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  1. For the last couple of days I've been researching a new Unraid server build to replace my current Dell R510 one. The Dell R510 is going to become my backup server. I've been looking at a ton of motherboards but just couldn't really figure out the 'best' choice. Mainly what I want from this server is storage, I have my eye on this InterTech 16 bay chassis, now I just need some hardware to go with it. Since the chassis is a 16 bay the motherboard does need to be able to handle 16 drives, plus 2 for cache. I do already have some hardware that may of may not be sufficient, but I honestly don't know. Hardware I already have: Quadro P2200 (for HW transcoding, so new server doesn't need to be Intel) Asrock Z97 Extreme 4/3.1 (my old PC) Intel Core i7-4790K 32gigs of RAM I've wanted to use this hardware but I've read on the Asrock website that when all PCI-e slots are populated the slots will be x8/4/4. The chassis has 16 drive bays with all 4 backplanes having its own SFF-8087 connector , plus 2 cache which means I can plug the first backplane in the first 4 SATA slots with a cross-over cable and the 2 cache drives in the remaining 2 SATA ports. That leaves the other 3 backplanes. I can either buy a SAS Expander (I also already have a Dell Perc H310 flashed in IT mode somewhere), however I don't really know how that works since I want to use the last PCI-e slot for a 10gb NIC. Or I can buy a 16x LSI HBA and still use the last pci-e slot for the 10gb NIC. I however don't know if it's going to be bottlenecked by the x4 speeds, I don't know a lot about that. If the stuff I have won't work, any recomendations for new hardware? Thanks.
  2. I just ordered my Ellipse Pro, did you get it working with unRaid?
  3. I tried a couple of USB 3.0 drives and got an error on everyone of them, finnaly I tried a random USB 2.0 I had laying around and it worked on the first time. So maybe if you're using USB 3.0, switch to USB 2.0
  4. I was finnaly able to use another USB, USB 2.0 this time. No errors this time!
  5. Hello all, I just upgraded my Unraid server to version 6.9.2 from 6.9.0. After a reboot I was greeted with a kernel panic: kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) After flashing and testing another flash drive, I got the same message. I then flashed version 6.9.0 back on to the previous flash drive and everything is now working again. I am yet to run memtest, doing that when I go to bed in a couple of hours and leave it overnight, but I do have ECC memory so isn't that supposed to self-correct errors? As I don't really have the money to buy a new server, I want to keep this *** running for as long as I can. So if it means not upgrading, so be it. Attached is a screenshot of the kernel panic.
  6. Wow never saw that on a new drive. Asked the vendor for RMA. Currently in the process of copying everything to another drive. Thanks so much!
  7. So I recently bought a Dell PowerEdge R510 with 12 drive bays. The controller is a PERC H310 flashed in IT mode. I plan to populate all 12 bays with 6 TB SATA drives. Right now there is 1 (NEW) 6TB drive already in there (parity drive is on its way), but there are already disk errors present. When I do a SMART self test, short or extended, it fails after 10% with error "Errors occurred - Check SMART report". I'm still learning all this and I don't really understand what the report is saying. I've already replaced the H310 with another I bought (also in IT mode), but no dice. Is it really the drive? cerberus-smart-20201004-1456.zip