Can someone explain whether or not these increasing actually means your drive needs to be replaced? I see such varied responses when googling. My drive has a raw value of 10 for Current\_Pending\_Sector and 1 for Offline\_Uncorrectable. My GSmartControl is yelling at me constantly, but it's just those same values. Do I actually need to replace the drive? It \is\ almost eight years old, so I plan to anyway, but I just want to understand and make sure I don't replace things unnecessarily.

I'm using snapraid + mergerfs and one of my data drives is showing signs of failing. What's the easiest way to move the files off of it? Should i remove the failing drive from the mergerfs config and then rsync from the failing drive to the mergerfs mount point?

I was watching a YouTube video the other day talking about hooking a drive bay to a mini PC, and he mentioned that usb cables and sata chipset are finally getting reliable recently. Something about standards improving, etc. I’m curious if anyone knows what he’s referring to, are there sata chipsets in enclosures that are better now? I always had so many issues with reliability but admittedly that was years ago.