I know there are some similar questions out there, but there is too much that is new to me to want continue sorting through my trouble shooting a problem alone. I have new disks. They have less than a month of wear and tear on them. They have gone through several re-installs of both Ubuntu and TrueNAS.
I have formatted them once. Maybe twice at most.
Under my current build, which is looking to be my permanent build, SBC is continually giving me errors. Is this common for new drives? Is it a common thing to buy a new hard drive and have this happen? I have four of these Seagate NAS 8Tb 7200rpm disks and as assembled I am only using two at the moment.
My latest plan was to use the other two mirrored in a different machine to provide a backup for this machine. At my last thought, that backup machine would only get one disk and the fourth would remain unmounted and serve as a manual store device. Something that I would plug in once per year, update, and then store in a safe box somewhere.
What I want to know is the likely hood of opening up this machine and swapping out the error-prone SBC with the third/fourth disk only to have the same error repeat. It takes me forever to put something together just the way I want it. It's frustrating to have to open things up to reinstall hardware.
What I also want to know is if this disk which continually gives minor errors is worth regulating to a manual storage device. Even better, if it is still suitable for service alone by itself and not mirrored in a zpool. Aside from pulling it out and swapping it, I am really at a loss for any further diagnosis.
SBC Disk in question:
