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Disk failure detected.
Hi, I have a new Ultra 4 (running 4.2.16). A few hours after sync finished on the second disk (only two installed) I got a disk failure warning. Both drives in the array were new (they had been in ...
It is a Seagate/ST2000DL003-9VT166/2TB/CC32. Unfortunately I cannot run the seagate tools, I'm a Mac user.
As a side note, I originally had this drive and an identical one in an NV+. I was getting poor read/write performance over wired gigabit ethernet (no better than wireless) and resyncs were taking 12-14 hours. I blamed the slow processor in the NV+, returned it and upgraded to the Ultra 4.
Strangely performance was not much better, resync took just as long. But after the reported drive failure I ended up with the other ST2000DL003 and a new ST32000542AS. The resync of the ST32000542AS took 7 hours and R/W performance over GE more than doubled.
I'm returning the suspect ST2000DL003 and getting a replacement though. I don't think I have the time to round up a PC. The ST32000542AS is reporting enormous reallocated sector counts (it has grown from 21 yesterday, to 251 this morning to 789 at present) so I'm expecting it to also fail.
Is a 66% failure rate in two weeks typical? Sure hope it is just bad luck.
Thanks,
Bill
As a side note, I originally had this drive and an identical one in an NV+. I was getting poor read/write performance over wired gigabit ethernet (no better than wireless) and resyncs were taking 12-14 hours. I blamed the slow processor in the NV+, returned it and upgraded to the Ultra 4.
Strangely performance was not much better, resync took just as long. But after the reported drive failure I ended up with the other ST2000DL003 and a new ST32000542AS. The resync of the ST32000542AS took 7 hours and R/W performance over GE more than doubled.
I'm returning the suspect ST2000DL003 and getting a replacement though. I don't think I have the time to round up a PC. The ST32000542AS is reporting enormous reallocated sector counts (it has grown from 21 yesterday, to 251 this morning to 789 at present) so I'm expecting it to also fail.
Is a 66% failure rate in two weeks typical? Sure hope it is just bad luck.
Thanks,
Bill
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