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Agreed - I don't intend it to be. I'm still looking for a backup solution that works for me, and until then Unraid was a big improvement compared to the 6-year old Barracuda drive they were on before :) Appreciate your response, but no further help is needed here. I ended up just going for it and stopped write-heavy containers (e.g., qBittorrent) until the rebuild is complete. So far so good.

Encountering my first non-parity drive failure and would appreciate some guidance on best practices what to expect. One of my data drive on its way out. It's still spinning and serving it's data, but writes to the disk start a steady stream of reallocated sector errors. For now, I've excluded the drive from all shares. Relevant info: Unraid 6.12.14 Bare metal, 2 x 12TB parity drives and 5 x 12TB data drives, LSI 9201-8i HBA + Adaptec 82885t SAS expander. Array contains decades of family photos, replaceable videos and audio, and backups (Unraid itself + personal devices) Replaceable media is served through Emby Runs the full *arr suite including torrent/usenet downloaders What I'm curious about is: What's the risk level of data loss during rebuild? Should I first move any family photos to healthy drives? Will all data (specifically Emby's media) remain available throughout the data drive rebuild? If yes, how risky is it to keep Emby running throughout? Similarly, should I temporarily stop the download containers during rebuild? Download share is configured to write to a pool first.

I have an Unraid VM running in Proxmox which, in my haste to get started, uses virtual SCSI disks via physical disk passthrough. This approach is less than ideal (no SMART monitoring) and so I want to pass through my entire HBA. I'm still fairly new to virtualization for Unraid and in general, so I'd appreciate input from the more experienced folks in case there's anything I'm missing. Physical disk → PCI passthrough migration: Proxmox UI: For each disk, take note of its serial number and corresponding virtual disk # Unraid UI: Stop array & shut down Unraid VM Proxmox UI: Remove disk mounts, add PCI passthrough for the HBA, then start Unraid VM. Unraid UI: New Config, then re-add the disk in the same spots (parity, disk 1, disk 2) based on serial number. Start array. This seems like a sound plan after researching, but is there anything I'm missing? I have 3 more drives I was planning to add once this was done. Would just starting fresh using these empty drives be a better approach? Hardware/Setup Details Unraid 7.0.0 Proxmox VE 8.3 LSI 9207-8i Array: 1 x 24TB parity, 2 x 24TB data Disks are displayed as 0QEMU_QEMU_HARDDISK_drive-scsi## with no SMART data