Is freeNAS killing my external drives?

[DGLemm]

Hello,

I am new to these forums, and new to FreeNAS, so please understand that I am not 100% knowlegable by any stretch.

I have set up freenas on a small internal harddrive, and formatted an external 1tb seagate drive to UFS for storage. After setting up the volume and shares, I did a reboot and its is saying the drive is degraded. Is the drive shot? Where do I go from here?

Thanks for any and all help.

 

[Stephens]

What does FreeNAS give you in this stuation over just having the server running Windows, Linux or whatever? It's just one shared drive. I only ask because it seems like you're not using any of the features that make FreeNAS great. What version of FreeNAS are you using? How much RAM? I'm not a big fan of using an external drive as a shared network drive. Check out this thread to see if it gives you any ideas. I don't even know if you can run SMART against that external drive, but that's what you need to run. A long test, not a short one. Hopefully you don't have any data on it you can't replace. If so, try copying that data off before you do anything else.