September 13, 20169 yr I have an older Tyan 29xx server...supports SATA II. It runs with 6 older 1 TB RE3 WD drives. runs great, stable no issues, great up time Im tired of buying ebay drives witha short life span, as they already ussually have 3 years on them already and will fail, and i feel locked into these, just want to get something newer working in server. I have bought close to 10 drives, in the sizes for 2, 3, and 4 TB.... Seagate, WD Reds, knocks offs, and Greens, and others. Everytime I get one of these I do a preclear in a newer tower....it will preclear as many times as i want it to no issues....5 preclears in row, no issue.. Every time i stick one of these "newer drives" in my server it tanks......will fail the drive as faulty....and i cry some times locking the web interface.....but it will always fail Here is the diag logs from my last attempt.... Any hope? Is it just not compatible with newer drives, even though sata is backwards compatible. This will be last thread on the topic, and i'll fall back into the world of lurkers and search out a new piece of hardware as this one is doomed.... :'( tower-diagnostics-20160913-1558.zip
September 13, 20169 yr Check for BIOS update and also think about whether it could be a cabling or SATA port issue. Having said all that, it may just not be able to handle bigger drives. Although I would have expected the 2TB ones to be ok....
September 13, 20169 yr Author Server uses drive trays, its a full out rack mount server.....I have removed the 4 TB drive swapped back in the 1 TB drive and all is good again.....so i dont suspect a bad port or cable....as i have been repeating this scenario for moths now....still no closer to getting a larger drive working in the server
September 13, 20169 yr Community Expert It looks to me a Nvidia controller incompatibility, you could always get a 4 or 8 port controller and avoid replacing the board for now.
September 13, 20169 yr Author i would love to keep this dog running.....it has some pci slots in back, is there a half height 4 port controller that you would suggest? also im out of drive bays in the server, so would you u use something like a esata cable connected to an icydock?
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September 13, 20169 yr Community Expert If 4 ports are enough you can get the Adaptec 1430SA for like 20$ on ebay, they work great with unRAID, just make sure it's using the latest firmware, needed for >2TB support.
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