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So I would make the bootable source mirrored across my cache drives for redundancy but the license remains bound to the uuid of the connected flash drive as a physical key but no R/RW is ever required to the flashdrive. That makes tons of sense.

Would I be able to do mirrored boot across 2 M.2 Drives and then use the remainder of the drives for Cache?

Is there functionally a difference other than the fact that it counts as a used drive? I'm not trying to be smart just trying to understand if I'm confused here. Other than the drive count usage I don't see a downside since it allows it to remain portable and the license doesn't become locked to the hardware.

There's a whole section on it here: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/196967-unraid-boot-device-guide-usb-and-nvme-hardware-selection/ Titled: USB Flash Drive Mirrored Boot Pool — Confirmed Supported Configuration (Unraid 7.3 Beta)

I seem to have gotten it stable since repairing the flashdrive. I will give it some thought while I wait for the official release at this point not sure if I'd prefer internal boot or mirrored usb.

I will definitely try internal boot then once I get it up and running then. I have 1 of my M.2 drives dedicated to Cache but it's literally never used it so I could easily convert it. I went ahead and removed the flashdrive and popped it into my desktop and ran a filesystem repair from Gnome Disks so I'll monitor for 24 hours to see if it is stable or not before I attempt to re-image. If it is then maybe I can convert to Internal Boot and forgo these flashdrive issues going forward. Thank you again for your help.

Sorry I misunderstood that you were just looking for more context I have no issue pointing out my mistakes in hopes someone else doesn't do the same... So this was the designation of my old failed drive: ST4000NM033-9ZM170_Z1Z9XW1G - 4 TB (sdb) I came back to my pool always offline and the designation for that one drive was wrong with just part of it missing either the submodel (9ZM170) or the Serial (Z1Z9XW1G) but the crucial part I didn't see was that it was showing up as 4.1 GB not 4 TB like it was supposed to. I troubleshot it thinking it was a logic issue with my Marvell 88SE9215 (I'm aware these suck and will be replacing it when I can) add-in card but it turns out the drive was just bad. I thought everything was fine and it just didn't recognize the drive because the name was coming up wrong, apparently that SATA add-in card can sometime cause issues like that on Linux to my understanding. I followed the instructions for Tools > New Config > Preserve Assignments > All (because I believed that the drive was fine which tanked my Parity data, I'm aware that I'm an idiot and still beating myself up over it.) As long as you think it is safe to try I will try to re-image the current flashdrive and move forward, otherwise I can request the license transfer.

Most of my data is intact but do to my previous mistake with the failed drive when I replaced it I lost the parity data on my 2 parity drives. I'm not familiar with the info provided in the diag file so in short would it be safe to re-image my flash drive and restore the backed up config files only, or should I just get a replacement flashdrive to be safe and move forward with the transfer. I should mention when I replaced the drive last time I just extracted the backup zip to the new drive then booted and activated, trying to avoid having to do the license transfer process again if possible since I would require approval and I just want to be up and running.

Hello, I've had a bunch of issues lately and determined my server was unstable and dropping PCIe lanes most likely due to a failing power supply. I replaced the power supply and on the next boot I lost 1 of my 8 drives and then messed up the process because I didn't realize the drive was failed and just thought it was detecting improperly and ended up dumping my parity data. Long story short I lost 2 of my 10TB of data but luckily most of what I lost should be backed up. Now after a few days I started getting this message: Your flash drive is corrupted or offline. Post your diagnostics in the forum for help. See also here Can someone more versed in this confirm for me if I can just re-image my flashdrive and put my config folders back or is the drive actually toast? I just replaced the flashdrive recently since I thought it was the drive causing my previous issues so I will need assistance from Unraid support to authorize another serial transfer. Even on reboot it fails again to this message within an hour so I'm pretty dead in the water right now. I have already backed up my flash backup zip. My diagnostics zip file is attached below. Thank you in advance jarvis-diagnostics-20260414-1030.zip