Warning of "non-unique serial numbers" -- but they are all unique

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Hello all, I’m a new user and getting a warning of disks with “non-unique” serial number. However, when I open Disks in the web interface it shows different serial numbers.

I’m using a MeMini with 4 Crucial 4TB NVMe M.2 SSDs. The OS is on the drive that came with the mini PC, not any of the ones I added.

I’d like to add them to the pool but am obviously concerned about data loss, given the warning.

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Weird, this usually happens when people use usb drives, but looking at pictures of the ME Mini, the drive at least seem to connect directly to the motherboard.

No chance that you’re running virtualized or with raid enabled in bios, or anything else that can prevent direct access to the drives?

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I wonder if these NVMe are knock offs, and not real Crucial NVMes?

Or perhaps they have been “refreshed”, (aka a scammer took warranty returns, and made them look “new” again).

Not sure how to tell in either case. But, sometimes physical examination could give a hint.

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No sign of that in the BIOS. And I didn’t get this error when I was trying out Open Media Vault… Odd indeed.

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I don’t think they’re knock-offs but I’m realizing now that while I thought they were coming from Amazon, they weren’t – rather a reseller. Far too late to get a refund. I’m going to test them further. (Open Media Vault didn’t have a problem with them when I was testing it.)

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Update:

I tested these drives with Crucial’s own software (“Crucial Storage Executive Tool”) and it saw nothing problematic with the drives. So I’m fairly comfortable that they’re legit after all.

Which leaves me with the dilemma of whether to just go ahead and use them in the TrueNAS setup or use another NAS system…

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If wouldn’t be surprised if this is another peculiar interaction with the eMMC storage and certain partitions that get created on those. There’s a similar report over at the beelink forum.

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I have seen similar situations when truenas is implemented over some kind of storage solutions - like Intel’s, or RAD controllers.

it hasn’t been a problem for me.

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That makes the most sense from this situation