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There are some power splitters. Edit: 4 pin to sata, not splitters The 4 port sata is on the motherboard, and I have a 6 port expansion card for the rest. I'm assuming I should power down, disconnect, and test out each drive connection. What's the best tool/approach for that? I'm more than happy to use CLI tools.

How do I resolve the connection problems? Could that be sata cables, or the sata controller?

Cleaned up some space by deleting a bunch of movies, and unmounted disk 6 and 7 (they were flagged as unmountable, but no smart errors). Disk 7 is rebuilding from parity, and disk 6 is still marked as unmountable. I suspect that disk 6 might actually need to be replaced. But, now disk 3, which didn't have any issues before, is marked as unmountable. I've attached new diagnostics. orthanc-diagnostics-20220717-1415.zip

I've been trying to expand the space over time. Instead of removing a disk I'd rather add more disks. It's one of the reasons I wanted unraid for the server, since I can just drop in disks of different sizes to grow when I need the space.

Gotcha, thanks for the advice. I will see what I can do to empty some space and set up minimum free space. I'll restart the server after I have some free space and see what happens with docker and such. How much free space should I have? 10 GB? 1 GB? A percentage of the drive size?

Let's say all my disks have about 20 gb free. I add a new disk to expand the array by 6-14 TB. Then I use unBalance to move files from the older disks that are more full onto the newer disk. It sounds like this isn't necessary and if I follow your advice and just have shares set up with minimum free space. I can delete some of the movies on the array and free up some space, then set up the minimum free space.

Syslogs go back about a week, all the same issue of just not being able to write to disks. I am assuming the "new config" wiped any older logs?

Any tips on this? Do I just need more disks? I have used unBalance in the past to empty out older disks when adding new disks. Is there some setting I should change? Can I have disks be somehow marked as full once they only have a certain number of GBs left?

Another issue I just noticed is that I cannot make any new shares.

Hi everyone! I've been running an Unraid server for about 3 years now, and overall it has been going great. A few months ago I started having issues with the stability of my server. I have drive failures frequently, my docker containers were acting up being unable to start or write. This past week the server has become unusable and unreliable. Most of my dockers won't start, and I have 2 drives marked as unmountable. I did the basic trouble shooting I have in the past such as deleting the docker.img and rebuilt my containers. In the past when I did have a drive fail (it has happened maybe 4-6 times over 3 years, 2 were actual bad drives I had to RMA) I would stop the array, unmount the bad drive, restart the array, stop the array, add the drive back to the array, and let it rebuild from parity. I decided not to do that this time with the 2 drives that died, since it takes almost a week at this point to rebuild a drive from parity. I did some digging and decided to do a "new config" and I was hopeful at first. Parity rebuilt from data in just a few days, and overall the system felt snappier. But now nothing is working as expected. Note: Anything important on the server is backed up on another NAS in my house and offsite to BackBlaze. The unimportant stuff that is not backed up is TBs of movies for a plex server. I would be sad if I had to repopulate this, but it't just not worth the cost to back up. The important non-data stuff on the server are my docker containers. I run Home Assistant, Plex, NextCloud, Foundry, and around 20 or so dockers that get daily use. Most of these were set up 3 years ago when I started the sever and haven't really been touched since, they just work. I don't want to just mess with things. I feel like something is off somewhere, and I am hoping to get some help from the community to solve my issues. I love tech stuff and have experience with Linux, and I am a software developer. I just don't know the particular issues with Unraid and I am hoping to learn. I attached my diagnostics zip, but let me know if I need to provide any other information. Thanks in advance. orthanc-diagnostics-20220717-1043.zip