Synology one bad sector crashes whole volume RAID0
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IMO one of the reasons one would have a Synology is for the support. Have you called them?
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Failed RAID0 = no data. Simple as that..
Always possible to get super lucky, but don't count on it.
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After making the images as @Pete-S suggests, you can try running Spinrite on one or both drives and see if it comes back enough to finish your backup.
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Interestingly, I force turned off the Synology, pulled the drives and did a quick canned air cleanup.
Turned back on and it came to life. Looking at the drive screen, the count of bad sectors is now at 38.
This makes no sense, jumping from 0 bad to 38 out of the blue.I know enough about drives to know they can recover from bad sectors and avoid those areas of the disk. It's weird to me that it would bring down the entire volume and crash the whole thing over a bad sector.
Was reading this thread and seems some people thing it could be a DSM bug: https://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=93339&start=30
I did happen to do a DSM upgrade this morning but all was well until I ran that full backup onto the USB drive. It crashed somewhere in the the middle of that backup.
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Because it attempted to read every sector. This is not a surprise.
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If a sector really can't be read, even after many tries, that will cause a cascade of issues on a RAID 0 volume. Because those sectors have to work together to recreate the data.
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Is there some sort of jbod mode or something that is common for wanting a larger drive, giving up the performance of R0? Then, when a drive does fail, it only takes out that drive and not the whole shebang? Is that actually a thing in production use?
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@donahue said in Synology one bad sector crashes whole volume RAID0:
Is there some sort of jbod mode or something that is common for wanting a larger drive, giving up the performance of R0? Then, when a drive does fail, it only takes out that drive and not the whole shebang? Is that actually a thing in production use?
RAID 0 should, like JBOD setups, really just be for ephemeral data, like caches.
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@scottalanmiller said in Synology one bad sector crashes whole volume RAID0:
@donahue said in Synology one bad sector crashes whole volume RAID0:
Is there some sort of jbod mode or something that is common for wanting a larger drive, giving up the performance of R0? Then, when a drive does fail, it only takes out that drive and not the whole shebang? Is that actually a thing in production use?
RAID 0 should, like JBOD setups, really just be for ephemeral data, like caches.
that's not an answer to his question.
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@dashrender said in Synology one bad sector crashes whole volume RAID0:
@scottalanmiller said in Synology one bad sector crashes whole volume RAID0:
@donahue said in Synology one bad sector crashes whole volume RAID0:
Is there some sort of jbod mode or something that is common for wanting a larger drive, giving up the performance of R0? Then, when a drive does fail, it only takes out that drive and not the whole shebang? Is that actually a thing in production use?
RAID 0 should, like JBOD setups, really just be for ephemeral data, like caches.
that's not an answer to his question.
It's the answer he needs, not the answer he wants.
Individual drives are just "smaller RAID 0s", if you have to worry about the size of the failure domain, it means you can't implement the solution in production.
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@guyinpv said in Synology one bad sector crashes whole volume RAID0:
Interestingly, I force turned off the Synology, pulled the drives and did a quick canned air cleanup.
Turned back on and it came to life. Looking at the drive screen, the count of bad sectors is now at 38.
This makes no sense, jumping from 0 bad to 38 out of the blue.I know enough about drives to know they can recover from bad sectors and avoid those areas of the disk. It's weird to me that it would bring down the entire volume and crash the whole thing over a bad sector.
It's gonna fail again. No it's not, it's RAID 0, it needs EVERY sector. Think of it as a password, lost one character, you lost the entire password.
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@guyinpv said in Synology one bad sector crashes whole volume RAID0:
The NAS has 2 x 4TB WD Red drives. I'm running them striped since I wanted more space and perhaps speed.
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SATA drives speed > 1 Gbps, there was no speed advantage. Since you didn't need the space, all you did was add risk by running RAID 0.
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@harry-lui said in Synology one bad sector crashes whole volume RAID0:
@guyinpv said in Synology one bad sector crashes whole volume RAID0:
The NAS has 2 x 4TB WD Red drives. I'm running them striped since I wanted more space and perhaps speed.
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SATA drives speed > 1 Gbps, there was no speed advantage. Since you didn't need the space, all you did was add risk by running RAID 0.
Yes it was risk. The NAS was originally just going to be an external backup for the server. I only used RAID 0 for the combined space which is close to the what my server has which uses RAID 10 and 4 drives.
Frankly I just thought it would be more robust. I mean, I know it "can" fail, just didn't think it would be within a year. I also know my car tires can get blowouts, but I don't expect one every month or two either.
I'll probably replace this WD Red now it's at 39 bad sectors. Redo the RAID with a mirror instead. I'll lose the space but I don't expect to use up 4TB soon anyway.
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Aren't we discussing something like 7TB usable space? Why is this even a question. Four 8TB drives would give you 8TB usable in a RAID1.
There is zero benefit listed with what has been described so far with regards to RAID0.
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@guyinpv said in Synology one bad sector crashes whole volume RAID0:
Frankly I just thought it would be more robust. I mean, I know it "can" fail, just didn't think it would be within a year. I also know my car tires can get blowouts, but I don't expect one every month or two either.
Statistically, you'd expect it to be around a year. RAID 0 is incredibly unstable because it takes the risk of a single drive and magnifies it dramatically. So if the average failure of a single drive is, maybe, once every six years, RAID 0 with four drives would make that every 1.5 years on average. And that's just an average. So well inside the bell curve are failures at six months and three years.
And RAID 0 has failures that cause all data loss that don't cause full data loss on single drives. The RAIDing process making RAID 0 astronomically more dangerous than just 4x the risk of a lone drive.
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Ah so you actually have two disks with 4TB each and went with the "I need more space" RAID0.
The fix here is bigger disks and RAID1 in that case, it's going to be slow (being 5400 RPM) but at least you have the protection you were looking for.
Granted this is backup only.
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@dustinb3403 said in Synology one bad sector crashes whole volume RAID0:
Ah so you actually have two disks with 4TB each and went with the "I need more space" RAID0.
The fix here is bigger disks and RAID1 in that case, it's going to be slow (being 5400 RPM) but at least you have the protection you were looking for.
Granted this is backup only.
I'm guessing he didn't buy the drives, but already had them.
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@scottalanmiller That doesn't matter in terms of the discussion. If backup space is a priority and you can't make it work with the equipment you have you need to purchase more space.
RAID0 is a non-production setup in most cases like was discussed above. For backups, yeah okay maybe you can skate by. But why risk it if this is the only backup's you might have?
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@scottalanmiller said in Synology one bad sector crashes whole volume RAID0:
@dustinb3403 said in Synology one bad sector crashes whole volume RAID0:
Ah so you actually have two disks with 4TB each and went with the "I need more space" RAID0.
The fix here is bigger disks and RAID1 in that case, it's going to be slow (being 5400 RPM) but at least you have the protection you were looking for.
Granted this is backup only.
I'm guessing he didn't buy the drives, but already had them.
I did buy them new, but the Synology case itself was expensive too. WD REDs at 4TB * 2 just hit the budget. The whole thing was like $800+.
I can get buy with RAID1 and 4TB drives for a while. As a backup, I might not get 5 full backup sets or whatever but it will do with some incrementals.
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how critical are those backups? If you needed them and lost them, do you lose more than $800?
