Will C5/C6 SMART values qualify for an in-warranty RMA? (Seagate Exos SMR)

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@SGC

50 C is about where you start to feel pain

I’d call 44 deg just about fine, judging from experience

@SGC

tho you should setup a second node to take the load off your SMR node

I am currently cloning the SMR drive to an CMR on anyways, just noticed the bad sectors. Using this SMR HDD was kind of an experiment in the first place.

@SGC

and 5400 SMR… well it might just work itself to death

→ see my post from another tread

@twl

Another update: with around 1.5TB (it’s an 8TB drive) of free space left, the HDD is now busy 100% of the time while the node service is running. It even sometimes fails to properly stop the node service, probably due to the heavy HDD usage.

@SGC

it might not be built for 24/7 operation

But it is advertised as such since it is a Seagate Exos series unit.