How is disk connected to your PC?
What the filesystem?
What the model of HDD? Is it a SMR (you can check there: PSA: Beware of HDD manufacturers submarining SMR technology in HDD's without any public mention)?
I have the same issue on my pi3… But for me the workaround is to wait until the dashboard appears after A few mins…
Would be nice when this can be fixed
(cpu and ram usage are at Max… and iowaits… )
Do you have a GUI on your OS?
Nope raspian lite only docker for storj/watchtower but i guess its the smr Drive (4tb 2.5" wd elements )
And vpn Server to access it
SMR… Yes it could be a reason. Especially right after start.
Could the others experiencing this issue (@kerwinc, @lordjynx, @nagolmas) provide their HDD information if convenient?
Edit: Information about the amount of memory allocated to your nodes could also be helpful.
Mine is a VM running in proxmox, 8GB ram with an old 1tb external USB drive. Definitely not SMR, but I thought I ran some health checks on it before deploying. I was going to use this until it got full then pickup a 10tb external and move it to a raspberry pi.
Docker (version 19.03.13, build 4484c46d9d) on Ubuntu 20.04 server with 32GB of RAM. Storage is on NFS share running FreeNAS.
I gave the docker image a 4TB chunk of available space.
In your case you might want to look at this post (and the thread in general).
NFS is not a supported protocol for Storj. The only supported network storage protocol is iSCSI.
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I’ll move it then to a new iscsi share and let everyone know the results.
@baker
@Alexey
@nerdatwork
@moby
Thank you all and everyone else I missed!
I think that last point hit it… NFS issues possibly.
After moving the data — wow that was 1.2 million tiny files 
— it’s been running now for close to 12 hours.
Should I be worried about the audit failures?
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Keep an eye on your log for audit failures. You can search for GET_AUDIT and failed in same line. Slowly your audit % will go up but it won’t be 100% again.
What the protocol you have used to bind the disk to the VM?
In case of any Linux hypervisor the disk must be connected either as a virtual disk or as iSCSI (the virtual disk at the end).
The NFS and SMB are not supported.
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USB passthrough to the VM. I haven’t had any troubles for the first 2 months
Perhaps its throughput was enough until new functions have been implemented and put a more load on the storage.
But hope it’s fixed in the coming release:
Been running here now great on iSCSI on a ZFS zvol (freenas/truenas on this node) currently for ~128 hours without issue.
Thanks again everyone who assisted!
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I believe the issues is the drive itself, it’s reporting a ton of bad sectors. It’s about 8 years old, 1 tb external usb 2.0 drive. I realize my setup wasn’t optimal, and my node is disqualified on all satellites. I guess I’ll start over with a new drive!
Thank you for letting know.
I’m sorry that you lost it. I hope the next one would be more durable
Yeah, 4,472 bad sectors isn’t good! If it’s only been on a year, it might have a warranty 