What else but Seagate?
Yipe, I’m running recertified Exos X18 drives and my RAID can only lose one. That’s some nice nightmare fuel :)
And some of you guys told me not to get WD RED drives from Prime day.
Mine are still working, so there’s that.
Thats like near statistically impossible. They had to of been failing for some time. IMO
I did a case swap back at the end of 2022, but that’s about it. I upgraded to the Fractal Meshify 2 XL, which can hold up to 20 drives, and I had about 8 in there, made sure to give good space. Plus, it’s in my basement, and according to HD Sentinel, my drives range anywhere from 27c - 32c.
Prior to the failures, no physical shifts/movement on the case or the drives.
Isn’t it a bit pointless to blank out the serial numbers of the drives, but not blank out the barcode for the serial numbers of the drives?
Have you actually checked if the drives are really dead and it’s not the SATA controller itself or other factors?
Drives do physically turn on, but all 3 are making really awful clicking and grinding noises that sound like failures. Pretty much on par to this video.
First, sorry for your loss. Regardless of the case, if they are really not working it is still a possible big data loss and hit on the pocket.
It is weird to happen at the same time. Have you checked them on another machine? Other SATA/SAS controller? If it is, for example, a power issue problem it may happen to other drivers soon too.
Maybe they have been powerfully hit by something?
Just trying to help with finding the culprit, since it is so unlikely that 3 have died in such a similar time frame.
This could happen if the PSU gives wrong or unstable voltages to the driver. Or If there were power-outs in your area.
I had two 20tb shit out on me in less than two months over the summer.
I recently lost an 18tb drive. My younger 6x18tb RAIDZ2 array has been losing drives faster than my 9x8tb RAIDZ2 array. In the past I lost two 18tb drives at once.
There me been crazy with zfs z3 redundancy (plus 2 backups with less redundancy z2 or raid5/SHR1)
Mutiple drive failures within a short time probably means no extended scans are Been performed at all for posable pre failure detection (recommend every 3 or 1 monthly) and data scrub monthly
If these were in a RAID array, what can happen is that when one drive goes bad, the other drives get pushed into overdrive during recovery, which can then tip those over the edge.
There is no “going into overdrive”, there’s just more work which means a higher chance some of the work fails.
To quote Morpheus: Death can come for us at any time.
Well its seagate for ya, but 3 in a single week is insaine, what setup was it ?
I used to work for an MSP and we had a couple of clients that ran Seagate drives. They’d constantly fail to the point I was driving out to their location and replacing a drive or two every other week. I will never use Seagate again.