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Forgot... I was looking at those M.2 to SATA adapter cards for another application I was playing with... What I would recommend on that... use is on M.2_2... That is the port that is Gen3, where the other two are Gen4. But... that would actually be the only slot it would really work in because of the way the M.2 slots are laid out on that MB, right.

Mentioning that, I have a question for you, since that is an EU board and I haven't seen that here...

M.2_1 and M.2_2, between the CPU and PCIe slot. M.2_3 is under the MB on the bottom, ending up between the MB and the case. It looks like in the manual, that M.2_1 is from a slot on the MB, but that M.2_2 is on a riser card, that is plugged in, on top of the M.2_1 card(?)... Doing things that way, sandwiching those two M.2 cards like that, then is the cover on top of those not used as a heatsink. like it is on mine? And having those laid out like that, that would prevent using anything as a heatsink with any M.2 drives on that motherboard right?

EDIT:
On silicon storage, I tend to stay with Samsung.

When silicoon storage first came out, I was skeptical about if I could wear a silicon disk out and it's life span... I kept hearing "stories" of the what if's and what might be's. Actually it was my youngest brother who set that to rest for me. His company does stop motion video for a major television network and has a datacenter full of silicon storage, with 70 SSD's per box... And has never ran into that problem. His projected lifespan is 10 years before he rotates those out.

[Scrumps]

since that is an EU board and I haven't seen that here...

I bought the motherboard in the US (on Amazon) and plan on taking it back with me to the EU. Though in the EU, you can also find it on Amazon and other suppliers pages.

Othewise, not sure where you are seeing EU specific information from.

that M.2_1 is from a slot on the MB, but that M.2_2 is on a riser card, that is plugged in, on top of the M.2_1 card(?)... Doing things that way, sandwiching those two M.2 cards like that, then is the cover on top of those not used as a heatsink. like it is on mine? And having those laid out like that, that would prevent using anything as a heatsink with any M.2 drives on that motherboard right?

Yeah, the riser card acts as the heatsink and would prevent the ability to have a heatsink on the SSD itself. TBF, I haven't actually looked at that part of the board yet - the only thing I inspected on the board was if the pins were damaged in anyway before putting it back in the box. But that is the general ideal.

[Scrumps]

Hey all again,

I finally got all the pieces to build this out, and settled back home. When I initially got the drives, I ran a long test and everything came back fine. Today after getting the rest of the hardware and bringing it overseas before setting it up into a ZFS array, I did another long test and I am seeing a drive fail out and I can't tell if it is the HBA / SATA card, or the drive itself. Attached is a log file of ata12 and /dev/sdf: https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/yFJpTMHSqh/

I was trying to make this a low-power consumption server, so it could be that powertop or a BIOS configuration caused this, but, I just wanted to be absolutely sure that it wasn't the drive itself failing before I dig in any further.

Apart from a restart, what is the best way to "power on" a drive that has been powered off in the error message above, I assume due to udisksctl? I also saw another drive fail with a "SmartSelfTestStatus: Interrupted" message, so my hope here is that the actual NVME to ACHI/SATA adapter is failing, and needs replacement, and not the drives itself.


The smartctl test results of the Interrupted drive is shown below:

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED


General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x80)    Offline data collection activity
                    was never started.
                    Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:      (  37)    The self-test routine was interrupted
                    by the host with a hard or soft reset.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection:         (    0) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:              (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                    Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
                    Suspend Offline collection upon new
                    command.
                    Offline surface scan supported.
                    Self-test supported.
                    No Conveyance Self-test supported.
                    Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)    Saves SMART data before entering
                    power-saving mode.
                    Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01)    Error logging supported.
                    General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time:      (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:      (2621) minutes.
SCT capabilities:            (0x003d)    SCT Status supported.
                    SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
                    SCT Feature Control supported.
                    SCT Data Table supported.


SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAGS    VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     PO-R--   100   100   001    -    0
  2 Throughput_Performance  --S---   148   148   000    -    48
  3 Spin_Up_Time            POS---   086   086   001    -    328 (Average 295)
  4 Start_Stop_Count        -O--C-   100   100   000    -    12
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   PO--CK   100   100   001    -    0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         -O-R--   091   091   000    -    6
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   --S---   140   140   000    -    15
  9 Power_On_Hours          -O--C-   100   100   000    -    54
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        -O--C-   100   100   000    -    0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       -O--CK   100   100   000    -    10
 22 Unknown_Attribute       PO---K   100   100   025    -    6553700
 71 Unknown_Attribute       P-----   100   100   001    -    0
 90 Unknown_Attribute       P---CK   100   100   001    -    493921239040
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count -O--CK   100   100   000    -    19
193 Load_Cycle_Count        -O--C-   100   100   000    -    19
194 Temperature_Celsius     -O----   065   065   000    -    31 (Min/Max 18/39)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count -O--CK   100   100   000    -    0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  -O---K   100   100   000    -    0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   ---R--   100   100   000    -    0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    -O-R--   100   100   000    -    0
                            ||||||_ K auto-keep
                            |||||__ C event count
                            ||||___ R error rate
                            |||____ S speed/performance
                            ||_____ O updated online
                            |______ P prefailure warning


General Purpose Log Directory Version 1
SMART           Log Directory Version 1 [multi-sector log support]
Address    Access  R/W   Size  Description
0x00       GPL,SL  R/O      1  Log Directory
0x01           SL  R/O      1  Summary SMART error log
0x02           SL  R/O      1  Comprehensive SMART error log
0x03       GPL     R/O      1  Ext. Comprehensive SMART error log
0x04       GPL     R/O    256  Device Statistics log
0x04       SL      R/O    255  Device Statistics log
0x06           SL  R/O      1  SMART self-test log
0x07       GPL     R/O      1  Extended self-test log
0x08       GPL     R/O      2  Power Conditions log
0x09           SL  R/W      1  Selective self-test log
0x0c       GPL     R/O  19043  Pending Defects log
0x10       GPL     R/O      1  NCQ Command Error log
0x11       GPL     R/O      1  SATA Phy Event Counters log
0x12       GPL     R/O      1  SATA NCQ Non-Data log
0x13       GPL     R/O      1  SATA NCQ Send and Receive log
0x15       GPL     R/W      1  Rebuild Assist log
0x21       GPL     R/O      1  Write stream error log
0x22       GPL     R/O      1  Read stream error log
0x24       GPL     R/O    256  Current Device Internal Status Data log
0x25       GPL     R/O    256  Saved Device Internal Status Data log
0x2f       GPL     -        1  Set Sector Configuration
0x30       GPL,SL  R/O      9  IDENTIFY DEVICE data log
0x80-0x9f  GPL,SL  R/W     16  Host vendor specific log
0xb7           SL  VS       1  Device vendor specific log
0xd8-0xd9  GPL,SL  VS       1  Device vendor specific log
0xe0       GPL,SL  R/W      1  SCT Command/Status
0xe1       GPL,SL  R/W      1  SCT Data Transfer


SMART Extended Comprehensive Error Log Version: 1 (1 sectors)
No Errors Logged


SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged


SMART Extended Self-test Log Version: 1 (1 sectors)
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Extended offline    Interrupted (host reset)      50%        50         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%        35         -
# 3  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%        30         -


SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Extended offline    Interrupted (host reset)      50%        50         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%        35         -
# 3  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%        30         -


SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.


SCT Status Version:                  3
SCT Version (vendor specific):       256 (0x0100)
Device State:                        Active (0)
Current Temperature:                    31 Celsius
Power Cycle Min/Max Temperature:     22/34 Celsius
Lifetime    Min/Max Temperature:     18/39 Celsius
Under/Over Temperature Limit Count:   0/0
SMART Status:                        0xc24f (PASSED)
Minimum supported ERC Time Limit:    70 (7,0 seconds)


SCT Temperature History Version:     2
Temperature Sampling Period:         1 minute
Temperature Logging Interval:        1 minute
Min/Max recommended Temperature:      0/60 Celsius
Min/Max Temperature Limit:           -40/70 Celsius
Temperature History Size (Index):    128 (53)


Index    Estimated Time   Temperature Celsius
  54    2024-01-24 12:24    31  ************
  55    2024-01-24 12:25    31  ************
  56    2024-01-24 12:26    31  ************
  57    2024-01-24 12:27    32  *************
  58    2024-01-24 12:28    31  ************
 ...    ..( 96 skipped).    ..  ************
  27    2024-01-24 14:05    31  ************
  28    2024-01-24 14:06    32  *************
  29    2024-01-24 14:07    31  ************
  30    2024-01-24 14:08    32  *************
 ...    ..( 20 skipped).    ..  *************
  51    2024-01-24 14:29    32  *************
  52    2024-01-24 14:30    31  ************
  53    2024-01-24 14:31    31  ************


SCT Error Recovery Control:
           Read:     70 (7,0 seconds)
          Write:     70 (7,0 seconds)


Device Statistics (GP Log 0x04)
Page  Offset Size        Value Flags Description
0x01  =====  =               =  ===  == General Statistics (rev 1) ==
0x01  0x008  4              10  ---  Lifetime Power-On Resets
0x01  0x010  4              54  ---  Power-on Hours
0x01  0x018  6               0  ---  Logical Sectors Written
0x01  0x020  6               0  ---  Number of Write Commands
0x01  0x028  6           47049  ---  Logical Sectors Read
0x01  0x030  6            1752  ---  Number of Read Commands
0x01  0x038  6       197655650  ---  Date and Time TimeStamp
0x03  =====  =               =  ===  == Rotating Media Statistics (rev 1) ==
0x03  0x008  4              54  ---  Spindle Motor Power-on Hours
0x03  0x010  4              54  ---  Head Flying Hours
0x03  0x018  4              19  ---  Head Load Events
0x03  0x020  4               0  ---  Number of Reallocated Logical Sectors
0x03  0x028  4               0  ---  Read Recovery Attempts
0x03  0x030  4              28  ---  Number of Mechanical Start Failures
0x04  =====  =               =  ===  == General Errors Statistics (rev 1) ==
0x04  0x008  4               0  ---  Number of Reported Uncorrectable Errors
0x04  0x010  4               0  ---  Resets Between Cmd Acceptance and Completion
0x05  =====  =               =  ===  == Temperature Statistics (rev 1) ==
0x05  0x008  1              31  ---  Current Temperature
0x05  0x010  1              32  N--  Average Short Term Temperature
0x05  0x018  1               -  N--  Average Long Term Temperature
0x05  0x020  1              39  ---  Highest Temperature
0x05  0x028  1              18  ---  Lowest Temperature
0x05  0x030  1              37  N--  Highest Average Short Term Temperature
0x05  0x038  1              25  N--  Lowest Average Short Term Temperature
0x05  0x040  1               -  N--  Highest Average Long Term Temperature
0x05  0x048  1               -  N--  Lowest Average Long Term Temperature
0x05  0x050  4               0  ---  Time in Over-Temperature
0x05  0x058  1              60  ---  Specified Maximum Operating Temperature
0x05  0x060  4               0  ---  Time in Under-Temperature
0x05  0x068  1               0  ---  Specified Minimum Operating Temperature
0x06  =====  =               =  ===  == Transport Statistics (rev 1) ==
0x06  0x008  4              22  ---  Number of Hardware Resets
0x06  0x010  4               6  ---  Number of ASR Events
0x06  0x018  4               0  ---  Number of Interface CRC Errors
0xff  =====  =               =  ===  == Vendor Specific Statistics (rev 1) ==
0xff  0x040  7               0  ---  Vendor Specific
0xff  0x048  7               0  ---  Vendor Specific
0xff  0x050  7               0  ---  Vendor Specific
0xff  0x058  7               0  ---  Vendor Specific
0xff  0x060  7               0  ---  Vendor Specific
0xff  0x068  7               0  ---  Vendor Specific
0xff  0x070  7               0  ---  Vendor Specific
0xff  0x078  7               0  ---  Vendor Specific
0xff  0x080  7               0  ---  Vendor Specific
                                |||_ C monitored condition met
                                ||__ D supports DSN
                                |___ N normalized value


Pending Defects log (GP Log 0x0c)
No Defects Logged


SATA Phy Event Counters (GP Log 0x11)
ID      Size     Value  Description
0x0001  2            0  Command failed due to ICRC error
0x0002  2            0  R_ERR response for data FIS
0x0003  2            0  R_ERR response for device-to-host data FIS
0x0004  2            0  R_ERR response for host-to-device data FIS
0x0005  2            0  R_ERR response for non-data FIS
0x0006  2            0  R_ERR response for device-to-host non-data FIS
0x0007  2            0  R_ERR response for host-to-device non-data FIS
0x0008  2            0  Device-to-host non-data FIS retries
0x0009  2        65535+ Transition from drive PhyRdy to drive PhyNRdy
0x000a  2            3  Device-to-host register FISes sent due to a COMRESET
0x000b  2            0  CRC errors within host-to-device FIS
0x000d  2            0  Non-CRC errors within host-to-device FIS