Hello,

One of my HDDs in my NAS started clicking recently. I intend to replace it, but I want to make sure that I correctly pinpointed the faulty one.

I have 5 HDDs in my NAS and I presume it’s the bottom one, as the sound seems to come from one of the 2 drives at the bottom and its activity LED stays lighted up longer than the others when clicking. (Oh yes, clicking is intermittent, the only reliable way I found to make it click regularly was to scroll ~1700 RAWs in Darktable.)

Is there any indicator that can confirm this is the faulty one? Long SMART tests obviously report nothing and all drives have the same temperature. Maybe a latency test? I’m not sure how to conduct that on TrueNAS (my pool is a 4-wide RAIDZ1 with one Hot Spare)

Thank you very much!

  • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.comEnglish
    14·
    24 days ago

    First thing that comes to mind is a mechanic’s stethoscope.

    like this

    Edit: basically 8adger’s screwdriver trick but I have one in my Kit of Resourcefulness™

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      3·
      24 days ago

      The shade tree mechanic’s version is a long screwdriver, press the end of the handle just in front of your ear (to the little fleshy protrusion).

      You’ll hear it loud n clear.