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Can I replace the SATA port inside a Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny? (lemmy.sdf.org)

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I have a Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny (10FL) which has been working fine. Recently, I had an HDD failure, and replaced it with an SSD. This time, I decided to go with ZFS (single drive, kinda pointless, but I get scrubbing). Every once in a while, I'm getting errors while scrubbing. It's always 1-2 read or write errors. And it never reappears if I clear the error and run another scrub.

The data isn't important, and it's backed up, so I'm not too worried about it. But, the symptoms make me think that it's an issue of the SATA port inside. Is it possible to replace the SATA port inside this device? I wasn't able to find anything like part number etc. online and it looks like I need to replace the whole board. Any help is appreciated.

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[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Then it’s the drive, probably. If not did you check the cable (most likely culprit),

I'm a pretty experienced pc guy, but I got that wrong this week.

I'd re-used a SSD drive gave classic disk failures for writing cctv images to in a server. It's one I'd had similar issues with years before, so didn't spend much time diagnosing before switching it out for another. I then physically cut up the SSD before disposing.

Next day - replacement drive gave identical errors.

Yep - of course, it was the Sata cable. Swapped that and everything's fine again.

I'm miffed that I binned a (most likely) perfectly good SSD.