Question NAS Data Tranfer Error

[noluck4]

It is as says. Anytime I move or copy large files or collections I get "Data Transfer Error Disc 1 sector..." It gives sectors. I even get sector 0 on occasion. Deleted and made a new RAID setup- same thing. Swapped drives around- same thing. Drives around with new setup- same. Its always disc 1. I suspect the NAS is going bad. Drives check out good and error goes away when whatever drive is in slot 1 is reseated. I could slide in a brand new drive and get the same thing.
NAS is an asustor AS5202T all up to date.
Drives have been WD Red their standard NAS drives.

I just want to make sure im thinking correctly it's a NAS issue before junking this thing and spending cash. It should be fallowing a bad drive around and the drives should have errors in my mind.
So junk it or keep trying?

 

[kanewolf]

It is as says. Anytime I move or copy large files or collections I get "Data Transfer Error Disc 1 sector..." It gives sectors. I even get sector 0 on occasion. Deleted and made a new RAID setup- same thing. Swapped drives around- same thing. Drives around with new setup- same. Its always disc 1. I suspect the NAS is going bad. Drives check out good and error goes away when whatever drive is in slot 1 is reseated. I could slide in a brand new drive and get the same thing.
NAS is an asustor AS5202T all up to date.
Drives have been WD Red their standard NAS drives.

I just want to make sure im thinking correctly it's a NAS issue before junking this thing and spending cash. It should be fallowing a bad drive around and the drives should have errors in my mind.
So junk it or keep trying?

Does that NAS have RAM that can be replaced? If so, I would look at that as the first possibility.

 

[Misgar]

Drives check out good

Before assigning any drives to a NAS, regardless of age, I run a full surface scan in Hard Disk Sentinel. This takes roughly 11 hours for an 6TB hard disk, but it provides some assurance the drives are OK.
https://www.hdsentinel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10709

If you're getting errors on Disk 1, I suggest moving it to a desktop system and run some long SMART tests. I find Hard Disk Sentinel easier.
https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/SMART_tests_with_smartctl

 

[noluck4]

Before assigning any drives to a NAS, regardless of age, I run a full surface scan in Hard Disk Sentinel. This takes roughly 11 hours for an 6TB hard disk, but it provides some assurance the drives are OK.
https://www.hdsentinel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10709

If you're getting errors on Disk 1, I suggest moving it to a desktop system and run some long SMART tests. I find Hard Disk Sentinel easier.
https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/SMART_tests_with_smartctl

I ran tests and they test good with no bad sectors or anything. Im suspecting theres a problem with that slot or how that slot is accessing something. Like memory or controller. I am going to do the memory swap suggested above. Part of me thinks this thing is 2 years old its time to trash it and get something new and not Asus related. I did also try to copy files over with USB and same thing.

 

[noluck4]

They test good in my desktop.

Does that NAS have RAM that can be replaced? If so, I would look at that as the first possibility.

I was going to say your idea may have fixed it. But it just crapped out as I was going to post. 😆 Irish luck here for sure. Im tempted to buy an Aoostar and make it up. Or take a desktop that has fairly modern hardware and not doing anything and give it new life as a NAS/home server. It has lots of drive bays so it would be a total beast.

 

[Misgar]

Or take a desktop that has fairly modern hardware and not doing anything and give it new life as a NAS/home server. It has lots of drive bays so it would be a total beast.

Consider TrueNAS Core. I run 8-disk RAID-Z2 arrays in old PCs. I recommend at least 16GB system RAM, but even an ancient AMD FM2 CPU will suffice for a basic system.
https://www.truenas.com/truenas-core/

I use LSI SAS HBA controller cards (flashed with IT-mode firmware). if the mobo runs out of SATA ports.
https://www.amazon.com/SVNXINGTII-9207-8i-FreeNAS-unRAID-SFF-8087/dp/B0BXPWJLM6