I recently brought down my first FreeNAS box to replace a disk it was reporting as bad. There's no data on the array (it's about to become the backup of another FreeNAS box), and I decided to run all ...

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I'd like a 2nd pair of eyes to look these over. I think the SMART attributes are suggesting a disk failure. Certainly the server that it boots is freaking out badly and indicating file system problems ...

A blog for IT professionals who work with Windows on large networks. I saw the amber flags on two specific SMART values for the drive. In fact, those numbers matched for two items. First was Current ...