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So I've learned the hard way that I should have gotten my SCSI-to-SATA cables from Monoprice instead of eBay sellers--two of them are failing after less than 6 months of SOHO use.
These are SFF-8087 on one end and four SATA on the other.
My question is: Can the drives be "reordered" to isolate a bad cable? Here's what I mean.
Cable 1: 3 drives, one bad SATA end.
Cable 2: 2 drives, one bad SATA end, one free SATA.
I have a new Monoprice cable. Let's call that Cable 3.
Cable 3: 4 drives.
Cable 1: Removed.
Cable 2: 1 drive, 2 free, one bad.
The last time I swapped SATA ends around, I was forced to rebuild even though nothing had gone wrong with the data on the drive--the cable failed and that caused repeated resets to the controller. So the controller thought the drive went bad but it didn't. When I plugged this drive into another SATA end the controller flipped to rebuild.
That's fine with one drive, but if I shuffle five, the array would then break if they all act like the one drive did.
These are SFF-8087 on one end and four SATA on the other.
My question is: Can the drives be "reordered" to isolate a bad cable? Here's what I mean.
Cable 1: 3 drives, one bad SATA end.
Cable 2: 2 drives, one bad SATA end, one free SATA.
I have a new Monoprice cable. Let's call that Cable 3.
Cable 3: 4 drives.
Cable 1: Removed.
Cable 2: 1 drive, 2 free, one bad.
The last time I swapped SATA ends around, I was forced to rebuild even though nothing had gone wrong with the data on the drive--the cable failed and that caused repeated resets to the controller. So the controller thought the drive went bad but it didn't. When I plugged this drive into another SATA end the controller flipped to rebuild.
That's fine with one drive, but if I shuffle five, the array would then break if they all act like the one drive did.