ilovejedd Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 ilovejedd, I am on a 100mbps network (actually using a modem/router from my ISP provider) and I was copying files ranging from a few Kb to 2 Gb in size. Any suggestions? Then those transfer speeds are fine. I guess I forgot to mention that I was on a gigabit network. Maximum throughput you can get on fast ethernet is 12.5MB/s. If you add overhead and take into account that samba isn't really the most efficient protocol there is, 8.5MB/s is normal. Quote Link to comment
RobJ Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Just curious, which drive did you return? Did you run a SMART test on the drive with serial ending in W1H? Forgot to respond earlier, but Brian did. Couple of other comments to add: As you indicated, Tray 2 and Mobo connector #1 do look suspicious. The parity drive (serial ending in 0GT) and Mobo connectors #0, #2, and #5, and Trays 1, 3, and 6 all looked fine, at least from the preliminary testing you did. The parity sync was not a good test for isolating which drive was producing the clicks, because it works both drives. A better test would have been one that only read from or wrote to a single drive. One quick way would be the hdparm speed test: hdparm -tT /dev/sda and hdparm -tT /dev/sdb. It might be too quick to produce clicks though. Quote Link to comment
Lunatic Posted November 5, 2008 Author Share Posted November 5, 2008 Just curious, which drive did you return? Did you run a SMART test on the drive with serial ending in W1H? Forgot to respond earlier, but Brian did. Couple of other comments to add: As you indicated, Tray 2 and Mobo connector #1 do look suspicious. The parity drive (serial ending in 0GT) and Mobo connectors #0, #2, and #5, and Trays 1, 3, and 6 all looked fine, at least from the preliminary testing you did. The parity sync was not a good test for isolating which drive was producing the clicks, because it works both drives. A better test would have been one that only read from or wrote to a single drive. One quick way would be the hdparm speed test: hdparm -tT /dev/sda and hdparm -tT /dev/sdb. It might be too quick to produce clicks though. Rob, I returned the one ending in W1H. I had no problem telling which one was clicking as I isolated them by spacing them out on non adjacent trays and I also tried one at a time. W1H would click as soon as I booted the machine. As for connector #1 on mobo, I currently plugged drive 0GT to it and copied 420 Gb of data to it yesterday. There were no weird noises or errors. It only finished copying this morning, and I would like to test it tonight to make sure the data is ok. Any suggestions? As for when I receive the other drive, I will add it as Parity and see how it goes... Quote Link to comment
Lunatic Posted November 13, 2008 Author Share Posted November 13, 2008 Yay...I have Parity!!! I got my replacement drive yesterday. Installed it, booted and added it as the Parity drive. Went through the Parity-sync for about 7 hours with no errors. After that, I did a Check Parity for another 4.5 hours. This morning everything looked good Thanks for all the help guys Cheers Quote Link to comment
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