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Hey Guys, Has anybody got this working with FastestVPN? I have a lifetime license and would rather not have to purchase another VPN product - PIA is used in all the tutorials, but I'd be interested to hear what and how you use others? Many Thanks Kev

Thanks again.. No passthrough @iamtim2 It works fine on my Win7 VM.

Thanks @iamtim2 Any idea on the missing sound?

Any suggestions on not having any sound? Big Sur - VM Parameters do not have anything to select from the 'Sound' Option. The sound works through VNC on my Win7 VM - so it's possible..

I was able to successfully install BigSur! Now - Does this work?

Did you get it it working successfully? I'm trying to do the same @mackid1993

@JorgeB Successfull zfs Scrub and Array Parity checks! All good - nothing lost... But a very odd issue... which miiiiiiight reoccur Thanks mate

@JorgeB Update - I wanted to run 'zpool clear' but it didn't show the 'Clear' Button, only 'Scrub' So I ran that and it it finished quite fast. I rebooted and saw a lot more Disk errors in the logs. I ran the scrub again, then it took the pool into DEGRADED mode and showed a errors for one of the disks.. It hung at about 68%. (3+ hrs) I forced a hard shutdown/restart and ran a Scrub again - This time it showed loads of errors for both disks and went to SUSPENDED > DISABLED > SUSPENDED > DEGRADED status, and it seemed to hang again, although the UNRAID GUI was still responsive; I could not stop/start the Array. With more Device & I/O errors filling up the logs.. I rebooted again and the Array hung at 'mounting drives' - So I switched it off and went to bed. This afternoon, I pulled the SAS/SATA Controller card and re-placed it into a different PCI Slot. I reseated the cable at the card, and to each of the 4-bays at the SSD caddy. I also disconnected power and data cables from the DVD drive as it was unused. I started it, and now, unbelievably, everything seems back to normal, and all my Containers are available - with the zfs cache pool showing; pool: cache state: ONLINE scan: resilvered 72K in 00:00:00 with 0 errors on Sat Feb 3 15:56:05 2024 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM cache ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 /dev/sdb1 ONLINE 0 0 0 /dev/sdc1 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors How can I test the integrity of my cache pool & disks? Note: The 250gb (old disk 4) Disk, has been added under UD for now, showing no SMART Errors. I could potentially add 2x 4tb SSD drives to the Array at a later time. But need to know this 'half' of the storage is sound.. Thanks for your quick responses last night, and any other comments you might have. Fresh logs attached. Thanks, Kev kbnas-diagnostics-20240203-1623.zip kbnas-syslog-20240203-1622.zip

Thanks @JorgeB But what an absolute pig of an issue to resolve I guess having my cache mirrored saved my ass here? I guess the same thing happened with Disk 4 - Should I readd it - or remove it?

Would you suggest to hit 'Clear' - OR run 'zpool clear'. Smart isn't showing any problems on the cache disks. And what about Disk 4? Also showing no errors - but...

Sorry - I saw that you asked for logs AFTER starting the array - here they are - and my cache looks unwell kbnas-diagnostics-20240201-1821.zipkbnas-syslog-20240201-1822.zip @JorgeB

kbnas-diagnostics-20240201-1800.zipkbnas-syslog-20240201-1803.zip It seems to be ok now.. With the array still stopped. Disk4 is still showing with a red X, but is now showing as 'Overall Health - PASSED' Any further comments/advice, please? @JorgeB Thanks Kev

@JorgeBThanks mate - Will update soon.

Should I just mount the 2 SSD's used for cache? But why are they in UD?

Hi, Randomly, last night, with no activity, a 250gb SSD appeared to die. But, the other 2 1tb SSD's, running my cache pool, also seem to have been affected. All 3 SSD's are running from a PCI raid card, into an icydock 4-disk caddy, which hasn't been a problem since I set up this server about 6 months ago. I was going to stop the array and check the disks, but the Array will not stop. It's also not possible to collect Diagnostics, it hangs at, cp /etc/libvirt/qemu/*.xml '/kbnas-diagnostics-20240201-1657/xml' 2>/dev/null Obviously, it wants to access my unmounted cache disk for this... see screenshots and attached syslog. What's the best way to proceed, please? Thanks Kev kbnas-syslog-20240201-1556.zip

Hello Carmino and welcome to the UNRAID forums! What are you planning to use your set up for? Have a look at the HDD SMART settings on your two 1TB drives. Drive properties>Self Test>SMART extended self-test: > START I wouldn't think there's any issues with the new4TB drive. But do a SMART short self-test: on that one.. Then, Run Settings>Fix Common Problems, and see whether anything comes up on that. It's a good idea to schedule this to run too.. (I use Daily).

What's your installation path location? Have you tried using the default? Your current UNRAID config appears to deny you write-access to /config/

I had some odd behaviour with my boot drive.. I toggled all of the boot settings in the BIOS and moved the USB Stick to an external port - then after it booted successfully, I moved it back to the internal port and it's been fine since - This also stopped the logs filling with USB port reassignments.

I think you're hitting the capacity of the N54L - It's old and under specced for what UNRAID can now throw at it. I'm not sure exactly when you observed sustained peak CPU activity.. but I saw similar behaviour with my N40L when throwing certain VM's and Containers at it. After I upgraded the hardware, (HPE ML310e Gen8v2) I haven't seen this occur.. (I'm using xfs for my array, btrfs for my vdisk; and zfs for my cache pool)

Open a terminal window and execute 'zpool import' Share the results..

Following on from the last post, your WD Drives *are* CMR - as per here :) I'm also interested as to what backup/automation setup you use for tasks #3, 4, 5, 6.

THIS suggests it might relate to RAM - But it's weird how it's sudden.. What else may have changed in your set up/usage?

You'll need to upload your diagnostics mate.

Why can't the Parity be used to rebuild this after reformatting? @JorgeB Isn't that what it's for?

This is a pain in the ass issue to troubleshoot mate.. Check your BIOS Temps/Thermal Protection thresholds, if available. Check your CPU/PSU cooler fans & fins/vents - are they caked in dust? Can you boot to a different OS and hammer the system? Hopefully you'll see the same behaviour and at least confirm you have a serious hardware issue.