I've been having trouble with my DIY NAS, and I’m hoping someone might have some insight. The system has been running fine since 2018, but recently, drives have started disconnecting randomly. Here's what I’ve done so far:
- Changed the PSU, swapped cables, and moved drives to different hotswap bays + outside of hotswap bays.
- I didn't see this myself, but I saw an error that indicated there could have been issues with a drive connected to the motherboard sata connector not using one of the HBA cards.
- I have two PCIe HBA cards (using an LSI Adapter, SAS2 2008 Falcon).
- I've noticed that the NAS occasionally hangs or times out when I try to RDP into it, which might be related, but I am unsure what is causing this.
Recently, I noticed that plugging in a helium drive into the HBA seemed to cause several other drives to disconnect simultaneously. This makes me think it might be a power draw issue, HBA problem, or maybe even a firmware conflict. This issue seems to happen with both HBA cards. I've been working on this for the past 4 months or so and am out of ideas aside from buying a new HBA card, but I'd like to try a few other things first if possible rather than spending more money on this pc in case I need to replace it.
I'm running Windows 10 and am using StableBit Drivepool and StableBit Scanner. I have roughly 12 hard drives right now in the array.
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\RaidPort0.
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\RaidPort1.
The device, \Device\Harddisk7\DR9, is not ready for access yet.
The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, is not ready for access yet.
Reset to device, \Device\RaidPort1, was issued.
Has anyone run into similar issues? Any ideas on what I should try next?