October 26, 20241 yr Two of my drives needed to be repaired because they became disabled, and I just had to remove and re-add then to queue the rebuild. The drives are practically brand new and even when I replaced them with another good drive, but they still had a slow rebuild speed. So, I replaced all the SATA cables with new ones, and I still have the same problem (this has happened before, so I got desperate). I know in the past there was some approved sata cards that I added to my setup, but I wanted to make sure I did not have something in my setup that is not good. So here goes: I have two of these: and two of these: Benchmark docker also shows the following: Any help is appreciated!
October 26, 20241 yr Author tower-diagnostics-20241025-2051.zipHere are the diagnostics for my server.
October 26, 20241 yr Community Expert There are issues with multiple disks, check connections and post new diags after starting the rebuild.
October 27, 20241 yr Author On 10/26/2024 at 3:02 AM, JorgeB said: There are issues with multiple disks, check connections and post new diags after starting the rebuild. tower-diagnostics-20241027-1331.zip Does this work better?
October 28, 20241 yr Community Expert Still errors, but just one disk for now, disk5, swap both power and SATA cables with a different disk.
October 29, 20241 yr Author 16 hours ago, JorgeB said: Still errors, but just one disk for now, disk5, swap both power and SATA cables with a different disk. I replaced the SATA cable with a new one and switched the power cable with another drive. The issue is still the same.tower-diagnostics-20241028-1959.zip
October 29, 20241 yr Community Expert Now errors on disk2, is that the one that had the cable swapped?
October 29, 20241 yr Author 6 hours ago, JorgeB said: Now errors on disk2, is that the one that had the cable swapped? No I swapped it with Disk 4 for the power cable and used another SATA port and a new sata cable on disk 5. I have a theory; I am using one of the two Asus PCIE cards (I posted about in the first thread) to house the nvme to sata cards. Would that cause these issues?
October 29, 20241 yr Community Expert Seems unlikely to me, possibly a PSU problem, are you using splitters?
October 29, 20241 yr Author 2 hours ago, JorgeB said: Seems unlikely to me, possibly a PSU problem, are you using splitters? Yes I am using a splitter. The PSU is a 1200watt psu so I assumed that power was not a problem but you might be on to something. I am using two splitters for my pSATA.
October 29, 20241 yr Community Expert Solution 11 minutes ago, ONI said: Yes I am using a splitter. The PSU is a 1200watt psu so I assumed that power was not a problem but you might be on to something. I am using two splitters for my pSATA. If using splitters you should make sure that a SATA connector is not split more than 2 ways. With Molex connectors (which are more robust) you can normally split these 4 ways without issues.
October 30, 20241 yr Author 6 hours ago, itimpi said: If using splitters you should make sure that a SATA connector is not split more than 2 ways. With Molex connectors (which are more robust) you can normally split these 4 ways without issues. You nailed it. I used more than one splitter on one of my cables. I removed it and reoganized some pSATA cables and I'm back to full speed. Thanks.
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