I recently started hearing a random (every 10 minutes or so) double beep sound coming from my server. I ran a parity check, and it came back with 0 errors. I ran a SMART report on all my drives, and the "Reallocated_Sector_Ct" and "Current_Pending_Sector" are 0 for all 7 drives. The temps are normal as well, so I'm not sure how else to find out what the noise is?

 

I've attached the syslog & SMART reports here. Any help with finding this out would be greatly appreciated. I just don't want to lose any data unnecessarily, if it's something I can fix before a drive failure. I just built this server 4 months ago using brand new parts. The drives are of varying ages though. I've already replaced 3 drives due to failure, but that was always prompted by red balls on the main GUI page.

 

Thanks in advance to anyone that can help me figure this out.

 

Matt

syslog__SMART_reports_5-3-14.zip

Don't know about the beep. Hopefully a guru can chime in, but 3 drives in 4 months?

 

Do you have a big enough and/or quality power supply.

 

 

 

 

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Sorry, I should have been more clear about this. I've been using Unraid for a few years, but just recently upgraded my case, mobo, RAM, CPU, and PSU. I transferred the drives from my old case to the new one. The 3 drives failed over the course of a few years, randomly. 2 were replaced under warranty. The other was out of warranty, and I haven't needed to replace it yet.

 

My Corsair CX500 PSU is overkill (or future proof-however you want to look at it).

 

Here is what Kill-A-Watt reports for power usage on my server:

 

Boot (peak): 175 W

Idle (avg): 57.3 W

Active (avg): 97.3 W

Light use (avg): 61.2 W

 

 

Here's a link to my build page, if that helps:

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=30840.msg277352#msg277352

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Matt

I'm not great at Linux, and see in your syslog a bunch of statfs errors...

 

But, I'm betting your CPU's temperature is exceding the limits you've set in the BIOS for warning level.

 

While I'm not so great at Linux's command to read the current temp (although unmenu and simplefeatures, etc include options for this), one way to tell would be increase the warning level or disable it in the BIOS and see if that makes a difference with the frequency of the beeps.

 

(I had an A10 6800 in my desktop for a while and it did the same thing)

 

AMD's stock fan with this APU is marginal.  You should either get a case with better cooling, or get a better cpu fan.

AMD's stock fan with this APU is marginal.  You should either get a case with better cooling, or get a better cpu fan.

 

I wish it were that simple of a fix, but unfortunately (or fortunately...) my CPU is not hot at all. I took off the side of the case to check things out, and could hear the beep. It is not coming from the mobo speaker. Also, I could hear a faint mechanical click before and after each beep.

 

I did a clean shutdown and booted into the bios to check my CPU temp. It said 48, and all the warnings are disabled by default:

 

 

I'm pretty sure the case fans are moving plenty of air. All 7 of my drives are consistently in the low to mid 30s.

 

Thank you very much for helping though. The beep seems to be coming from one of the drives, but how do I figure out which one, without unplugging one at a time. The beeping happens whether they are spun up or down.

 

 

See if it is coming from one of your HDDs.

See if it is coming from one of your HDDs.

 

I have never heard a drive beep. As far as I know it has no speaker.  If a drive is making a noise besides a swooshing sound, it is usually mechanical and a bad thing (like a click)!

 

Perhaps a controller could have a speaker, but as far as I know the only thing inside a computer that normally can beep is the motherboard.

See if it is coming from one of your HDDs.

 

I have never heard a drive beep. As far as I know it has no speaker.  If a drive is making a noise besides a swooshing sound, it is usually mechanical and a bad thing (like a click)!

 

Perhaps a controller could have a speaker, but as far as I know the only thing inside a computer that normally can beep is the motherboard.

 

I've heard drive's beep... I believe it is on some controllers, it is usually on a drive already failed or pending failure. I must admit in my experience this has been on 2.5" drives, although I would say I work on significantly more 2.5" drives than 3.5" so I'm sure it will happen on both. Also it's usually a feature of older drives, generally it was IDE drives that used to do this but some of the early SATA ones do as well.

 

I've worked in IT support for 10 years and work with a fleet of over 5,000 desktops and laptops. It's rare but it happens, usually hear it when I am performing data recovery using an external drive caddy.

 

See if it is coming from one of your HDDs.

 

I have never heard a drive beep. As far as I know it has no speaker.  If a drive is making a noise besides a swooshing sound, it is usually mechanical and a bad thing (like a click)!

 

Perhaps a controller could have a speaker, but as far as I know the only thing inside a computer that normally can beep is the motherboard.

 

I've heard drive's beep... I believe it is on some controllers, it is usually on a drive already failed or pending failure. I must admit in my experience this has been on 2.5" drives, although I would say I work on significantly more 2.5" drives than 3.5" so I'm sure it will happen on both. Also it's usually a feature of older drives, generally it was IDE drives that used to do this but some of the early SATA ones do as well.

 

I've worked in IT support for 10 years and work with a fleet of over 5,000 desktops and laptops. It's rare but it happens, usually hear it when I am performing data recovery using an external drive caddy.

 

Just for my own curiosity! Are we talking about a beep from a speaker or piezo or maybe an whine from a failing bearing on the platter shaft that sounds like a beep for an instant or double instant in this case.

 

 

 

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I actually don't know exactly, it sounds like a much quieter BIOS beep and usually it sounds like it's actually coming from inside the enclosure. It sounds like a speaker, but I am only speaking from the point of a view of having heard it a few times on different drives. I'm not qualified to really clarify what it is because I don't know!

 

What I would say is it is usually accompanied by a clicking sound, you hear the click and then the drive beeps. But I usually have these drives on a table in font of me in the open. Inside a case alongside a whole load of other drives is not going to make for an easy diagnosis!

There was a similar thread last August: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=29076.msg260834#msg260834. It was a Seagate drive and Advanced Power Management had to be turned off through hdparm. Does this help?

There was a similar thread last August: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=29076.msg260834#msg260834. It was a Seagate drive and Advanced Power Management had to be turned off through hdparm. Does this help?

Which was why I made my suggestion.  I knew I saw a thread just didn't remember where.  Thanks for the reminder link.  Probably wouldn't found it even if I had done a search.

Wow! Thanks for all the replies, folks. This forum is a wealth of knowledge, as always!

 

I do have a few Seagate drives, but like Poprin points out, it's hard to diagnose with all the drives stacked in the case.

 

2 things I do know:

 

• It's not coming from the tiny speaker that's plugged into the motherboard. I put my ear right up to it, and when it beeped, it was clearly not the speaker.
  
• Like Poprin described, it's accompanied by a faint mechanical click sound. Like this: "Click-beep-click" -- repeat.
  

 

I was hoping the log & SMART reports would reveal something, but I'm way too much of a newb to interpret the output files. Like the OP states, the 3 things the Wiki says to pay attention to look normal. I can't speak for the rest of the data.

 

Matt

I hate it when drives go 'click'. I've never had it be good news.