Noisey RAID array,,

[Pedro_The_Swift]

All 4 drives are identical Seagates, old but working, all Seagate Tool tests pass, even the DOS noise ones,
This only happens at idle after a while and instantly disappears when you write to the array.
012 - YouTube (https://youtu.be/B4I3kKLkIOc)

[Eevo]

sound like the head is attempting to park.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Power is set to high, pc and screen set to never turn off. 525W PSU, 80 plus gold would you believe---
"non powered" graphics card.

[DeanoH]

Is it one hard drive 'clicking' or several ? Generally doesn't mean anything good. [bigsad] I'd be backing up right away 'just in case'.

Deano :)

[DazzaTD5]

All 4 drives are identical Seagates, old but working, all Seagate Tool tests pass, even the DOS noise ones,
This only happens at idle after a while and instantly disappears when you write to the array.
012 - YouTube (https://youtu.be/B4I3kKLkIOc)


*Likely when you write to the drive (or rather the drives) your not accessing the bad sectors in the one drive.
*If you know the bad drive in question and you have raid 4 or greater, its time to replace/re-populate new drive.
*Diagnostic tools such as the seagate tool wont always pick up on mechanical faults or failings of a drive
*In saying that, I've recovered many a drive in a raid cluster that was failing mechanically with Spinrite

GRC | Hard drive data recovery software (https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm)

Regards
Daz

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Thanks all,, my apologies for not mentioning the array was dead empty,,
it does make a difference in how the problem is tackled..

it was definitely ALL drives Deano--
Have stored that link away Dazza ;)

now the good news.
This old MB originally shipped with a RAID solution called "Intel Matrix Storage Manager"
but!
has been updated/graded to "Intel Rapid Storage Technology"
*rolls eyes
and all unaccountable noises have stopped!
:Thump:

[DazzaTD5]

Glad all is good...
I have a dislike for any propriety software that does raid due to that "oh we have changed it to this new better thing"

honestly Ive found over the decades.... a Linux (in your preferred flavour) raid 5 for a NAS to be incredibly durable and redundant against software, hardware and power failures. Apart from hard-drive failures (which are easy to replace) I've had a motherboard fail, replaced board (cpu etc etc) with a "similar" board and while the Linux OS complained it still booted up and ran normal enough to access the data.

*yes you have to learn SOME Linux.

Regards
Daz

[Pedro_The_Swift]

and i hope I'm not beyond that Dazza,, [bigwhistle]
I actually have a Ubuntu long term iso around here somewhere,,
this OS was just an emergency thing due to a (I think-) MB failure,,
I am not happy with the array, but its still a learning thing,,

[Eevo]

whats the raid requirement?

i'll rephrase.

why did you choose to go with raid?

[Pedro_The_Swift]

I havent, well yes, I've built it.. but its not permanent, I've got a 4bay Qnap I'm mucking around with as well, a storm damaged MB has caused me to vere off my Freenas Corral adventure, just for the moment...

[Eevo]

i've used raid in the past but I just dont trust it.

raid 0 is good for speed

[Pedro_The_Swift]

and this-

"Intel tells us running four 730 Series drives in RAID 0 can achieve average speeds of 1.2GBps. Now that’s haulin’ the freight."

[AK83]

and this-

"Intel tells us running four 730 Series drives in RAID 0 can achieve average speeds of 1.2GBps. Now that’s haulin’ the freight."

BAH!

too slow!! [bigwhistle]

M.2 is where its at now ... :thumbsup: