December 15, 20241 yr I've added and replaced drives in the past but they were all already formated within windows. A drive failed recently and I'm now replacing it with a new WD Red Plus 8 TB drive. The drive I ordered is here https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CMQ6SK7W?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title I plugged in the drive and unraid would not detect the drive. I believe I had a faulty sata data cable and replaced it. I also Added a molex to sata power cable to resolve the sata 3rd 3.3v pin being an issue. After making these changes now my unraid machine will not complete boot up. It's been a couple hours and the machine has not boot up. Is it normal for new unformated disks to perform some kind of zeroing out process or formating when first installed? Hardware: Model:Custom M/B:ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. PRIME A520M-A II Version Rev X.0x - s/n: 210180524100050 BIOS:American Megatrends Inc. Version 2423. Dated: 08/10/2021 CPU:AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core @ 3200 MHz HVM:Enabled IOMMU:Enabled Cache:768 KiB, 4 MB, 16 MB Memory:32 GiB DDR4 (max. installable capacity 128 GiB) Network:bond0: fault-tolerance (active-backup), mtu 1500 Kernel:Linux 5.19.17-Unraid x86_64 OpenSSL:1.1.1s GPU: Gigabyte 5700XT Gaming OC Edited December 15, 20241 yr by Roosteyr Added information.
December 15, 20241 yr Community Expert The drive should not normally affect booting. Is the drive being detected at the BIOS level? If you remove the drive does the system then boot again? How many drives do you have attached? What version of Unraid?
December 16, 20241 yr Author I'm 2x 4tb 1x 8tb 1x 500GB cache and 8tb parity drive. The 8tb drive failed. I'm running unraid version 6.12.11. I did some troubling shooting today and somehow I got unraid booting with all 4 connected. The replacement drive was still not showing up. I looked at bios and all 4 drives showed but the replacement was showing as a 0.0 GB drive. I disconnected all drives but the replacement drive and booted with a windows install usb. This also shows the replacement drive as 0.0 GB. I think I'm dealing with a lemon. I'm gonna throw it in my pc and run some WD utilities to test the drive tomorrow.
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