May 27, 20251 yr A few weeks ago, my server showed errors on disks 2 and 3. After a restart, disk 2 came back fine, but disk 3 was emulated. Both were old 2TB drives, so I replaced disk 3 with a new larger drive and it rebuilt successfully—problem solved, or so I thought.Today, both disks errored again. I found both were connected to an M.2 SATA expansion card. After swapping cables and ports, disk 2 is fine, but disk 3 remains emulated no matter what. I suspect the M.2 card is flaky, especially since I was doing heavy downloads last night, possibly overloading it.I plan to replace it with a PCIe SATA card and new cables. Is it safe to plug the drives into the new card and rebuild disk 3? Any other steps or things I should check?Diagnostics are attached. And yes I know my appdata lives on my drive and that is not good, I was made aware of that after my last topic concerning disk 3 and planned to come back to it, but work got me instead. tower-diagnostics-20250526-1838.zip
May 27, 20251 yr Community Expert 6 hours ago, daydreamingdude said:I plan to replace it with a PCIe SATA card and new cables. Is it safe to plug the drives into the new card and rebuild disk 3?Should be, just make sure the emulated disk is mounting before starting the rebuild.
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