SunSh4dow

Hi, I planed on using my B550 AORUS PRO V2 for an unraid build. In intended on using 6 HDDs (~260 MBs max) for the array (possibly adding more in the future) and 2 mirrored NVMEs for cache/appdata, possibly adding 2 normal SSDs for whatever. I thought about getting a LSI 9305-16i instead of the LSI SAS2008 - mainly because the 2008 is rather old by now and I read a lot about trouble with TRIM signals, as well as reaching lower C-States. 1. Question: Would the 9305-16i improve on that? Besides that, when I looked into my mainboards specs, its 2 additional x16 slots (the main will hold a GPU) have rather wild asterix to them: - 1 x PCI Express x16 slot (PCIEX4), integrated in the Chipset: - Supporting PCIe 3.0 x4 mode (* The M2B_SB connector shares bandwidth with the PCIEX4 slot. The PCIEX4 slot will become unavailable when an SSD is installed in the M2B_SB connectors.) - 1 x PCI Express x16 slot (PCIEX2), integrated in the Chipset: - Supporting PCIe 3.0 x2 mode (* The PCIEX2 slot shares bandwidth with the SATA3 4, 5 connectors. The PCIEX2 slot will become unavailable when a device is installed in the SATA3 4 or SATA3 5 connector.) It also has 2 NVME slots. In my research, I learned that it yeets all the storage besides the main NVME slot through its storage controller, which seems to be PCIe3 x4. Since I wanted to use both NVME slots, I would be forced to use PCIEX2. Now, Im at a loss how that would function/what would happen, would I slot the 9305-16i in there. It's a PCIe3x8 card - and as far as I understand, it would get the PCIe3x2 as mentioned above. That would be about 2000 MB/s - enough for 8 HDDs. But does it actually work that way? Would, since the card is x8, only certain connectors function? I figure it's all rather suboptimal, considering everything, even SSDs on the MB SATA would share the bandwith, as well as one of the nvmes?

Hi, I added a 18TB Toshiba drive (MG09ACA18TE) to my array a couple of days ago. Waited the 30 hours it took to parity sync, all green and fine. Then I shut down the server to add some unassigned drive and started the server again. Only to find that unraid didn't detect the Toshiba anymore. I shutdown again, unplug the unassigned drive (bcs it was the single only change) and started. But still not detected. Fumbled around a bit (like starting the array for a moment without the drive detected) - which removes it as the designated drive (didn't know that, oops) I thought the drive had died somehow, so sad little me thought "Welp, just put the 8TB one from before in" - but it didn't like that at all, as it had to be same size or larger than the 18TB toshiba. Which was rough, I don't have the money right now to buy another 300-400 euro drive to fix my array. Just to see, I put it in my main system and it showed up in disk manager. I formatted it, testet it, it was perfectly fine. Plugged it back in the unraid system, didn't show up again. So I tried to reboot instead of cold start - and well, there it was. Now I did the parity sync again and checked: it really only gets detected after reboot. tl;dr: Well, it seems every time I shut down the server, I'lll have to reboot it as well before it detects the drive. The only thing I could come up with is that its simply too different a drive? All others are seagates and this toshiba seems to use a different recording technology. Mby its that, mby its spinup time... I don't know... Any ideas?