Jarlehm Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 Hi all! For the last couple of parity checks I've been getting errors. I'm suspecting two older 8tb drives in the system, but I can't figure out which drive (if any?) is giving the errors. My box has been running fine for about 18 months. I was going to expand the storage anyway with a new 16tb drive, currently waiting for at the post office, but it might be better to replace one of the old drives with the new one? torchwood-diagnostics-20221002-1242.zip Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 Bad RAM is the main suspect of unexpected sync errors on a server without ECC RAM, start by running memtest. Quote Link to comment
Jarlehm Posted October 2, 2022 Author Share Posted October 2, 2022 Thanks JorgeB, I'll look into that. Haven't heard of ECC RAM before, but from what I can gather, it's probably better to change the RAM I already have to ECC regardless? Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 3 minutes ago, Jarlehm said: Thanks JorgeB, I'll look into that. Haven't heard of ECC RAM before, but from what I can gather, it's probably better to change the RAM I already have to ECC regardless? You can only use ECC RAM if the motherboard supports it. Quote Link to comment
Jarlehm Posted October 2, 2022 Author Share Posted October 2, 2022 (edited) Ah... I was minutes from pulling the trigger on new RAM, there. My motherboard doesn't support it. Guess that's an upgrade I should invest in down the line. Thanks itimpi! I'll run the memtest now and see how it goes. Edited October 2, 2022 by Jarlehm Quote Link to comment
Jarlehm Posted October 3, 2022 Author Share Posted October 3, 2022 Memtest has been running for almost 17 hours now (9 passes). No errors thus far. Is that long enough? Since the RAM doesn't appear to be the issue, what would be the next suspect to check out? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 Next suspect would be a disk, are you sure the previous check was correct? Quote Link to comment
Jarlehm Posted October 3, 2022 Author Share Posted October 3, 2022 I wouldn't claim to be sure of any thing😅 If there is some way for me to mess it up, it is definitely possible, but as far as I can recall, I haven't changed anything about how it runs except the schedule. The previous parity check also had some errors (around 600), so I guess something isn't right. The memtest is still running without any errors, by the way. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 25 minutes ago, Jarlehm said: I wouldn't claim to be sure of any thing If you are not sure I'd wait for the next parity check, last one was definitely correct, so if the next one finds errors there's still a problem, if it doesn't you are likely fine and in that case the 1st one was likely noncorrect. Quote Link to comment
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