Altronous

Masked off pin 3 on a couple of drives and connected them to sata power. All seems to be working now.

Yeah, there are a couple. I tried to thin them out when I did the last rebuild but I just don't have enough molex connections. I thought it may have been a power issue last time so tried my spare PSU. I discovered my spare PSU was a dead PSU so it went in the bin.

Hello everyone, I've been experiencing an intermittent issue. Months back I upgraded my parity disk to 10TB. The old 8TB parity replacing an old 1TB drive as I was running out of storage space. The first parity check that was done in this new configuration was noisy and running 10% of normal speed. I could hear a disk or disks spinning up, stopping with a crunch and spinning up again. I feared a faulty disk. Stopped the parity check ran a smart test on all drives. Smart reported all drives were fine. Tried again, Parity check still noisy. Stripped down the computer and reassembled everything checked all connectors and connections. Parity check ran fine afterwards and has done for a few months. Here we are today with a noisy parity check again. I thought to reach out for some more technical advice this time for what could be going wrong. Diagnostics file attached. Thanks. Chris tower-diagnostics-20240831-0014.zip