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I had to retire RBOD storage as it was causing problems. USE ONLY QUALITY CONNECTORS IN YOUR BUILDS! we'll see :-)Ī final post in this thread. It isn't very pleasant sight I must say, but well, from my experience the 'temporary' solutions usually last. So at the moment all the server components are scattered around in my custom-built sound-proof case :-) It turned out the hard drives are completely fine still so without much hesitation I've removed the MediaSmart case completely and put the server's storage back together using this cheap PSU. To test the 3.5 HDDs I bought a cheapest HDD PSU of Ebay (under £5 incl. It turned out the PSU of the old MediaSmart enclosure gave up (it was running pretty much constantly for around 15-17 years!) My guess is it doesn't supply enough power to spin the hdds anymore – the hdd would try to spin and turn-off, start again and turn off – in short intervals. I was expecting that at least one of the HDDs will be going down soon as it was already running for over 6 years constantly.Īfter coming back home I was able to investigate the situation.
They were housed in an old MediaSmart's enclosure and powered by its power supply unit. Recently when I was away, a HDD failure occurred – the server's storage is a 2TB software Raid made-up of two 3.5' drives connected via cheap USB to SATA adaptors directly to the USB ports of Mac Mini :-)
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A quick update on the 'life of my bunch-of-redundant-parts server'.Īt last, the only usable piece left of my old MediaSmart build died.