So... All of a sudden none of my drives work.

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zicoz

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Hi, for some weird reason all of my harddrives seems to be broken all of a sudden.

I just did a fresh install of FreeNAS, and was in the process of creating some some RaidZ2 vdevs with my current hardddrives, but I was unable to do so. I plugged them into my desktop computer to see if I could figure out what's wrong, but when I try to initialize them I get the following message: "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error". When I run a test using WD's Data Life Guard Diagnostics I get a message about "too many bad sectors"

Anyone have any idea how this could've happened? The hard drives worked just fine yesterday morning.
 

zicoz

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The power did go out yesterday, but it was a warned outage, so the server was offline at the time.

Ok I'll try that thank you. I can use Drive Cleanser in parted magic for that right?

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Did it for one drive, and it seems I can initialize it now at least, so I guess they're ok. Will have to run a test to see if they're actually ok though.
 
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