I understand this is Spare disk and not part of any vdisk or disk group.
Please check if disk scrub enabled in this MSA which is to check drives which are not part of vdisk or disk group. If not then please enable disk scrub option.
You should look for any hardware issue with this drive. If so then replace it.
If there is no hardware issue with the drive then firmware update shouldn't have any problem.
Any drive firmware update is offline activity so whether to update with particular firmware file or with smart component the impact should be same.
Hope this helps!
Regards
Subhajit
I am an HPE employee
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