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Yes. I want to reuse this cheap PSU it costs 20$ less than the adapter cables to extend the sata connect count. I am keeping an eye on it. Hmm the freshly formatted "Array" has 20GB consumed by something? Under system - "system data" ?

I wonder what's the risk when using almost-the-cheapest Power Supply, can it blow up the HDDs by supplying the wrong voltage, when it burns out ? It's a som-brand China OEM ATX-500W supposedly with parts for 280W inside. The whole system will not exced 140-150W when all HDDs are reading which is not planned. Planned HDD activity is 4 at a time max. Spinup may overload something. In this situation I do not want to replace the PSU because that is too much work for me right now. It will be easier to save an Index of the HDDs so if they blow up (0.1%chance of that happening in the next 5 years) I will know what was on there and where to get it online. I should also look at it with a thermal camera TBH but don't have one. What's a cheap thermal camera for looking at electronics and PCs overheating components/cables?

Can I Unlock my bitlockers on Unraid ? Like this ? dislocker -v -V /dev/<volume name> -p<Bitlocker key> -- /mnt/tmp ?

Yes I am using the UD plugin. I am thinking I will just put a single SSD and use that for Unraid Array to be able to add containers and the Unraid apps and stuff.

Awesome. Does New Config delete anything from the disks or it does not touch them ? I have NTFS partitions on them that I just want to SMB share.

I decided to fill it with 21 disks + however I am wondering how to not use parity. Maybe just Pooling. That's not the right protection of the data, the right protection is a backup copy at another physical location. Can I pool disks and just run them without parity ?

Well yes the HDD rejuvenation, SMART, and HBA/Raid JBOD configs, firmwares - all this is done with custom tools from Vendors as well as thirdparty tools many of which DOS based for slightly older HDDs. So yeah I am handling that and stabilizing the things, before I can start making a more interesting Unraid config. Would have been nice not to leave the Unraid console for all this but .... maybe with more Right To Repair action this will be easy.

I try to 4kn the SSHDs and it fails, not supported, even with SeaChest. root@Tower:~# hdparm --please-destroy-my-drive --verbose --set-sector-size 4096 /dev/sdc <output was some weird HDD low level stuff, didn't work>

the HDDs were in storage so the sectors got weak or something Im just reviving them with hope to get full speed It's not fully true that "already done by modern hard drives" no don't trust rumors. Running service tools and doing service things, is the right thing. I am using Unraid parity as well I have many HDDs in the system so I can turn that on, for some of them. We are good the project is moving along nicely.

For the SMART errors, I want to do the following: 1. clear the bad/reallocated sectors and run vendor tools to resurface and repair them 2. It would be super cool if I could use some low level tools to clear the SMART because the crc errors are from when I used the wrong SATA cables.

These RAID cards that I want to use as JBOD mode, do not present me a BIOS option to config them. The Motherboard does not seem to have options for PCI optionroms. The disks are available in JBOD so we are good. I just wanted to make it easer to access the cards configs. These cards are super legacy however this project is a kind of like a PoC for denoising and PoC for the features of Unraid.

Sorry. HBA card config tool. Not raid. An "Unraid community app"

Give me an example RAID management tool that is a custom user app and I can try to add this one like that one ?

Is it because it is also for security hardening reasons that I should not be fiddling with libraries ? In Linux land, I am used to adding and symlinking .so files. But if they hardened it beyond that I can understand the reason.

The error with fastconsole app for the promise ft4200 seem to be because it's a 32bit binary and the Unraid is well slimmed 64bit OS. What would be a workaround for this? I think it should be solvable by installing some 32bit thing or making some minor change or symlink?

I want to reuse my disks first and foremost for kinky reasons I find it satisfying to reuse HDDs and store data around the failing areas with slow sectors. It feels like cheating death. Also some of the disks are gifts and represent cool memories and experiences. The entire machine is like this almost all parts are heroic parts. It's a big mod project, one big part of the project is to denoise the disks and the case which is a next step after I load it with noisy disks. New disks I can use in the next build already have the parts for that as well. I would like to not have single parity in this case, I would either use without protection for entertainment purposes or with 3x protection. Or selectable protection per folder if we have this feature yet? My storage kink also leads me to vsan and storage spaces refs from the latest dev win11 build. However for this machine I need Unraid. The /usr/sbin/fastconsole app for the promise ft4200 seem to requre a /lib/ld-linux.so.2 file upon checking with 'file fastconsole' command. I can try to supply this .so file from somewhere such as an slackware iso ? Thank you.

i was hoping to be able to do HDD Regenerator / Revitalize / slow sector repair / low level format / bad sector circumvention, under the UNraid itself, and not have to run DOS programs and stuff Does anyone have some CLI spells for it ?

Correct guess, it seems to be weirdly static to old Linux versions. I can try those some time later if I feel like it. But I should try to revive the firmware/ oprom on the PCI cards. Still would be cool to make that tool run by adding some libraires and debugging it properly.

No diags needed the Logs are fine and the hardware is Free I am not replacing things to make it more theoretically stable/better. Let it burst into flames I am not giving Seagate or anyone any money GRRRR. FastTracks updated with a FreeDOS made with Rufus and the firmware files from Promise website. CLI tool extracted from rpm and will try to run that under UNRAID to see what happens. Seagate fw update found drive but didn't find compatible firmware. ASM firmware update I will try latest from station-drivers under Gandalf or Strelec WinPe. Will also try HDDRegenerator (edit MHDD or other old stuff from UBCD to drop bad sectors and then SeaTools and Seachest Vendor format, under Ubuntu LTS) from those. Please let me know some hints about all this. Thank you.

Hello friends, Which cool apps can I fit on the hardware? Planner spreadsheet: Please help me, I also may need to 1. flash firmware and (edit - did it through Strelec PE and Ubuntu LTS Daily) 2. check SATA stability and check if the disks can be used without new SMART errors appearing (did it by clicking Acknowledge current SMART errors in Unraid GUI) 3. check if I can do HDDRegenerator or how to handle stale disks (Seagate support are slow bit I have UBCD and SeaChest to experiment with. Forgot where was the option to drop the current bad secotrs so I can recheck them after resurface operations, maybe MHDD. Forum dudes said modern HDDs do that automatically however I want to double check that since the HDD firmware may be doing remap rather than resurface of the sectors so too many remapped sectors would mean slower performance) 4. Mount disks directly or export iSCSI - what if it has Bitlocker ? (I am Decrypting the disks on a Win machine before since there may not be dislocker on the Unraid or it may not be fully compatible and so on) Thank you, are the best. After myself. I start with the following fire hazard before adding 20 more: