Hi all, I've started running into a unfortunate set of circumstances and I'll try my best to convey what I have/know

 

As of a couple days ago my parity disk drive started to put out "high heat" warnings (>45 degrees) periodically, not all the time and they blended in with my unused ssd disk high heat warnings, everything seemed to be running fine but today I might be paying for my lack of attention.

 

I've noticed my server taking much longer than usual to start up and mount drives after reboot. My scheduled parity check started and I noticed the array couldn't sustain good read/write speeds and would drop to 0 every few seconds (with an audible sound from the disk), estimated parity check speed was well under normal and the estimated time ballooned to hundreds of days. Parity errors were being corrected but errors were also appearing on the disk itself in my array. I'm no longer getting heat warnings so that's a small win at least.

 

I'm almost certain I'm running into another dying/ disk after my last one failed just one week ago (unrelated to heat), guess I'm wondering if anyone can confirm I killed my parity disk and should start looking for a replacement?

milkmaid-diagnostics-20230711-1359.zip

There are ATA errors logged for parity, replace cables (power and SATA) and try again.

6 hours ago, JorgeB said:

There are ATA errors logged for parity, replace cables (power and SATA) and try again.

I'll try swapping those out, I've already tried replugging in those cables in but it could be a dying cable, I'll report back.

On 7/12/2023 at 2:59 AM, JorgeB said:

There are ATA errors logged for parity, replace cables (power and SATA) and try again.

Sorry for the long delay in replying, I did replace the SATA cable and connected a different power connector and that seemed to do the trick. I ran a correcting parity with around a hundred errors then one non-correcting sync which showed 0 errors. This took a few days but it was worth it, thanks!