hello, so randomly UNRAID reports one of my drives fails, but then after a reboot it comes back in Unassigned Disk Devices. So then i check the drive in Hard Disk Senntinel and it doesnt report any issues in SMART or HEALTH. Oh and also did a Surface Test with MiniTool Partition Wiz and it passed with no errors.

Now is my drive really failing or could it be something else? could it be the power connector or SATA cable or SATA port ?

What's a good program to run a proper test and see if my drive is actually good ? i guess once i can verify my drive is good then what should i check first SATA cable? or POWER?

Now i'm starting to think some of my other drives that were reported as failed could be still good, thankfully i kept them all in a box and would like to test each one to make sure i'm not throwing away good drives.

any help would be greatly appreciated

Please post the diagnostics after the drive gets disabled and before rebooting.

Aa for a test, you can run an extended SMART test.

hello JorgeB

Unfortunately i already rebooted by the time i got your reply last week.

I ended up connecting the drive to different set of power and SATA cables. So far so good. Run both SMART tests it passed lets see what happens.

If it fails again i'll get the diagnostics file and remember not to reboot

Thank you for your reply!