[SOLVED] Bricked SSD after crash

[anima]

After installing proxmox had to shutdown the server when I did the reboot was getting initramfs so I tryed repairing the drive with fsck



I then tryed to retrieve the superblock


Output of fdisk -l

pvs

pvscan

vgcfgrestore


also attempted to wipe off the data with dd without success the drive remain read only. I ran gparted afterward it gave me this



I then tryed to reinstall on a second drive I had laying around but upon reboot I had the same issue

I don't care about the data I just want my drives back ...

 

[cheiss]

Hi,

can you run smartctl -x /dev/sdf and see what it reports? This kind of sounds like a failing drive unfortunately.
Also, what version of PVE are you running (pveversion -v)?

 

[anima]

Hi,

can you run smartctl -x /dev/sdf and see what it reports? This kind of sounds like a failing drive unfortunately.
Also, what version of PVE are you running (pveversion -v)?

It was right after a clean install of pve 7.3 (Can't run smart on initramfs or I don't know how sorry that's all I can provide for the version info). It's not a recent drive but I didn't see any error in the smartctl also it happened on two different drive same brand and model.

 

[anima]

Found out that I have a failing DIMM. Could this be the cause?

 

[cheiss]

Found out that I have a failing DIMM. Could this be the cause?

I don't know how that could be related - but good find, that at least prevents some future problems.

As for the drive:
It does show one "Failure Prediction Threshold Exceeded", meaning it might fail soon (or already has, as it seems).
Additionally, the current drive temperature is 52°, which is pretty high for a drive - sustained usage at such temperatures might indeed cause (sooner) drive failures.
And with roughly 223 TBW (terabytes written), it already way into it's life.
What you can do is performing a SMART selftests on the drive and see what that reports, here's a nice guide for that.

My suggestion based on all of this would be to simply replace this failing drive with a new one.