Phorte

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  1. Just wanted to say that I used unBALANCE in the last week to move all data off one disk at a time to (finally) upgrade my array from ResiserFS to XFS and it worked without a hitch. Thank you so much for an amazing plugin.
  2. I do understand that... and I admit I'm being pedantic about it. But it would be nice to get to the root of it Just now, as a test, I've manually spun down all disks (including cache). Nothing is running in either docker. Refreshed the main window a few times and I've just gotten some writes to the drive (albeit 7).
  3. Even after a reboot and letting the system sit there idle for a while, I have a habit of clearing the statistics just so I can monitor the writes... Are there any more indepth logs I can access that can tell me what is being written? For example just in the last 5mins, I cleared the stats and the only activity in unRAID is: I'm READING data from the array. Nothing else. No writing. The dockers aren't functioning - nothing. And the USB drive write counter just ticked over to 14. I open up the logs (via the GUI button) and the last entry is my clearing of the stats. Nothing afterwards... Reads also jumped to 220. I don't expect anything to be read from the USB at this moment either.
  4. I've noticed my RAM consumption is quite high since updating installing CA and updating the dockers. Could this lead to random writes to the USB drive?
  5. No changes to docker configurations are being done when these writes occur. Only sabnzbd and transmission are installed and they're all configured to the cache drive. Random Writes - the writes column in the "Main" tab of the GUI is increasing.. it's small increments. But it's increasing nonetheless irrespective of what is being done. I could be read/writing to the array, or I could be downloading something with sabnzbd to cache. All random and no pattern. The server has currently been up for just 2hrs and the writes column for the flash drive is at 40. Small, yes, but I can't imagine what would've written to flash drive during this time. Good to know that replacing a drive is a simple process now. Either way, I'm trying to troubleshoot these writes so I can get to their root cause.
  6. Hi all, Long time user (since 2010) with a fairly simple setup (1x parity + 5 disks & no cache drive) - v6.6.5. Today I made some changes: Moved everything off one of the disks Unmounted it Re-assigned it as a cache drive Set apps, appdata, docker and my downloads folder to prefer the cache drive Everything went smoothly. The only docker I had installed was sabnzbd. So I did a few more updates and put on Community Applications then reinstalled sabnzbd as well as installed Transmission. I am now finding that I'm getting random writes to my USB flash drive. I've always been conscious of any writes to the flash drive as I remember reading that excessive writes to it will cause wear overtime (and with the license being tied to the drive, obviously something I want to avoid causing). Prior to today's updates, I never got any writes to the flash drive. After I get some random write to the flash drive, I check the logs (via the top right button in the GUI) and there isn't any new entry in there that tells me why something has been written to the drive. What should I be looking for to determine why I'm getting random writes to the USB drive? Thanks in advance.
  7. upgraded from 4.7 to 5.0 by formatting and copying over existing config folder. everything is backup fine. so simple!
  8. brilliant!! thankyou! now i can officially replace all my drives with 2Tb ones!
  9. update bios. i had older revision of BIOS - changed those settings and it worked. updated BIOS recently for the helluvit and changed that setting again and it still works (have since added a few new drives).
  10. once again, simple fix - its a setting in bios. a few mobos have this 'feature'... check back on previous page. done.
  11. maybe you should read back one page in this very same thread...
  12. i just went from 4.5.4 to 4.5.6 last night and have not found any issues yet. however, i don't use WOL. also bought a Pro license so will be adding some more drives today too. absolutely no issues for the last few months that ive been using the board though. still highly recommended.
  13. great! cheers for the clarification well, it's happened again. my two week old kingston g2 4gb stick has died again! thats twice in two weeks. funny you should mention keeping the screenshots somewhere besides the unRAID server after being so proud of myself at making backups and screenshots, i actually kept htem on the server. went out and bought a new usb stick (this time, a toshiba 8gb because they didn't have any other 4gb's in stock (eg. i wanted sandisk)). rebuilt the server again. running well again. i guess the kingston usb drive i got was just from a faulty batch same symptoms again. stopped responding and failed to boot. plugged it into another machine and it comes up as unrecognised. finding a usb drive that works flawlessly is my first step that im trying to overcome before i take the plunge in purchasing a license (still running basic here as i only have 3 attached drives). i'll see how this new toshiba drive functions for a good month before i start to increase the size of my unraid server
  14. forgot to report my results in this thread: nAffie's recommendation has worked. it boots up fine now... only problem i have now is the actual USB drive i bought (4gb kingston datatraveler g2) - has died twice in two weeks sandisk's are out of stock so i had to get a 8gb toshiba transmemory too for almost double the price. argh...
  15. hi all, i followed romir's instructions on page 4 and set up SABnzbd over the weekend. it works perfectly and i've since used it to grab a few things. late last night, the flash drive (last then a week old!) died and was no longer recognised. i reformated and setup SABnzbd a second time (much quicker than the first time) and it still works a treat! thanks all!
  16. hi all, this looks very promising. my linux knowledge is limited so please excuse me if this post seems idiotic. im currently running unRAID 4.5.4 and have also installed SABnzbd via the 0.5.2 all-in-one package (as per this post). will this unTorrent package work in conjunction with what i have already??
  17. hi all, had my first scare last night! my unRAID system has only been up and running now for less than a week (ASUS M4A785T-M, Athlon X2 245, 2GB DDR3-1333). 1x 1TB parity and 2x 1TB data disks (only running Basic for now). all running off a brand new Kingston G2 USB drive as recommended in the wiki. successfuly installed SABnzbd on Sunday day. last night, i noticed SABnzbd wasn't refreshing correctly. gave the system a reboot and it failed to recognise a system disk. i check the USB stick and it was no longer readable!! so i formated and reinstalled unRAID onto the usb stick, plugged it in and my biggest scare was assigning which disks were for data and which was for parity again seeing as they were all 1TB disks. luckily, i got them right and the shares were picked up automatically *phew* not much involved in setting everything back up again! in fact, im much more confident in doing it the second time round, including SABnzbd. but because of this, i am now doing the following preventative measures: keeping a screenshot of the main screen so i know which disk is set to parity and which is set to data, as they're all WD disks, the only difference were the serial numbers. i almost got it wrong! eek keeping a copy of my /boot/config/ folder everytime i make a change i had to unfortunately rebuild my parity drive though because i didnt check the faq on how to tell unRAID that i'm confident the parity drive is still ok. i'll definitely do this if the USB drive fails next time. i tell you what, it was a major scare. i still don't know why the USB drive became unreadable and i had to format. its brand new - hopefully it's not a sign of the drive dying anytime soon. if so, good thing i haven't bought a license yet! thought i'd share my story with you all. thanks again for such a great piece of tech and also a great community! cheers, linh
  18. yep - a measily AU$78 from good ol' MSY. i've got the boot priority set correctly as you've noted. may be a different board revision or BIOS 'feature' (i updated the BIOS as soon as i got the board). will try nAffie's recommendation shortly as i'm currently clearing a 1TB.
  19. brilliant - thanks for the headsup, nAffie! i was trying to search for a solution before but couldn't quite get the right keywords in the search. will give it a try and report back.
  20. thanks to this thread, i went out yesterday and bought the M4A785T-M, along with an Athlon x2 245 and 2GB of DDR3-1333 memory. installed unRAID (for the first time) and had my drives up and running within the hour. absolutely flawless so far! loving it!! only issue is, everytime i add a new HDD, the boot order likes to stick the new HDD as first boot priority again - even tho it was previously set to the USB drive only and 2nd'ary boot is disabled. anyone know how to stop this from happening? small price to pay i guess because i won't be adding drives that often - but the box sits on top of a cupboard in a WIR and is running with absolutely zero peripherals. kinda annoying to have to take down and plug up at one of my workstations every time! again - thanks for the recommendation on this board!