- Jan 28, 2014
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Hi,
I've been looking all over for an answer to this problem, but haven't found anything yet. Hopefully you guys can help out a little.
I'm running 3 Areca 8050's filled with 8 4TB drives apiece (I store a lot of 4k video) all running off a Mac Mini Server running OSX 10.9.1 in a RAID 50. My newest array has failed, I believe it is a drive issue, but haven't been able to access the arrays status, which is where we get into the issue.
The array starts up perfectly fine, you get about 1-4 minutes of access before it dives into what seems to be an endless access loop. The RAID utilities are all network accessed and take a second to get to. I haven't been able to get all the way into the SMART status' before the access loop begins.
I have contacted the retailer and manufacturer. They sent out a replacement unit and the same issue is happening which is one of the reasons that I'm leaning toward drive failure. That and the drives don't have TLER (I have all HGST HUS724040ALE640 drives)
I've heard that it can be detrimental to take the slices attach a bare drive>USB connection and mount them on either my windows machine or the mac to check the drives, that they will lose some part of their array config. and will then not be able to be replaced in the RAID.
Do any of you have any ideas on how to check which drive may be failing or if it is a drive issue without being able to check the raid health through the manufacturers status interface?
I've been banging my head against my keyboard for a couple weeks trying to find posts.
I appreciate the help!
I've been looking all over for an answer to this problem, but haven't found anything yet. Hopefully you guys can help out a little.
I'm running 3 Areca 8050's filled with 8 4TB drives apiece (I store a lot of 4k video) all running off a Mac Mini Server running OSX 10.9.1 in a RAID 50. My newest array has failed, I believe it is a drive issue, but haven't been able to access the arrays status, which is where we get into the issue.
The array starts up perfectly fine, you get about 1-4 minutes of access before it dives into what seems to be an endless access loop. The RAID utilities are all network accessed and take a second to get to. I haven't been able to get all the way into the SMART status' before the access loop begins.
I have contacted the retailer and manufacturer. They sent out a replacement unit and the same issue is happening which is one of the reasons that I'm leaning toward drive failure. That and the drives don't have TLER (I have all HGST HUS724040ALE640 drives)
I've heard that it can be detrimental to take the slices attach a bare drive>USB connection and mount them on either my windows machine or the mac to check the drives, that they will lose some part of their array config. and will then not be able to be replaced in the RAID.
Do any of you have any ideas on how to check which drive may be failing or if it is a drive issue without being able to check the raid health through the manufacturers status interface?
I've been banging my head against my keyboard for a couple weeks trying to find posts.
I appreciate the help!
. It wont' help to trouble shoot
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