muaddib

I am not using a USB connection, I am using a rock-solid sata with a port multiplier. This setup worked flawlessly for years until the recent corruption.

So, I turned off the drive pool for a few days to run diagnostics on each individual drive without any errors or drops. As soon as I turned back on the drive pool service, several drives dropped during the rebalancing of the drive pool. I am starting to get a little desperate. There is clearly something wrong with the drive pool service. I disabled read stripping.

Did you get your issue resolved? I am having similar issues with multiple dropped drives.

I haven't had any issues until one of the enclosures failed. I am glad your method is working for you but I have 10 drives and data management would be a mess if I didn't have drive pool

So far so good, no drives have dropped since my earlier post.

I might have it fixed. There is a firmware update that prevents the drives from going to sleep. The new version (without the voltage regulator switch) of the 5-bay mobius enclosure has this feature. I think the drives are going to sleep and in typical Windows fashion cannot reconnect after it wakes up. I will report back later this evening or tomorrow. It usually fails while I am away.

Dang, still no answer

I am having similar issues. My setup was working fine until one of the enclosures died. I bought the same enclosure, 5-bay mobius. My setup consists of the following: eSata connection, 2 5-bay drives, and JBOD setup. The new 5-bay enclosure keeps dropping 4 of the 5 drives from the system. They all come back after a reboot and then drops during the rebuild of the pool. All of the drives are a year or less old. I ran Scandisk on a separate computer and the drives are functioning fine. I also changed out the eSata cable. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I found the fix here

Did this get solved?

Did this get solved?

I jus Server 2022 doesn't even see it and mark it as unknown. I just ordered: StarTech.com 2 Port SATA 6 Gbps PCI Express eSATA Controller Card - Storage Controller - 2 Channel - eSATA 6Gb/s - 6 Gbit/s - PCIe - PEXESAT32 and StarTech.com PCIe USB 3.1 Card - 2x USB C 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) - PCIe Gen 3 x4 - ASM3142 Chipset - USB Type C PCI Express Card (PEXUSB312C3) just in case I will go the USB Type C route. However, I am really hoping that the new eSATA controller work. Does anyone here have any experience with StarTech eSATA?

Yes I am running 2 Mobius 5 Bay Enclosures connected to the Tempo Sata Pro 6Gb 4-port, port multiplier. It worked great on my old Windows Server 2016 but I recall I had to jump through some hoops to get it working but I can't remember the steps. It is not working at all on my Windows Server 2022. It is very frustrating because my Server 2016 backup is corrupted, so I am all in on Server 2022.

Did you set this up? I am having all kinds of issues with my Sonnet Tempo Sata PCIe card. I just upgraded to Windows Server 2022 and it is only seeing 2 of my 10 drives, 1 from each 5 bay tower. I need a replacement solution asap.

Which service do I shutdown?