Weird message re HDD possibly failing

Wossi · 06-01-2009, 23:48

I decided to boot up my Icy Box IB-NAS4220 to watch a tv show I have stored on there. After it faffed around for ages I managed to get it up and running. Or so I thought. Pulled up the NAS setup page and noticed that the health check had failed

reading the details is basically says:

WARNING: May need -F samsung or -F samsung2 enabled; see manual for details.

Which after 1 hour of searching on the net and in the manual that came with it, I'm no further forward

Also:

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA.
See vendor-specific Attribute list for failed Attributes.

So is the hdd in there on it's way out? I'm currently trying to copy over the data (nearly 1TB) on what little room I have left on the pc's at home just in case.

It's a Samsung F1 1TB drive (HD103UJ) in there if that's any help.

EDIT: Finally found a forum for the ICY BOX devices and it appears that the IB-NAS4220 does not like Samsung drives

the makers know of this and still haven't managed to fix it

I might just pull the drive out and bin the ICY BOX, only it would be an utter waste of close to £100

06-01-2009, 23:48	#1
Wossi Absinthe Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: In the middle Posts: 1,385	Weird message re HDD possibly failing I decided to boot up my Icy Box IB-NAS4220 to watch a tv show I have stored on there. After it faffed around for ages I managed to get it up and running. Or so I thought. Pulled up the NAS setup page and noticed that the health check had failed reading the details is basically says: WARNING: May need -F samsung or -F samsung2 enabled; see manual for details. Which after 1 hour of searching on the net and in the manual that came with it, I'm no further forward Also: SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED! Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA. See vendor-specific Attribute list for failed Attributes. So is the hdd in there on it's way out? I'm currently trying to copy over the data (nearly 1TB) on what little room I have left on the pc's at home just in case. It's a Samsung F1 1TB drive (HD103UJ) in there if that's any help. EDIT: Finally found a forum for the ICY BOX devices and it appears that the IB-NAS4220 does not like Samsung drives the makers know of this and still haven't managed to fix it I might just pull the drive out and bin the ICY BOX, only it would be an utter waste of close to £100 Last edited by Wossi; 07-01-2009 at 00:00.