On 2024-09-23, 'Rob Hudson' wrote: > I run a small data server with about 9 drives attached. > Every so often, one of them will just ... drop offline, with no > warning My gut says this feels like a hardware issue. Are they all attached via SATA or are some connected via flakier methods? (glares sternly at USB-connected drives) Is there any pattern to which drive(s) drop(s) offline? Or to which connector it's attached to? Have you verified that your power-supply can provide sufficient juice to run the drives and whatever other hardware demands you have if they're all drawing their peak wattage? (graphics card, CPU, RAM, USB charging, etc) -tim To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blinux-list+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxx.