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I have some downloaders pointing to /mnt/ssd/downloads. However, downloads usually fail to import and then I see that unRAID created a share folder called "downloads" and it makes it impossible for Sonarr to import downloads. How can I stop this from continuing to happen? It's driving me bonkers.

ehhhh, you're right. i have a large collection of personal photos and documents i'll backup before getting rid of my RAID10

Thanks for your guidance on this. I plugged my RAID10 into the unraid server, and I'm using Krusader to copy files to shares. Once I'm done, I will build my parity drive, then move my RAID10 drives into the unraid machine, format, and add to the array. I'd love to keep my current RAID10 as a backup, but, the biggest reason I'm doing this is to increase storage space. I will build a backup machine soon enough.

This stuff I basically understand. I don't quite grasp exactly how the parity works, but oh well, I trust it. So my steps would essentially be: 1. I plug my 4 HDD's from my RAID10 into my Unraid machine 2. keep the RAID10 drives unassigned 3. copy my data from the RAID10 drives over to the pool using the built in tool in Unraid [which I am attempting to locate] 4. preclear the HDD's from my RAID10 and assign them to the pool 5. assign the parity drive and sync Does that sound right? Thanks again.

Thanks so much for your response. Would you mind describing this process more in depth? Sorry for my total noobness to this! To be clear, I have a hardware RAID10 box that connects to my current server via USB cable. I don't think this part matters, but I currently run ubuntu server with portainer.

I apologize if this question has been done to death. I've done a little bit of research into this, and everyone seems to have a different answer, and some software is not free. Would using a simple terminal copy/ paste be sufficient? I'm copying about 25TB from a RAID10 to my new unRAID build and want to make sure I'm safely transferring data. Thanks in advance.

Thanks.

i'm curious what file in my diagnostics led you to that conclusion? i want to learn a little bit about reading these logs.

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Aha, yup. The 4TB HDD I removed has a 👎/ error label.

Thanks again for your quick response. One of my disks in the array had SMART messages, not errors. I've kept that disk in the array. Another disk indeed had SMART errors, which I removed from the array.

Thanks for the quick response, and sorry about that! Here is my new diagnostics. I rebuilt the array, and I saw SMART errors for one of my disks. I removed that disk [and another old disk] from the array, and now it's saying it will take about 2.5 days. does that seem more accurate? chris-unraid-diagnostics-20221003-1436.zip

Just built my unRAID machine, and parity sync says it's going to take about 90 days. I formatted everything before starting parity sync. I've rebooted to see if that would help. No dice. I've attached my diagnostics. Any ideas on what to try next? Thanks in advance! chris-unraid-diagnostics-20221003-1416.zip