ccb87 Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 I'm building up my first unraid array and I have a bunch of old empty hard drives. 4 of them have SMART errors. Are all 4 dead or can I continue using them for 2-3 months until I replace them over the holidays? The array is still building now so everything is empty if I need to trash a hard drive. I've got a bunch of externals connected but it is not seeing the ones attached to an USB hub. Do they need to be directly connected for unraid to see them? I'm attaching my diagnostics file for troubleshooting. Thanks husky-diagnostics-20201107-1615.zip Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 USB connections are too unreliable for use in the parity array or cache. On mobile now will look at Diagnostics later. Quote Link to comment
ccb87 Posted November 7, 2020 Author Share Posted November 7, 2020 For the externals I was planning to use them as unassigned devices but the ones on the hub can't be seen by unraid. I know they work on the hub connected to this computer with another operating system. I do have one external in the array just to tinker with before I actually set up the server to use. Quote Link to comment
Michael_P Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 sdn and sdi don't look happy and should be replaced, sdl looks about the same vintage so is likely to follow suit. I wouldn't trust any of those as Seagates have always failed with data loss for me (saved by backups of course) Quote Link to comment
ccb87 Posted November 8, 2020 Author Share Posted November 8, 2020 I can see that sdn is pretty much dead but the other ones are still showing "PASSED" for the SMART checks. How can you tell if the hard drive is failing or not? Quote Link to comment
Decto Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 4 hours ago, ccb87 said: I can see that sdn is pretty much dead but the other ones are still showing "PASSED" for the SMART checks. How can you tell if the hard drive is failing or not? sdl is having issues with Hardware_ECC_Recovered errors, 006/100 is very low, also Raw_Read_Error_Rate and Seek_Error_Rate below 100 would indicate deterioration. ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAGS VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate POSR-- 083 064 044 - 196122632 7 Seek_Error_Rate POSR-- 091 060 045 - 1254905430 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered -O-RC- 006 001 000 - 196122632 sdi doesn't look too bad yet, but given you have 2 similar drives, one of which has failed, and the second deteriorated I'd be keeping a close eye and checking I have backups. Drives tend to either fail early due to manufacturing faults or run until they are mechanically worn out. At 3 years only and as NAS drives, it does seem a little odd though amazon.com has quite a few 1* reviews saying multiple drives failed around warranty ~3 years. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 2 hours ago, Decto said: sdl is having issues with Hardware_ECC_Recovered errors, 006/100 is very low, also Raw_Read_Error_Rate and Seek_Error_Rate below 100 would indicate deterioration. ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAGS VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate POSR-- 083 064 044 - 196122632 7 Seek_Error_Rate POSR-- 091 060 045 - 1254905430 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered -O-RC- 006 001 000 - 196122632 That's normal for Seagate drives, more info here. Quote Link to comment
Michael_P Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 7 hours ago, ccb87 said: I can see that sdn is pretty much dead but the other ones are still showing "PASSED" for the SMART checks. How can you tell if the hard drive is failing or not? Dead giveaway is reallocated sectors and un-correctable sectors 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct PO--CK 001 001 010 NOW 64880 (0 5) 197 Current_Pending_Sector -O--C- 099 099 000 - 656 198 Offline_Uncorrectable ----C- 099 099 000 - 656 Anything more than zero is cause for concern and for me is a candidate for immediate replacement - doubly so in the case of Seagate drives, which for me at least, have never failed gracefully allowing data to be retrieved (always lose a few files here and there, if not the whole drive's contents). Quote Link to comment
ccb87 Posted November 9, 2020 Author Share Posted November 9, 2020 Okay, I will dump the Seagates and get some new ones in there. Thanks for the help Quote Link to comment
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