I have built TrueNAS Scale in mid of May 2023 with 4 drives, 4TB each with 1xRAIDZ2 configuration.
The TrueNAS is under Proxmox VE and I recently passthrogh the 4 drive with HBA LSI IT mode, it was pass through the SATA previously.
I use Seagate Ironwolf ST4000VN006, and if I understand correctly, it is CMR disk.
However, during a year, I have replaced 2 drives due to faulted or degraded indicated in Truenas.
The first was on June 2023 (only a month after I built the system), and the second was on March 2024. And now, I have the 3rd disk that currently under faulted condition.
I am curious, is it normal to have 3 drives failure in a year?
What I need to do with my current drive that in faulted condition? how to check that the drive is exactly need to be replaced? Because previously, when I was in this situation, I contacted Seagate immediately to have replacement disk without checking anything, fortunately it was still under warranty.
What I need to consider to prevent this drive failure quite often?
I just use TrueNAS for storing my data, use SMB share to my devices, and NFS for backup my VMs in Proxmox.
Can anybody help me please?
Here below is the smart long test result of the faulted drive
I am not quite familiar how to read this, bet it seems indication of “completed without error”; 0 value in “Reallocated_Sector_Ct”; “Current_Pending_Sector” is good, is not it?
sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb
[sudo] password for admin:
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.131+truenas] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: ST4000VN006-3CW104
Serial Number: ZW60SM3P
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 0e6eb77c2
Firmware Version: SC60
User Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm
Form Factor: 3.5 inches
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 5
SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Fri Apr 26 06:35:21 2024 WIB
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.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 0) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x73) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
No Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 464) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x70bd) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 079 064 006 Pre-fail Always - 77009784
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 096 095 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 21
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 073 060 045 Pre-fail Always - 20027650
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 926
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 21
183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 063 060 040 Old_age Always - 37 (Min/Max 36/40)
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 47
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 107
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 037 040 000 Old_age Always - 37 (0 29 0 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 079 064 000 Old_age Always - 77009784
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 894 (216 218 0)
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 5115255193
242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 2300016218
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 922 -
# 2 Extended offline Interrupted (host reset) 00% 914 -
# 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 871 -
# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 704 -
# 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 536 -
# 6 Short offline Completed without error 00% 368 -
# 7 Short offline Completed without error 00% 200 -
# 8 Short offline Completed without error 00% 35 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Many thanks for the reply
I just restarted the system, and the faulted disk back to normal.
currently zpool status as below, now is coming back to normal condition
pool: Bigbre
state: ONLINE
scan: resilvered 90.0M in 00:00:24 with 0 errors on Fri Apr 26 06:46:32 2024
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
Bigbre ONLINE 0 0 0
raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
553e4473-e078-4c0c-a542-cd1b0ef84674 ONLINE 0 0 0
f688c6a0-b537-4c1f-826b-806ef81ccb0e ONLINE 0 0 0
9e9b2bd6-c910-4bda-b378-a0e50dc3fe1a ONLINE 0 0 0
8a39d49d-f643-4ca9-b63d-d757a733946c ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
pool: boot-pool
state: ONLINE
status: Some supported and requested features are not enabled on the pool.
The pool can still be used, but some features are unavailable.
action: Enable all features using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done,
the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not support
the features. See zpool-features(7) for details.
scan: scrub repaired 0B in 00:00:07 with 0 errors on Mon Apr 22 03:45:09 2024
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
boot-pool ONLINE 0 0 0
sda3 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
However, when I had the first 2 disks faulted, I restarted the system, back to normal, and faulted happened again in the next days, or even hours.
So, definitely I will come back again when the disk is faulted
If I remember well, the first 2 disks faulted was using onboard SATA.
After having that 2 disks faulted, I decided to pass through the disks with INSPUR 9207-8i HBA LSI that laying around, it waspurchased from Aliexpress, and the 3rd disk faulted is using this configuration
Many thanks for your advice
Yes probably the PSU needs to be investigated further.
Since these 3 disks faulted under different connection to the system.
the first 2 disk faulted were using pass through SATA onboard, and the 3rd disk is using HBA pass through.
I realized when I open the case, there was a weird sound coming from hardisk
“nguuukkkk” and it repeated every 10 seconds. Probably it is a sign my PSU is going to die.
Just replaced the PSU with fractal design 80+ gold. Hopefully it is getting better.
How long does it usually take for a hard disk to die? at least based on your experience?
