https://sigtar.com/tags/drive/ Recent content in Drive on sigtar.com Hugo en-nz Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +1300 https://sigtar.com/2014/10/30/unraid-smart-check/ Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +1300 https://sigtar.com/2014/10/30/unraid-smart-check/ <p>errors on unraid GUI - sometimes its a loose cable, sometimes its an issue with the drive.</p> <p>Run this command to check smart status</p> <p><strong>smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda</strong> or if you are using a newer SATA controller <strong>smartctl -a -A /dev/sda</strong></p> <p><a href="http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Troubleshooting">http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Troubleshooting</a></p> <p>unfortunately in my case, looks like drive is pretty much dead&hellip; not too bad for a drive almost 5 years old.</p> <p>its pretty typical of a WD green drive in its default config to die in this type of environment, no plans to replace it with a similar type drive. You can see below the incredibly high LCC count which indicates the drive header has parked this many times over its life. This is probably part of the problem - there is a tool you can run (check this vid, link for  WDIDDLE3 also in comments - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2eYyRI_F98">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2eYyRI_F98</a>) which disables the intellipark feature of the green drive. I never disabled the park timeout before this drive died (which defaults to 8 seconds!) &ndash; note: i have disabled it completely on my other green drives.</p>