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Not currently. The ones giving issue are my first drives from my QNAP. I'd like to replace them, but costs have been a bit high. I'd like to go up to 14TB. I'll start getting more serious on my search instead of looking for a unicorn in this market. How can you tell it's not a connection problem?

I added notifications. When I added those notifications I got: raw read error rate is 1 for disk10 raw read error rate is 6 for disk12 Around the time the SMART test ended I got: multi zone error rate is 1 for disk10 Extended SMART results are attached. smart-20260208-0817.zip

What troubleshooting steps should I take to determine if a cable or something else is causing a drive to get disabled while the array is online? Do my logs help show the reason? I've come across my third disable drive, all connected to the same PSU, power and data cable. My setup is two RSV cages, each with 4 drives connected to the same expander card and PSU. Each drive is connected via a 4-way SF-8087 to SATA to a HP DL380 and 4 connector power cables recommended by Seasonic support. Additionally, there is a second PSU driving 12 drives and connected to the same expander card. I have no issues with those 12 drives. I've familiarized myself with rebuilding on top of a drive by doing it twice (once was many months ago and the other a few weeks ago) but before I get into the third rebuild, I want to figure out what the real issue is. After just finishing my second rebuild, I started the array and within minutes a different drive got the red x. This third drive is on the same power cable as the previous two drives. I changed out the data cable before the second rebuild. It seems obvious to me that I should change out the power cable this time. I don't want to keep going around guessing at the culprit and am hoping to narrow down the real issue. I asked about this in Discord and reading the logs was the answer. So, my logs are attached because I'm not sure what I'm looking for. These logs are from minutes after the third drive became disabled and even though its been a couple weeks I have only stopped the array (no SMART test and no shutdown at this time). Thank you for reading and I appreciate any help the community can provide. diagnostics-20260121-1709.zip

In the past I used MC or krusader. Since this has happened again and there's plenty of space on my cache drive, 'm thinking set secondary array and set up mover. Agree?

I went through the process and everything seems to be back to normal. I'll keep an eye on the HBA and research the lines you pointed out from my diagnostics for my own betterment. Thank you for your help! Edit - Solution provided. Removed diagnostics.

Seems the HBA card was not seated well. I did some searching, but might be using the wrong search terms to guide me on next steps. On a past issue, I can remember having issue getting an array disk to be recognized as part of the array and ended up having to rebuild on top of it. Next steps are stop and start array or should a reboot be included?

What are my next steps? My diagnostics are attached. A parity check just finished with 0 errors a few hours ago. Right about the time I logged on, I had an error pop-up for these 3 disks. I have not made any changes since this error occurred. The main screen shows the 3 disks still active in the array, but also shows them in the unassigned devices section, flagged as "array" with new device name. While these 3 disks have very little information and loss would not be a problem, I have noticed that I only have 2 shares but there should be 6 (by memory) and the main share only has 2 folders in it, but there should be around 10 (again, by memory). FYI - I'll check back in the morning. I must go to sleep. Lesson to be learned - don't check the server right before bed time. Edit - Solution provided. Removed diagnostics.

I feel I've been lucky in that regard. I certainly had this feeling plenty when I was younger and the internet was entering homes. My jobs demanded I shed that feeling, so if I don't understand something, I just ask. However, I completely understand your feelings. When time is available, I research with the goal of asking more pointed questions. I also find that writing out the question, then reading to weed through my gobbledygook, helps me better understand the subject and pare down into a concise question - a practice I'm still improving. Some context only matters to me....if someone is going to help me, what information do they need? All this to say, I agree with ChatNoir, please don't feel embarrassed to ask questions. It seems you don't have that problem here at Unraid, so I'm happy you've found a tech community you feel welcome in. Personally, I have also had great experiences at ServerBuilds and Self-Hosted - great content and communities.

Websleuthing for different kinds of PC parts is turning out not to be my forte. I think I found what is an example of the safe alternative where everything is crimped into round terminals and wires to each SATA are doubled up to daisy chain into the next. Ideally I'd like to either find a cable assy with more SATA connections or the parts needed to make my own. I've found round terminal crimps and PCIe 6 pin latched connectors, but I can't seem to find the SATA connectors that accept these round terminals. I'd like to use the PSU I have. Can you provide direction to either the cable assy to purchase or the SATA connectors that accept round terminals? Excuse my inability to think straight on some of this, I'm sick. I thought to look at the manufacturer and found 4x SATA. The cables that came with my PSU are 3x SATA. I think these, like the example I posted abive, are in-line with what you are talking about - see close-ups on my 3x SATA cables.

After more reading and watching, I was thinking all my splits was not a smart way to do this. Thank you for your insight. So a few questions: What do you mean by slip fit connections? Is this video from WilluDesign the proper guide for making SATA connections? If so, I'll just look up ratings for 18awg wire and base max HDDs per cable off that + a safety margin. Split fit connections at the PSU....the PSU cables, which are from EVGA, have the locking tab to hold them in place. Is this not ok?

This is the video I've seen linked in these forums to show the molded SATA connector to avoid. From your photo, it appears the Momoprice is not molded. You should be able to see the pin terminal if you look into the SATA connector where the wire enters or you can even pop it open to verify. The Cablematters appear to be the in-line style where the back cover snaps into place, essentially punching down the wires into the connectors. This video shows the in-line connectors pretty well. The way I understand it, the plastic itself is probably molded, but the question is whether the wires are molded into the plastic or terminated, inserted and snapped together between two pieces of plastic. I'm no expert, and you may want to wait for others to chime in.

I'm moving media from my QNAP to my new Unraid, after setup is complete. I'm planning to setup my old QNAP at a remote site as a backup point. I was wondering if the QNAP would talk nicely to everything at home. Now I know I have the option of experimenting with Unraid when the time comes. Nice work!

I've got 20 HDDs lying around to put to use. I have already starting to re-use my Lenovo M900 SFF as the server and build out my DAS. I'm planning to use this primarily as a media server and photo storage. I have a separate box and off-site backup routine for important documents. I have booted everything up with 4 HDD's connected. I have stopped at this point mainly because I want to figure out if my DAS PSU and power plan is ok and verify everything I have on this circuit, which isn't just Unraid, is below 12A (80% of breaker). I'm getting a Kill-A-Watt to check my other stuff before I just plug everything in at once. Questions: Is my power plan below safe for powering all these HDDs? Any recommendations? Server - Lenovo M900 Intel i7-6700 2x 8GB DDR4 2133 (I have RAM available for 64GB - max of the MB) Dell H200e crossflashed to LSI FSP Group 210W PSU: FSP210-20TGBAA 120GB 2.5" SSD Kingston DTSE9 USB flash - Unraid OS DAS WD Reds 5400RPM - 8TB x4, 5TB x5 WD Red Plus 5400RPM - 8TB x4 WD Blue 5400RPM - 1TB x1 WD Black 5400RPM - 1TB x1, 500GB x1 Hitachi Deskstar 7200RPM - 3TB x2 Rosewill cages EVGA Supernova 550 G2 DAS PSU Power Plan PS SATA 1 Riser for SAS expander card StarTech 4x splitter (used throughout) StarTech 4x splitter PS SATA 2 StarTech 4x splitter StarTech 4x splitter StarTech 4x splitter PS SATA 3 StarTech 4x splitter StarTech 4x splitter StarTech 4x splitter PS PERIF 4x cage fans daisy chained 4x cage fans daisy chained Not used

Yeah, I really did. Immediate parity protection is extremely valuable. My use case doesn't need immediate parity protection. I do plan to test and see how recalculating parity affects my use. If the affect is unnoticeable, I won't be using cache the same as I currently plan. That doesn't diminish the fact that immediate parity recalculation and protection is critical in certain use cases or just to some people. Users should understand the level of protection they are getting. I've got a Dell H200e I crossflashed to LSI IT mode years ago. I'm only just now getting around to using it. This reminds me of clickbait articles that are years old and no longer applicable. Timestamps are the key!

I only made sure my controller and expander cards were working and I could see drives on Ubuntu. From Unraid USB utility through mounting and unmointing devices has been super simple. I see that making the array will be the same way. Simplicity - I do really like that. Something about that reminds me of an aspect tying back to community. I had watched a Spaceinvader One video so I knew about the preclear plugin, but the one available was different than shown in the video. A quick jump into the forums and I knew why. The idea that plugins and community apps are tied directly to this OS and community, correct or replaced as needed is a huge benefit.