4 years in, first failing drive? Weee!

[sremick]

I looked into it a little and I don't think the brackets are interchangeable. You would probably need to move your build into the new case and sell the entire old case.

How so? From what I've seen, it's just the addition of a fifth hole:

Here's the original drive cage:

And the upgraded ones:

 

[Chris Moore]

I have not had either of them in my hand, so I can't say with certainty, but I saw one article that said they were shaped differently enough that they could not be swapped out.

If you can swap them out, great, but if you are going to buy a whole case, and you can't swap the parts, just keep the whole case and sell the old one.

 

[sremick]

Update:
I'm now seeing this on the console:

Code:

(ada0:ahchich0:0:0:0): WRITE_FPDMA_QUEUED. ACB: 61 50 00 b7 15 40 73 00 00 00 00 00
(ada0:ahchich0:0:0:0): CAM status: Uncorrectable parity/CRC error
(ada0:ahchich0:0:0:0): Retrying command

However, FreeNAS isn't detecting anything wrong with the drive. Nothing on the GUI. And if I run a short test and check smartctl -a:

Code:

# smartctl -a /dev/ada0
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Western Digital Red
Device Model:     WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0
Serial Number:    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 65a512aec
Firmware Version: 82.00A82
User Capacity:    3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    5400 rpm
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Fri Dec 14 23:35:10 2018 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00)    Offline data collection activity
                    was never started.
                    Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0)    The previous self-test routine completed
                    without error or no self-test has ever
                    been run.

Running a long test on ada0 now, but seems odd.

 

[sremick]

Ok this is weird. A long SMART test won't complete. smartctl -a gives:

Code:

Self-test execution status:      (  41)    The self-test routine was interrupted
                    by the host with a hard or soft reset.

And still, FreeNAS GUI doesn't show anything wrong with ada0. Ok... what's going on?

 

[RueGorE]

Update:
I'm now seeing this on the console:

Code:

(ada0:ahchich0:0:0:0): WRITE_FPDMA_QUEUED. ACB: 61 50 00 b7 15 40 73 00 00 00 00 00
(ada0:ahchich0:0:0:0): CAM status: Uncorrectable parity/CRC error
(ada0:ahchich0:0:0:0): Retrying command

Could be that your cables are faulty. If the disks are plugged into a drive cage, the backplane could also develop an issue. And last to consider is the connections at your motherboard or HBA. I'm currently affected by these messages as well, and I recently replaced all my disks with brand new ones as well as the motherboard, so I'm thinking it's either my SATA cables or drive cage's backplane at this point...

 

[sremick]

Well, reseating the cables on ada0 brought the drive back online. Maybe something got bumped when I was replacing ada3. Regardless, I have a replacement drive on the way. I also already have lots of spare SATA cables... sort of thinking I should reroute ada0's and another drive's SATA cables anyway. I'll wait to go and replace ada0 and keep the drive as a cold spare. Also keeping an eye on ada2. (FYI: no backplane in my chassis)