Back to Hastur
- Hardware
- Hardware Options
- ATA Failures
- Array Upgrade
- RAM Upgrade
- Installation
- BIOS Settings
- Try 2.4GHz core without Turbo
- Try 2.4GHz with single [DDR3][244][?][244]
- Bump voltage then two [DDR3s][249][?][249]
- 3GHz and 1066
- Optimized Defaults
- 900MHz 800MHz
- Last good [DDR3][244][?][244] settings +0.2V
- Last good [DDR3][244][?][244] settings +0.3V
- Last good [DDR3][244][?][244] with manual timings
- Gave up and left it at One stick
- memtest
- Links
- Disk suddenly too short for array
- RAM Failing?
- Log
Hardware
Hastur
Type | Make | Model | Connector | Specs | Notes | Price £ |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CPU | Intel | Core2 Quad Q6600 (SLACR) | Socket 775 | Quad 2.4GHz | G0 stepping | 149.99 |
Motherboard | Gigabyte | GA-[P35C][38][?][38]-[DS3R][39][?][39] | Socket 775 | 1, 2 | 61.69 | |
RAM | Corsair | [TwinX][43][?][43] [XMS2][44][?][44] [PC6400][45][?][45] | [DDR2][46][?][46] 800MHz 2GB [CAS4][47][?][47] | 54.99 | ||
Heatsink | Scythe | Infinity | 3 | 24.29 | ||
Fan | Silverstone | [FN121][51][?][51] | 4 | 4.49 | ||
Fan | Silverstone | [FN121][51][?][51] | 5 | 4.49 | ||
Fan | Silverstone | [FN121][51][?][51] | 6 | 4.49 | ||
Thermal Paste | Arctic | Silver 5 | 3.83 | |||
Graphics Card | PNY | [GeForce][56][?][56] 7300 LE | PCI-E x16 | VGA,DVI,TV-out,passive | 7 | 15.31 |
DVD-RW | Pioneer | DVR-112BK | PATA | 18xDVD±R 10xDVD-DL | 8, black | 15.60 |
DVD-RW | Pioneer | DVR-112BK | PATA | 18xDVD±R 10xDVD-DL | 15.60 | |
HDD | Seagate | [ST380815AS][61][?][61] | [SATA1][62][?][62] | 80GB, 8MB cache | 9 | 22.39 |
DVB-T Capture | Hauppauge | Nova-T PCI | PCI | 24.39 | ||
DVB-T Capture | Hauppauge | Nova-T PCI | PCI | 10 | 24.79 | |
Network Card | Intel | Pro 1000PT | PCI-E | 1Gbps, Jumbo:16k | 21.02 | |
Case | Gigabyte | Triton | 5-bay ext | black | 41.65 | |
PSU | Corsair | VX 450 | 450W | 39.00 | ||
eSATA Host | No-name | [SiI3132][71][?][71] | PCI-e-1x, 2xeSATA | [SiI3132][71][?][71], PM-FIS | 19.99 |
Storage
See HasturRaidArray
3TB
Type | Make | Model | Connector | Specs | Notes | Price £ |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
HDD | Seagate | [ST3500630AS][74][?][74] | [SATA2][75][?][75] | 500GB | 9QG3T5QW (#4) | 54.89 |
HDD | Seagate | [ST3500630AS][74][?][74] | [SATA2][75][?][75] | 500GB | 9QG3T61X (#3) | 54.89 |
HDD | Seagate | [ST3500630AS][74][?][74] | [SATA2][75][?][75] | 500GB | 9QG3V6HN (#2) | 54.89 |
HDD | Seagate | [ST3500630AS][74][?][74] | [SATA2][75][?][75] | 500GB | 9QG3T5QM (#5) | 54.89 |
HDD | Samsung | [HD501LJ][77][?][77] | [SATA2][75][?][75] | 500GB | 11, [S0MUJ1DPC01407][79][?]79 | 52.89 |
HDD | Samsung | [HD501LJ][77][?][77] | [SATA2][75][?][75] | 500GB | 12, [S0MUJ1KP715582][82][?]82 | 52.89 |
8TB
Type | Make | Model | Specs | Notes | Price £ |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
HDD | Samsung | [HD203WI][83][?][83] | 2TB, 32MB, 5400rpm | #S1UYJ1CZ317052, TLER(R) | 85.09 |
HDD | Samsung | [HD203WI][83][?][83] | 2TB, 32MB, 5400rpm | #S1UYJ1CZ317063, TLER(R) | 85.09 |
HDD | Seagate | [ST3200542AS][85][?][85] | 2TB, 32MB, 5900rpm | #9XW09GDN, [CC34][86][?][86], TLER(R) | 93.60 |
HDD | Seagate | [ST3200542AS][85][?][85] | 2TB, 32MB, 5900rpm | #9XW08GNB, [CC34][86][?][86], TLER(R) | 93.60 |
14TB
Type | Make | Model | Specs | Notes | Price £ |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
HDD | Samsung | [HD203WI][83][?][83] | 2TB, 32MB, 5400rpm | #S1UYJ1CZ317052, TLER(R) | 85.09 |
HDD | Samsung | [HD203WI][83][?][83] | 2TB, 32MB, 5400rpm | #S1UYJ1CZ317063, TLER(R) | 85.09 |
HDD | Seagate | [ST3200542AS][85][?][85] | 2TB, 32MB, 5900rpm | #9XW09GDN, [CC34][86][?][86], TLER(R) | 93.60 |
HDD | Seagate | [ST3200542AS][85][?][85] | 2TB, 32MB, 5900rpm | #9XW08GNB, [CC34][86][?][86], TLER(R) | 93.60 |
HDD | Seagate | [ST3000DM001][88][?][88] | 3TB, 64MB, 7200rpm | #Z1F1K11M, warranty until 2015-01-26 | 89.98 incl. |
HDD | Seagate | [ST3000DM001][88][?][88] | 3TB, 64MB, 7200rpm | #W1F1PG24, warranty until 2015-02-17 | 89.98 incl. |
Enclosure
Type | Make | Model | Connector | Specs | Notes | Price £ |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Enclosure Kit | Span | IB-5SPB | CFI CF-1051, 320W PSU | 13 | 84.00 | |
eSATA PM Bridge | Span | IRSA-[MM5][93][?][93] | [SiI3726][94][?][94], 5xSATA to 1xeSATA | 14, Included in kit above | ||
SATA Cable ×5 | 2xSATA(m) | 30cm | Included in kit above | |||
Hotswap Caddy | Icy Dock | MB-455SPF | 5xSATA | 3-bay, 5-disk | 67.46 | |
Hotswap Caddy | Icy Dock | MB-453SPF | 3xSATA | 2-bay, 3-disk | 39.89 | |
eSATA PM Bridge | Span | IRSA-[MM5][93][?][93] | [SiI3726][94][?][94], 5xSATA to 1xeSATA | 15, [SiI3726][94][?][94] | 31.00 | |
eSATA Cable | Span | IRSEE-100 | 2xeSATA(m) | 1m | 3.60 |
To Get
- Enclosure PSU needs a second floppy power connector for the second PM bridge
- Enclosure needs 1-3 more 30cm SATA cables (for all 8 hotswap bays)
1 [ICH9R][101][?][101] PM supported >2.6.17 ⇑
2 1×[PCIe][103][?][103]-16x, 3×[PCIe][103][?][103]-1x, 3×PCI ⇑
4 For Scythe Infinity ⇑
5 For Scythe Infinity ⇑
6 Auxiliary System fan ⇑
7 Special offer 48% off ⇑
8 Fastest optical writer currently available ⇑
9 Cheapest SATA drive I could find ⇑
10 Dual tuners not well supported, so I bought two single tuners ⇑
11 Different drive to reduce the probability of batch disk failure ⇑
12 Faulty, RMA 2008-08 ⇑
13 Also includes 5.25 to 3.5 adapter rails, unused ⇑
14 First port must be occupied ⇑
15 First port must be occupied ⇑
Hardware Options
Motherboard
Requirements
- Intel Core 2 Duo socket
- 2 [GBit][120][?][120] LAN, at least one jumbo frame capable
- 7 SATA (RAID 5, Hot spare, system disk)
- 2 PATA (Dual DVD writer)
- 2 PCI (Nova-T PCI)
Intel P35
Make | Model | SATA | IDE | Chipset | LAN | [PCIe][103][?][103] | PCI | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Asus | [P5K][121][?][121] P35 Deluxe | 6+1 | [ICH9R][101][?][101], [JMB361][122][?][122] | 2 (j9,nj) | 1x16,1x4,2x1 | 3 | Specs | |
Abit | [IP35][124][?][124] Pro | 6+2e | 1 | [ICH9R][101][?][101], [JMB363][125][?][125] | 2 (nj,nj) | 1x16,1x4,1x1 | 3 | Specs |
Foxconn | [P35A][127][?][127] | 4+1e | 1 | [ICH9R][101][?][101], [JMB361][122][?][122] | 1 (nj) | 1x16,1x4,1x1 | 3 | Specs |
Gigabyte | GA-P35-[DQ6][129][?][129] | 8 | 1 | [ICH9R][101][?][101], [JMB363][125][?][125] | 1 (nj) | 1x16,1x4,3x1 | 2 | Specs |
Gigabyte | GA-[P35C][38][?][38]-[DS3R][39][?][39] | 8 | 1 | [ICH9R][101][?][101], [JMB363][125][?][125] | 1 (nj) | 1x16,3x1 | 3 | Specs |
MSI | P35 Neo | 5 | 2 (nj,nj) | Specs | ||||
MSI | P35 Platinum | 5+2e | 1 (nj) | Specs |
Nvidia 650i
Make | Model | SATA | IDE | LAN | [PCIe][103][?][103] | PCI | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Abit | FP-[IN9][134][?][134] SLI | 4 | 2 | 1 (nj?) | 2x16,2x1 | 2 | Specs |
Asus | [P5N][136][?][136]-E | 4 | 2 | 1 (nj?) | 2x16,1x1 | 2 | Specs |
Gigabyte | [N650SLI][138][?][138]-[DS4][139][?][139] | 4 | 2 | 1 (nj?) | 2x16,1x1 | 2 |
Nvidia 680i
Make | Model | SATA | IDE | LAN | [PCIe][103][?][103] | PCI | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gigabyte | GA-[N680SLI][140][?][140]-[DQ6][129][?][129] | 10 | 1 | 4 (nj) | 2x16,1x8,1x1 | 3 | Specs |
jN = jumbo capable, Nk frame; nj = non-jumbo
- Tom's P35 roundup
- N650i roundup
- Firing Squad N680i roundup
- Tom's Hardware 680i roundup (Dec 2006)
- MSI S775 Intel P35 [DDR2][46][?][46]
- Marvell 8056 Ethernet drivers buggy on kernel 2.6.20-x
- http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Libata-tj-stable dmraid PM status ([ICH9R][101][?][101])
Case
1 Large case with space for 9 disks (6 raid, 1 system, 2 DVD)? Or separate case for RAID and two internal SATA to Multilane adapters?
Cases
| Make | Model | !Ext Bays | !Int Bays | [WxHxD][147][?][147] | Link | |:------------ | ------------- | --------- |:-------------------- | -------------- | | Asus | CK-1022-5 | | | | | | Lian-Li | PC-V2000 | | | | | | Lian-Li | PC-V600 | 4 | 3 | 210 371 490 | £74.99 | | Coolermaster | Stacker 832 | 9 | 4 | 250 536 638 | £118.72 | | Coolermaster | Centurion 532 | 5 | 4 | 235 460 495 | £33.89 | | Coolermaster | Stacker 810 | 11 | 4 | 227 536 584 | £93.61 | | Gigabyte | Triton | 5 | 3 | 200 440 495 | £41.65 |
See Enclosures.
Cooling
Thermalright Ultra 120 + Scythe S-Flex 120mm fan
Scythe Infinity - small, up to 4 fans, economical
*http://www.anandtech.com/casecooling/showdoc.aspx?i=2937&p=5 (Scythe Infinity)
Overclocking
- Q6600 nominal Vcore is 1.24V
- http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=155317 (4GHz on air)
- http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2quad-q6600.html
- 3.6 at 400FSB, 1.4Vcore, 1.9Vmem
Power Consumption
F: frequency, V: core voltage, P: power
Poc = Foc/F * Voc/V * P
PSU
- http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp
- External RAID: 389w
- Int RAID (7xSATA): 551w
- Int RAID (9xSATA): 605w
Bandwidth Calculations
DVB-T: 6Mbit RAID: PCI: 127
- http://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/buses/funcBandwidth-c.html - PCI bandwidth
- http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/hardware/pcie.ars/1 - [PCIe][103][?][103] guide
- http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-6349-1054944.html - RAID guide
ATA Failures
Moved to HasturAtaFailures
Array Upgrade
Special Notes
- WD Green bad for Linux SW raid
- WD EARS - Advanced format Drive, 4k sectors. Needs partition alignment.
- Linux and 4k sector drives
- The real difference between Desktop and Enterprise ECR
- TLER/CCTL support thread
1TB drives
Make | Model | Platters | Specs | Notes | Price £ | p/GB |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hitachi | 7K1000.C | 2 | 7200rpm, 32MB | 49.98 | 4.998 | |
Samsung | [HD103SJ][165][?][165] | 3 | 7200rpm, 32MB | Spinpoint F3, 3yr | 52.36 | 5.236 |
Seagate | [ST31000520AS][167][?][167] | 5900rpm | Barracuda LP | 54.83 | 5.483 | |
Seagate | [ST31000528AS][169][?][169] | 2 | 7200rpm, 32MB | 7200.12 | 54.86 | 5.486 |
WD | [WD10EADS][171][?][171] Green | variable rpm, 32MB | 61.60 | 6.160 | ||
WD | [WD1001FALS][173][?][173] Black | 3 | 7200rpm, 32MB | No NCQ, 5yr | 65.77 | 6.577 |
1.5TB drives
Make | Model | Platters | Specs | Notes | Price £ | p/GB |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Samsung | [HD154UI][175][?][175] | 3 | 1.5TB, 32MB, 5400rpm | [EcoGreen][176][?][176] F2 | 62.97 | 4.198 |
Samsung | [HD153WI][178][?][178] | 1.5TB, 32MB, 5400rpm | [EcoGreen][176][?][176] F3 | 66.69 | 4.446 | |
WD | [WD15EADS][180][?][180] | 3 | 1.5TB | 69.97?? | 4.665 | |
WD | [WD15EARS][181][?][181] | 1.5TB, 64MB | 72.29 | 4.819 | ||
Seagate | [ST31500341AS][183][?][183] | 4 | 1.5TB, 32MB, 7200rpm | 7200.11 | 68.00 | 4.533 |
Seagate | [ST31500541AS][185][?][185] | 1.5TB, 32MB, 5900rpm | 77.52 | 5.168 |
2TB drives
Make | Model | Platters | Specs | Notes | Price £ | p/GB |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Samsung | [HD203WI][83][?][83] | 4 | 2TB, 32MB, 5400rpm | TLER(R) | 92.79, 84.271 | 4.639, 4.213 |
Samsung | [HD204UI][191][?][191] | 3 | 2TB, 32MB, 5400rpm | TLER(R),2 | 56.99 | 2.782 |
WD | [WD20EARS][194][?][194] | 4 | 2TB, 64MB, 5400rpm | 92.98 | 4.649 | |
Hitachi | 7K2000 | 5 | 2TB, 32MB, 7200rpm | 95.51, 89.35 | 4.775, 4.467 | |
WD | [WD20EADS][198][?][198] | 4 | 2TB, 32MB, ~5400rpm | 97.15, 85.093 | 4.857, 4.255 | |
Seagate | [ST3200542AS][85][?][85] | 4 | 2TB, 32MB, 5900rpm | TLER(R), 4 | 107.98, 89.355 | 5.399, 4.46 |
1 OEM, no warranty? ⇑
2 4KB sectors ⇑
3 OEM, no warranty? ⇑
4 tumbleweed's timeout issues ⇑
5 OEM, no warranty? ⇑
3TB drives
Make | Model | Platters | Specs | Notes | Price £ | p/GB |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Seagate | [ST3000DM001][88][?][88] | 3 | 3TB, 64MB, 7200rpm | OEM | oem: 79.98 |
1yr: 85.96
2yr: 88.80 | 2.603516
2.798
2.96 |
| Toshiba | [DT01ACA300][215][?][215] | 3 | 3TB, 64MB, 7200rpm | OEM | oem: 74.76
2yr: 87.77
2yr: 80.40 | 2.492
2.857096
2.68 |
4TB drives
Make | Model | Platters | Specs | Notes | Price £ | p/GB |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
WD | [WD40EFRX][219][?][219] Red | 136.20 | 3.325195 | |||
WD | [WD40EZRX][221][?][221] Green | 4TB, 64MB, 5900rpm | OEM | 121.68 | 2.970703 | |
Seagate | [ST4000DM000][223][?][223] | 4TB, 64MB, 5900rpm | OEM | 118.08 | 2.882812 |
Further drive comparisons extracted to local spreadsheet.
Multilane
Type | Make | Model | Connector | Specs | Quant | Price £ |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ML Device Adapter | Span | IRSA-[SM2][225][?][225] | 2xML to 8xSATA | 27.50 | ||
ML Device Adapter | Span | IRSA-[SM1][227][?][227] | 1xML to 4xSATA | 9.70 | ||
ML Host Adapter | Span | IRSA-[PM2][229][?][229] | 2xML to 8xSATA | 22.90 | ||
ML Host Adapter | Span | IRSA-[PM1][231][?][231] | 1xML to 4xSATA | 9.00 | ||
ML Cable | Span | IRSE-M1 | 2xML | 1m long | 28.50 | |
ML Host Adapter | 2xML to [PCIe][103][?][103] | |||||
[MiniSAS][234][?][234] Device Adapter | Span | IRA-[SS2][235][?][235] | 2xSFF8088 to 2xSFF8087 | 1 | 26.30 | |
[MiniSAS][234][?][234] Host Adapter | Span | IRA-[PS2][237][?][237] | 2xSFF8087 to 2xSFF8088 | 1 | 28.80 | |
[MiniSAS][234][?][234] Cable | Span | IRA-8888-1 | 2xSFF8088 | 1m long | 2 | 26.20 |
[MiniSAS][234][?][234] Fanout Cable | Span | IRA-87SA-05 | 1xSFF8087 to 4xSATA | 50cm | 2 | 8.40 |
[MiniSAS][234][?][234] Fanout Cable | Span | IRA-87SA-03 | 1xSFF8087 to 4xSATA | 30cm | 7.60 | |
[MiniSAS][234][?][234] Reverse Fanout Cable | Span | IRA-[SA87][242][?][242]-05 | 4xSATA to 1xSFF8087 | 50cm | 2 | 8.10 |
RAM Upgrade
- Awaiting delivery of 2x2GB [DDR3][244][?][244]
- Delivered
Installation
- Installed - no POST
- Upgrade motherboard BIOS?
- Not compatible with motherboard?
BIOS Settings
- Ctrl+F1 on main screen enables overclocking options in Intelligent Tweaker.
- Only after reboot with new RAM are proper timings visible
Recommended settings for [DDR3][244][?][244] at 1333MHz
MIB Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.)
Robust Graphics Booster = Auto
CPU Clock Ratio = 9
CPU Host Clock Control = Enabled
CPU Host Frequency (Mhz) = 333Mhz
PCI Express Frequency = 100Mhz
C.I.A.2 = Disabled
Performance Enhance = Standard
System Memory Multiplier = 4
Hi Speed DRAM DLL Settings = Option 2
DRAM Timing Selectable = Manual
CAS Latency Time = 9
DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay = 9
RAS# Precharge = 9
Precharge Delay (tRAS) = 24
ACT to ACT delay = Auto
Bank Write To READ Delay = Auto
Refresh to ACT Delay = 0
Read to Precharge Delay = Auto
System Voltage Control
DDR3 OverVoltage Control = +.1V
PCI-e OverVoltage Control = Normal
(G)MCH OverVoltage Control = Auto
CPU Voltage Control = Auto
- Reset to safe defaults
- Finally booting with both chips
- MIT shows memory frequency of 1066:1066
- AHCI mode or IDE mode
Settings when it successfully booted with both [DDR3][244][?][244] chips:
MIB Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.)
Robust Graphics Booster = Auto
CPU Clock Ratio = 9 X
CPU Host Clock Control = Disabled
CPU Host Frequency (Mhz) = 100Mhz
PCI Express Frequency = Auto
C.I.A.2 = Disabled
Performance Enhance = Turbo
System Memory Multiplier = Auto
DRAM Timing Selectable = Auto
#CAS Latency Time = 8 Auto
#DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay = 8 Auto
#RAS# Precharge = 8 Auto
#Precharge Delay (tRAS) = 20 Auto
#ACT to ACT delay = 4 Auto
#Rank Write To READ Delay = 4 Auto
#Write To Precharge Delay 8 Auto
#Refresh to ACT Delay = 60 Auto
#Read to Precharge Delay = 4 Auto
#Static tRead Value = 6 Auto
#Static tRead Phase Adjust = 0 Auto
System Voltage Control Manual
DDR2/DDR3 OverVoltage Control = Normal
PCI-e OverVoltage Control = Normal
(G)MCH OverVoltage Control = Normal
CPU Voltage Control = Auto
Health Status showed:
Vcore 1.252V
DDR2/DDR3 Voltage 1.504V
Try 2.4GHz core without Turbo
No [WinT][247][?][247] cards, no DVD-RW, no backup HDD
Works, shows 4GB RAM but reports CPU frequency 1600MHz.
- CPU frequency is not a problem. Under load jumps to 2400MHz.
- Running memtester hung the system. Now won't boot.
Try 2.4GHz with single [DDR3][244][?][244]
- Removed one stick and posted successfully
- Set [DDR3][248][?][248] overvoltage +0.1V
- Stable memtester (63 iterations)
Bump voltage then two [DDR3s][249][?][249]
- Overvoltage +0.2V
- PCI-E voltage +0.1V
3GHz and 1066
- Overvoltage +0.2V
- PCI-E voltage +0.1V
Optimized Defaults
- Optimized defaults
900MHz 800MHz
- Nope
Last good [DDR3][244][?][244] settings +0.2V
- [DDR3][244][?][244] +0.2V
- CPU 1.275V
One [DDR3][244][?][244] : 1066 @8-8-8-20 1.76V
Two [DDR3][244][?][244] : No Post
1066 @8-8-8-20 1.76V
Last good [DDR3][244][?][244] settings +0.3V
One [DDR3][244][?][244] : 1.872V
Two [DDR3][244][?][244] : No Post
Last good [DDR3][244][?][244] with manual timings
- 9-9-9-24
- 266/1066/10-10-10-20 = 1066/8-8-8-20
- 333/1333?/10-10-10-20, FSB+0.1 = 1333/9-9-9-24
- 333/800/Auto, FSB+0.1 = 800/8-8-8-20
Gave up and left it at One stick
- 333/1333/auto = 1066 ??
Core clock also shows only 2400 in Linux though.
Seems quite stable so far. Other stick must be faulty.
memtest
Howto : http://forum.canardpc.com/threads/28875-Linux-HOWTO-Boot-Memtest-on-USB-Drive
Links
- Intelligent Tweaker and memtest+
- http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1645192
- http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php?topic=3983.30
- DS3R with DDR3 1066
- DS3R 1.1 and Corsair DDR2 DDR3 voltages
Disk suddenly too short for array
- "Not large enough to join array"
- "Too small for array"
Samsung [HD203WI][83][?]83 dropped out of the array for being suddenly and inexplicably too short.
SMART logs
Before:
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: SAMSUNG SpinPoint F3 EG
Device Model: SAMSUNG HD203WI
Serial Number: S1UYJ1CZ317063
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0024e9 003308d88
Firmware Version: 1AN10002
User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 6
Local Time is: Tue Feb 25 00:53:29 2014 GMT
After:
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: SAMSUNG SpinPoint F3 EG
Device Model: SAMSUNG HD203WI
Serial Number: S1UYJ1CZ317063
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0024e9 003308d88
Firmware Version: 1AN10002
User Capacity: 2,000,397,852,160 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 6
Local Time is: Wed Feb 26 04:18:58 2014 GMT
Diagnosis
By chance when playing with [GParted][253][?][253] Live came across a reference to Host Protected Area
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_protected_area#Identification_and_manipulation
hdparm -N /dev/sdb
showed HPA was enabled and some sectors reserved. Also lists max sectors.
Disable HPA
Test with
hdparm -N 3907029168 /dev/sda
(set the number of sectors shown by
hdparm -N /dev/sdb
.
Use the 'p' prefix to make it permanent:
hdparm -N p3907029168 /dev/sda
Then power-cycle the disk. Only one permanent setting of max-sector-size can be performed per power cycle.
hdparm -N /dev/sda
now prints:
max sectors = 3907029168/3907029168, HPA is disabled
RAM Failing?
Random errors which kill processors.
Replace RAM
Buy another RAM pair? ([TW3X4G1333C9A][255][?][255])
Replace whole system?
Motherboard with 10xSATA connections
Log
2008-04-29
updated to F10 firmware after boot failure
2008-08-07
re-added the RMA'd [HD501LJ][77][?][77]
2009-02-01
/dev/sdg Read failures. copy of log in /root, [ST3500630AS][74][?][74], 9QG3T5QM
2010-05-09
Ordered 2x [HD203WI][83][?][83], 2x [ST3200542AS][85][?][85] from eBuyer (~£37)
2010-05-14
New disks arrived
2010-05-19
Shutdown for Hastur Raid Upgrade
2010-12-13
Purchased two [HD204UI][191][?][191] backup [HDDs][258][?][258]
2011-01-12
Purchased miniSAS hardware
2013-01-29
Purchased two [ST3000DM001][88][?][88] 3TB disks
2013-01-31
3TB Drives delivered
2013-02-02
- Added disks to enclosure. Only one disk added to array.
- Noted [ST3500630AS][74][?][74] 500GB backup disk showing stable 10 reallocated sectors.
- One [ST32000542AS][259][?][259] 2TB array disks showing 302 reallocated sectors. Up from zero on 2011-09-13.
- See HasturRaidUpgradePath
2013-03-07
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/dev/sdd ([ST32000542AS][259][?][259]) started failing on 2013-03-04 === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: ST32000542AS Serial Number: 9XW08GNB Firmware Version: CC34 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4 Local Time is: Thu Mar 7 19:26:29 2013 GMT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
Yet strangely /dev/sdc was kicked out of the array.
- Restarted /dev/md6 and re-added /dev/sdc.
- Added second 3TB as hot spare.
- /dev/sdd failed during rebuild.
- Rebuilt on to 3TB drive
2013-12-03
- Ordered 2x2GB [DDR3][244][?][244] Corsair [XMS3][261][?]261 from eBuyer
2014-02-25
- Attempted to fit the [DDR3][244][?][244]. Only one stick working.
2014-02-26
- [HD203WI][83][?]83 has shrunk following BIOS futzing.
2014-03-20
- Solved [HD203WI][83][?][83] shrinkage. Disabled HPA which had been enabled somehow.
2014-11-23
- Ordered 2x Toshiba [DT01ACA300][215][?][215] 3TB disks from dabs.com (£74.98 each inc VAT)
2015-11-06
- Ordered 2x Toshiba [DT01ACA300][215][?][215] 3TB disks from scan.co.uk (£141.95, £70 each)
2016-02-28
- Ordered 2x Western Digital [WD30EFRX][263][?][263] 3TB disks from scan.co.uk (£188.60, £91.56 each inc VAT)
2016-09-20
- Switched to faster 2x4GB of RAM
- Only booting with 4GB!