12-09-2024, 01:09 AM
Ed, thanks so much for the reply.
I had more issues after my last post but before your reply. At one point, all 4 lights turned orange on my Nas. when I looked at the storage manager, it said critical on all 4 drives. A little while later, everything seemed to return to normal.
After I read your reply, I did end up reformatting the external hdd to ext4 again and re-linked the old backup file. Even though speeds were a little better after switching back to ext4, I still had similar issues. Multiple drives said critical at different times. Sadly again, my mistake, I forgot to deselect the movies folder associated with the applications backup. So my last backup was about 1.22tb which would be around 400GB if I had set it up right and it ended up corrupting the backup destination file. Thankfully by now with the first scare, I bought a 2TB external SSD and copied my backup files to it.
What surprised me is that the corrupted backup will not let me just delete the last version point. It says Restore Only and destination corrupted. I tried restarting the Nas to see if that will fix this issue and nothing changed. So I am going to have to delete the entire backup file and recopy the backup file from the new SSD. I'm like a week and a half working on this issue and I'm still not out of the woods yet.
For more disclosure, 2 of these drives are renewed enterprise seagate exos 12tb, but the other two are just a couple of old hard drive out some laptops or something. I did a couple of benchmark tests that I will talk about. I would upload a few pictures but this forum doesn't seem to host or support file uploading.
drive 1: toshiba MK8034GSX
read-30MB/s write-24MB/s
drive 2: seagate ST380815AS
read-71MB/s write-68MB/s
drive 3: seagate ST12000NM0538-2K2101
read-222MB/s write-224MB/s
drive 4: seagate ST12000NM0538-2K2101
read-214MB/s write-219MB/s
So is the toshiba so slow that it is a major bottle neck causing some of my problems? I still need to finish making sure to get a good backup so I haven't done the s.m.a.r.t. test yet but I will get to that soon.
At the end of the day, I don't care if my backup takes a long time or if my system is extra slow because of my hardware but I just don't want to risk corrupting my data of course.
Finally, I'm not sure about updating the firmware on these drives. I would be willing to do it but I think I will have to remove one drive at a time and plug them into my desktop right? I will need to follow a tutorial as this is just a bit over my head.
Thanks
I had more issues after my last post but before your reply. At one point, all 4 lights turned orange on my Nas. when I looked at the storage manager, it said critical on all 4 drives. A little while later, everything seemed to return to normal.
After I read your reply, I did end up reformatting the external hdd to ext4 again and re-linked the old backup file. Even though speeds were a little better after switching back to ext4, I still had similar issues. Multiple drives said critical at different times. Sadly again, my mistake, I forgot to deselect the movies folder associated with the applications backup. So my last backup was about 1.22tb which would be around 400GB if I had set it up right and it ended up corrupting the backup destination file. Thankfully by now with the first scare, I bought a 2TB external SSD and copied my backup files to it.
What surprised me is that the corrupted backup will not let me just delete the last version point. It says Restore Only and destination corrupted. I tried restarting the Nas to see if that will fix this issue and nothing changed. So I am going to have to delete the entire backup file and recopy the backup file from the new SSD. I'm like a week and a half working on this issue and I'm still not out of the woods yet.
For more disclosure, 2 of these drives are renewed enterprise seagate exos 12tb, but the other two are just a couple of old hard drive out some laptops or something. I did a couple of benchmark tests that I will talk about. I would upload a few pictures but this forum doesn't seem to host or support file uploading.
drive 1: toshiba MK8034GSX
read-30MB/s write-24MB/s
drive 2: seagate ST380815AS
read-71MB/s write-68MB/s
drive 3: seagate ST12000NM0538-2K2101
read-222MB/s write-224MB/s
drive 4: seagate ST12000NM0538-2K2101
read-214MB/s write-219MB/s
So is the toshiba so slow that it is a major bottle neck causing some of my problems? I still need to finish making sure to get a good backup so I haven't done the s.m.a.r.t. test yet but I will get to that soon.
At the end of the day, I don't care if my backup takes a long time or if my system is extra slow because of my hardware but I just don't want to risk corrupting my data of course.
Finally, I'm not sure about updating the firmware on these drives. I would be willing to do it but I think I will have to remove one drive at a time and plug them into my desktop right? I will need to follow a tutorial as this is just a bit over my head.
Thanks
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