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I have a WD Red 8TB drive sealed from WD. Warranty expires March 2019. It was a replacement for a failed 8TB drive that I sent back to them that I don't need anymore. Would this work?

So even the drives in the stock slots stay cool? That's a nice case.

What new case are you using now? Those IcyDock cages could replace my iStarUSA cages.

What's the room temp during a parity check? What's the room temp during a parity check? For a while I was actually doing the same thing with the same iStarUSA 5in3 cages and I removed the stock fans. My case only had two 120mm fans along with the 80mm PSU fan and it didn't work at all. Temps were terrible at 40+ with a room temp of 76F. Could have been that my exhaust fans weren't good for that purpose. I only had 8 drives out of the 15 available. It must be quiet because it sits next to my desk and I work from home. What case are you using?

Do you have the cage or the hot-swap version? What do your temps look like for a parity check and what is room temp?

Thanks Fireball, Auto Shutdown has been working great lately.

Thanks for working on this Fireball. When I run the script it seems to just loop at this point. I have all checks set to "no" except for lock file and disks parked. No IP checks either. Wed Jun 4 09:59:35 MDT 2014: All HDDs spun down. Wed Jun 4 09:59:35 MDT 2014: Server is now idling. Checking for external activity. Wed Jun 4 09:59:35 MDT 2014: Checking for network activity. Wed Jun 4 09:59:35 MDT 2014: TCP activity (30 second average): 700 Wed Jun 4 09:59:35 MDT 2014: nobody online Wed Jun 4 09:59:35 MDT 2014: Active SSH connections: 0 Wed Jun 4 09:59:35 MDT 2014: Active TELNET connections: 0 Wed Jun 4 09:59:35 MDT 2014: Active console logins: 0

I use the CX500 without issues, but many here recommend avoiding the CX line for server use. They're really cheap for a reason.

What exactly does Carabolic's script do? I'm able to sleep the server with the "echo -n mem > /sys/power/state" command and wake via magic packet, but I don't like putting the server to sleep without first making sure nothing is running or being accessed, and I'd like the drives to be spun down before the server goes to sleep. Is this possible? I'm on 5.0 Final.

Thanks for confirming.

Gotcha, thanks guys.

Is it normal for the Post Read on all his drives to be nearly half the Preread and Zeroing speeds?

I've never used a Seagate drive in the server, do these results from a 4TB NAS drive look Ok? Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ========================================================================1.14 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == invoked as: ./preclear_disk.sh -c 3 /dev/sdb (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == ST4000VN000-1H4168 Z300W13C (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == Disk /dev/sdb has been successfully precleared (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == with a starting sector of 1 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == Ran 3 cycles (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == Using :Read block size = 8388608 Bytes (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == Last Cycle's Pre Read Time : 9:44:21 (114 MB/s) (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == Last Cycle's Zeroing time : 8:48:58 (126 MB/s) (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 22:17:29 (49 MB/s) (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == Last Cycle's Total Time : 31:07:28 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == Total Elapsed Time 102:37:54 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == Disk Start Temperature: 24C (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == Current Disk Temperature: 25C, (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ============================================================================ (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ** Changed attributes in files: /tmp/smart_start_sdb /tmp/smart_finish_sdb (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ATTRIBUTE NEW_VAL OLD_VAL FAILURE_THRESHOLD STATUS RAW_VALUE (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Raw_Read_Error_Rate = 110 100 6 ok 26758944 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Spin_Retry_Count = 100 100 97 near_thresh 0 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: End-to-End_Error = 100 100 99 near_thresh 0 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: High_Fly_Writes = 49 100 0 ok 51 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Temperature_Celsius = 24 24 0 near_thresh 24 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: No SMART attributes are FAILING_NOW (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 0 sectors were pending re-allocation before the start of the preclear. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after pre-read in cycle 1 of 3. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after zero of disk in cycle 1 of 3. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after post-read in cycle 1 of 3. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after zero of disk in cycle 2 of 3. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after post-read in cycle 2 of 3. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after zero of disk in cycle 3 of 3. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 0 sectors are pending re-allocation at the end of the preclear, (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: the number of sectors pending re-allocation did not change. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 0 sectors had been re-allocated before the start of the preclear. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 0 sectors are re-allocated at the end of the preclear, (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: the number of sectors re-allocated did not change. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ============================================================================ (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ============================================================================ (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == S.M.A.R.T Initial Report for /dev/sdb (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Disk: /dev/sdb (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] (local build) (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Device Model: ST4000VN000-1H4168 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Serial Number: Z300W13C (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Firmware Version: SC43 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: User Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ATA Version is: 9 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ATA Standard is: Not recognized. Minor revision code: 0x001f (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Local Time is: Tue Dec 24 21:29:09 2013 MST (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: SMART support is: Enabled (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: General SMART Values: (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Offline data collection status: (0x00)^IOffline data collection activity (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ^I^I^I^I^Iwas never started. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ^I^I^I^I^IAuto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Self-test execution status: ( 0)^IThe previous self-test routine completed (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ^I^I^I^I^Iwithout error or no self-test has ever (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ^I^I^I^I^Ibeen run. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Total time to complete Offline (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: data collection: ^I^I ( 107) seconds. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Offline data collection (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: capabilities: ^I^I^I (0x73) SMART execute Offline immediate. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ^I^I^I^I^IAuto Offline data collection on/off support. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ^I^I^I^I^ISuspend Offline collection upon new (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ^I^I^I^I^Icommand. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ^I^I^I^I^INo Offline surface scan supported. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ^I^I^I^I^ISelf-test supported. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ^I^I^I^I^IConveyance Self-test supported. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ^I^I^I^I^ISelective Self-test supported. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: SMART capabilities: (0x0003)^ISaves SMART data before entering (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ^I^I^I^I^Ipower-saving mode. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ^I^I^I^I^ISupports SMART auto save timer. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Error logging capability: (0x01)^IError logging supported. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ^I^I^I^I^IGeneral Purpose Logging supported. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Short self-test routine (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 1) minutes. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Extended self-test routine (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 255) minutes. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Conveyance self-test routine (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 2) minutes. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: SCT capabilities: ^I (0x10bd)^ISCT Status supported. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ^I^I^I^I^ISCT Error Recovery Control supported. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ^I^I^I^I^ISCT Feature Control supported. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ^I^I^I^I^ISCT Data Table supported. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 006 Pre-fail Always - 31360 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 099 099 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 1 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 253 030 Pre-fail Always - 126 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 1 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 076 050 045 Old_age Always - 24 (Min/Max 22/24) (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 024 050 000 Old_age Always - 24 (0 22 0 0) (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: SMART Error Log Version: 1 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: No Errors Logged (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 - (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 1 0 0 Not_testing (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 2 0 0 Not_testing (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 3 0 0 Not_testing (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 4 0 0 Not_testing (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: 5 0 0 Not_testing (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: Selective self-test flags (0x0): (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: == (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: ============================================================================ (Misc) Dec 29 04:07:06 unRAID preclear_disk-diff[3847]: (Misc)

I already use unMENU and its package manager, will they work well together?

Can this be installed as a plugin or only as a GO-launched script?

Can you fit two motherboards in there though?

Go to the manufacturer's websites and hunt around for data sheets. You could also try Googling it. EDIT: The Hitachi 7200rpm 3TB drive requires 2A at startup, so I'd assume the Green version would require less than or equal to 2A.

I agree, but time is money, and it's much quicker to flatten a drive than to hook it up to a box and wait for it to do several erase passes. I do remember seeing demagnetizers though, and I'd assume they'd also work just as well. It would only take a few seconds to unscrew the cages. Those suckers get expensive when you're replacing them with every new drive change.

The important thing to look for (besides PASS/FAIL) is the amount of reallocated sectors. If the numbers go up at the end compared to the beginning, your drive might be on its way out. If the number goes down, but doesn't disappear, you might want to run another few cycles to try to get them to zero out.

That's not bad then.

^^ That's not too bad. How hot do they get while checking parity on the entire array?

^^ What are your drive temps with all those 7200rpm drives?

Let it complete. Then pull the drive in and out a few times. Unplug and replug the cables. Then run another preclear.

I've had problems where my SATA link was down/up and reset before, and it was almost always due to loose cables. Also, pulling the drives out/in of their backplanes several times seemed to fix all my problems.