yote_zip,

Okay cool. I would be wary of that drive just in case, and I would definitely schedule weekly SMART short tests and monthly BTRFS scrubs on it if you go with BTRFS in the future. EXT4/XFS/etc do not have a concept of data checksums, which means they can’t scrub and check for bitrot - this might be problematic if you find that your disk starts causing bitrot because you won’t know where it’s happening.

I follow Backblaze’s rules on detecting impending drive failure:

  • SMART 5: Reallocated_Sector_Count.
  • SMART 187: Reported_Uncorrectable_Errors.
  • SMART 188: Command_Timeout.
  • SMART 197: Current_Pending_Sector_Count.
  • SMART 198: Offline_Uncorrectable.

If any of these SMART metrics are higher than 0 I’d expect failure soon and take precautions.

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