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Darn, well those 28 hours backing up data to it was a waste. What about btrfs? Is that okay in the array with 2 disks, 1 as parity?

I made a 2 disk array using ZFS. A disk in parity and a disk in slot 1. But this makes it seem like it is a single disk array, not raidz: zpool status -v pool: disk1 state: ONLINE config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM disk1 ONLINE 0 0 0 md1p1 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors Am I correct? This is not raidz and my data is not protected from disk failure?

I just precleared a disk which will sit in a closet waiting for a drive to replace when it fails. Will Unraid remember I precleared this disk when I connect it up again?

Delivered today was a used HGST HC510 (HGST_HUH721010ALE604). Everything seems okay so far, no SMART errors or warnings, disk sounds okay. It 44654h of power on time (5y 1m). Here's the full SMART output: I want to know, would you put this disk in your array? Or are the power on hours just too much? Thanks!

Hello, Is it possible to replace the parity disk with a smaller capacity drive as long as it is still larger than the data drives? Trying to determine whether I need to keep another 10TB on standby or if an 8TB is fine. Data drives are 4TB. Thanks!

Hey everyone, Can I backup appdata while it is in use (containers not stopped) with something like Duplicacy? I want to encrypt and sftp the data off site. At the moment I use the appdata backup plugin which stops containers and only backs up locally. Thanks!

Does this remain true if I'm setting up containers like this? Does mover remove the files after moving? I was hoping the files would be on both cache and appdata with appdata acting as a kind of automated backup.

Hi everyone, Just want to make sure I'm following best practices here. My shares config: My main concern is with appdata and system. I have all Docker containers pointing to /mnt/cache, is it still a good idea to move these to the array for safety (cache -> array)? The cache pool is btrfs raid 1 and appdata is backed up daily to an external disk. What about system? I'm trying to strike a balance between array being able to spin down and keeping my data safe. Open to suggestions. Thanks!

Do my settings look okay? Should I check any boxes under verification tasks? I'm also running a build for each disk. Which I assume is what I should do. Anything else I should do here?

This worked. Although I had to add my VM's again pointing the disk vdisk to the new location. Thanks!

Hi everyone, I made some changes recently and now Libvirt fails to start. I added a cache disk and it automatically put some share onto it. Since then, I've stopped Docker and VM's and ran the mover script. No luck. VM settings: Share settings: Cache directory showing libvirt file in correct place: Diagnostics: homeserver-diagnostics-20240119-1816.zip Thanks!

That's a relief, thanks. Does the SMART output look okay otherwise? No cause for concern with the other 2 warnings?

So I just found this post from 2013 Is this still correct or have we learned anything new since then? Note that my count of 60 high fly write is much higher than what I've typically seen (< 10).

Hi everyone, Just got a used Seagate Exos 10TB. Scrutiny is reporting a failure: And some warnings: Here's full report: What do you think?

Of course, I set a static in Unraid and reserve in the router.