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Hey everyone,

I recently built my first NAS. It was bough used with SAS hardware. I've finally got past all the roadblocks and problems that were in my way (I basically bricked a whole SAS drive, a hero of a lemmy user helped me fix it).

Now after filling the 15 TB of RAIDZ2 with around 100gb of data. One of the drives started waiving its white flag and wants to die on me.

I am a complete beginner with no experience with these things.

Is my drive dying and should be replaced? or can it be fixed?

This is the output of the 507 errors that TrueNAS received form it and labelled the vDev as degraded and the drive as faulted:

Output of zpool status and sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdd

As a beginner it looks like this drive is cooked, please let me know if it needs replacing so I can order a new one and replace it right away.

Thank you sooo much!

Edit: SAS not SATA drives

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[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

An extra perspective, hard drive prices are mostly expected to get even worse next year.

It may hold on for months to years but all drives will likely die eventually and this one is giving you a warning, I'd replace it now and save some money if you can afford it.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

For everyone here, this is true, and I'd recommend buying a couple drives for quick replacements. If you don't you're gambling that 1) a replacement drive will be available and 2) that it will be affordable.

Keep a few spares lying around while we get through the ebbs and flows of the market. As K said, a person is smart, people are dumb and panicky. If ssd and storage prices rise, people panic and our hdds will rise too.

Prep now and thank yourself later.