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i suppose i could do some transfer rate tests via hdtune to check. however, i won't be able to do them until i get home. currently at the office.

willing to do $70 shipped, or if you buy both, i'll do $130 shipped for the two. PM me if interested.

Willing to take offers on one or both drives shipped. Don't be shy, these are just sitting here with no use to me right now. Send me a PM if interested, thanks.

appreciate that man!

Selling yet another one of my pre-cleared spare 2tb drives. I've picked up another 3 tb drive so i have this one to sell. My asking price is $80 shipped within the continental US (or we can negotiate). This drive has never been used with the exception of passing 2 pre-clear cycles in unraid. I sold an identical drive to a buyer on here a few months ago, I hope he can vouch for me. Drive will be packed securely for shipment. If interested, feel free to send me a PM. edit: I actually have two of these drives available

as i begin to transition towards 3tb drives, i'll be listing my other backup (reserve) 2TB drives. they are all the same model, ST2000DM001, and have all been pre-cleared with 2 cycles on each. currently, i have 3 which have seen no use aside from the pre-clear process. i should be picking up some 3TB drives this weekend, so i'll keep this thread up to date when drives are available for sale. if interested, i will be selling them at the same price ($90 shipped to continental US). feel free to respond here or PM me in case you want to reserve one or have questions.

parcel shipping is about 8 bucks. but i'll do $90 total. don't mind eating a few bucks on the shipping. Sounds good. Paypal info? [email protected]

parcel shipping is about 8 bucks. but i'll do $90 total. don't mind eating a few bucks on the shipping.

I have a spare 2TB seagate drive i had intended to use with my unraid server. It has passed 2 pre-clear cycles and has been stored as a spare in case of a disk failure (never seen any use besides preclear cycles). However, my lovely wife decided to get me a 3tb drive for my birthday so i no longer need this drive. The drive still has warranty through seagate, expires on dec 5, 2014. Here is a link to the identical drive from newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148834 My asking price for the drive is $85 + any applicable shipping charges. Hard drive is already packed securely (in a box i received a warranty replacement from seagate) and ready to be shipped. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

i've had this experience as well from time to time. although it isn't a fix, i've found that immediately after teracopy gives the error and completes it's 60 second retry, i can try again with success. don't know if it's a chipset problem or not, but i've noticed that this usually happens on drives that are more "full" than others.

the settings won't be in your motherboard's bios. you need to wait until AFTER your motherboard's bios loads, then the controller card's bios would load next. it will require a key press similar to ctrl+m or something.

seagate has them branded as ST2000DL004 but they are identical to the samsung f4 drives. i got a ST2000DL004 as a warranty replacement and unraid sees it as a samsung f4 drive. works all the same.

on the right hand side it shows "more buying choices" with amazon being one of them @ 159.99

no the drive doesn't show any pending or reallocated sectors. Then yes, it could very well be the backplane of the hot swap bay or the SATA cable itself ok. well i ruled out the possibility of the sata cable by swapping in another breakout cable and was able to recreate the issue. will rma the hot swap bay and call it a day. thanks everyone

Raj, first and foremost, i have to thank you a bunch for your detailed blog. i must have gone through the prototype builds 100 times over before deciding on the build that was right for me. i went with the 12 drive budget build but opted to be safer with the cx500v2 and went with 4gb of ram. the only problems i ran into was having to bend the tab on the supermicro card to get it to install correctly and having to read through the comments on newegg to disable INT13. again, just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to put together these prototype builds! you helped me more than you know.

no the drive doesn't show any pending or reallocated sectors.

again, i am fully aware that sde was having read errors (and had write errors before this log) but all has since been fixed. however, i'm asking if the backplane on hotswap bay 1 could be the culprit (since the drive PASSED smart tests and is currently functioning fine in another hotswap bay).

so i had been struggling with a drive these past few days. just a quick rundown of how my server is setup. biostar a880g+ 3x norco ss-400 hotswap bays supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 card so this is how the problem goes. my setup was to put my first 4 drives on the topmost hotswap bay (we'll refer to this one as hotswap bay 1), which is connected to the supermicro card. at first, everything was fine. then all of a sudden, i started receiving read/write/io errors on disk2 (disk is in the third slot of hotswap bay 1). i ran a few SMART tests on the drive and they all passed. now, i decided to run another preclear on the drive. i removed it from hotswap bay 1, and put into hotswap bay 3 (bottom-most hotswap bay, which is connected directly to onboard sata ports on mobo). preclear ran fine, no errors. i ran another smart report on the drive and all was fine. so, in order to keep things organized, i shutdown, removed the drive from hotswap bay 3 and back into the empty slot in hotswap bay 1. booted up, started the parity with the disk2 unassigned, stopped, assigned the drive to disk2 and started parity (so it could rebuild the drive). right away, the web menu showed 320+ errors. (syslog is attached). ran another smart report, all gravy! so by this time i figured "oh well, drive is toast." let a few hours go by and decided "hey, just for the sake of argument, let me try putting it back into hotswap bay 3 and see if it works that way." so went back and swapped it into a slot in hotswap bay 3, boot up, stopped parity, assigned drive to disk2, started parity and rebuilt fine with no errors and is running fine. this leads me to believe that the problem with it not previously working may lie in a few places. 1) one of the sata cables connected to hotswap bay 1 is loose or bad. it's a breakout sas cable so i checked and everything seemed ok on both ends. i even swapped to another breakout cable to ensure it wasn't a cable issue. 2) something is wrong with the supermicro card (unlikely since every other drive is working). 3) something is wrong with the backplane of the hotswap bay 1. ports 1, 2, and 4 on it work just fine apparently? expert opinions please? this was driving me crazy all weekend and i was almost CERTAIN it was the drive. thanks for taking the time to read! syslog-2012-03-24.zip

I APOLOGIZE. THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE POSTED IN GENERAL SUPPORT. so i had been struggling with a drive these past few days. just a quick rundown of how my server is setup. biostar a880g+ 3x norco ss-400 hotswap bays supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 card so this is how the problem goes. my setup was to put my first 4 drives on the topmost hotswap bay (we'll refer to this one as hotswap bay 1), which is connected to the supermicro card. at first, everything was fine. then all of a sudden, i started receiving read/write/io errors on disk2 (disk is in the third slot of hotswap bay 1). i ran a few SMART tests on the drive and they all passed. now, i decided to run another preclear on the drive. i removed it from hotswap bay 1, and put into hotswap bay 3 (bottom-most hotswap bay, which is connected directly to onboard sata ports on mobo). preclear ran fine, no errors. i ran another smart report on the drive and all was fine. so, in order to keep things organized, i shutdown, removed the drive from hotswap bay 3 and back into the empty slot in hotswap bay 1. booted up, started the parity with the disk2 unassigned, stopped, assigned the drive to disk2 and started parity (so it could rebuild the drive). right away, the web menu showed 320+ errors. (syslog is attached). ran another smart report, all gravy! so by this time i figured "oh well, drive is toast." let a few hours go by and decided "hey, just for the sake of argument, let me try putting it back into hotswap bay 3 and see if it works that way." so went back and swapped it into hotswap bay 3, boot up, stopped parity, assigned drive to disk2, started parity and rebuild is going fine now. this leads me to believe that the problem lies in a few places. 1) one of the sata cables connected to hotswap bay 1 is loose or bad. it's a breakout sas cable so i checked and everything seemed ok on both ends. i even swapped to another breakout cable to ensure it wasn't a cable issue. 2) something is wrong with the supermicro card (unlikely since every other drive is working). 3) something is wrong with the backplane of the hotswap bay 1. all the other ports on it work just fine apparently, but i have seen weirder things happen! expert opinions please? this was driving me crazy all weekend and i was almost CERTAIN it was the drive. thanks for taking the time to read! syslog-2012-03-24.zip

just a quick follow-up and for anyone reading. i pulled the disk from my unraid server and put it in my windows 7 machine. ran hdtune on it and reported the same as the unraid smart report (1 pending sector). ran a few read/write tests on it with hdtune and cleared up the pending sector. wrote 0's to the drive with hdtune, no errors. popped the drive back into my unraid server and ran a successful preclear cycle on it. adding it to the array now, hopefully the rebuild goes ok and i'm back in business. edit: eh, wishful thinking i guess. syslog started throwing a bunch of errors regarding the same disk (disk2) when i started the rebuild. sending out monday for rma.

ok, system is going to be shut down until i replace the drive. couldn't have happened at a worse time. just had a samsung drive fail and i get the replacement on monday. and now, lucky for me, i get to go through the rma process with WD. guess on the brigher side, when i get my rma back from WD i'll have it precleared and ready for the next failure.

here we are 12 hours later. syslog is throwing a bunch of media/unc errors now that the preclear is writing to the drive. ran another smart report and it doesn't show anything different than before. what gives? my gut is saying to rma this 2 week old drive (will never get a WD drive again). edit: another quick question: i understand that the parity will rebuild the disk when a new one is put in. i also understand that the parity is currently not protected, so in the event of another disk failure, i'd lose data on 2 disks. however, what i'd like to know is if it is advisable to shutdown the server until i put a new disk in place of the failed one? syslog-2012-03-24.zip smart-1015am.txt

so today while copying some files to a new drive, my disk2 was taken offline and showed over 200 errors. thinking it might have been my fault (wiggling a cable loose or whatnot when i installed the new disk), i unplugged and plugged in all sata cables to ensure they're seated correctly and followed the directions to make unraid trust my disk. unfortunately, it came back with over 300 errors. i ran a short smart test (included in attachments) and figured i'd unassign the disk and run a pre-clear before deciding to RMA. just want an expert's opinion on whether or not i should rma it. i've also included my syslog --- i reboot the system after unassigning the drive and put it in a new onboard sata slot to pre-clear so this log is while the pre-clear is going (read state). syslog-2012-03-23.txt smart-1015pm.txt

when you upgraded to 5b12, there is a section in the //tower with a button that you have to click on. i forget which section it is, but it explicitly says to click on it (sets permissions back to default) and should only be needed done that one time. look for it and let me know if you find it and the success of it..