Kimosabe2019

I just bought a brand new SanDisk USB and it boots but I cannot transfer the key. When I press the replace key it confirms and no email is sent back to my email address. Can someone help me?

Here is my diagnostics file. homenas.local-diagnostics-20210118-0953.zip

So I have four 1 TB disks and one 2TB parity. I have yet to purchase newer drives but three of my drives are showing a lot of errors. If I purchase three 1 TB drives, how do I swap them out? One at a time once parity is met? Or can I swap out all three at once?

Every time I reboot the server I lose access to the GUI. When I use file explorer to access the network shares all I get is a flash drive. I guess that my array is not starting up after each reboot and I've changed the disk settings to AUTOSTART. The only thing I can do to access the GUI is to re-flash the USB drive and create a new server. Frustrating. Is there a way to start up the array from telnet?

Okay pretty much all the data is on the drives. I have one more 1 TB backup drive that I took out of a old laptop (so it wouldn't be any use for the unraid). I have the 120GB SSD and the Seagate 1TB hard drive left unassigned. I already deleted the Docker image. Is this what you want me to do? 1. Assign the 120 GB SSD as cache drive. 2. Insert the 1 TB Seagate drive into the array. 3. Purchase a 4TB parity drive and install it as parity. 4. Purchase another 4TB hard drive to replace the corrupted drives. 4. Rebuild data. <--- How to do do this? 5. REMOVE the corrupted drive. WDC_WD10EZEX-60ZF5A0_WD-WCC1S7914565 - 1 TB (sde) 6. Activate Docker. 7. Move appdata to the SSD drive. 8. Re-install Plex Media Server.

I do have an extra 1 TB SSD lying around. Was just reading that 120 GB cache was good enough for my Plex Server. Now what course of action should I take now since I prematurely enabled Docker? Can I undo Docker? I can always reinstall Plex once all my data is transferred back. I will buy two 4 TB Seagate IronWolf drives to replace the two that have the drive errors. That will most likely be next week. Until then I will just continue transferring all my data back to the drives and replace that disk1 drive with another one. I'll need to find a 2TB drive somewhere for parity. This is a lot of work!

ChatNoir: Still doing my initial transfer. Will enable cache and parity once done today. My hard drives are old and my case is terrible. I originally saw my hard drives overheat when I did the PreClear stuff. So I began looking online for a better case that had fans cooling the hard drives. I am also going to replace all 4 of my 1 TB hard drives with 2 TB Seagate IronWolf 2TB NAS Hard Drive 5900 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive ST2000VN004. I will be also purchasing the Antec P101 Computer Case as it has 3 fans on the front cooling the hard drives directly. Currently I have a desktop fan blowing on the NAS and all temps have come down. Please see snapshot. homenas-diagnostics-20200729-0947.zip

Last night installed Plex Media Server. Today I am installing NextCloud for local storage. Any ideas on what else I should do for my NAS? Here is a snapshot of my build FYI.

Well I've finally precleared all my drives. I've left my SSD alone and did not attach it as a cache drive nor did I attach my parity drive. That's the Seagate one. Now begins the long laborious transferring of all my movies back to the server. First 500 GB will take about an hour and 10 minutes. Wouldn't it be faster if I attach the cache drive? I've created a share called Media and within Media I am creating sub-folders called Movies, Music and Videos. What would you recommend I do next?

So far I have installed all the drives in my case and did a PRECLEAR on all of them. Found that all my drives were severely overheating. Between 56-68C. So before I add the parity and cache drives I am going to transfer all the data back to the hard drives. I am currently looking into purchasing a new NAS case that has better air flow for the hard drives. I am leaning towards the Antec P101 as you can have up to 12 hard drives in there and ample fans. There is also the Silverstone CS380 but that one is about $307.50 on Amazon right now.

So I've decided against using FreeNAS for launching my new Plex Server. I did a little research and the community software selection is a lot larger than the FreeNAS collection. So I need a little help here: First I have Five 1 TB Hard Drives and one 1 TB SSD. I have a Sixth 1 TB Hard Drive but at this moment I don't have enough SATA ports on my motherboard just yet. If I wanted a RAID5-like setup for redundancy what would be the optimum setup? Today and over the next couple of days I am transferring all my movies to other smaller hard drives so I can clean all the 1 TB hard drives and then once done the transferring, install them in the UnRaid Server.