French-Guy

yep, will do...great reminder Thanks

I will post a diagnostic tonight (since Disk 3 was successfully rebuilt on the new 8TB drive, and I remember you recommended to post a diagnostic after that operation) But like I said (and I'm 100% sure about that) I haven't done anything about sharing or not Disk 5 I just installed it in a bay, that's it... I will look at it tonight

The last one I got for $129.99 at Best Buy was a White....Installed in an iStar hot swap bay, no issue at all with the 3.3V Is it because of the cage or the PSU, no idea...But the disk was recognized right away

I didn't do anything specific about Disk 5. Looks like it set up like that when I installed it I will have to fix this as well. But even if I see it with my shares, I know I don't want to access it anyway...

I think it's because it's "Public".............I need to change this. I see it (as well as Disk 5 by the way) on top of my Shares from my WD TV Live

I have to admit I was a little bit "anxious" when I looked at the GUI this morning.....................!!!!

Looks like everything went well: I will shut down the server for now, and look at it again tonight for the next step (New Config without Disk 2, or replace and rebuild Disk2) Once this will be done, I will have to take care of the disks still under resierfs Thanks

Fair enough....will leave it alone then ! I'll keep you posted tomorrow Thanks again for your great support

Data rebuild is at 58.3%.... Is it OK to use the array, or better leave it alone until rebuild is 100% completed?

I guess I'll try to check it with CrystalDisk info..................... If Blue are a decent choice, it was only $73 on top of it !

I've read somebody checked the enclosure with CrystalDisk info, and it said "Blue". So if it's the case, I will return it right away without having to open it Anyway, is a Blue disk for Data a bad choice?

Well, I've ordered a 4TB Easystore for $73...........If it's a Red or White, I will keep it and then use it to replace Disk 2 (the Easystore are really easy to open) But if it's a "basic" blue, I will probably return it, then I won't rebuild Disk2 to a new disk, and then have it "out of the equation" as you said 46% right now..........GUI says 7 hours 30 min before completion

When I replaced my parity drive with a new larger one (8TB Red), the former parity drive (2TB) was reinstall in another bay and became Disk 5, and was formatted as xfs (one of my posts in the 2nd page) - And this is when I realized some were reiserfs vs xfs I'm all for it...........So it means using unBALANCE (and making sure I'm not using Disk 2 of course)? By the way....................................24.3% right now !

Yes, after installing a larger parity drive, I realized the former parity drive (Disk 5 - 2TB) was formatted as xfs. So I started converting the other hard drives to xfs as well (Disk 4 and then Disk 2) Exactly Seems to be the recommendation from several people actually, so yes I want to do that Does that mean getting another hard drive, on top of the recently added 8TB white (on which Disk 3 is being rebuilt)? And by the way, I'm at 18.2% of the data rebuild...!

Yes, I did take care of the notifications....... And yes, I should have paid more attention to the "health" of my drives................Lesson learned ! Sorry to bother you with all my questions, but I'm learning a lot actually

-) I will post my diagnostic once rebuilt of Disk3 is completed (3.5% now) However, how do I confirm if all my data from 1 disk is here? I mean I can take a look at my Shares and watch for something obvious, but if only a few files are missing, how can I find out? -) I think I was maybe mixing between physical hard drives and Disk slots? But I understand now I will still have Disk 3 (as disk slot) but with a new physical drive (WD White 8TB) -) I'm not specifically trying to have fewer disks in the array: I just want to get rid of the 2 physical hard drives (that are in Disk 2 and Disk3 slots) since they both show "alarming" warnings....................So for me - and only talking about physical hard drives - it's removing 2 and adding a new one Hoping what I just wrote makes sense 🙄

Looks like I posted my latest message when you posted yours......Right now, I'm rebuilding Disk 3 onto the new 8TB drive What I want to do ultimately is to get rid of Disk2 and Disk3 that are apparently dying

So I've taken out Disk3 and installed instead the new 8TB drive I've assigned this new drive to Disk3 in the GUI Then I started the array, and now it says Parity sync/Data-rebuild 0.5%............................So wait and see After this 1st step is completed, I will skip step (4) of the "safe method" since there is no need to copy Disk2 onto the 8TB drive I will shut down, physically remove Disk 2, power up and then use New Config to unassign Disk2 and Disk3 Am i correct? Thanks

Ok, i will apply the "safe method" described above starting with Disk3 However, all data from Disk 2 were copied to Disk 4 (with unBALANCE) a few days ago (when I was trying to have all my disk under xfs).... Does it change something? I think my question is does it make sense to copy Disk2 onto the new 8TB drive (which is the 2nd part of the safe method) since data are already on Disk4?

OK, will wait for Johnnie.black about starting with Disk 2 or 3 ...........but I'm confused when you say use D3 to rebuild D2 (or vice versa) I thought D2 (and right after D3) will rebuilt onto the newer 8TB? To come back on your comment "Of course it has no way to know what bay you put it in. And it doesn't care what port you attach it to. Or even if the original Disk2 is still attached. It won't do anything at all until you assign the new disk to the Disk 2 slot in the webUI and start the array"........I think I understand, but anyway the "simplest" way is to physically remove D2 and install the 8TB in the same bay?

OK, got my 8TB Easystore from Bestbuy...............not a Red this time, but a White. It means I "may" have the 3.3V issue.... Anyway, now I want to fix my issue with my 2 drives (Disk 2 and Disk 3) Followig the "Safer method" detailled above, and knowing I have hot swap bays: 1) Take Disk 2 out and put new 8TB inside the same bay? (unless I should start with Disk 3 or it doesn't really matter) 2) Power ON 3) Assign the new 8TB to replace missing Disk 2? (and I guess if I don't see the 8TB drive, it means I have the 3.3V issue, right?) 4) Start the array and let unRaid rebuilt onto newer drive Waiting for your confirmation before moving forward Once those steps are completed, I will take care of the 2nd disk (3 or 2, depends on Step 1) Thanks

I ordered another 8TB Easystore at Bestbuy for $137.......hoping it will be a Red Then I can replace 2 and 3 at least

So I've installed my LSI card, and everything seems to run just fine.... I've attached again a diagnostic I've just downloaded 2 min ago Can you look at it and confirm Disk 2 and Disk 3 are the top priority? I will be leaving exactly in 1 week for a business trip in Europe (for a full week) and would like to avoid to leave my server in that state for 2 more weeks !!! If needed, I will go today to MicroCenter to buy at least a 4TB drive.....(assuming DIsk4 and Disk5 can wait a little longer) tower-diagnostics-20181124-1234.zip

I "naively" thought once data from Disk2 were copied onto Disk4, it was ok to unassign and eventually remove Disk2........😮😮😮Looks like my brain is not 100% unRaid oriented yet .... So as soon as I get my 4TB drive, what is my best option to replace Disk2 and Disk3? I googled it and found this, but i'ts from 2016: Is there any other (more recent?) way to do it? For step 4, can I use unBALANCE plugin rather than rsync command? Thanks

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