ryanmvd wrote:
I do see the SMART status for one of the drives is "caution". Does this indicate anything useful?
Current Pending Sector Count = number of sectors, for which drive hasn't decided yet whether they're unreadable or not. Later upon the results of reading attempts, drive can either remove them from "pending" list or do a remap. Basically, those sectors are the "candidates" to be remapped.
Uncorrectable Sector Count = Number of read/write errors drive has been unable to correct. Obviously bad when it's growing.
Generally, having 1/1 for these attributes isn't totally terrible, but this is the drive to keep an eye on.
If during your own recovery attempts you've read all the raw data stored on that drive at least once and attributes above haven't changed, then it is likely to survive the data extraction from it during recovery.
But if you don't feel imaging that drive would be too much hassle, then you can surely do so, that wouldn't hurt.