July 14, 2025Jul 14 Disk 13 of 13 in my array has failed now for the third time. The first time, it seemed completely dead, even though it was less than a year old. I did a warranty replacement, and that replacement was DOA, so they sent me another one. That one has been back in for about a month now, and after a recent server crash (not sure what happened yet), Disk 13 is once again saying it's dead.At this point, I'm thinking it's something else. My only thoughts are that either the cable has gone bad or the LSI card has gone bad. SMART short self-test completed without error. Here's my setup:Case: Fractal Design Define 7 XL in the storage configCPU: i7-13700kRAM: 64GB DDR5Mobo: MSI Z790-P WifiLSI: 2x LSI 6Gbps SAS HBA LSI 9211-8i from theartofserver on ebayCables: 4x Cable Matters Internal Mini SAS to SATA CableHDD: Seagate Ironwolf 12TBAny thoughts? tower-diagnostics-20250713-2129.zip
July 14, 2025Jul 14 Author 6 hours ago, JorgeB said:disk has pending sectors; run an extended SMART test.Extended SMART test failed immediately with "read failure". It just seems really odd that the same connection has had two failed HDDs back to back like this...
July 14, 2025Jul 14 Community Expert That is a physical disk failure, though I've seen in some rare cases disks getting physical damage from a bad power connector; but you typically hear the disk spinning up and down or amking some clicks.
July 14, 2025Jul 14 Author Interesting. It's being powered by a cable that's also powering three other HDDs, which have had no issues. I guess for now I'll try another RMA and we'll see what happens! Thank you for your help.
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