it fixes the issues put it in circulation. Also run it periodically on all drives for maintenance. If I have 2 drive redundancy I can take 1 out of commission every now to run SpinRite on while still having 1 drive redundancy. Thank you all for the replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_DigitalMatrixIO (Eric L Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 How old is the drive? If it is within warranty an RMA is an option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Volkan Paksoy Posted August 14, 2017 Author Share Posted August 14, 2017 It's 2 years old and should be within warranty. I'll check if I can return it. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Peter Dulley Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 I have a synology that had a WD Red with Bad Sectors. Doing the RMA as recommended above worked out well. At first it seemed like they where making me jump through unnecessary hoops. But once they saw it was a legitimate claim, the experience couldn't have been better. I would recommend, using their software to test the drive in another computer. Printing out the results and mailing it in with the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Volkan Paksoy Posted August 14, 2017 Author Share Posted August 14, 2017 Peter Dulley Thanks. I've checked but weirdly it shows as Out of region for the UK. I ordered this from Amazon but somehow they sent from United States. I will keep looking into it though because I'm invested in these drives so it may happen again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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