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Thank you @Lolight and @mmagl. I've primarily used Seagates and WDs in the past 20 years and for the first ten years I've had significantly more issues with Seagate drives than WDs. I've been loyal to WDs for the past ten years and sticking to them I've had no regrets. I can't believe my ancient WD greens are actually still running well. I'll stick to the WD Reds (Plus and Pro only). The SMR CMR advice is very sound also, I will make sure they are CMR drives. Thank you also for teaching me about Shucking.

Hi guys, My server is still running very strong and rock solid after all these years. Quite unbelievable actually. My hardware is as follows: M/B: Supermicro C2SEA Version 1234567890 - s/n: 1234567890 CPU: Intel® Celeron® CPU E3300 @ 2.50GHz Memory: 4 GiB SDRAM (max. installable capacity 4 GiB) My last upgrade was six years ago when I replaced 4x 1Tb - 2TB green drives with "WD Red 5TB NAS Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD50EFRX" which have also been very rock solid. I still have 4 more 1TB - 2TB WD greens to replace. I can't believe they have not yet died after ten years. What are the go-to drives currently recommended by the UnRaid community? Thank you very much.

I had a similar issue where the calculate stops, I've had to force the plugin to terminate when it does this. It only happened though when I was calculating a location with a lot of small files, ie. my Plex App folder (I used unBalance to move files around to convert all my files to XFS). But, it had no issues when actually running it. On different shares, ie. Movies, music, TV Shows, etc, calculating was instantaneous and also had no problems moving files over.

No point in using remove-source-files if you are planning on formatting the disk anyway. Copying vs moving is much faster. I have: Parity Disk1 - XFS Disk2 - RFS Disk3 - RFS Disk4 - RFS Disk5 - XFS (New drive, no user shares) I've just done Disk1, my plan is to use Disk 5 as a placeholder while I empty RFS drives followed by reformatting. So I'm using unBalance to move files from the RFS disk to my placeholder. Then I reformat it to XFS. Since there are no user shares on the placeholder, I can't use unBalance. I have a specific requirement for having a certain type of file/shares on certain disks, otherwise I wouldn't be moving them back. Should I use the diskmv script diskmv -f "" disk1 disk2 instead or maybe just mv mv /mnt/disk1/ /mnt/disk2 ? Hi CRD, If you're copying disk to disk, which means you have available space on the target disk, I would suggest doing a straight rsync copy .... there's a thread somewhere in the forums about this same topic (rfs to xfs transfer) Thank you, I've re-read many posts from that thread, I've got one final disk left! *phew* Thank you so much, I'm using your plugin to do 1 part of the move and it has worked well for me. Thank you again.

No point in using remove-source-files if you are planning on formatting the disk anyway. Copying vs moving is much faster. I have: Parity Disk1 - XFS Disk2 - RFS Disk3 - RFS Disk4 - RFS Disk5 - XFS (New drive, no user shares) I've just done Disk1, my plan is to use Disk 5 as a placeholder while I empty RFS drives followed by reformatting. So I'm using unBalance to move files from the RFS disk to my placeholder. Then I reformat it to XFS. Since there are no user shares on the placeholder, I can't use unBalance. I have a specific requirement for having a certain type of file/shares on certain disks, otherwise I wouldn't be moving them back. Should I use the diskmv script diskmv -f "" disk1 disk2 instead or maybe just mv mv /mnt/disk1/ /mnt/disk2 ?

This seems to be working well, thank you! Currently moving all files from one disk at a time. I originally thought that I could move multiple shares from multiple disks to one disks but it wouldn't let me. For example I have a share called "Movies" on Disk 1, 2, and 3", another share called "Backup" on Disk 1 and 4, and "Anime" on Disk 2 and Disk 3. All of which can fit in Disk 5, the intention is to then format Disk 1 and 2 to XFS, then for the remaining drives I don't have to move as much but it would let me. But at least it allows me to move the shares from one disk, so I'll stick with that. Question: I just realised this moves user shares to Disk. So in order to move files back to the original drives (in this case, one at a time is probably safest), could I just create a "Temp" share on my "Destination" disk and move my files inside this share after every "Move" so that when I want to move them back to their original and newly formatted XFS disks, I could select this "Temp" share and move to "Original Disk"? And in order to retain it's share structure, could I just move all files and folders from the way "Temp" share had created them to retain their original structure from their original disk? Thank you. Update: I used rsync instead to move over my files back: rsync -av --progress --remove-source-files /mnt/diskX/ /mnt/diskY

I still haven't started my move because the new drive is still preclearing. Just reading around including the several suggestions here, it looks like the plugin unBalance might be a good tool to use moving drive contents.

This is VERY simple. Simply Stop the array; go to the Main tab; click on the disk you want to change; and then change the "File System Type" to what you want. (e.g. XFS) NOTE: This will result in this disk being formatted when you then Start the array, which will DESTROY all data currently on the disk ... so be sure you are only doing it to a disk that's either empty or that you've already copied all the data off of and don't need anymore. You can change multiple disks at once before starting the array (e.g. if you've copied all the data from two disks and are ready to format them both). Thank you so much! I'll quadruple check before each step! Works fine, but more copying than you really need. You could simply do this: (a) Copy all of disk1 and disk2 to disk5 (& verify) (b) Reformat disk1 and disk2 to XFS © Copy disk3 to disk1 and disk4 to disk2 (& verify) (d) Reformat disk3 and disk4 to XFS Done Unless you have some reason you want your data on specific disks, that's all you need to do. I prefer to keep my movies (5GB - 25GB) on the faster and larger disks, they will be doing Direct Play through Plex. Disk 4, for Apps and Backup, while more media on Disk 5 that don't get used as often, ie. Anime and Sport.

Hi guys, this is a pretty daunting task. I've just spent the last week replacing most drives (including parity) from the array only to realize that when I finally added a new drive it was formatted to XFS. Then on search came here. Anyway, this is my scenario. Parity - 5TB Disk 1 - 5TB - RFS Disk 2 - 5TB - RFS Disk 3 - 2TB - RFS Disk 4 - 2TB - RFS Disk 5 - 5TB - XFS (brand new) The contents on Disk 1 and 2 could fit in Disk 5, so the plan is: Round 1: Disk 1 & 2 copy & verify to Disk 5 (already XFS) - Format Disk 1 & 2 to XFS - Copy back from Disk 5 to Disk 1 and 2, verify - Empty Disk 5 Round 2: Disk 3 and 4 copy and verify to Disk 5 - Format Disk 3 and 4 to XFS - Copy back from Disk 5 to Disk 3 and 4, verify Does that seem acceptable? Also, forgive me, I've tried to search and it's been a while since I payed attention to unRAID, I'm confused about how to format an existing drive RFS drive to XFS. Once I've copied all the files from the source to dest, do I then stop the array then unmount the source drives followed by formatting to XFS, then copy the data back (after verify)? Thank you.

I'm quite confused. I'v got a LSI 9211-8i card and I'm trying to prepare it so I can install it in my unRAID box. I've downloaded 9211-8i_Package_P20_IR_IT_Firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows.zip and UEFI_BSD_P20.zip. Do I just need to update BIOS and flash it to IT mode with the firmware, and make sure boot support is disabled in the BIOS and I should be ready to go? Thank you. Edit: OK I think I'm good I'm following the instructions from here. File names appear to be the same but I'm using the P20 (20.00.04) version. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=34081.0 Edit 2: OK I'm set.