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3 drive failures w/in 10 days of 4.2.22 upgrade? #19570015
Within two days of upgrading my Ultra 6 with 6 2 TB drives in it to 4.2.22, it marked a drive dead. I always keep a spare so I swapped the drive out and completed a cross-ship RMA with Seagate. Befo...
What this means is that when the disk was told to start spinning it failed to reach the operational speed, so the drive (on its own) tried again. Usually it is caused by issues with the mechanical subsystem of the disk (for instance bearings in the motors starting to wear). It seems particularly unlikely that anything in the NAS firmware could provoke this particular problem.
spider2009 wrote: ...Detected increasing spin retry count...
I am wondering if you purchased/installed these drives in the NAS at the same time? Note they are under nearly identical loads (assuming xraid-2). All the drives spin-up/spin-down together. Also RAID spreads the reading/writing across all the drives pretty evenly.
spider2009 wrote: ...for 5 out 6 Seagate drives...
How old are the drives?
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