HK-Steve

Have been looking at gear today to replace my outdated rigs.. Intel S2600CP2J Motherboard Dual E5-2670 SR0KX 64GB PC3-12800R @600USD seems a good deal. http://natex.us/intel-s2600cp2j-motherboard-dual-e5-2670-sr0kx-64gb-pc3-12800r/ Anyone used such a board combination?? More to come, am looking at an i7 setup to compare at the moment

Thanks SSD, I have not moved or disturbed anything in the Tower1, I had just finished copying over about 2Tb of movies over 3 hard drives, disks 2, 3 and 4. Then wanted to do Parity Check ready for tomorrow Parity disk change over to 8Tb. Agree with the Fragile disks, this is why I am trying to move forward and get this updated quickly. I am nearly in the frame of mind to build a new Tower3 tomorrow with New motherboard, CPU and Ram, case and install 6x 8TB drives, and replace the Tower1 completely. Then I can also complete the XFS conversion also which needs to be done on Tower1 anyway.. Copy everything off Tower1 to Tower3. Then get new drives for the failing Tower1 and start fresh when funds allow..

Yes, Yes it is...

I am in Switzerland. 8T Red $274 USD 302USD here 8T Red Pro $330 USD 353USD here 10T Red $380 USD 415USD here 10T Red Pro $450 USD 456USD here HGST 8T NAS - $270 USD 438USD here HGST 10T NAS - $344 USD 544USD here

Hi Guy's, was doing a parity check today and got an error. 2017-10-12, 11:34:07 3 hr, 23 min, 56 sec Unavailable Canceled 257 errors Now my hard drieve 16 is offline, Say's Device is offline, content emulated... with a red X instead of green dot before Parity check started. What is the next step for me, as I was going to install new upgraded hard drives tomorrow. 8Tb's. Thanks Steve

Thanks Guy's, appreciate your advice. Not going to worry about the Cache for now, will get this upgraded, then look into Dockers and VM later. I can not get the WD easystore 8T drives here, looked everywhere today..Bummer. LaCie Porsche Design Desktop Drive Design P'9233 (8000GB) I found for a good price, but I have no idea what drive is inside, from the specs sounds like a 5400rpm drive. Could find nothing else, the 1Tb enclosure I have myself has a Samsung in it, some of the video's on YT show a Seagate in the 4Tb units. So no idea for the 8Tb. Much appreciated.

I do not use any Dockers or VM's.. all disabled at the moment. Is purely used as a NAS... But 500Gb is also good if I need the Cache drive to speed up the transfer of data. Thanks Steve

Thanks tdallen, I also hope the good long runs continue. I do understand that the older drives will slow the speed, but will try to upgrade Tower1 with new drives, copy all the data to Tower1 then convert the older Tower2 to XFS, then can upgrade the old Tower2 to newer drives also, will take some time. Budget is good, but 20x replacement drives is some serious coin.. That is why I was looking at the 6Tb drives, but will look around here and see what I can find before I jump. Will do for Tower2 RAM, an easy upgrade.. I was just reading about the Cache drives and how they speed up data transfer, So more curiosity rather than a need. Much appreciate your advice and comments. Stay tuned. Cheers Steve

Just missed that the WD Red is a 5400rpm drive and the IronWolf is 7200rpm.. Hmmmm

Hi Everyone, I had a small issue a month ago which got resolved very quickly, thanks to Jon and Tom, awesome Guy's Thanks. After not really touching my 2x 40Tb Towers for nearly 10 years after setting them up, other than loading/deleting Movies and TV Shows, I use Plex and Dune media player to Stream to all my devices. Blowing out the heatsinks and dust bunnies...every month, have a reminder set in my phone so I do not miss this very important thing. Probably why I have not had too many disk failures.. I have 20x 2Tb drives, plus Parity in each enclosure which I customized myself. Details of my Tower1 below. M/B: ASUSTeK Computer INC. - P5K-E CPU: Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz HVM: Enabled IOMMU: Disabled Cache: 64 kB, 3072 kB Memory: 4 GB (max. installable capacity 4 GB)* Tower2 details, System: ASUSTeK Computer INC. - P5Q DELUXE CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz - 2.933 GHz Cache: 64 kB, 3072 kB Memory: 2048 Module (max. 4 GB) Only had to replace 4x 2Tb drives in all that time, WD and Samsung were originally installed, 1x WD and 3x Samsung failed. Not bad overall... Replaced with WD.. Now, it is time to update both Towers with Cache drives and some bigger drives, maybe some RAM for Tower2??. About 12 of the drives over the 2x Towers are up to over 5 years Power On in the Smart details. No errors yet, but it is time to start planning. Got a little cash stashed, so let's get these Babies all freshened up. So far looking at a 256Gb WD Green SSD for the Cache, single one only, unless someone can convince me Dual Cache is better? Was going to start with 6Tb Seagate Ironwolf as they are a little cheaper than the WD Red, by 30 Swiss Francs, But I am kind of drawn to the WD as they have been so good for me so far.. I went through the Forum and did not find any issues with either hard drive. So the plan would be to replace Parity in each Tower to 6Tb first, then move onto the data drives one by one. So maybe I use the WD Red for Parity, and the Seagate for data?? As I just upgraded from v5.0.5 to v6.3.5, the drives are in reiserfs, should I look at going to XFS?? Anything else I should look at doing?? Appreciate your advice and comments. Much appreciated. Steve

Your support has been fantastic. Thanks

Thanks for the clarification. Much appreciated.

So just to be clear..I read through the thread, but a lot went straight over my head. I currently copy to a specific disk, then my media is played from the share folder. Should I be copying to the share folder and play from the share folder?? Plex is my Software that I use to playback all my movies and TV shows. I do have the option to play directly from each disk, just needs to be set in Plex. Which is the best option?? Much appreciated

Please point me in the direction about this bug. Much appreciated

I self answered again, Sorry. OK, I finished watching the Initial Setup Video, and saw set to Yes, Seems changing The Auto setting to Yes fixed it. Thanks for your help.

Hi Guy's, Wanted to drop in to let you know all is back up and running. No data loss which is a huge relief. Much appreciated your help and patience. I do have one last question as I can not navigate to the individual disks. I can get to the Share folder and see the combined data of all the disks. In settings I looked at everything. Enable disk shares is set to auto, Enable user shares is set to Yes, Included disks is set to All. After changing my IP address, I did not turn the Docker back ON or the VM Manager. Do I need to??

Back again guy's. Sorry found the answer myself. More news when I get it backup and running. Cheers

OK, Have some time today, let`s see if we can get back online.. I will do the upgrade, so the question is what do I do next? Do the disk numbers need to match the original numbering and parity disk? I read through the startup guide, but it is a new system, not a recovered system. Appreciate your help

By the way, Love the new look of the interface. Well done..

OK, got away for 5 mins, I can run 6.3.5 and was able to see through the ip address the interface. This is on a new usb stick. see photo. So what is the best steps to take now?? Upgrade??

Thanks johnnie, good to hear. I have guests here today so can not really concentrate all my energy to working on it today. I will try to use 6.3.5 and see what happens later. Appreciate all the help very much. Cheers Steve

OK, I copied the bzimage and bzroot files over from the good tower to the failed one, Boots and get's to the login page same as before (see photo in 1st post), but I can not get in with the ip address. If I go to v6, does the converting to XPS mean data is lost in the conversion?

Thanks Squid, just wanted to check, I will not loose data on the drives when going to 6.3.5 will I??

OK, a second try. Much appreciated syslog Tower1.zip

Thanks Squid, I will try again. It could be the time is wrong on the Tower, as I have not checked it in so long as it has run perfectly for so long.. Software is not my strong suit, hardware is.....