Hello,
I have a local server. Have 6 drives connected to 9650SE-8LPML and have strange errors.
But, from the beginning. Last year I purchased 6 SATA HDDs. These were unused, but manufacturing dated to 2014 (6x Hitachi HUS724040AL)
Since i set up RAID i had issues, random drives disconnecting. And - what seems strange - they seem to spinup, and later i can hear like some of them are slowing and spinning up again (hard to say which ones, since these are in bunch).
I'm wondering if it's power problem, or drive problem. Don't think it's SATA cable problem, since I replaced old sff 8087 with new ones, and problem persits.
Since it's 3ware controller, I can't access SMART that easy... (haven't figured how yet).
After installing 3ware utility to check, I first saw something like this:
So problem is on ports 5,6,7. I thought that changing cable maybe could work, so I replaced one cable (reconnected drive from port 7 to port 2 - only this one). After booting up system I had table like this:
But after few hours... bang
So basically, disk switched from port 7 to 2 is again causing problems.
I have 2 cables plugged into controller: ports 0-3 - Cable 1 (red cable) and ports 4-7 - Cable 2 (blue cable).
Ports 4,5,6,and 7 (now 2) are connected with same SATA power cable (split cable connected to MOLEX), rest is connected directly to PSU.
Wondering what could be the cause of this. Am I unlucky and 3 out of 6 drives are failing? These are working like 6-8 months only. Problems are from almost beginning.
Or could these be used and someone reset SMART statistics? (checked them before putting into RAID, and were fine)
PS: In status I once saw SMART error in Status field.
Edit: Inspected now, and i can see:
I have a local server. Have 6 drives connected to 9650SE-8LPML and have strange errors.
But, from the beginning. Last year I purchased 6 SATA HDDs. These were unused, but manufacturing dated to 2014 (6x Hitachi HUS724040AL)
Since i set up RAID i had issues, random drives disconnecting. And - what seems strange - they seem to spinup, and later i can hear like some of them are slowing and spinning up again (hard to say which ones, since these are in bunch).
I'm wondering if it's power problem, or drive problem. Don't think it's SATA cable problem, since I replaced old sff 8087 with new ones, and problem persits.
Since it's 3ware controller, I can't access SMART that easy... (haven't figured how yet).
After installing 3ware utility to check, I first saw something like this:
So problem is on ports 5,6,7. I thought that changing cable maybe could work, so I replaced one cable (reconnected drive from port 7 to port 2 - only this one). After booting up system I had table like this:
But after few hours... bang
So basically, disk switched from port 7 to 2 is again causing problems.
I have 2 cables plugged into controller: ports 0-3 - Cable 1 (red cable) and ports 4-7 - Cable 2 (blue cable).
Ports 4,5,6,and 7 (now 2) are connected with same SATA power cable (split cable connected to MOLEX), rest is connected directly to PSU.
Wondering what could be the cause of this. Am I unlucky and 3 out of 6 drives are failing? These are working like 6-8 months only. Problems are from almost beginning.
Or could these be used and someone reset SMART statistics? (checked them before putting into RAID, and were fine)
PS: In status I once saw SMART error in Status field.
Edit: Inspected now, and i can see:
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