Hi all,
I'm quite newbie to SAS and RAID arrays and been trying for a week now to get my setup working with no luck
So I've purchased 2 of these mentioned SAS SSDs and LSI 9217 4i4e SAS Controller.
Those are connected to a windows 10 HP z420 working station.
When I try to create a RAID 0 volume using the LSI utility it just exits to the previous menu with no error message and the volume is not created.
When I try to format the SSDs using the LSI utility I'm getting an error saying "Format Failed!".
In windows I can see the 2 disks in Disk Management but they are not intialized. When I try to initialize I'm getting "Access is denied" popup message.
I tested the SAS Controller with 3 1TB WD Blue HDDs and managed to create a 3TB RAID 0 volume out of them, so my assumption is that driver and controller are OK.
When I run smartmontool on the Seagate SSDs I get this output:
So I'm guessing the block size is OK.
When I used SeaTools and scanned the disks I saw that it's OK as well.
I'm now considering 2 options:
1. flash to the latest firmware
2. try to read and understand what SED means and how to handle it.
The only thing I know is that these SSDs were pulled out of a server.
Can someone please direct me what are the next steps I should take in order to make these disks operational?
(Actually I can live with no RAID as well but I guess my problem is not really the controller nor the volume I try to create).
Thanks in advance, getting really desperate with these 2....
I'm quite newbie to SAS and RAID arrays and been trying for a week now to get my setup working with no luck
So I've purchased 2 of these mentioned SAS SSDs and LSI 9217 4i4e SAS Controller.
Those are connected to a windows 10 HP z420 working station.
When I try to create a RAID 0 volume using the LSI utility it just exits to the previous menu with no error message and the volume is not created.
When I try to format the SSDs using the LSI utility I'm getting an error saying "Format Failed!".
In windows I can see the 2 disks in Disk Management but they are not intialized. When I try to initialize I'm getting "Access is denied" popup message.
I tested the SAS Controller with 3 1TB WD Blue HDDs and managed to create a 3TB RAID 0 volume out of them, so my assumption is that driver and controller are OK.
When I run smartmontool on the Seagate SSDs I get this output:
Code:
C:\Program Files\smartmontools\bin>smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-w10-20H2] (sf-7.2-1)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: SEAGATE
Product: ST960FM0013
Revision: C106
Compliance: SPC-4
User Capacity: 960,197,124,096 bytes [960 GB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
Physical block size: 4096 bytes
LU is resource provisioned, LBPRZ=1
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Logical Unit id: 0x5000c50030161b0b
Serial number: Z87130560000822150Z3
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: SAS (SPL-3)
Local Time is: Thu Jul 01 22:05:02 2021 JDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Temperature Warning: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK
Percentage used endurance indicator: 7%
Current Drive Temperature: 47 C
Drive Trip Temperature: 70 C
Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 16804:57
Manufactured in week 42 of year 2016
Specified cycle count over device lifetime: 10000
Accumulated start-stop cycles: 385
Elements in grown defect list: 0
Vendor (Seagate Cache) information
Blocks sent to initiator = 562375382
Blocks received from initiator = 981726741
Blocks read from cache and sent to initiator = 1750053742
Number of read and write commands whose size <= segment size = 525444815
Number of read and write commands whose size > segment size = 12475577
Vendor (Seagate/Hitachi) factory information
number of hours powered up = 16804.95
number of minutes until next internal SMART test = 5
Error counter log:
Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total
ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected
fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors
read: 3164703584 0 12278475 3164703584 0 182804.974 0
write: 0 0 0 0 0 108261.564 0
verify: 3418515 0 1671 3418515 0 1.893 0
Non-medium error count: 0
No Self-tests have been logged
When I used SeaTools and scanned the disks I saw that it's OK as well.
I'm now considering 2 options:
1. flash to the latest firmware
2. try to read and understand what SED means and how to handle it.
The only thing I know is that these SSDs were pulled out of a server.
Can someone please direct me what are the next steps I should take in order to make these disks operational?
(Actually I can live with no RAID as well but I guess my problem is not really the controller nor the volume I try to create).
Thanks in advance, getting really desperate with these 2....