grupoleon

Thank you all in advance for your time reading this post. The short version of the story is that I have had this sever configuration since 2012. I have updated a component here and there but it was a straight swap looking for the cheapest upgrade. I am now looking to update/upgrade to something more current. What I have: • 24 bay Server case • 3 pci sata expansion (LSI SAS 2008) • CPU (Intel® Xeon® CPU E31225 @ 3.10GHz) • RAM 32GB DDR3 • Board (X9SCL-II/X9SCM-II) • Unraid is unning on top of ESXI (why? because this was the setup I followed when I initially created so long ago) ○ 1 Cache ○ 2 Parity (6TB each) ○ Mix of 3-6TB XFS formatted drives all filled to the brim Nothing has to stay if it is a blocker to what I want. What I want: • get rid of ESXI Upgrade to 2x 10TB+ parity drives to shrink array (straight forward enough) • If possible, dump the 3 PCI cards to connect all drives ○ Recommend any boards? • Speed up transcoding for 4k videos ○ CPU? GPU? RAM? • Utilize high speed transfer (set up for 2GB ethernet) • Run gaming servers for my nephew (plays a lot of minecraft) • Virtual machines, ○ I have a few on ESXI (windows and linux). Want to migrate them over to unraid • Configured for power efficiency (idling drives as much as possible to save power) would like the community's recommendation on hardware options so I can rebuild for long term. My Budget is something reasonable, middle of the road, to achieve what I want.

@JonathanM To close out this thread. I was able to mount it without adding it to the array via unassigned devices and I can see the files. I can copy the files over with cp -r (from old disk to new disk). This should not create any permissions issues yes? thank you again!

Ohh no! OK, I'll see what I can do. Thanks!

Adding info here, the old drive is reiser FS and I was upgrading to add more space and change to XFS.

Just ran into this issue, I replaced a drive with a larger one. I had done this before an unraid rebuilt the drive restoring files. Noticed the available space was full size on new drive . Old drive is still good but when I connect it to my windows see and manually move the files back on I only see the one "storage" file with linuxreader pro. how do I install linuxreaderpro with "admin credentials" or some other tool. Help is appreciated.

I just ran a new back up, submitted RMA for a new SSD Now I'm back to the weekend work of updating file system from resier to XFS before end of year.

Power cycle unraid - no success Power cycle server - no success Power cycle server AND swapped SATA cable - Success. Thank you for helping troubleshoot this. I am going to chuck the cable but it's weird that it would fail.

I also ran a SMART extended test with no error found arco-smart-20240129-0044.zip

here ya go. Disk /dev/sdt: 257 GiB, 275955859456 bytes, 538976288 sectors Disk model: WD Blue SA510 2. Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdt1 2048 1953525167 1953523120 931.5G 83 Linux

Firstly, thank you for the reply. Re filesystem - it is ResiserFS because I have this running for years. I am in the process this year to move everything to XFS (tedious and slow). Yes, the cache drive was explicitly set to XFS. I even flipped it to btrfs as a test to see if it would mount. no luck. I did check the filesystem using the gui (with and without the -n flag) and output was what is in quote above about not finding secondary block.

Greetings, I am experiencing and issue with my cache drive (1TB SSD) which has been working fine for a month. The drive is no longer mountable as it states it is not recognizable and gives me option to format (I have not done this). What I am seeing is the following description "CacheWD_Blue_SA510_2.5_1000GB_23450W800709 - 276 GB (sdt)29 C0.0 B/s0.0 B/s0xfsUnmountable: Unsupported or no file system" Also, I noticed it says 276 GB which is strange as I suspect it is the space it has reserved. I looked through the forum and attempted several of the options to repair the XFS drive. Attempted to analyze with -n via the gui and received following feedback. I would like to ask for and appreciate help on how best to proceed and recover the cache drive. Diagnostics attached. arco-diagnostics-20240128-2025.zip