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That did it. Thank you!

Thanks for that. I didn't realize that's where it kicks off from. I'll give it a Go (per se ;)

I have a hard drive/controller in my array that is a little lazy to spin up and get recognized by Unraid when starting from a cold boot. (It also happens to be a parity drive). When this happens, the array tells me that a disk is missing. If I do a warm restart, then the drive is picked up and all is right with the world again. How can I add a delay to the startup of Unraid to give this drive a little more time to be detected before continuing with the boot process? This is on 6.11.5 if it makes a difference.

Ah that's interesting, and helpful. Sounds like the internal 24i soltuion might be somewhat better (evening if it's in a sigle 8x slot)

I'm getting ready to put together an updated 24 bay JBOD setup. I was going to build it with a controller similar to my existing rig: Computer in the same case with internal sata to backplane using something like the 9305-24i No sweat. But then I came across some external 24 bay drive shelves, which are a little more foreign to me. The first has two SFF-8644 slots, which makes sense to me. Each controls 12 bay and could be run off a single 12G SAS HBA card like a Dell T93GD I worry about a bottleneck during partiy, but it might be an option. The second case has 3 SFF-8088 ports. What I can't seem to wrap my head around, is there doesn't seem to be anything that can drive 3 8088 ports directly (ie. some form of 24e card) I'm guessing there's already some form of port multipler in play on the drive chassis since each channel would drive 8 bays. What kind of single card would I use to drive 24 drives off 3 channels? Would I instead be into a 2 card situation (a 16e and an 8e) to drive this or would I run an additional expander off the controller giving me a 3rd port? I only plan to run spinning disks, but with that many discs I'm mindful of the parity check times. Being able to use a single card opens the possibily that I could use a SFF PC in conjuction to reduce the power somewhat, but I'm not set on that