I have an eSATA-connected external enclosure via a port multiplier card connecting extra drives to my FreeNAS (ran out of physical drive space inside my small tower).
Long story short, drives in the enclosure keep dying on me or becoming error-prone. Drives in the tower (older, slower) are rock solid. I have never had a problem. But now I have the 3rd hard drive in the last 6 months inside this external enclosure giving me trouble. Too many for coincidence.
So my question is this - Where would you look first? Enclosure hardware itself? Port multiplier card in the computer? Cable going from computer to external enclosure?
I verified drive temps are good and fans in the enclosure are working so it's not a heat or ventilation thing...So what's my next stop?
Thanks for any advice.
Long story short, drives in the enclosure keep dying on me or becoming error-prone. Drives in the tower (older, slower) are rock solid. I have never had a problem. But now I have the 3rd hard drive in the last 6 months inside this external enclosure giving me trouble. Too many for coincidence.
So my question is this - Where would you look first? Enclosure hardware itself? Port multiplier card in the computer? Cable going from computer to external enclosure?
I verified drive temps are good and fans in the enclosure are working so it's not a heat or ventilation thing...So what's my next stop?
Thanks for any advice.