Personally, I find the story / questions incomplete, due to the limited explanation you are giving. That means I can only make short comments in reply to your questions:
- Any disk drive can die, at any time, with or without warning.
- Not all failing disks give any warning (whether by actual SMART event, or by human interpretation of SMART attribute data).
- It is not necessarily possible to diagnose drive problems using only those pictures you have provided, so don't expect diagnosis just from those, as you originally requested.
- I see a couple of areas which concern me in your initial pictures, but would need additional specific data to double-check my interpretation of those initial pictures. However the lack of explanation about
exactly what
you are concerned about in those pictures, means that I could be wasting my time explaining what concerns me in them, if that is different from what concerns you.
- Make sure you have backups, and a plan for where you would buy a replacement drive (or, if up-time is important enough, then spend more on higher-availability equipment / alternative procedures). Then a drive failure, when that happens, becomes less of a disaster.
- After making sure that you have a valid & readable backup, you can run the SeaTools long test on that Seagate drive, as a simple way to get another view of whether a problem can be detected by that software (especially if you plan to try to RMA the drive). However some drive problems will still result in that software giving a "pass" indication.
It depends how much time you want to spend, by supplying more details and providing more data to members here when asked to do so. For some people, it's not worth their time to provide more details, so they get only limited replies from people here; other people want to get more help and so they supply more information. It's up to you
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