As I indicated in my message, I swapped the drives to an external power supply to make sure it wasn't a power issue, and also as I indicated, they're all sata. And further, as I also mentioned, there's no real pattern, I'm thinking it might be the PCI sata card I have, it's getting old I think, but I wanted thoughts here before dropping another 150 dollars for a new controller. ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Chase <blinux.list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:08:27 -0500 Subject: Re: Drives dropping offline > 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. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blinux-list+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxx.