December 21, 20241 yr Bought a new 14TB Seagate drive during Black Friday. Did Pre-Clear x2, everything turned out fine. No issues. Hooked it into the server, replacing a 4TB drive (as drive #8), and started the rebuild. For some reason shortly after starting, drive #7 also fell out of sync (I've got double parity). So I stopped, set both up for rebuild, and restarted it. The new drive (#8) started making a chirping noise, and the rebuild was SLOW. Going to bed, I woke up to it being 2% rebuilt. So I stopped it, set #7 to rebuild on its own (it ran a LOT quicker), and moved my new Seagate to my Windows machine, and ran SeaTools on the drive. It checked the whole drive, no issues, no sound. After #7 rebuilt and SeaTools finished scanning, I hooked my new Seagate as #8 again. This time #6 fell out of sync. It ran really slow again. Again, I pulled the new drive and rebuilt #6. During that time, I discovered that there can often be problems with Seagate drives with auto-head parking. I ran the tool to fix that issue. Now #6 is done rebuilding and I plugged #8 back in again. This time nothing fell out of sync! But again, I've got this chirping noise that only occurs when I'm rebuilding, and it's slow (4 hours and I'm at .7% - so a rebuild will take... 24 days?). I've attached a video of what the noise sounds like. Does anyone have any ideas why it's chirping and it's so slow? Hard Drive Sound.MP4 Edited December 21, 20241 yr by Jeff in Indy Incomplete.
December 21, 20241 yr Community Expert I might suggest that you provide the full model number of the drive. (It might provide some clue as to what is going on...)
December 22, 20241 yr Author Here's the CrystalDisk Info, if that'll help: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskInfo 9.5.0 (C) 2008-2024 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World: https://crystalmark.info/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (06) ST14000NM0121 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model : ST14000NM0121 Firmware : SN01 Disk Size : 14000.5 GB (8.4/137.4/14000.5/14000.5) Buffer Size : Unknown Queue Depth : 32 # of Sectors : 27344764928 Rotation Rate : 7200 RPM Interface : Serial ATA Major Version : ACS-4 Minor Version : ---- Transfer Mode : SATA/600 | SATA/600 Power On Hours : 291 hours Power On Count : 9754 count Temperature : 29 C (84 F) Health Status : Good Features : S.M.A.R.T., NCQ, GPL APM Level : ---- AAM Level : ---- Drive Letter : -- S.M.A.R.T. -------------------------------------------------------------- ID Cur Wor Thr RawValues(6) Attribute Name 01 _82 _64 _44 00000898D269 Read Error Rate 03 _96 _94 __0 000000000000 Spin-Up Time 04 _91 _91 _20 00000000261A Start/Stop Count 05 100 100 _10 000000000000 Reallocated Sectors Count 07 _79 _60 _30 0000045A9886 Seek Error Rate 09 100 100 __0 000000000123 Power-On Hours 0A 100 100 _97 000000000000 Spin Retry Count 0C _91 _91 _20 00000000261A Power Cycle Count 12 100 100 _50 000000000000 Vendor Specific BB 100 100 __0 000000000000 Reported Uncorrectable Errors BC 100 100 __0 000000000000 Command Timeout BE _71 _44 __0 00001D1B001D Airflow Temperature C0 _96 _96 __0 000000002615 Power-off Retract Count C1 _96 _96 __0 00000000269D Load/Unload Cycle Count C2 _29 _56 __0 00110000001D Temperature C5 100 100 __0 000000000000 Current Pending Sector Count C6 100 100 __0 000000000000 Uncorrectable Sector Count C7 200 200 __0 000000000000 UltraDMA CRC Error Count C8 100 100 __1 000000000000 Write Error Rate F0 100 100 __0 344E000000BF Head Flying Hours F1 100 253 __0 00138E2F646F Total Host Writes F2 100 253 __0 0018A54EA75D Total Host Reads
December 22, 20241 yr Community Expert Are you using power splitters on the server as they can cause problems? Are you sure your PSU can handle the required load?
December 22, 20241 yr Author 8 hours ago, JorgeB said: It looks like a power/connection problem with the server If you're getting that from the log, that log was obtained while it was plugged into my Windows machine.
December 22, 20241 yr Author 7 hours ago, itimpi said: Are you using power splitters on the server as they can cause problems? Are you sure your PSU can handle the required load? My UPS load is at 127W. This drive replaced a 4TB that had no problems at all, so unless this hard drive has more power consumption than the last one, it didn't change. I wasn't seeing any errors about losing connection to the drive, but I'm not sure. I DO know that my #6 drive has connection issues, it fell out of sync again. When my new one finishes rebuilding, I'm going to swap cables. The server has been up for 26 hours, and the rebuild is at 22%. So it is getting better, and I'm not hearing the chirping as often. So maybe it will resolve itself.
December 23, 20241 yr Community Expert 15 hours ago, Jeff in Indy said: If you're getting that from the log You didn't post any logs, it's based on the description
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