Nocturnal4Life

I thank you both for your input I ordered the HBA card, and I ordered a hard drive big enough to copy all my data onto a single drive, then I'll just start with a fresh setup for the array and once it's configured I'll copy the data back over.

So I would be better off then to swap to an IT mode HBA card? I was looking at moving to a card that supports more drives, a 16 device card. Currently maxed out my normal 8 device card and I'd like to expand, or at least have the option at some point. UnRAID goes by hard drive device id correct so I could change out cards and it wouldn't affect the array? I guess it makes sense that the cache drive failing would be protected but not a data error since it'd be written to both the drives. So currently I'm going to invest in a UPS for the server and a more appropriate HBA card. Cache drive already is mirrored Incase of the unlikely DC drive failing. I saw there are some ways to automate backing up the cache data to the hard drive array. Might look into that as well.

I unfortunately was unable to recover anything. I am fortunate that the VMs I can for the most part get up and running pretty quickly. Jellyfin is behaving oddly after a uninstall and reinstall though. I pulled the cache drive in question and checked its health and the Intel software reports at 95% health and reports the firmware is current. I will probably need to look into a better HBA card though. I'm currently using a MegaRAID card that is not in IT Mode, but keeping the stock firmware and making each drive connected to it as its own Raid 0 array. These pass through to unRAID fine, but I can't see the SMART data for anything connected to the card. I did add a second cache drive. My understanding is that this will then serve as a RAID1 for redundancy, they're 1.8TB so that's way more than enough for cache. I'm currently trying to determine a UPS to use for the server moving forward so this won't occur again, but am I correct in assuming that IF something were to happen again with the drive, would having the second cache drive allow me to keep going?

Good ol' electrical company shut power off to the street for a few minutes this morning and I'm just now getting home to assess the damage. I've had this machine have unclean shutdowns a couple times in the past and had no problems after booting back up after a parity check. This time, however the cache drive fails to mount saying "wrong/no file system". I have VMs and Docker data on that cache drive and really need to recover it if possible but this is all uncharted territory for me. I attached the diagnostics, fingers crossed there's something there that would indicate I can recover the data, format, and copy the data back. thinkserver-diagnostics-20230608-1816.zip

Thank you very much for this quick solution! Creating the blank file now has me able to load the web ui and start tinkering with it. Is there a list of NICs that are blacklisted? This Dell server is the machine I was previously using for most of my home lab. I wanted to use it as a test dummy, before making the switch on my beefier server I currently use which has dual Intel I350 Gigabit controllers in a Lenovo ThinkServer. I ended up needing more RAM than the Dell machine could handle without spending a small fortune on large capacity DDR3 ECC sticks.

I was looking to test the waters and switch from Windows to Unraid for my NAS/Minecraft Server/Media server Dell T5500 workstation. I have tried both the stable release 6.10.2 as well Next build 6.10.2-rc3. I have tried making the USB drive both manually setting the IP info like I normally would for a headless system, as well as letting it use DHCP. No matter what configuration of making the USB drive I try, I always receive a error: Device eth0 does not exist This machine boots into Windows and has internet connectivity if I remove the USB drive. The onboard NIC is a Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx gigabit controller as reported by Windows device manager. I looked at my router dashboard to see the list of connected devices and there is no sign of it on the long list of devices. I did upload the diagnostic zip file if that is required to get a better idea of what I need to do in order to fix it so I can make the switch from Windows. tower-diagnostics-20220606-1727.zip