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  1. Just wanted to thank you again for all of the help. Running smoothly with new parity drives and old parity drives formatted for data storage.
  2. Thank you. Additional (possibly dumb) question. Can I simply keep disk4 where it is (with all data intact) and replace disk3 (the 4TB drive with no data on it) with the old parity 10TB drive (formatted) and add the second old parity 10TB drive (formatted) as Disk5? I have fixed the drive layout that I displayed above to accurately reflect the drive assignments. Current drive layout Parity 1 (10TB) Parity 2 (10TB) Data Drive 1 (10TB) Data Drive 2 (10TB) Data Drive 3 (4TB) Data Drive 4 (10TB) Desired drive layout Parity 1 (14TB) Parity 2 (14TB) Data Drive 1 (10TB) Data Drive 2 (10TB) Data Drive 3 (10TB) * old parity 1 Data Drive 4 (10TB) Data Drive 5 (10TB) * old parity 2
  3. You are correct. I meant disk 3 and not 4. I had it labeled as 3 (on the physical drive) from another build that I had pulled it from. Any different procedure to follow after view the diagnostics? Thank you again for your time.
  4. Updated diagnostics as requested. Thank you diagnostics-20230205-1415.zip
  5. I appreciate the second look. Here are my diagnostics
  6. I have read over the wiki process but am still not 100% confident. Would someone mind confirming that I am taking the correct steps? Current drive layout Parity 1 (10TB) Parity 2 (10TB) Data Drive 1 (10TB) Data Drive 2 (10TB) Data Drive 3 (10TB) Data Drive 4 (4TB) Desired drive layout Parity 1 (14TB) Parity 2 (14TB) Data Drive 1 (10TB) Data Drive 2 (10TB) Data Drive 3 (10TB) Data Drive 4 (10TB) * old parity 1 Data Drive 5 (10TB) * old parity 2 My understanding is that I should remove current Parity 1 drive (10TB) from it's assignment and then assign one of the new 14TB drives. This will rebuild parity for the array. After that is completed, I then remove current Parity 2 drive (10TB) from it's assignment and then assign the other new 14TB drive. Allow this parity to rebuild and then I can assign both old parity drive to data slot 4 and 5 respectively. There is currently no data on the Data Drive 4 (4TB) so a copy wouldn't be necessary. Does this seem like the correct process or can I do more steps at the same time to reduce the overall time to complete the process? Thank you for any assistance holding my hand through this.
  7. I am the reason that they say measure twice, cut once (SMH). I ordered the M.2 to SATA adapter only to realize that my MB has a half length M.2 slot (2242). The case/drives block my from using this longer/standard card. I will need to go with the M.2 to PCIe riser solution. I am going to make the assumption that I can trim down the PCB since the cabling/components are all in the base of the card (hopefully this is accurate, see image). Thanks again for all of your help, JorgeB.
  8. Thanks for the reply. My only other question was to confirm that the ASM1166 chipset is desired over the JMicron JMB585, due to compatibility with UnRAID, correct? My inclination is to go with a Silverstone ECS07, because they seem like the most reliable company selling these M.2 adapters, but if the chipset that they use does not play well with UnRAID then that is a moot point.
  9. I am not in the market to change boards/case/CPU etc right now so I have been looking at these m.2 to SATA expansion cards (specifically ones using the ASM1166 chipset) to add storage to my array. I am currently on mITX (so only one PCIe slot) and cannot afford to give up my NVIDIA card to cover PLEX transcoding (my ASUS P11C-I with it's C242 chipset doesn't allow for iGPU passthrough). Question 1: Can anyone tell me if there is any downside to having my two parity drives (currently run dual parity) on the expansion card vs the motherboard's onboard controller? Question 2: Seeing reports about flimsy PCBs on these expanders, potentially being the point of failure. Would it make more sense to get an m.2 to PCIe riser card and use my existing ECS06? Cost is small enough with either option, just wanted the one that is the most reliable of the two. Thanks for any suggestions/tips.
  10. I appreciate the tip. I'll contact ASUS to see if there are any workarounds.
  11. I might possibly be in a similar situation. My MOBO is an ASUS P11C-I with an i3-8100 and the newest BIOS. I don't see anywhere in the BIOS settings where I can enable iGPU, and there is mention in the manual about using a jumper to enable/disable the onboard VGA controller (ASUS manual pg 2-23). Is my only option at this point to get a NVIDIA GPU to support HW transcoding? Thanks for any support that you can provide.
  12. Finally fixed this with a new Microserver backplane. Thanks to all who helped get me going again.
  13. Here is an updated diagnostic (failed right before it completed the entire 4TB rebuild). This should have the SMART data. Same error? tower2-diagnostics-20190606-2203.zip
  14. So I have decided to go the i3-8100 route for now, but I wish to buy a Xeon compatible board and ECC ram so that I can just drop in the Xeon 2146G at a later time. My final question before purchasing is about the RAM. What do you think about this setup? i3-8100 ASUS P11C-I (so I have the option to upgrade to Xeon later) 16GB ECC (8gb x 2 - would this RAM work well with the CPU/MB? ) https://www.newegg.com/crucial-8gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/1B4-00M3-00040?Item=1B4-00M3-00040 This RAM is rated at 2666Mhz, although the i3-8100 only supports 2400Mhz. I wanted to get this so that when I go to the Xeon later I don't have to buy new RAM. Full disclosure: I posted this on another hardware forum but haven't received any feedback.
  15. PreClear completed successfully (2 full passes) and as I started to bring the array back online my server froze up (completely). After rebooting I am now getting errors on DISK1 again (this is the brand new disk that passed), so at this point it has to be either the cabling or the controller. Without me re-buying everything here, is there any way to check this? I have attached the updated diagnostics. Thank you tower2-diagnostics-20190604-1906.zip