I second this. SATA cables are cheaply made and can present issues that seem to indicate drive failure.
Comment on đłď¸(TrueNAS) Is my drive dying and should be replaced?đłď¸
frongt@lemmy.zip â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Not necessarily. I would shut the system down completely and check the drive connectors. If itâs on a backplane, try swapping slots, or if itâs breakout connector, swap it with another drive (and clear the zpool errors). If the errors start happening on the other drive, itâs a cable problem. If they continue on the same drive, itâs a drive problem. If they stop happening, it was a bad connection and it ought to be fine now.
Thatâs kind of a short output from smartctl -a, though. Shouldnât it include the attribute data? Iâd run a smart test (after doing the swap above) and see what it says.
On a raidz2, I wouldnât be too concerned about losing a drive, but you should always be prepared to order a replacement if you value your data.
s38b35M5@lemmy.world â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Had this issue once, 2 drives kept not initializing during boot, rebooting a few times got them to register but showed drive errors. I thought either the drives or my SAS card was dying. Fully reseating the connectors fixed it and havenât had an issue since.
frongt@lemmy.zip â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
OP is using SAS, but itâs not too far from SATA.
s38b35M5@lemmy.world â¨4⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Good catch. I donât usually see SAS as /dev/sd* so I assumed. Same basic cables, though *usually better made.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
I would bet money that drive is done. Cable would be udma crc errors, not media failure. Drive made it 11 years (even if power on time is only about half of that)