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Ah, now I see... thanks for the info!

Nice build but I have a question. I checked the specs for the Asus PRIME Z590-A motherboard just now and it seems to only have 6 SATA ports. Just curious how you were able to get 7x WD Reds connected?

Locky ransomware does scan for mapped and unmapped network shares and will attempt to encrypt any media files it finds. That's what made me take a close look at our home network environment to see about hardening security there. More info about Locky ransomware here, for anyone who is interested. My wife works from home and she's always emailing MS Office and other documents with co-workers. So after the ransomware attack at my workplace I decided to take a closer look at the security settings on our home network as well. Anyways, it sounds like the current method is the best option for setting read-only on my unraid shares. I expected as much but just thought I would check in case there was a faster way to toggle read-only on unraid shares. Thanks for the suggestions....

We had a ransomware attack at the office recently (Locky) and I've learned quite a bit from the experience. The smoke has now cleared and I've had time to assess any potential holes on our home network and I've decided it would be prudent to make our unraid shares read-only to help prevent damage to our precious media files in the event of a future ransomware attack. Currently I am running a stock unraid v6.1.9 install (using Windows7 and Windows8 clients) and was wondering if there's a quick way to toggle the read-write / read-only setting for my unraid shares. The idea is to toggle read-only when there are no file/copy transactions occurring, then toggle read-write whenever I need to copy/move/delete files. I'd like to keep the shares read-only the majority of the time and I will change to read-write only when I need to make changes. Currently, the process I am using requires about 5-steps: Navigate to the main unraid main menu, click shares, click the share name, scroll down and change to read-only, click apply. I was wondering if there is a faster way? Thanks for any advice!

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I just got one of these at the Fry's in Los Angeles. It was the last one on the shelf... hopefully they'll get more in soon.

Looks like this slow parity check was caused by a failing disk. I replaced the suspected bad disk with another that I had on hand and kicked off a new parity check. Now it's saying parity check will complete in a much more reasonable 321 minutes. I'll be RMA'ing this bad drive and will update this thread once the parity check completes. Thanks everyone for your help!

I'll let it run for a while so I can build a bigger syslog. Today I also noticed a new clicking / knocking sound coming from one of the hard drives but I'm not sure which one it is yet. I wonder if a drive is about to fail.

SMART status report test results attached. smart.txt

I have attached a screenshot showing the disks I have installed. I'm also running some basic SMART checks now and will post the results shortly.

I trying to run my first parity check after building a new unraid 5.5 server and it's saying it will complete in 77,098 minutes (53 days!). It ran for about 1-hour before reaching 0.5% completed. I canceled it and thought I'd better check with the unraid gurus. On my old unraid server this process only took about 10 hours. Wondering if there's something simple I'm missing here or do I have bigger problems? Motherboard is ASUS M5A97 R2. It also has an Intel NIC, model # EXPI9301CT Any advice would be greatly appreciated! syslog.txt

Parity-sync completed without any issues. I will be running a full parity check next and expect that will go well also. Thanks garycase and CrashnBrn for the help...

I added the old parity drive to my new server and parity-sync is underway. Will report back later today once it completes.

Hello, apologies if this was asked before... I couldn't find anything on this when I searched. My question is this: I'm building a new unraid server and plan to use the old 2TB parity drive from my old system as the parity drive in the NEW system. I don't need to migrate or preserve any data from the old system. The new system does currently have 2 unprotected data drives installed and they do contain data that I need to keep. I'm worried if I simply add the parity drive from the old system to this arrangement that I could trash my new array. Do I need to wipe or re-initialize the old parity drive in any way before adding it as the parity drive to the new system? Thanks

@WeeboTech - You are probably right... I'm not sure but maybe the server awakens on power loss and will do a hard shutdown after X amount of time if main power isn't restored by then. I'll have to test this... Thanks very much for your help!