Hi all,

A little while ago I added a 2TB Samsung 870 EVO to my machine as a quick disk to run Nextcloud from.

After I'd plugged it in and set it all up, I started receiving notifications that TRIM wasn't supported on it. Long story short, it was my controller card, and I was able to downgrade the firmware to a version that supported it, and everything ran fine. See:

However, the drive prematurely failed so I RMAd it (failed around Oct 20) and have since replaced it (replaced early Nov). However, after leaving on holidays for a month over December, I started receiving notices that TRIM wasn't supported on that drive, and I don't know why.

I get an email with:

fstrim: /mnt/disks/SG8TBEXTA: the discard operation is not supported

Could it be a difference in the replacement drive? Could it be a change in the OS after an upgrade from 6.11.x?

Could it be a problem in the TRIM command? Could it be a change in compatibility with my SAS/SATA card?

I just don't know, so I'm turning to you all for your help and information.

Diagnostics attached.
Many thanks.

 

percy-diagnostics-20230110-1419.zip

Edited January 10, 20233 yr by jademonkee
Added error message

59 minutes ago, jademonkee said:

fstrim: /mnt/disks/SG8TBEXTA: the discard operation is not supported

This is an 8TB USB connected device, this is an SSD?

48 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

This is an 8TB USB connected device, this is an SSD?

I realised shortly after posting this that I'd gotten the disk mentioned in the error confused with the name of my cache drive. I thought I'd deleted this post (Moderation Actions > delete), but I guess it didn't work.

Looks like Unassigned Devices thought that my external drive was plugged in when it wasn't (and that it needed a TRIM), so I rebooted my server and manually ran a TRIM and it worked without error.

Sorry for wasting your time.

Mods: feel free to delete this topic.

Edited January 10, 20233 yr by jademonkee