jon928

Thanks for your help. I just switched out Disk 2 for a spare I have and rebuilt the array. Everything looks good now. Appreciate your help!

I'm using 2 of those hot swappable cages that house 5 hdd bays each. Parity drive and drives 1-4 are in one cage and drives 5-7 are in another cage. I have 2 more hdd's on standby in bays 9 and 10 ready to deploy. Since it's drives 1-5 that showed an error and drive 5 is in a separate bay. Drive 5 and Drives 1-4 don't share anything like a cable/splitter. Having only 1 parity drive and having 1 hdd out of commission is making me nervous. I used to have 2 parity drives but then started thinking it was overkill since I haven't had any issues for like 4 years with another service and 3 years so far with my current server. So I got rid of the 2nd parity drive. Should I just go ahead and take out Drive 2 and rebuild the array using one of my spares? Thanks. Jon

Thank you for the quick reply. Should I start a new thread now or just go w/ this one? My server is connected to a UPS and I was seeing some UPS warnings about loss of communication. Should I just shutdown the server and connect the power cable to regular Power strip? Also - a parity check was completed yesterday and it says Parity is valid Last check completed on Wednesday, 10/20/2021, 07:27 AM (today) Finding 2560 errors Duration: 1 day, 3 hours, 57 minutes, 35 seconds. Average speed: 139.1 MB/sec Thank you for your help. Jon

Hi guys, Was wondering if I could get some help. Getting the same issue about the Device being disabled - contents emulated. Attached I have included the Diagnostics and SMART report. I have another hdd on standby I can use to replace Disk 2 but if I don't have to toss the disk I'd rather not. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Jon scornflix-smart-20211020-0914.zip scornflix-diagnostics-20211020-0914.zip