Disabled disk - with reports (SOLVED)

[deanathpc]

I'm new to UNRAID and have a lot to learn.  I have this 2 TB disk that has been disabled.  I removed it and put it on my windows system, reformat and tested with some read writes and seems to be fine.  After reading other posts here about the same and reviewing my logs I'm wondering if it's the controller or port on my DL380P G8 server.  I do have another drive coming in, Seagate, but of course Amazon is running behind.

 

Unless of course I'm missing something and this disk is in fact o.k.

 

Thanks in advance.

unraid-diagnostics-20231114-2254.zip

Edited November 17, 2023 by deanathpc
resolved

[itimpi]

Disk6 (which I presume is the problem disk) dropped offline do there is no SMART information about the drive to gauge its health.   It might come back online after the server is power cycled in which case it might come back online so we can get some SMART information from the drive.

 

Normally when a drive is disabled the first suspect is the cabling (power or SATA) to the drive as this is far more common that a drive actually failing.   The syslog in the diagnostics shows the drive dropped offline suddenly with no indication of it previously having problems so it is possible the drive really is faulty rather than it being a cabling issue.   It might be worth putting it through an extended SMART test as if it cannot pass that it needs replacing.

[deanathpc]

Yes it is Disk6. Thank you for the response.  I am attempting to get this drive reactivated now and will attempt an extended smart test to see what I can see.  This is the second drive that has failed so it could very well be the used harder I bought I guess too.

 

I have one of the "failed" drives on another system and have successfully install Linux mint on it to see how well it works, or doesn'.t

[deanathpc]

I will declare this is resolved even though it is not.  I've replaced the disk in question.  I just have my parity disk fault also.  Another WD drive.  I have an SSD coming in (had the fastest ship time) tomorrow and will get that squared away.

 

I will then work on getting bigger hard drives of some better quality and replace everything.  2.5 inch drives proves to be not a lot of choices out there, without breaking the bank.  This is only a test setup but if everything works out well I'll pay for a license and run with it and get a JBOD and get it connected to my server so I can expand with 3.5 inch disks.

[JonathanM]

10 hours ago, deanathpc said:

get a JBOD and get it connected to my server

Make sure you are using SAS connections between the disk enclosure and your server. USB and eSATA aren't ideal, and may cause other issues.

[deanathpc]

15 hours ago, JonathanM said:

Make sure you are using SAS connections between the disk enclosure and your server. USB and eSATA aren't ideal, and may cause other issues.

 

Thank you.  Been looking at these and learning.  So many factors in these it's hard to keep up while in the learning stages.