i had my unraid running a couple years ago. i moved across country and when i tried to start it back up, it didn't see any drives. i didn't mess with it for a couple years. yesterday, i got around to messing with it, the 2 controller boards for the disks had come out, i pushed them back in and started up the server and it is working again!
now, i'm super into unraid again and have a couple questions. one of my drives has an error?
i ran smart test and it says its fine? this drive is only 3TB - should i just replace it?
i'm running 1 12tb parity drive and 4 data drives and 1 1tb ssd cache drive.
so i'm using 6 of my 16 bays?
should i add and 2nd 12tb parity drive and a 2nd 1tb ssd cache?
should i swap out the 3tb drive with another 12tb drive since it has an error?
why do my shares say unprotected?
right now i have 16tb of free space which is plenty. i have 10 more bays. i could add another cache and another parity and still have 8 free bays left.
this is just for personal data backup.