Hi everyone,
It's been a month now that I have been trying the most basic thing, get my array setup. Haven't even reached creating shares because of this and I'm getting very disappointed in the process.
Sometimes it's the parity disk that doesn't activate, other times it's a drive that gets unassigned, it's simply horrible. I've attached screenshots and diagnostic file.
I have so far:
- reset the config twice, with reboots in between.
- ran smart tests multiple times,sometimes all passed, sometimes it got stuck at 10% and had to reboot
- ran preclear, got it to run successfully on almost all drives, but it also crashes midway and at 40h per drive I gave up
- formatted, rebooted, rebuilt the array, rebooted, started the array, never any luck.
I have nothing yet on my disks, so I'm not loosing anytime except a lot of time, but this is getting very frustrating.
The problem is, with the smart tests failing to run, I can't even tell if I have a bad disk. The thing is, the disks came from a QNAP that was running fine, so I wasn't expecting so much trouble. Maybe the next thing I can think of, is removing the disks and running a smart test on another computer?
unraid-diagnostics-20240317-0932.zip