Guys- I've just opened up my server to install a new disk, and I've noticed that one of my disks is vibrating really quite badly and is making a noise like what you'd hear if you gently place a bit of paper on a spinning fan blade, like a really fast clicking/grinding noise.
So that drive is definitely failing. I've opened up the web GUI for unRAID, and its (apparently) doing a parity check. The check has been running for 18 hrs and is due to finish in 406 DAYS, yes, over a year. This normally takes ~19 hrs to complete.
So something is wrong here.
How do I find out which drive is failing in the GUI?
Why has unRAID not sent me an email telling me a drive is / has failed?
Coming from FreeNAS, I always received an email when a drive was failing.
I don't know what to do apart from unplug the drive and see which one disappears, but that's not really the correct method to diagnose this, is it?
I have 5 drives.
3x 8TB WD RED (3 months old)
2x 1TB 2.5" laptop drives (over 3 years old, i believe).
It is one of the 8TB WD RED drives that has failed - again, 5th drive in a year, 3 were DOA, one failed during pre-clear x 3-cycles.