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if you connect them to a PC?
@El Mariachi ... and on the SATA interface, not with the same USB external case to USB port. There is a chance the drives are fine.
if you connect them to a PC?
After these SSDs have been "killed" what happens if you connect them to a PC? Can you see/format them there or are they completely undetected?
Your router may be getting low RAM condition and corrupting the drive. If you regularly do intensive transfers you better get a NAS.
You are better off buying a NAS, you could use Link Aggregation with the AX88U.
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I do get to high RAM but I have a 10gig swap
The router is only providing internet gateway and routing services.
With everyones feedback so far, it's sounding like a voltage issue at this point possibly caused by the enclosure.
This swap on USB won't help.
Do you mean the high load transfers are NOT to this USB attached drive?
I would also consider the USB cable as well...
The problem I found with MiniTool and other Windows utilities was that it was incredibly slow when creating ext* filesystem. The filesystem would also frequently be incompatible with my router. It was just a lot fast to format it on the router.I have been using MiniTool Partition Wizard to work on my Entware external SSD from a Windows PC. The counter argument to this approach is that you should use the native tools on the router to avoid compatibility issues.
I don't believe it's been possible to do true low level formatting since the MFM days. What the generic utilities seem to do is just overwrite the logical blocks of the raw device. You can achieve the same thing usingA low level format tool would likely be provided by the disk vendor. It would be unlikely that such a tool would function with a USB enclosure. You would need to put the drive in a 2280 slot.
dd
(which is what amtm
uses). These utilities are only really needed because of Windows' nasty habit of refusing to format drives that contain partition layouts or filesystems that it doesn't understand. This is where things like MiniTool can help.If the drives are actually dead, the enclosure is my first suspect, not the router.
The problem I found with MiniTool and other Windows utilities was that it was incredibly slow when creating ext* filesystem. The filesystem would also frequently be incompatible with my router. It was just a lot fast to format it on the router.
I don't believe it's been possible to do true low level formatting since the MFM days. What the generic utilities seem to do is just overwrite the logical blocks of the raw device. You can achieve the same thing usingdd
(which is whatamtm
uses). These utilities are only really needed because of Windows' nasty habit of refusing to format drives that contain partition layouts or filesystems that it doesn't understand. This is where things like MiniTool can help.
Everything keeps pointing towards the enclosure...
Could it be the USB-Sata bridge firmware perhaps, or the chipset itself - there were issues a long time back with certain controllers from JMicron (the infamous JM20337 controller which was very commonly used back in the day)
No, you're missing my point. Just use amtm fd.So rather than using the amtm fd command try dd directly from console and pick some custom options? Im not super familiar with unix/linux. What would be an optimal set of arguments for the dd command with an ext4 journaled drive config?
No, you're missing my point. Just use amtm fd.
You can edit your first post and add the SOLVED prefix to the title.Admins is there a way to update the thread title with the SOLVED prefix?
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