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yay! its back up! (disk 8 physically disconnected, so is the sata card) thank you Jorge!!!

wait what? i was checking cables for ages lol. i disconnected disk 8, i believe its this cheap sata card i bought off amazon. but i am stressing about disk 6. ok ill do what the check filesystem help page recommends - going into maintainance mode etc. thanks again for your help.

can you tell me which file in the diagnostics i should be looking at to see which SATA port disk 6 is ?

thats the new drive which i put in a sata card for. i will disconnect it, possibly its a bad card. what about disk 6?

its still bad. i believe you that it might be a cable issue, can u tell me what sata port disk 6 is on mate? that'd help me a ton. new diags inc. ps thank u i really appreciate this. storage-diagnostics-20230310-2308.zip

ok, checked cables, its booting now.. i didnt see any issues though, but made sure all firmly plugged in. is disk 6 being 'seen' or is it completely absent, like if i went into the BIOS would it be there?

i did a quick check before but i will again, thanks. back soon

ah yes, i forgot. sorry about that. thanks for your reply!! here they are storage-diagnostics-20230310-2223.zip

hi... i woke up today and saw there's a host of issues on my server. 1 drive 'not installed' and red, another "unmountable: wrong orno file system". i did SMART (quick) scan and all drives are passing, i am doing a read check but its going so slow, at <1 mb/sec so it's saying it will take 180+ days to complete. wth is going on? willing to try anything. only change that's occurred is that I added a new drive and SATA card about 1 month ago. all of these 14tb drives are less than 12 months old. should not be anythign wrong with them physically. theyre not overheating, nothing.

please disregard, its fixed now, i had the wrong sata port plugged in.

Hi. I am somewhat of a noob with unRAID still, and I just powered down and added a data drive (8tb) but when I rebooted the 14Tb array #1 was listed as unassigned along with the new 8tb data drive. Help! I havent done anything else apart from that, I didn't want to damage anything. the array disk is listed as unassagined

Hi. I am somewhat of a noob with unRAID still, and I just powered down and added a data drive (8tb) but when I rebooted the 14Tb array #1 was listed as unassigned along with the new 8tb data drive. Help! I havent done anything else apart from that, I didn't want to damage anything.

yah I know, I have the important stuff on LTO (have about 100 LTO-5 tapes) unRAID has really changed my day to day life. My only regret is not getting into it sooner!

oh i see. i guess it's just my OCD. i'll leave it as it is then, id freak out if i lost data. thanks a lot

Sorry, another question now -- How do I "balance" out the free space on this new drive, to distribute it among the other older drives?

Great! I see now, I've just added another data drive. Cheers for that.

Hi everyone! Just a quick and probable dumb question - If I add another HDD, it will be parity drive #2, right? Please refer screenshot

If for some unknown reason, my motherboard dies, and I have to choose a different one completely, can I just re-connect up the drives to the new motherboard and the data is all exactly the same?

Thank you so much SpencerJ! It's working now. Physically removed the NVMe. In hindsight though, I should have bought a higher licence. I have 5 X 14Tb's + 1 X 14Tb parity .. this means, because total count = 6, I cannot add another 14Tb, right? I really should have bought the Pro licence. I can't afford it this pay, I'll hold off for another couple of weeks. Thank you for all your help. I really enjoy this software, invested a lot of money into the hardware, it's in a schmexy 4U RM chassis too, but now I really need to put the time into learning how to use it properly. Thanks again! D

ahhh ok ill power down and physically remove it now and then try again

ok ill post diagnostics storage-diagnostics-20220318-0758.zip

just 1 - the usb boot drive theres a cache drive, does that count? if so i am happy to remove it, i havent worked out how to use it yet anyway

Hi I just bought a basic licence, paid for it with paypal and tried to put the code in and it says I have too many connected devices, even though there's 6 connected included the parity drive? Can someone explain or help please?

HI I am on day 1 of my trial and so far so good, I wanted to know how to add my NVMe 500gb SSD as cache? i cant see where the option to add it is. I'm only using old small drives at the moment but I have 6 X 14Tb drives I will add to this and I need to buy more of them. The pro licence is what I'll be buying.

is it possible for me to install 1 drive with unRAID and then fill that to 80% or so and then add another drive and do same, until capacity reached?