heppy Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 Morning all, finally decided to try out Unraid and all was going well until i was copying over some data and the attached drive powered down and caused a weird hang. Did a clean system shutdown which when I rebooted said it wasn't clean and then disk 1 in the array was marked with a red cross. Just checking if someone can diagnose if my drive is dead? It's a very old drive and the data on it wasn't essential at all so i suspect it's age related but just wanted to check TIA WDC_WD30EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-WCC4N7PU8ZXP-20221015-0319.txt Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 Nothing obvious in the SMART information for the drive. It might be worth running an extended SMART test to see if that passes without error (available by clicking on the drive on the Main tab).. Note that you would need to temporarily disable spindown for the drive in question. The test only updates at 10% intervals at takes around 1-2 hours per TB. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 Run an extended SMART test on that disk. Quote Link to comment
Solution heppy Posted October 15, 2022 Author Solution Share Posted October 15, 2022 I'm going to call it very dead - can't an extended smart test, but thanks very much for the quick reply. Much appreciated. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 36 minutes ago, itimpi said: Nothing obvious in the SMART information for the drive Bad connections are much more common than bad disks. Diagnostics might tell more Quote Link to comment
heppy Posted October 15, 2022 Author Share Posted October 15, 2022 Thanks for this - i ended up removing the drive from the array (it had 6 years use on it) but will use diagnostics next time Quote Link to comment
Frank1940 Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 2 hours ago, heppy said: Thanks for this - i ended up removing the drive from the array (it had 6 years use on it) but will use diagnostics next time To determine if the drive is truly ready for the trash, run a couple of preclear cycles on it. Or use the manufacturer's disk testing utility (google for this software) by running a couple of full disk scans. If it is still good, you could use it as an cold standby disk... Quote Link to comment
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