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I would never buy any drive used without seeing a SMART long test report. Upon receiving the drive, I'd run a SMART short test to validate it matches the long test report they provided. After that, I'd put it through at least 1 full cycle of PreClear testing.

While CrowdStrike is to blame, shame on everyone who blindly let it push updates to every machine. This is exactly why standard life-cycle testing processes should be used, including Canary test environments. It's partially your own fault.

If you don't trust your hard drives enough to build parity once then you can't trust them at all for any operations. The drives could just as well have an even number of errors (error on reading Sector X on Data Drive 1 and Data Drive 2 resulting in technically correct for Parity Drive 1 and producing incorrect Parity Drive 2 result) while building the second parity drive and you'd be no better off.

Why not just do the replacing of Parity 1 with the larger drive directly?

It's not the motherboard. Hopefully someone gets to the bottom of why Intel 13xxx and 14xxx CPUs are so horrible:

Multiple Arrays.

Because humans are dumb.

I'm not sure if you got yours working or not, but I see multiple users with extremely concerning issues using the MinisForum MS-01 with Expansion Units. Here's the thread at ServeTheHome -- https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/minisforum-ms-01-qnap-jbod-issues.44250/

This should be of interest to you if you haven't seen it already, but MS-01 has severe issues with external drive cases to where I would not use it at all for drive storage duty. https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/minisforum-ms-01-qnap-jbod-issues.44250/

Sounds like WatchDog timers. Is it only the unraid VM which reboots or is it the entire host, including ProxMox rebooting?

Boy does that bring back memories...

Have you seen the unraid roadmap? If so could you share it with the rest of us? I'm sure we'd love to have a look at what future unraid versions will provide. Thanks!

Any chance of a new poll or ability to change our vote as my choice has changed over the past 27 months since the Poll started?

Are you certain it's not Power Supply related, if you have the GPU plugged in maybe it's pulling too much power and the drives are dropping offline because of that?

There's a few posts in this thread that one might find useful for mini-ITX even if the initial focus was on lower power setups with cpus integrated. I'm interested in the Minisforum MS-01 system with 2 SFP+ ports and a free PCI-Express slot but they won't ship until April 20th or so. It would work well with an external 4-drive cage. I was looking for what networking options I could use on my Legion Go that has 40 Gbps USB-C ports. So the timing of this thread was convenient.