Verme123

Hi everyone, I woke up this morning to a nice red error message from Unraid stating I had a hardware error of some kind. I'm no server guru, however I know enough to be able to attach the diagnostics file as instructed ... I don't see any drive errors or anything in the Unraid gui, so the issue is currently unknown for me. I tried to read the diag files, but I don't know what I'm looking for. If anyone can provide guidance based on this info, that'd be awesome, thanks.

Let me start by saying I don't have experience with zfs, so I'm looking for some info. As you can see from the attachment, I have 1 large xfs data array. I have 2 new disks in it, which allows me to empty 2 others at the same time if needed using Unbalance. I'm wondering if it's worth changing to zfs for it's added resiliency benefits. Speed is not a huge concern for me, although I don't want to slow down to a crawl. My questions are: 1) If I make 1 large zfs pool, can I add drives as I go along like I currently can with the xfs setup? 2) I'm assuming I'd have to do 1 or 2 drives at a time and spend forever copying files over should I change formats? 3) Are parity drives needed anymore, or can I recover the 32tb used by parity currently? I may be way off base and have no issues leaving things the way they are, but zfs is the buzzword for the last while, it seems worth checking out now. I apologise in advance if this post makes no sense, I don't know what I don't know ... thanks.

Can confirm, something is wrong. I'm online in the forums status, however the unraid server has an API error. Restarting the unraid-api is a no-go.

How does this make Plex go down? The only outage I'm seeing on my side is the My Servers plugin. Everything else seems to still be working fine.

Must be an outage, same here.

My driver installed again no problems after I uninstalled/reinstalled the plugin, thanks for the fix! I don't see the video card section under the unraid dashboard anymore however, is this by design? Thanks.

Same here, fingers crossed. I get a mouseover message 'Current Server - Not connected to Mothership'

Ya, I figure once it's more balanced the share allocation method would take care of the rest.. fair enough, thanks.

I guess this is a dumb question? I have no idea... just looking for something similar to drivepool (Windows) balance function, thanks.

Just a quick question, my array is around 80% used, however some drives are more full than others. Rather than manually using unbalance to move files around, I was hoping to find out if there is a plugin or method to automatically balance (sizewise) the data which IS ALREADY EXISTING. I used high-water for the shares which is fine going forward, but after some disk swaps, everything is a little unbalanced. Thanks in advance.

Great, thanks folks. I'm re-clearing them out first just in case anything happens and I'll be adding them into the array afterward.

I've got 14tb worth of drives which are indicating smart errors. If these can pass a pre-clear, are they ok to use? I'm not sure how to continue with that, they are currently unassigned, but it's a fair bit of space, see these pics for what i'm seeing. Is there a different way to test these things in unraid? Thanks a ton! https://imgur.com/a/DPeDDD0

I unfortunately don't have other logs. Is there a way I can get them? As for the Marvel, it's the old one I threw into the system just in case, last night when the errors happened it was an adaptec asr-71605 hba, thanks. I guess ideally I would need to attach existing drives and data .. which have already been in the array, back into the array without the need to format them. Otherwise I'm a little out of luck and will need to power everything down until I get a new 16tb drive to use as a temp to move everything

Very good point! Thanks. server-diagnostics-20211202-1422.zip I should also mention based on google searches I have changed to another Sata controller card and all different sata cables. I was running an hba w/sas2sata cables. Now it's my old SIL 8 port sata controller in the machine, same thing though.

I went to bed last night and everything was working properly. I'm moving to unraid from another os and copying drives overnight etc. When I woke up, the server was completely down. I suspect the drives filled up but I really have no idea. I was finally able to get into the gui and this is what the drive setup looked like: https://imgur.com/a/iTdNevW Obviously /sdg and /sdf should be in the array. The weird thing is though is that when I unmount the array, I'm able to mount the 2 listed unmountable drives as unassigned. All the data is still there, but I can't get these drives back into the array where they belong: https://imgur.com/a/OgviEO1 I'm really hoping the array gods can shine down upon me and offer assistance. I don't have a spare drive at this point to move things to if I had to re-format the drives to re-add them to the array ... any assistance would be fantastic, thanks! When I try to add the drives back to the array in the main menu, the result is 'Too many wrong and/or missing disks!' I should also note I did something I shouldn't have, I don't think, I cannot add the drives back to the array anymore, they are coming in as new disks and need formatting, *great*.