Disk Read Errors on Brand New 16TB Exos


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Hello

 

I recently purchased (about 1 month now) 2 Seagate Exos x16 16TB drives

I replaced parity with 1 and another array disk with the other

 

Unraid was able to replace parity, upgrade the new disk, and rebuild parity successfully.

My first Parity Check (scheduled) launched this weekend and I started getting a bunch of read errors on both 16TB drives

 

Here's what I did so far:

- I was forced to stop parity check

- I ran smart extended checks on both drives -- they both passed

- I did xfs_repair on the array drive -- because it was reading as unmountable

- Parity drive was reporting as disabled -- I removed and reassigned Parity drive

- Started Parity Re-build

 

30 mins into rebuild i'm getting disk read errors on the array drive (Exos 16TB):

 

[77822.306452] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659112
[77822.306456] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659120
[77822.306459] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659128
[77822.306462] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659136
[77822.306466] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659144
[77822.306469] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659152
[77822.306473] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659160
[77822.306477] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659168
[77822.306481] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659176
[77822.306484] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659184
[77822.306487] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659192
[77822.306491] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659200
[77822.306496] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659208
[77822.306499] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659216
[77822.306503] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659224
[77822.306507] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659232
[77822.306511] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659240
[77822.306514] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659248
[77822.306517] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659256
[77822.306519] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659264
[77822.306521] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659272
[77822.306523] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659280
[77822.306524] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659288
[77822.306525] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659296
[77822.306526] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659304
[77822.306530] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659312
[77822.306532] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659320
[77822.306535] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659328
[77822.306536] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659336
[77822.306537] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659344
[77822.306541] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659352
[77822.306543] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659360
[77822.306545] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659368
[77822.306546] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659376
[77822.306548] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659384
[77822.306549] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659392
[77822.306550] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659400
[77822.306551] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659408
[77822.306555] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659416
[77822.306557] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659424
[77822.306560] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659432
[77822.306561] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659440
[77822.306562] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659448
[77822.306565] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659456
[77822.306567] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659464
[77822.306570] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659472
[77822.306571] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659480
[77822.306572] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659488
[77822.306573] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659496
[77822.306575] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659504
[77822.306579] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659512
[77822.306581] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659520
[77822.306583] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659528
[77822.306585] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659536
[77822.306586] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659544
[77822.306589] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659552
[77822.306591] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659560
[77822.306594] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659568
[77822.306595] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659576
[77822.306596] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659584
[77822.306598] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659592
[77822.306601] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659600
[77822.306604] md: disk8 read error, sector=248659608
[77838.048467] sd 1:0:4:0: Power-on or device reset occurred


What else can i check to validate whether they are BAD drives versus a config issue with my Unraid?

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@JorgeB I pulled all of the drives from the server and rearranged to different slots. I paired the 16tb drives to consecutive slots (they we not before). I fired the server back up and started rebuild which seems to have completed successfully in little over 2 days without any noticeable errors.

 

Have parity check set to monthly, so will monitor next month when it runs again

 

Thanks for the help.

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