July 1, 20215 yr Hi, I'm pretty new to RAID configurations and need some assistance. I'm running a HP Z420 with Win 10 Pro on it. I've purchased 2 Seagate's st960fm0013 SAS 1TB SSDs. I've also purchased a HP LSI SAS Controller (lsi 9217-4i4e ). When I connect both disks to the controller I can see them in the LSI Utility, but when I try to create a RAID0 volume from the both of them the operation fails with no error message. When I tried to format the disks from the utility it fails as well. In the BIOS I can see them only in the boot order menu and not in the storage devices menu. In windows I can see them in the disk manager (2 separate disks) but when try to initialize them I get "access denied" error message. I'll be happy if someone can direct me on what am I doing wrong.
July 1, 20215 yr Author Thanks Jorge, can you please elaborate which tools-> diagnostics do you refer?? In windows? The SAS Controller's? The disks?
July 1, 20215 yr This forum is about Unraid OS, not Windows, I didn't notice before you were talking about Windows, not the right forum to be posting about that, though someone might still be able to help you're more likely to get help if you post in a more appropriate forum.
July 1, 20215 yr In a general storage/Windows forum. BTW, a couple of common issues with SAS devices: -formatted with a custom sector size, Windows and most OSes can only use 512 or 4096, needs to be reformatted with common sector size. -formatted with type 1 or type 2 protection, this need to be removed. SMART report will show both of the above, e.g.: == START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Vendor: xxx Product: xxx Revision: NE02 Compliance: SPC-4 User Capacity: 1,800,360,124,416 bytes [1.80 TB] Logical block size: 512 bytes Physical block size: 4096 bytes Formatted with type 2 protection Smartmontools is also available for Windows.
July 2, 20215 yr Author Thanks Jorge, This is the output I got from smartmontools: C:\Program Files\smartmontools\bin>smartctl -a /dev/sda smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-w10-20H2] (sf-7.2-1) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ST960FM0013 Revision: C106 Compliance: SPC-4 User Capacity: 960,197,124,096 bytes [960 GB] Logical block size: 512 bytes Physical block size: 4096 bytes LU is resource provisioned, LBPRZ=1 Rotation Rate: Solid State Device Form Factor: 2.5 inches Logical Unit id: 0x5000c50030161b0b Serial number: Z87130560000822150Z3 Device type: disk Transport protocol: SAS (SPL-3) Local Time is: Thu Jul 01 22:05:02 2021 JDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled Temperature Warning: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Health Status: OK Percentage used endurance indicator: 7% Current Drive Temperature: 47 C Drive Trip Temperature: 70 C Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 16804:57 Manufactured in week 42 of year 2016 Specified cycle count over device lifetime: 10000 Accumulated start-stop cycles: 385 Elements in grown defect list: 0 Vendor (Seagate Cache) information Blocks sent to initiator = 562375382 Blocks received from initiator = 981726741 Blocks read from cache and sent to initiator = 1750053742 Number of read and write commands whose size <= segment size = 525444815 Number of read and write commands whose size > segment size = 12475577 Vendor (Seagate/Hitachi) factory information number of hours powered up = 16804.95 number of minutes until next internal SMART test = 5 Error counter log: Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors read: 3164703584 0 12278475 3164703584 0 182804.974 0 write: 0 0 0 0 0 108261.564 0 verify: 3418515 0 1671 3418515 0 1.893 0 Non-medium error count: 0 No Self-tests have been logged Should I try format it using smartmontools?
July 2, 20215 yr That looks fine, it's using a standard sector size and no protection, but can't really help anymore since you're running Windows.
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