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Just a quick update on this. I ordered 3 donor PCB boards from China. Two weeks later they arrived, I got a half decent heat gun with a fine tip and swapped the BIOS chips over. One of the parity drives and one of the data drives came back to life. I figured, the 3rd PCB maybe be faulty so I told them and they sent another. It arrived on Monday, swapped BIOS chip and viola it's back up and running. I'm back to where I was data-wise and with 2 parity drives and just finished my 2nd parity check with 0 errors. The only thing left is to get the server to boot from USB by itself. It's fine if I restart but if I shutdown and boot I have to go to the boot menu and select USB. Even if I can't sort that i can live with it for now. Short version, I've managed to not lose any data.

This has been discussed to death in this thread. starting at around page 45 or so. Read the "important notice" on this page that is linked in the first post of this thread. https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/letsencrypt/

I have used lot of Seagate that have worked very well. The important thing is that lots of manufacturers have had specific models or batches that have worked rather badly - and anyone who picks up a number of them have then seen a huge overrepresentation of problems. So I have had a specific model of Seagate external drives that overheated. All other models of Seagate external drives have worked very well. I did have quite a lot of the IBM "DeathStar" drives - but my drives never spent time idling, so they never suffered the firmware bug that resulted in the heads drowning in the lubricant. I have had a number of WD drives that have killed themselves because of the extremely aggressive head parking that made them unusable in Linux unless you know/remember to reconfigure them with hdparam. But in the end, they all have decent quality with the exception of their specific hw or fw goofs. I have accumulated hundreds of years of spinning time with Seagate drives without any issues if excepting the specific external drives that overheated.

OK, reporting in that dupeGuru is A W E S O M E Also, the Krusader disk usage tool is VERY handy to quickly visualize where the biggest files are.

Yes, just don't copy the old key, to avoid issues if you need to replace the flash drive in the future.

I'm happy that you got your files back. But now would be a good time for:

While this forum section is pretty dead I figured I'd at least post some finished build pics.

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Have you read the windows 10 VM guest support guide ? Enable MSI for Interrupts to Fix HDMI Audio Support download the MSI ulitily from here and apply the fix spaceinvaderone also has a wonderful video here explaining.

Just figured that dancing girls would be able to help draw attention to key points in a vid about volume mappings that are hard to explain how they work unless you understand how they work and then realize just how easy it actually is. Done the video Squid http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=56593.msg540106#msg540106 but just couldnt find how to map the girls in sorry. Maybe i could do a special one for you lol

Didn't watch the video, but what would be really awesome is a video explaining with examples, lots of pointing, hand-waving, arrows, dancing girls (this is the important part here), fireworks, etc how docker volume mapping works....