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Errantpixel
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Dec 09, 2011

Read timeouts, Obvious drive ticking -- no logs, no SMART

I have an Ultra 6 with 4 2Tb Barracuda LP's installed.

Lately I've noticed some pauses in streaming reads from the NAS (my iTunes library is hosted on it) associated with an obvious head ticking from one of the drives.

The problem is, I can't ID which drive is bad from the logs or GUI. All of the SMART data checks out, I ran the extended SMART tests from the boot menu -- nothing. There are no errors in the logs to indicate failure.

The Pause/Ticking is happening with increasing regularity, and I'd really rather avoid an emergency situation. Does anyone have any tips for locating which drive is going, without methodically swapping each one out?

Status page:

	Device 	Description 	 	Status 
Disk 1 Seagate ST32000542AS 1863 GB , 38 C / 100 F , Write-cache ON OK
Disk 2 Seagate ST32000542AS 1863 GB , 38 C / 100 F , Write-cache ON OK
Disk 3 Seagate ST32000542AS 1863 GB , 36 C / 96 F , Write-cache ON OK
Disk 4 Seagate ST32000542AS 1863 GB , 35 C / 95 F , Write-cache ON OK
Fan SYS2 897 RPM OK
Temp CPU 24 C / 75 F [Normal 0-65 C / 32-149 F] OK
Temp SYS 34 C / 93 F [Normal 0-60 C / 32-140 F] OK
UPS 1 APC Back-UPS ES 700, Battery charge: 100%, 55 minutes OK


Details


Model: ReadyNAS Ultra 6 [X-RAID2]
Serial: <redacted>
Firmware: RAIDiator 4.2.19
Memory: 1024 MB [DDR2]

IPv4 address: 1: 192.168.1.197
IPv4 address: 2: Not Connected

Volume C: Online, X-RAID2, 4 disks, 66% of 5548 GB used

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  • You could download SeaTools for Windows, then connect each drive in sequence to an SATA port on your motherboard. Then run the extended test (takes 2 hours) on the drive.
  • Thanks

    Now to find a windows system and a rig with SATA or eSATA ports on it. In a house full of MacBooks and iOS devices. :wink:

    Does anyone know if rooting/ssh'ing the NAS would provide access to something like iostat (-E)? I'm sure there are some transport or hard errors there somewhere that would help ID the failing drive ..

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