calvinandh0bbes

? Isn't a parity check pointless as it will calculate parity using the contents of the failed drive, which is now emulated....using parity. Kind of like checking to see if the answer in the back of the book is correct using a photocopy of the answer in the back of the book.

I just updated my hardware a month ago from an Intel E6600 with 2 Gb ram (DDR2 baby!). 😎 Ran fine for a decade with unraid, but I just used it as a NAS. Cache_dirs was literally the only program I ran (well, and pre_clear). Now I'm with the cool kids like you with 32 Gig.

Can't speak to the X570 taichi, but I just recently upgraded to a used X370 taichi and it's been great. stable, overclocked the memory just fine, 10 sata ports (none of which get deactivated when using either of the M2 slots). Only thing I can't attest to is passthrough, as I'm not running any VM's yet, but i've read others saying it wasn't an issue. I couldn't justify the new price tag for an X570 version when I came across the $85 used x370. Pcie 4.0 and 2 less SATA ports for $200 extra.

Looking for some help with the Autofan plugin. My autofan setup is finally working for the most part and it's no longer shutting off my CPU fan (really problematic, especially since I use a small cooler). Anyways, I have "25" entered in for the "Minimum PWM value", and I'm assuming that means, if the temperatures are all below the low threshold, the fan will spin at it's given rate for a PWM input of 25%. That doesn't seem to be working as my Low and High hard drive temp thresholds are 30 C and 45 C respectively, but as soon as my temps get into the 20's, my fans shut off. I'd like to keep my fans running at some minimum to help cool things other than the hard drives (CPU, LSI controller, GPU, MB, etc). Unrelated, It would be nice to have a little guidance on how to set this up as it isn't intuitive, IMO. There is no "help" if you click the "?" in unraid. It took me quite a while to figure out that the "PWM fan" field isn't unique between PWM controllers. I kept hitting DETECT for each PWM controller (I have 5), and some would come up with one of three /long_path/fan0_input, fan1_input, or fan2_input (ie, 3 fan inputs over 5 PWM controllers, thus some had to be repeated). Also, my biggest issue is after hitting apply, it keeps going back to "PWM1." That's annoying when you are playing around with the settings, you inevitably end up making changes to 1 when you are meaning to make a change to one of the others past 1, and then wonder why the change didn't do what you thought it would.

Doesn't sound like it. Just started 3 preclears (internal drives) and they went from starting to the first step in a few seconds which has always been the case. Haven't ever done any externals.

I built my unraid server somewhere around 2008. I got some old hardware (circa 2006) off craigslist for crazy cheap and I still run that hardware today for exactly what you are saying you want to do...a big array of discs (17 in my server). Core 2 Duo with a whopping 2 GB of RAM (now considered bare minimum). Only thing I spent real money on other than drives was the case (to hold tons of drives) and the power supply. If you aren't planning on running dockers and VMs and such any time soon, i'd save on the guts, only making sure you can support a lot of SATA ports. If you decide in a few years you want to run more, upgrade the hardware then. You'll have faster and/or cheaper hardware at that point than if you buy good stuff now only to really put it to use years down the road. I'm looking at finally updating my hardware to add specific capability. Glad I didn't invest $$$ in 2008 to just do home file storage/serving for over a decade.

I have two on my AOC-SASLP-MV8 (notice the missing "2" in SASLP) and they work just fine. Can't comment on the "2", but I would certainly imagine the newer version handles it at least as well as the older version.

Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 253 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 171 171 021 Pre-fail Always - 6441 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 12 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 10 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 8 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 10 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: SMART Error Log Version: 1 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: No Errors Logged After.... Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 171 171 021 Pre-fail Always - 6441 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 12 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 20 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 10 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 8 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 14 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: SMART Error Log Version: 1 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: No Errors Logged No, the preclear did not take 7 months....my clock got reset when putting in the new drive, and in the meantime, the clock got updated. Looks good to me unless somone tells me otherwise.

thank you once again, Mr L.

I have a newbie question. I ran preclear on a new 2 TB western digital (ears with 7+8 jumpered) from the console on the unraid box itself. there are SMART differences listed, but most of the report is off the top of the screen. are the results written anywhere that I can look at them. I usually run it from a terminal window on my linux desktop where I can scroll up, copy/paste, etc. i don't want to have to run this again. thanks, c+h