Thanks for drchips and the old school builds I needed. Well after a bunch if not working beers etc.

I touched the heat sinks on the my supermicro sata cards and well they were hot, I figured humm

maybe that was the issue, as the rebuild started fast then after a day would stop at 1 percent or less.

Some beers later I thought maybe heat was the issue (I have a norco case with 17 drives humming along}

so I pulled out a 120 and and 80 fan for top and back blowing on the sata cards) well now I am at 4% on the rebuild

when I would always time out at less that 1% so not saying that power supply etc is wrong to look at, but check the cooling on your cards.

My Norco is a passive cooled case and I never had an issue until I needed to replace/rebuild a hd. So learn

from my many beers on a possible fix. HEAT KILLS.

thanks will update

life is still good at 8.8% maybe the easiest solutions are the best ones. Just saying. I read the forums and was thinking the worst.

at 20.4% so looks like the fans have done the trick.

The heat on the sata cards was killing the rebuild.

will up date went rebuild when finished.

quite good as I was thinking my server was sol.

 

well life is now good!!!! Rebuild is finished and the server is up and back to it's old self. Surprising what a couple of fans can do.

thanks