madhatter01

Bought and installed the LSI card, no issues since. My parity build is faster than with Marvel cards, no surprise. Just wish I hadn't waited so long to buy one.

I like how easy it is to just add or replace drives without having them all be the same size. I would like to see the ability to have multiple arrays.

Ok, thanks for verifying. That's twice Marvell drivers have caused me issues. Think this should be the last of them. On to LSI!

A few months ago one of my drives, old drive 6, was starting to show errors on SMART report so I bought a WD 12TB external to shuck to replace it. My parity drive was a 10TB, its now the new drive 6. Once the drive came in I ran a preclear and it passed. I then stopped the array, removed the old drive 6, did new a new config and moved the 10TB to the Drive 6 slot. Started the array up and it worked fine. Took the array down and put the 12TB as the parity. Brought the array up and it appeared to be fine until about 3/4 of the way through the parity check and I started getting a lot of errors on parity and I think Drive 1 and 12. Restarted the server and it showed the parity being bad but all the array was working fine. Over the past few weeks when I've had time I've tried rebuilding the parity but always get the same issue of at some part through the rebuild it gets a lot of errors and locks up the Main and Dashboard screens on the server and I have to push the reset button the case to take it down. This weekend I finally had a chance to replace the SATA cable for the parity and Drive 1. I did a new config but kept the cache and data drive configs. Set the parity drive and then started it up and it looked to be fine for about an hour. I started transferring files to an external drive, WD Elements, after a few hours I started getting a bunch of errors. I did get the diagnostics pulled off, see attached. I do have two PCI to SATA cards and the Drive 1 and 12 are attached to. The parity drive is on motherboard. I didn't have any issues until I recently so I was hoping the PCI cards are still good. I know they Marvell and those don't always play well with Unraid. I was hoping to hold off until later next year to replace the card with an LSI SAS card. tower-diagnostics-20191208-1314.zip

I feel really stupid for not even thinking about that. 🤦‍♂️ Read the manual and swapped the SSD over to Intel ports. Guess I need to work to get my last HD off the Marvel port. I also updated the BIOS for good measure. Thanks for the help.

I guess I assumed all the motherboard SATA ports would use the same drivers. I do have two Marvell cards installed. Is there way to tell which ports are Intel? Thanks for the help so far.

I am using the onboard ports for this, the SSD is sdo. I have not tried a new port on the motherboard though.

I recently bought a new 1TB SSD for my cache drive to replace a smaller SSD. After installing it I had a lot of issues with the cache drive, mostly disconnecting almost daily. Ended up buying a new SATA cable. Now it will go several days before it fails. I'm not ruling out a bad SSD but wanted to have someone look at my logs first before I go that far. All the SMART checks so far have came back fine. Just today it failed during a parity check but in the past it would fail at random times. I've attached the diagnostics. tower-diagnostics-20190618-0130.zip