TrueNAS Scale on Arm (2024 Thread)

[Farout]

Degraded pool on two brand new disk

Hi I have a pool of two 4TB Seagate Ironwolf hard drives (same batch). The pool is set up to mirror across the drives and both showing the status of ‘degraded’. I’ve run S.M.A.R.T tests which highlighted no errors. The only difference between these two drives and the others in my NAS is I’m using a PCIe SATA card with them. Not sure if that’s relevant or a contributing factor, but I thought I’d mention it. I’ve tried scrubbing the pool twice as I could see others have had success doing this, …

I rest my case

Multiply your problems with SATA Port Multipliers and cheap SATA controllers

This resource was originally created by user: jgreco on the TrueNAS Community Forums Archive. Please DM this account or comment in this thread to claim it. In the last year or two, we’ve had a resurgence of users asking about SATA Port Multipliers and cheap SATA controllers. Please, do NOT use port multipliers, and use cheap SATA controllers only after extensive research. SATA controllers and SATA Port Multipliers are some of the cheapest hardware, designed to make a number of hard drives acc…