March 1, 20233 yr Hello, I recently purchased two Seagate 5TB 2.5" drives to upgrade my parity setup and give me headroom for future drive upgrades. Within days after installing, preclearing, and parity sync I started seeing errors. A group of 82 errors showed up on one of the new drives, with one appearing on a data drive. Now there are 8 more on the other parity drive. Two drives have been disabled by UNRAID and my array is unstable. Is this remotely normal for new drives? Of note is that my new drives are running at roughly half (5.4K) the RPM of my old server 10K drives, so that might be a factor. Could you advise me on the proper course of action? I'll admit I'm a novice with the intricacies of UNRAID, but I can learn. Thank you in advance for the help. tower-diagnostics-20230228-2020.zip
March 1, 20233 yr Community Expert Disks look OK, could be the controller doesn't like them, try connecting them to onboard SATA ports if possible.
March 2, 20233 yr Author @JorgeB, Thanks for the quick response! Unfortunately, I have no onboard SATA ports at all. This is an HP Proliant server. Definitely good to know that the disks probably aren't fried out of the box, although I'm sad that the controller doesn't want to play nice. Edit: These are consumer grade SATA drives going into a pool with mostly SAS drives (and 1-3 SATA drives), so it might be something of an incompatibility there. I don't know. Edited March 2, 20233 yr by YotttaFLOP
March 5, 20233 yr Author Would there be any further steps I could take to restore the reliability of my server? Thank you for your patience!
March 5, 20233 yr Community Expert If there's no onboard SATA controller you could try using an add-on, see here for some recommendations:
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