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Yeah I have spare HBA's, PSU's, and cables from other Supermicro servers I have so I ruled all those out. I don't have a spare backplane for the 4U chassis to test though. I also figured it was very odd timing for one of these to die right when I upgraded to 6.5.3, but I guess it could just be coincidence! I will try to find the culprit this weekend and check back if I can rule out the hardware.

Thanks, my first thought was connection issue of some sort. I have tried multiple cables and HBA's with no success. I just upgraded to 6.7 and now every disk is unmountable and shows SMART errors. Perhaps my backplane is the issue (it's a Supermicro 846 chassis).

I upgraded to 6.5.3 because that was marked as the stable release on the GUI. Here is the full zip. main-diagnostics-20190516-2239.zip

I recently upgraded from 6.3.3 (which I was running stable for over a year) to 6.5.3. I had one drive unmountable upon upgrading, so I ran xfs repair. This didn't resolve the issue so I rebuilt with a new drive. About a day later now I have 4 unmountable drives, and a parity drive offline. On top of that 6 of my 14 drives now show smart errors. I have 12 WD Red/White label 8 TB drives, and 2 Seagate Ironwolf Pro 8TB drives (parity). It seems highly unlikely to me that I actually have 1/2 my drives dying all at once, and I have tried to remedy the issue with a change of cables, and HBA so I don't think it's hardware related. I also did not back up my 6,3,3 usb drive before updating, which I know I should have. I don't have an option to downgrade back to 6.3.3 either (it just says downgrade to 6.5.3, which I'm already on). I have included the 3 log files and smart data from diagnostics. Any help you guys could offer would really help me out. For now all my data is inaccessible, and I don't know what to do about this.

I'm looking for E5-2648L V2's or E5-2658 V2's. Have tons of server stuff for trade if you want something (Mobos, CPUs, RAM, PSUs, etc.) or I will just buy.

Still going back and forth with their email support and so far nothing has worked. I tried rigging up the Noctua coolers but without the top cover the hard drives were hitting 50C instead of their normal 31C so I scrapped that idea even though the CPUs were frosty cold

It's not worth it. It has less QPI links and other than that is just bigger and supports higher TDP CPUs. Unless you need anything an X5680/X5690 then it's a waste.

I'm still preclearing two of each and for some reason both of the WD80EZZX drives are ahead by a good margin. No idea why, but physically they look identical and even the PCD is the same so maybe the only difference is the disabled TLER I hope.

I found an Eaton 30U rack with wheels, a glass door in front, and built in PDU for $70 on Craigslist. I've been using it for years. In my area at least you can find dozens of racks for sale under $150 at any given time. Try that route.

Thanks for the input. All I see for a reasonable price on eBay are the 36 bay ones not the 24 bay ones unfortunately. The only affordable 24 bay ones at the moment are older and don't support the large drives.

I am pretty sure you are mistaken. Every 36 Bay Supermicro I've ever seen is only 2U internally. But here is the cooler http://noctua.at/en/products/cpu-cooler-workstation-server/nh-u9dx-i4/specification

Yeah I know but it's only 2U of internal space since the back 12 bays take up the other 2U. I already have (2) 2U's with Dual E5-2670's. Looking to move one of them to a 4U case so I can put Noctua fans in it and also put Noctua CPU coolers in it.

Looking for a 24 bay Supermicro 4U chassis with a newer backplane that supports >2TB drives. I don't want the 36 bay cases because I need 4U internal space for Noctua CPU coolers and larger fans.

I did but I'm still going to rig up some Noctua coolers for now and keep looking for a nice 4U chassis.

So they replied with just one sentence saying to factory reset the IPMI, which I already did... Oh well at this point I'm so frustrated I'm just going to order a couple of Noctua i4 coolers and just leave the top off the case. I love these Supermicro cases and would buy a 4U if I could find an affordable one with the newer backplanes that support more than 2TB drives. All the ones I can find are $1000+ on eBay because I haven't been able to find any with just the cases (only full systems). For the time being it'll just have to be an open air case!