RaidPirate
Dabbler
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- Sep 25, 2020
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I finished building / setting up my Freenas system this morning. I just wrote a couple of gigabytes of media files to the raid array and a notification has appeared in the FreeNAS GUI stating that the array is in a degraded state.
If I navigate to Storage/Pools/Pool Status this is what is shown:
If I understand correctly, 2 of the 6 drives have data written to them, and both of those drives have been marked as faulted.
What does this mean?
Before setting up this NAS I ran SMART tests from a Debian Live USB on all drives an no errors were reported, except for mechanical start errors. The same number were recorded for each drive, so I came to the conclusion that they were inside an array of a workstation PC / server, and that system was forced to power off / didn't post in BIOS or something. Perhaps this conclusion is wrong?
The history of these drives is that I bought them off eBay as a set. The seller said they were removed from a computer/some computers as part of an upgrade from mechanical to SSD storage. They claimed they were brand new. They were shipped to me in cardboard hard drive protectors inside a larger box, and I had no reason to suspect any damage from shipping.
Below is a screenshot of the SMART test for one of the drives. The others are similar.
If I navigate to Storage/Pools/Pool Status this is what is shown:
If I understand correctly, 2 of the 6 drives have data written to them, and both of those drives have been marked as faulted.
What does this mean?
Before setting up this NAS I ran SMART tests from a Debian Live USB on all drives an no errors were reported, except for mechanical start errors. The same number were recorded for each drive, so I came to the conclusion that they were inside an array of a workstation PC / server, and that system was forced to power off / didn't post in BIOS or something. Perhaps this conclusion is wrong?
The history of these drives is that I bought them off eBay as a set. The seller said they were removed from a computer/some computers as part of an upgrade from mechanical to SSD storage. They claimed they were brand new. They were shipped to me in cardboard hard drive protectors inside a larger box, and I had no reason to suspect any damage from shipping.
Below is a screenshot of the SMART test for one of the drives. The others are similar.