SD6SF1M128G1022I many ATA exceptions in syslog, looking for cause

Thanks for reply and help.

I’ll do as you propose and will secure erase the drive, not so easy since the system is in production mode already and gotta find a replacement first… 

Could you elaborate which part of the SMART output told you about the bad blocks? Thanks!

edit: just checked the second NAS with identical hardware. It has the same exceptions in the syslog. Can this really be a coincidence that two drives from the same model both throw the same errors inside the syslog?

Anything I can try before I blame the hardware?