Hi all,
In the last week or so I've had two discs become disabled (thankfully I have dual parity). Prior to this in the last year I had regular parity errors but being a covid healthcare worker things have been too busy to give it any energy. I put the parity errors down to PCIE SATA cards that had vibrated themselves out of their sockets (initially this caused trillions of read errors). Then I read that SATA cards are not recommended, so I got an LSI 9200-8i card, hoping this would fix things, replacing all SATA cables. But some errors continued. I recently moved the unRAID computer and then a disc became disabled, so I thought maybe the move had jiggled a cable free or something. I woke up this morning and a second disc was disabled, so I shut it down, took the computer apart and put it back together, reseating the RAM just in case.
I'm not sure what to do from here, how I can see if the discs are still okay to use, and if so how I can re-connect them. And hopefully not get parity errors in the future.
I guess I might just need to burn the server to the ground.
Help much appreciated.