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Hi there, 2 of my disks (sdb & sdc) were accidentally popped out from their hot-swappable cage, resulting in Unraid having some issues and I rebooted the server. unraid-diagnostics-20231225-0630.zip After coming back up, the 2 disks are showing up as "Unmountable: Wrong or No file system". I'm currently running "xfs_repair -v -L" on both of them to check for issues but would it be recommend if I format. remount and let parity rebuild them? Attaching the diagnostics for reference. Thanks!!

Ahh thanks for clearing that up! I guess I can just forego the idea of getting a HBA and can just connect 12 drives using 12 SATAcables? I was wondering if directly connecting the drives without using a HBA will affect CPU performance. I see, then I can stick with the SATA drives Thanks!

Hi There, I'm looking to setup an Unraid server but after reading about RAID/HBA cards, I'm getting confused and would appreciate advice about it. The motherboard is a Supermicro H11SSL-i which has 16 Sata 3 ports and the chassis has a 12 Hot Swap 3.5" cage bay. Do I need a HBA card in this scenario? Connecting up to 12 Sata cables might put some load on the lanes and having a HBA should be better? Should I need HBA, the chassis comes with a LSI MegaRAID SAS 9341-8i (Can't find any info about IT flashing it), is it applicable or should I get one of the cards listed in the first page? Came across some discussions that for Sata drives, a maximum of 2TB will be displayed/used even if the drives have larger capacities. Should I switch over to using SAS drives instead? Thanks!