Draconis

Yeah I was not clear that I'll have my more intensive apps running full OSs on dedicated or other hardware. Plex I have running on an old gaming PC with a 1060 for transcoding for instance. I'll just use unraid for smaller, none critical stuff like *aars for instance. I think the most intensive thing I have now is AudiobookShelf. It looks like if I use the M.2 slots it may disable more than 1 sata port each, on this mobo, so I may stick with traditional Sata ssds if I don't need the extra M.2 throughput.

I like to buy top of the line PCs and then ride them into the dirt over the course of years. Seems I must restart the cycle. Is the following 7+ year old PC decent for Unraid? i7-6700K @ 4 - 4.2gz, 4 core 16gb ram ddr4 AsRock Z170 OC Formula (4+6x Sata 3, 3x Sata Express, OR 3x Ultra M.2) It looks like max 10 Sata drives, if I don't use Sata Express or M.2 drives are a mix of WD Red Plus and Seagate Exos, will need to buy some My most important stuff is running on vmware VMs like Hass, Pihole, and Plex elsewhere, but I've been using unraid docker for non essential things like arrs and such. My current pair of E5645 @ 2.4ghz, 12 cores, seems to only get upto 50% utilization as a result. Should I utilize what I have or not?

Seems it is indeed the disk based on what the PERC controller has to say about it. While I wait for a new drive, larger by far, can I use unbalance to clear the emulated disk (only 3.3 TB of data), remove the disk from the array (somehow), and rebuild parity?

This disk did this thing in the last few hours as I've been messing with my media libraries. I felt a disturbance in the force and low and behold my "sde" is now a new "sdi". I've attached the diag file but y'all about to get real mad at me cause I'm on a doomed path using a PERC controller. I shouldn't be but I've come to far to make things right I think. Any help you can give is appreciated. harperhall-diagnostics-20230925-2045.zip

unraid 6.9.2 I was attempting to replace a drive: stopped the array, unassigned the drive, shutdown. Decided I wanted to parity swap instead as my new drive was too big, https://wiki.unraid.net/The_parity_swap_procedure so I booted it up to go back and do step 3. Won't load webpage, samba, ssh, or telnet; connection refused but it does ping I logged into console locally and it seems to have correct networking information. EDIT: On a whim I tried connecting to the gui from another computer, Server 2008 R2, and it works. Is my PC some how black listed??? EDIT2: Array seems online and the drive removal may have required a save I didn't do since its still assigned, the array is up and working and I can access it from the same computer I can get to the GUI from. Tried from my Plex and it too appears blacklisted in a way and can't get tot gui or files. EDIt3: I checked /var/log/pwfail/ but it was empty diagnostics-20230305-1929.zip

wow... That worked. I forgot most of my drives were small.

"Records" is the share name. It was the only one using a cache and the one my servers are attempting to read and write too. They still are unable to write to the share over NFS or SMB.

Found this else where We can add a fix for this in 6.10, however a workaround for you is to Stop the array and then edit the file: 'config/shares/r------s.cfg' find this line: shareUseCache="yes" and change to: shareUseCache="no" You can edit the file by navigating to it via 'flash' share on your network, or open Terminal window and directly edit on the path: '/boot/config/shares/r--------s.cfg' Set the value exactly to all lower-case "no". The gui reflects the change. Still can not write to the share.

That option is greyed out and I can't change it.

There was a cache drive but another power outage a month ago killed it. Had to go away for a while and everything seemed to work fine when I unassigned the drive. Not what I wanted to do but I was rushed. Edit: I'm not super sure everything was fine as I'm not sure I added anything since that last drive failed. I only tested the read. Maybe no cache drive is related.

Unraid version 6.9.2 Just using a single unraid share for Plex servers. I had an unexpected power outage. Both Linux via NFS and Windows via SMB report there is no more room on the share. Can't create any files but can read them just fine. I attempted to chmod the files as I've had permission issues before with linux and windows hitting the same share but that didn't work. Help is appreciated. diagnostics-20221019-2021.zip