Questions tagged [drive-failure]
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Did I just watch my NVMe drive fail? Or possibly my motherboard?
Update: SOLVED
Seems that the drive was in fact the issue. By keeping it very cool and moving very slowly and taking breaks, I was able to recover all of its data one file at a time. Thanks all for ...
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HDD failed, but can PCB replacement fix it?
My WD RED WD80EFAX HDD suddenly died last week: I shut down my Proxmox server, booted it up again and the drive started "clicking". It was clicking for a while, until it stopped and no ...
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Should I 'run in' one disk of a new RAID 1 pair to decrease the chance of a similar failure time?
I'm setting up a RAID1 array of two new 4TB hard drives.
I heard somewhere previously, that making a RAID1 array of new identical hard drives bought at the same time, increased the chance that they ...
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RAID1 drive vanished, but could be re-added after reboot. Should I be worried?
I am running Debian 12 with an MD RAID1 array (2 drives) for my personal data (no system files on array).
Today I got a mail from mdadm about a DegradedArray event, during a time where my drives are ...
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Resetting SMART on an SSD (hours powered on)
We've been bitten by a known issue on SanDisk SSDs (Dell or HPE branded) where they hard fail after a certain number of hours powered on - 32768 or 40000 depending on the specific model. Is there a ...
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Penguin server won't boot after swapping failed hard drive in RAID 6
So I have a Penguin Relion 1900 1U rack mounted server running CentOS 7 that recently had a hard disk failure. It had 4 hard drives configured in RAID 6. To replace the failed HDD, I powered off the ...
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ZFS keeps repairing the same disk when scrubbing - what does that mean?
I have a ZFS pool comprised of 6 disk, arranged in 3 stripped mirrors. The server is a Supermicro X11SSM-F with a Xeon CPU, 32 GB of ECC RAM running Ubuntu 17.04. I'm using 2 Icy Dock MB154SP-B to ...
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recovering raid5 from 3 working drives, one has a read error
i had 4 drives, lost one drive before, and now another drive was reported by the qnap web gui as having a read error (i did a bad block scan).
now i want to insert a new drive, in the lost drive's ...
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Dealing with CONFIG FAILURE on fresh drive (3ware / LSI RAID)
This is not about DRIVE failure. It's about drive CONFIG failure.
I bought 3 brand new drives for my server, because existing ones have worked for over 4 years and one of them is failing (shows ECC ...
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What's the normal order of messages in dmesg when a USB HDD is failing?
I have a USB hard drive attached to a Debian GNU/Linux server. I'm trying to format it (NTFS), with this command:
# mkntfs -v /dev/sdd1
which takes a few hours, because it checks the disk too. While ...
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How to change / replace a failed "system" disk on EMC Clariion CX500?
On the first DAE, the first 5 disks are considered "special" because they host the OS of the storage array.
One of those 5 disks is faulty : what is the procedure to change it?
By the way, what ...
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Drive failed or can be still used?
I've the following WD drive (3TB) that gave me a problem (I was unable to access any file: even an ls command on it caused a never ending wait).
Here some details on the disk:
Disk /dev/sda: 2.7 TiB, ...
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Disk issues: irq_stat 0x20000000, host bus error
When copying large files (50+GB) from an NVMe disk to a SATA 7200rpm HDD disk I see the following error in the logs on a fully patched Ubuntu 20.04:
Aug 08 00:45:59 host kernel: ata6.00: exception ...
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desperate attempt to head off RAID 0 failure, can i copy a disk with dd?
A colleague has been using a 10TB RAID 0 array to edit a film. He suddenly realized it's 98% full. The array has started seriously acting up, but cooperates grudgingly if you shut down all processes ...
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How Can I Understand this Vendor-Specific SMART Attribute?
There are two contexts for this question, a general and a specific.
Generally, how does one find the meaning for vendor-specific S.M.A.R.T. attributes? I have searched the web high and low but found ...
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Recover data from broken RAID 1 drive
I need to save files from a Buffalo NAS Linkstation with two physical drives that is not working anymore (2TB each, Raid 1). Error message says:
The bad sectors in the hard drive may have reached a ...
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How to recover resize2fs failure
I was resizing my hard drive last night and was not successful.
My system and drives are local on an ESXi 5.1 vm.
I'm running Debian 6 x64 and have a 2TB mount that I was resizing. It was about 1.8T ...
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Is there any way to mount an EXT4 file system with errors?
I may have been somewhat foolish, but kept putting off the warning signs about the impending failure of my EXT4-on-LVM Ubuntu machine (like the partition remounting itself R/O, SMART errors, etc.) and ...
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How should I burn in hard drives?
Google did a very thorough study on hard drive failures which found that a significant portion of hard drives fail within the first 3 months of heavy usage.
My coworkers and I are thinking we could ...
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How to identify which disk is failing in a HP ProLiant RAID controller?
I have a hard time identifying which drive is failing in my HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8. It has the following RAID controller: Smart Array P420i. I see tons of errors in dmesg:
[40425140.998750] sd 0:1:0:...
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Fixing a readonly-filesystem on Raid-1?
I have an Ubuntu 18 server using a software RAID-1 array, and smartctl is indicating that my /dev/sda is failing. Both Throughput_Performance and Reallocated_Sector_Ct are listed as "FAILING_NOW".
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HP Proliant DL180 G6 HHD failure and replacement
One of the HP HDD in our HP Proliant DL180 G6 had failed, I've replaced the failed HDD with a standard 1 TB Seagate HDD, the Array controller won't start rebuilding on a Seagate, I had the new Seagate ...
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Recover harddrive after abruptly power cut [closed]
Following is my partition table,
mercurial@providence:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 465.78 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Disk model: ST9500420AS
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HP P840 HDD RAID 5 many strange drive failures
I've been using a RAID5 HDD storage (8x6TB) at my HP P840 for like 2 years now and it has always had unusually many drive failures. Everything was good for half a year, but now drives are failing in a ...
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How do I troubleshoot possible drive issues on ESXi 6.7?
I have a Dell Poweredge R630 with 4 drives in a RAID. I'm not sure if it's RAID 10 or RAID 5 because I didn't order or set up the server originally and I'm just the default network admin, it's not my ...
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Mean Time Between Failures -- SSD
The Mean Time Between Failures, or MTBF, for this SSD is listed as 1,500,000 hours.
That is a lot of hours. 1,500,000 hours is roughly 170 years. Since the invention of this particular SSD is post-...
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How to recover from a drive failure in a RAID 5 configuration?
This morning a drive failed on our database server. The drive array (3 disks) is setup in a RAID 5 configuration.
While we wait for a drive replacement we are preparing for a recovery strategy. Users ...
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Degraded volume on Synology NAS
Today my Synology NAS's OS (DSM) told me that I have a degraded volume. The advice on their site is to replace the failed drive. I've gone ahead and bought the same drive model and capacity, and it ...
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MEGARAID RAID 1 SSD WITH HOT SPARE AVAILABLE
I do not know whether this requires immediate action or not. W2012R2 server with two 500GB SSDs plus one identical Hot Global Spare. RAID is Megaraid. Screenshots from the RAID Utility are attached ...
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Reinserted a RAID disk. Defined as foreign. Is import or clear the correct choice?
I have re-inserted a RAID disk, on a DELL server with Windows Server 2008. The drive-status indicator was changing between a green and amber light, and the monitor gave the following message:
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MegaRAID SAS Phy is bad on enclosure, no SAS address
I've inherited a MegaRAID SAS 24 bay RAID, that is also attached to two additional enclosures ( one 24 bay, and one 12 bay).
I attempted to load 6 new drives into 6 consecutive empty drive bays on ...
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RAID: Comparision of load on disks while expanding disk space or upgrading RAID level
I have an Areca ARC-1880IX-24 RAID Controller (FW 1.51) with several different Seagate 3TB disks (SAS and SATA, and of different age) attached to it to form a RAID5. When I tried to expand it by two ...
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Is this disk about to die?
I have a WD Red 4 TB disk (WD40EFRX-68WT0N0, firmware 82.00A82) that is occasionally showing uncorrectable read errors in the SMART error log, e.g.:
Error 43 [18] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: ...
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OfflineUncorrectableSector & CurrentPendingSector emails - what should I do?
Running Centos 7:
I've just done a yum update followed by a reboot on one of my servers, and when it came back up I got two emails:
First:
OfflineUncorrectableSector
Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], 28 ...
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HP server with failed disk in hardware RAID 5, how to replace (have same-spec disk)?
My system Admin suddenly took an emergency leave and I am not so good in system administration. Seeking your help.
I have a HP server running VMware. The server contain Hardware Raid 5 with three SAS ...
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ZFS replace disks in freebsd, how and when
I have the following zpool configuration:
zpool status
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
data ONLINE 0 0 0
raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
da1 ...
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Removing failed Raid0 volume from CentOSv6 boot sequence
I need help. To date the majority of my Linux 'software RAID' use has been done via the Graphical Installer. Now, one of the drives comprising my RAID-0 volume has failed and at boot, the system ...
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Smart Array P400i Physical Drive failed after being replaced
We have replaced the bad drives in a few HP systems (ProLiant DL360 G5), but they continue to show failed. The drives are part of RAID, and I think this might be why they are appearing as failed. The ...
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Repeated disk failure on Dell T610 Server
I purchased a used Poweredge T610 and upgraded it to 2x Hexcore Xeon X5675 processors and 96 GB RAM. Initially, I used 3 WD green 2TB drives in a RAID-5 array (Perc6i controller) and installed Ubuntu ...
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Do more mirrors in raid 1 reduce the likelihood of spit-brain failures?
I'm setting up a server, and my predecessor had a habit of setting up multiple RAID 1s with only 2 disks, which eventually resulted in split-brain situations which were difficult to recover from.
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What does it mean, if all LEDs of an LTO-6 drive are flashing? [closed]
All LEDs of an half height LTO-6 drive are flashing with ~ 4 Hz. An LTO-5 tape is still inside, the drive does not react on commands, the flashing continues after a power cycle.
I could not find the ...
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Troubleshooting `Buffer I/O error` on software-raid/md-device
I've got a RAID-5 mdadm array that reliably causes Buffer I/O error on dev md0, logical block 1598030208, async page read to be written do dmesg when reading that block. Of course, the read also ...
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Isolate a failed SSD drive
I have recently had a Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB SSD fail on our server. The drive was configured in a RAID 1 array and a reboot was sufficient to bring things back online.
When looking at the Intel ...
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What will happen if encountered a URE?
About hdd URE, I knew these points:
For some reasons, when harddisk reading a sector that the FEC(Foward Error Correction data) could not correct the errors on that sector, we encontered an URE.
The ...
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what is exactly an URE?
I have been looking into RAID5 Vs RAID6 lately and I keep seeing that RAID5 is not secure enough anymore because of the URE ratings and increasing size of the drives. Basically, most of the content I ...
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Smartd supress/change level for FAILURE PREDICTION THRESHOLD EXCEEDED
I'm using smartd to monitor drive health
It started compaining about FAILURE PREDICTION THRESHOLD EXCEEDED for one drive, but I extensively tested that drive and it's fully functional
That drive is ...
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Which is the worst-case scenario: dying HDD or SSD?
We all know SSD offer many advantages (such as speed) over HDD drives but which one is safer when it comes to data rescue if, for instance, the drive is failing?
From my understandings on SSD drive ...
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Can ESXi pause VMs on a datastore in APD state?
I know that using VMCP on VMware ESXi, it's possible to make the ESXi host shut down or restart a virtual machine when a datastore that the VM resides on goes into All Paths Down (APD) state.
I'm ...
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Why Do Hard Drives Fail?
I'm just quite interested in the reasons why hard drive failures occur. Some people say that it's because it was handled poorly during the shipping and transportation processes while others say that ...
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RAID DP brain teaser [closed]
Someone knows what happens if the parity disk fails simultaneously with a data disk?
It is supposed to handle double disk failure but since one parity disk fails it seems impossible. Does anybody have ...
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