Dear Community,
As always I come here for help whenever I had some issues with my FreeNAS box, which thus far has been minimal. I am still running the old 9.3 version, as I got errors updating every-time I've tried. The uptime has been more than 1 year, until I shut it down for maintenance.
My box which is giving my some HDD issues is the following: Dell T20 E3-1225v3, 12GB of ECC RAM, 1TB HDD (that came with the box) - it's used on it's own for TV recordings, 3*4TB Seagate surveillance drives in RAIDZ (store important files). I have scrubs set up every month and e-mail notifications if there are any issues. I've followed one of the Freenas #gurus tutorials for this (I think it's on the 28th day of each month).
Now recently my box started from time to time making noises (it sounds like if someone took a blade to the HDD while it's spinning and scratched it). The sound only lasts for a few seconds (max 2) and is a bit annoying , specially because I have it in my living room. It's very high pinched, thus impossible to ignore. I do not hear it during scrubs, just under normal idle operation. I tried to copy or read files from it and it seems to be working OK. I also tried to see the smart output and it's not throwing any errors. I don't know if it's the 1TB drive that came with the server, if it's any of the 4TB Seagate surveillance drives (which should still be under warranty) and therefore I am asking the community for assistance.
As mentioned I'm still running FreeNAS 9.3 (before the 9.1 came out), as I was never able to update it through the internal updater and therefore I've reverted to it.
Any ideas on what I should do?
As always I come here for help whenever I had some issues with my FreeNAS box, which thus far has been minimal. I am still running the old 9.3 version, as I got errors updating every-time I've tried. The uptime has been more than 1 year, until I shut it down for maintenance.
My box which is giving my some HDD issues is the following: Dell T20 E3-1225v3, 12GB of ECC RAM, 1TB HDD (that came with the box) - it's used on it's own for TV recordings, 3*4TB Seagate surveillance drives in RAIDZ (store important files). I have scrubs set up every month and e-mail notifications if there are any issues. I've followed one of the Freenas #gurus tutorials for this (I think it's on the 28th day of each month).
Now recently my box started from time to time making noises (it sounds like if someone took a blade to the HDD while it's spinning and scratched it). The sound only lasts for a few seconds (max 2) and is a bit annoying , specially because I have it in my living room. It's very high pinched, thus impossible to ignore. I do not hear it during scrubs, just under normal idle operation. I tried to copy or read files from it and it seems to be working OK. I also tried to see the smart output and it's not throwing any errors. I don't know if it's the 1TB drive that came with the server, if it's any of the 4TB Seagate surveillance drives (which should still be under warranty) and therefore I am asking the community for assistance.
As mentioned I'm still running FreeNAS 9.3 (before the 9.1 came out), as I was never able to update it through the internal updater and therefore I've reverted to it.
Any ideas on what I should do?
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