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Seagate Exos dying? SMART-Tool headless from Seagte?

I have a software RAID under Ubuntu 20.04. One disk (Seagate ST1800MM0129) is marked as faulty, thus I run smartctl with this result smartctl -a /dev/sdd smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5....
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How can I speed up a zfs resilver on a 24x 16TB drive draid2 array: "117T total... 47 days 02:31:23 to go"

(My apologies for the multiple edits to clarify formatting) As above. The drives show no SMART errors. Is there a way to check for HBA <--> drive communication errors? This is running under ...
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Understanding smartctl -a output

I have 6 drives in a NAS box. Two of them are Seagates, and they return high RAW_VALUES for errors; see below. My other drives show far lower values. Is this cause for alarm? Or just the way ...
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New HDD swap in SAS 6 ir shows it is missing?

SETUP: Dell Poweredge T410 with Windows Server 2003, SAS 6 IR Raid-1. Both the original drives were Dell Certified Seagate Barracudas for enterprise, 250gb. The new HDD is a Seagate Barracuda 500gb, ...
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How to monitor Segate HDD health under Linux?

I'd need to monitor the health of several Seagate ST16000NM002G SAS HDDs hosted in a disk server running CentOS 7. As far as I understand, Seagate disks do not expose S.M.A.R.T. attributes due to a ...
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Can a currupt backup cause a hardrive failure?

I have a script that runs each time Windows 7 starts up that backs up an MS SQL database to a Synology NAS loaded with 12 Seagate ST4000NM002A-2HZ101 hard drives. Everyday at 3am the backed up ...
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Does IO performance degrade when a SAS SSD is attached with redundancy?

I have some Seagate Nytro SSDs (model xs800le70004), SuperMicro SAS3 JBODs (2C models with redundancy), LSI 9300 SAS3 Cards, and SAS HD Cables (SFF-8644). When the SSDs are attached with both primary ...
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Windows software raid drives deactivated

Not sure what to make of this behaviour, but here goes. I have 3 Seagate 4 T drives in a windows 2012 r2 server in a software raid 5. Recently, I logged onto the server to see that 2 disks (...
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Why are SAS laptop drives not spinning up on Adaptec controller

Having used the first SCSI drive of 20MB on an Amiga computer, I am now using a Tyan server board with an Adaptec/Microsemi RAID 6805E SAS controller and two Seagate 15K Cheetah 300GB SAS drives. This ...
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Incompatible drivers on IBM SAN due to different firmware. Can I flash it?

I had to change a drive in my IBM DS3512 SAN, I bought it by model (Seagate model) and not by IBM FRU code. I tried to put the drive but it fails with error "incompatible drive". I saw that the model ...
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ESXI Single drive SATA performance (onboard HP Proliant SATA SSD Port)

Good day, Sorry for my English, it is not my native language, and recenly I have less than it should be practice in analytical writing. I have an ESXi 6.0.0 Update 2 installed on a bare metal HP ...
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G-sense errors in new disks

I have a Synology DiskStation. It used to contain 3xTB drives, I now have 2xTB, 2x8TB drives. The old drives were "Seagate NAS" drives, the new ones are from the same(?) series, named "Ironwolf". The ...
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Seagate Blackarmor NAS Shared folder recovery

We have a Seagate Blackarmor NAS on which we have some shared folders. Yesterday, suddenly the shared folders were not being shown while trying to access as Windows share. We have CIFS and FTP enabled ...
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Mystery of the disappearing ZFS pool on single Seagate FireCuda 2.5 SMR disc

This one has really got me scratching my head. First up, the data is safely backed up although I've lost hours of migration work. But the result of what's happened has got me concerned. I was ...
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Trouble with PERC H330 RAID controller recognizing drives

I have a PERC H330 RAID controller with 3 Seagate ST4000NM0034 drives, and the controller does not appear to be recognizing the drives. It does not show up in the CTRL+R screens anywhere and I'm ...
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Seagate Wireless Pro access via File Explorer on Windows

I bought a Seagate Wireless Pro Harddrive and I'm unable to access the network share on some devices but I can access their UI through the browser on all devices. I used this as a guide initially. I'...
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Savvio disk in HP ML350 G5 server

Has anyone got real-life experience with using a Seagate Savvio disk in a HP ML350 G5 server. There are two things I'm worried about. Will it physically fit the tray, can the tray be inserted and ...
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Need to downgrade Seagate HDD firmware [closed]

OK so I knew I was taking a big risk doing this but I decided to upgrade the HDD firmware on drives in my RAID5 array. And of course the controller is now complaining that one of the HDD sizes is ...
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Compatibility between Dell Perc H730 and Seagate Constellation 4TB drives?

I'm considering the purchase of a refurbished Dell R730xd with Perc H730 controller. Does anyone know if that controller will recognize and work with Seagate Constellation 4TB NL-SAS drives (...
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Seagate's 30TB NAS with SimplyRAID configuration [closed]

I recently bought a Seagate NAS Pro 6-Bay 30TB Network Attached Storage Drive (STDF30000100) from Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LM6KVZA?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=...
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Will a 3GB/s SAS RAID Controller (Dell PERC 6/i) support 12GB/s SAS HDDs?

will a 3GB/s SAS RAID Controller (Dell PERC 6/i) support 12GB/s SAS HDDs (Seagate ST2000NM0034)? And: Will this RAID Controller support the full size (2 TB) of the HDDs? Greetz from Austria, ...
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Cause of Current Pending Sector and Offline Uncorrectable increase and then decrease to zero

Over the course of a week, for a 3TB Seagate drive (ST3000DM001-1CH166), smartd reported a slowly increasing number of offline uncorrectable and currently unreadable (pending) sectors, then a ...
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EPC mode on Seagate Constellation using Linux

I need to set EPC mode on Seagate Constellation disks connected to LSI 9690SA-4l controller. This is because the controller is not compatible with the disks unless the EPC mode is set – according to ...
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iSCSI no longer recognizing NAS drives

I have two NAS (Seagate Black Armors) connected to our network through iSCSI to a Dell Optiplex 760 running 32-bit Windows 7 and Windows iSCSI Initiator. For some unknown reason, within the last week ...
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1TB Seagate Barracuda ST31000528AS - Unexpected "Offline uncorrectable sectors"

I bought a 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 - ST31000528AS drive about 18 months ago because it had a 5-year warranty, and used it alongside a Samsung Spinpoint under Ubuntu Server as one half of a ...
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How to perform disk test attached to LSI RAID controller

I have four Seagate ST33000657 SAS drives attached to LSi 9260-4i controller. I want to test them for hw errors and bad sectors, before launching into production. I ve tried SeaTools, but it's not ...
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Areca ARC 1261ML only sees 2TB on 4TB Disks

I recently acquired a Supermicro Box with a Areca ARC 1261 ML. I have installed 16 X Seagate ST4000VN000-1H4168 (4TB Drives). The ARC 1261ML controller only sees 2TB of usable space on the 4TB drive. ...
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Huge disk write speed difference between two different servers

I have two servers, with similar disks. The first server has 4x300GB Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 model nº ST3300655SS 3.5'' RAID 10. The second 4x300GB Seagate Savvio 15K.3 model nº ST9300653SS 2.5'' RAID ...
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How to get more informatin regarding a Synology S.M.A.R.T error

I have a 3TB Seagate Barracuda (ST3000DM001-9YN1) that is less than a year old, and my Synology DS1512+ is reporting it as "S.M.A.R.T. Status = Abnormal" and telling me to replace the drive. While I ...
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Are there freezing issues with the Seagate Barracuda ST31500341AS anymore?

I found this hard drive on NewEgg: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (bare drive) - OEM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product....
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Possible to migrate RAID 10 system from 2TB Seagate to 2TB WD?

A couple of our servers have ST32000641AS (2TB Seagate desktop drives) in RAID 10 using an Adaptec 2405 controller. I've been told by Adaptec that this is a bad idea and we have, in fact, already ...
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Difference between Seagate Expansion and GoFlex HDD [closed]

What are the significant differences between Seagate Expansion Portable 1 TB USB 3.0 (Model STAX1000302) and Seagate Free Agent GoFlex 1TB USB 3.0 (Model STAA1000302) except Data Encryption? I found ...
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seagate faulty replacement hard drive

My Seagate hard disk got bad sectors and wasn't usable any more. Seagate's SeaTools utility also indicates that. It was under warranty; so I returned that in Seagate SeaCare center and got a ...
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Replacing a hard drive in a mirror on a SAS6iR card with a non-Dell purchased drive

Does anyone know if the Dell SAS6IR cards that were sold around April of last year will still take off the shelf Seagate SATA drives or do they have to be purchased from Dell to be recognized? I know ...
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Freebsd 7.2: View firmware version for disks?

I'm running FreeBSD 7.2, with Seagate Cheetah (Model ST####) drives. We are having some problems with the SCSI drives on these machines. Our vendor says that updating the firmware on the drives may ...
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Compatibility Problem: Intel Server Chassis SR1500 + Windows Server 2003 R2 + Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB

I got an Intel Server Chassis SR1500. Since there are 3 slots for hard disk, I put 2 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB to Slot 0 and 1 to make a RAID1. For the last slot (Slot 2), I put a Seagate ...
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Hardware-based FDE question/concern

My question is basically this: What are people's experiences with hardware-based full disk encryption, esp from a security-auditing standpoint? More info: I'm specifically looking at the Seagate ...
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Seagate Cheetah Size

I just got some replacement drives for a server here, went to pop one in, and it turns out that the 72Gig for a Seagate is slightly below the 72gig of the Maxtors that we currently have. Does anyone ...