Seven

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!

I checked the cables just now, even moved it to a different SATA port on the motherboard but unraid still throws errors about this disk when I reboot. I pulled the disk out of the array and put it on my external SATA dock on my Windows 7 machine and tried to check it using CrystalDiskInfo but it didn't even see the disk. The disk isn't showing up in the BIOS of my Windows PC at boot time either. So all signs point to a bad disk. Time to start the RMA process with Newegg. Thanks for your help! Seven

Looks like preclear failed on a brand new disk I purchased to keep on hand as a spare drive. I've attached all of the logfiles and output I could find.... I did not find a smart_finish report in the /tmp directory. This is a new WD20EARS drive from Newegg and I did install a jumper over pins 7/8 before attaching to my server. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! Logs.zip