Why are readynas killing my drives. just bought 2 new 16TB Segate Ironwolfe NAS drives.. Both killed in progress.. Started out fine.. Then errors appear. Now they work all time. You can hear them work day after day killing the drives.. Normally before update you could only hear them when you backed up or added software to them. I got 3 NAS. Duo V2, NV+ V2 and 104.. All of them have lots of disks dying over the last 13+ years.. But all of the disks died wile upgrading... It's garantie.. but still.. annoying.
The last upgrade. I added 2 16TB Segate Ironwolfe. First one.. all ok, then next.. and the errors started appear in the last added. Removed that and all was ok.. for a day, then that drive started fail.. So now both new drives have a LOT of this.. and work all time.. creating new errors like this:
Disk: Detected increasing ATA error count: [95] on disk 3 (Internal) [ST16000NE000-2RW103, ZL24PVVV] 29 times in the past 30 days. This condition often indicates an impending failure. Be prepared to replace this disk to maintain data redundancy.
Why do the disks breaking down.. All of them was fine before put into the NAS. Checked surface before added..
FWIW, I always test mine with Seatools before adding them to the NAS - doing both the full non-destructive read test, followed by the full erase test (simple overwrite). I've sometimes purchased out-of-the-box disks that pass one of these two tests, but fail the other. And from time to time I've received a batch of bad drives (I suspect due to mishandling during shipment, but of course there is no way to tell for sure).
So I wouldn't assume that the NAS was "killing them", as it is quite possible that they were defective to begin with. Especially if you are seeing these issues in more than one model. That said, ATA errors can be tricky to isolate, as they can be a result of issues with the SATA backplane.
I'd start testing them with Seatools, and exchanging ones with errors with the seller.
