SAS2 SSD Failed

I bought one of the 200GB Samsung SAS2 SSD drives as part of the BitDeals 4TB group buy several months back. It was installed as a cache drive in my Unraid server since ~mid-August and it failed over the past couple of days. Any ideas on next steps? I believe BitDeals only covers the first 30 days.

Here is the SMART report from the drive and a screen capture from my Unraid server.

smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-4.19.107-Unraid] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               SAMSUNG
Product:              MZ6ER200HAGM/003
Revision:             DM0L
Compliance:           SPC-4
User Capacity:        200,049,647,616 bytes [200 GB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Physical block size:  8192 bytes
LU is resource provisioned, LBPRZ=1
Rotation Rate:        Solid State Device
Form Factor:          2.5 inches
Logical Unit id:      0x5002538475b00c60
Serial number:        S18NNWAGB00198
Device type:          disk
Transport protocol:   SAS (SPL-3)
Local Time is:        Mon Oct 12 14:45:02 2020 MDT
SMART support is:     Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is:     Enabled
Temperature Warning:  Enabled
Read Cache is:        Enabled
Writeback Cache is:   Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: FAILURE PREDICTION THRESHOLD EXCEEDED: ascq=0x73 [asc=5d, ascq=73]

Percentage used endurance indicator: 0%
Current Drive Temperature:     35 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        58 C

Manufactured in week 28 of year 2015
Accumulated start-stop cycles:  35
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime:  0
Accumulated load-unload cycles:  0
Elements in grown defect list: 0

Error counter log:
           Errors Corrected by           Total   Correction     Gigabytes    Total
               ECC          rereads/    errors   algorithm      processed    uncorrected
           fast | delayed   rewrites  corrected  invocations   [10^9 bytes]  errors
read:          0        0         0         0          0       2206.843           0
write:         0        0         0         0          0       2645.851           0

Non-medium error count:        0

No Self-tests have been logged

Background scan results log
  Status: scan is active
    Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 1610:11 [96611 minutes]
    Number of background scans performed: 2,  scan progress: 64.11%
    Number of background medium scans performed: 2

Protocol Specific port log page for SAS SSP
relative target port id = 1
  generation code = 7
  number of phys = 2
  phy identifier = 0
    attached device type: no device attached
    attached reason: unknown
    reason: power on
    negotiated logical link rate: phy enabled; unknown
    attached initiator port: ssp=0 stp=0 smp=0
    attached target port: ssp=0 stp=0 smp=0
    SAS address = 0x5002538475b00c62
    attached SAS address = 0x0
    attached phy identifier = 0
    Invalid DWORD count = 0
    Running disparity error count = 0
    Loss of DWORD synchronization = 0
    Phy reset problem = 0
    Phy event descriptors:
     Received ERROR  count: 0
     Received address frame error count: 0
     Received abandon-class OPEN_REJECT count: 0
     Received retry-class OPEN_REJECT count: 0
     Received SSP frame error count: 0
relative target port id = 2
  generation code = 7
  number of phys = 1
  phy identifier = 1
    attached device type: no device attached
    attached reason: unknown
    reason: power on
    negotiated logical link rate: phy enabled; unknown
    attached initiator port: ssp=0 stp=0 smp=0
    attached target port: ssp=0 stp=0 smp=0
    SAS address = 0x5002538475b00c63
    attached SAS address = 0x0
    attached phy identifier = 0
    Invalid DWORD count = 0
    Running disparity error count = 0
    Loss of DWORD synchronization = 0
    Phy reset problem = 0
    Phy event descriptors:
     Received ERROR  count: 0
     Received address frame error count: 0
     Received abandon-class OPEN_REJECT count: 0
     Received retry-class OPEN_REJECT count: 0
     Received SSP frame error count: 0

I see the problem. You don’t have an IP address

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Additionally, you can tell us a bit more about the failing symptoms. You could also contact bitdeals and see what your options are.

We have no idea what you have tried. Since you didn’t really mention what you’ve done/tried so far.

Good question on what I’ve tried. I should have included as part of troubleshooting 101.

Symptoms were:

  1. Noticed today in Unraid it was saying my cache drive was not formatted. My ‘downloads’ folder for my Docker containers was ‘missing’ from /mnt/user. The ‘downloads’ folder was set to exist only on the cache drive (e.g. no mover).
  2. I was able to re-create the ‘downloads’ folder in /mnt/user but when I set it in Unraid to Cache-only, no data could be written to the folder by my Docker containers.
  3. /mnt/cache no longer existed in my Unraid filesystem.

Things I tried:

  1. Checked the SMART report and saw the above message: FAILURE PREDICTION THRESHOLD EXCEEDED
  2. Rebooted the system - no change
  3. Reconnected the SAS cable/power to the drive - no change
  4. Tried formatting via Unraid but received errors. Unfortunately I did not take a copy of the logs but generally saw several errors that the drive could not be formatted. I’m not quite sure where to look in Unraid to see if the log history is still available.
  5. Pulled the drive and installed a spare drive as a replacement to get back up and running.

I will also reach out to BitDeals.

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I will also reach out to them and see if I can assist you with this.

Hello Alastair,

Feel free to send us an email at support@bitdeals.tech and we can work on getting this sorted for you. We stand behind our product and want our customers to have peace of mind when they shop from us.

Thank you,
Brandon

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Thanks all for you assistance. I have reached out to BitDeals via email.

I will report back.

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