Power On Hours of Disk

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
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I have got this notification last night form my NAS (Thecus N5550). What does the system expect from me?

This notification message is generated automatically from [N5550] (192.168.1.100/[2001:981:2008:1:214:fdff:fe16:9eda]).

The system experienced the following event(s).

The Power_On_Hours of Disk 4 has reached 10138 hours. (Western Digital Red (AF),WD-[Deleted])

Please be aware of the event(s) above. Also if necessary, please react to the event(s).

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Hi wbree, Some NAS units will measure different SMART attributes and alert you. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the drive is bad. Usually Power on Hours isn’t a sign of a bad or failing drive. I would look at the SMART status in the NAS and see if the drive shows in good health.