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Maybe Ubuntu... but not every version of it I tried to be fair. However I am not one who has tried very many distros. These days, I don't have the time or motivation to switch from Debian as it has been working so well for me. Ubuntu 8.04 was the distro that got really me into Linux in the 1st place...

I neglected to include my backup NAS, made with salvaged hardware, some of it over 10 years old now. It's the same setup as my main server (Bullseye, Mergerfs & SnapRAID), but significantly less storage. It has an 11TB usable array once again pooled with mergerfs & protected with SnapRAID. m...

Here's my server. There are two main pools which are organized together with mergerfs. The Media-Pool is protected with SnapRAID, the Storage-Pool has no parity protection. mark : server @ ~ $ df -h | grep Pool Media-Pool 55T 35T 20T 64% /Media_Pool Storage-Pool 2.7T 1.5T 1.3T 55% /Storage_Pool Medi...

Okay – So by way of update:- My older Western Digital Red 10TB (WD100EFAX) does NOT show any problem being awoken from standby. It’s been 100% solid for over 28 days, it’s been spun down and awoken many times throughout that period and there have been no issues at all. As a result, it would seem tha...

I started using Debian in 2009 after having many problems with the 9.10 release of Ubuntu. I had been using Ubuntu up until that point, but figured Debian was the natural progression to use given Ubuntu was and still is Debian based. I figured why not use the ultimate source of all the Debian based ...

Some updates: Changing the setting in the motherboards UEFI as I mentioned in the previous post didn't do anything to solve the issue. I've also since changed the CPU to a newer Ryzen 5 3600, and upgraded to the very latest firmware available from ASRock. Sadly, I had the same drive encounter errors...

Sadly to my immense disappointment and frustration, the same drive showed errors again this morning during a scheduled backup task. (I've removed the solved tag from the thread title now) This time the drive was remounted read-only. These are the logs this time: Feb 08 09:13:12 server.home.lan kerne...

When I was having the issue with one of the drives dropping offline randomly in my server, I came up with this script to notify me if this was to happen. This is the thread BTW - https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=153685 It checks the following for all mounted filesystems: Are they all presen...

Just to follow up - I think I can tentatively mark this issue solved. My conclusion is that there is some incompatibility between the particular Hard-Drives I have and the LSI 9207-8i card I have. From the links I posted above it would seem I'm not alone. I've removed the LSI card and reverted back ...

While I have no immediate answers for you, this is all quite fascinating. My home server is running 8TB ironwolfs on a pair of old LSI SAS2008 based HBAs, and I can't say it's missed a beat in years. I don't spin down my disks though, and I strongly suspect this has much to do with things. Have you...

Some updates: I got the same error with a 3rd Power Supply, so I know it's definitely not the PSU. I also thought it might be pressure on the power connectors to the drives so I re-did the cable management in the case to remedy that problem, needless to say that didn't solve the issue either. The sa...

More updates - Hopefully I'll get to the bottom of it and this thread will prove a useful reference for someone in the future with a similar issue. So to my disappointment, I got the same error again with the 6.0.0 Kernel present in Backports after a few days of uptime. See below: Jan 11 22:20:02 se...

Hello, I don't know about specific issues with SMART during heavy disk loads. Anyway, it could reasonable to modify the schedule of SMART checks not to run when other processes are doing heavy load on disks. Thank you for your suggestion. Smartd was enabled and running. It was doing stuff a minute ...

Hello, Could it be the effect of a race condition between heavy disk log by user programs accessing the disk (e.g.: SnapRAID) and periodic SMART disk scrub (e.g: smartd) ? Possibly, I don't know enough to say yes or no. The one thing I do know is that it always happens when there's load on multiple...

A few more thoughts on this: The Power Supply being the issue is quite unlikely now that I think of it. The PSU I'm using powers 4 SATA devices from a cables. I have the 8 HDDs connected via two individual cables each with 4 SATA connectors each. This of course means that the 3.3V, 5V & 12V rail...

These are the corresponding dmesg logs for the error occuring on a Seagate Ironwolf 10TB, the above post logs are from a Toshiba N300 10TB which gets unmounted entirely after the issue occurs. The behaviour is slightly different on both drives, but fundamentally the issue appears to be the same. Thi...

EDIT - Usually I/O Errors on HDDs/SSDs are signs of the drive failing, but I have the case where it doesn't seem to be hardware related at all, (at least that I can tell) UPDATE (19/03/2023): I think I can mark this as solved. The TLDR version is that the Seagate Ironwolf & Toshiba N300 10TB HD...

Here's a script I put together which I'm quite proud of. :D It checks what my home Public IP stepping through a list of external URLs, logs the results, and if a change is identified it emails me the result. It will also send a log file of the IP address throughout the day at the very end of the day...

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