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It works as itimpi suggested. I imagine yours can be done like this. - add your empty 2x2tb to unraid, 1 as parity, 1 as data, pre clear both For each of your 4 , 2tb disk - Copy 1 to the data disk, then preclear that, and add it to the array - repeat for the rest

Hi. I tried to install plex media server but encounter the above problem when trying to start the server. Do you have any idea why ? start pms -bash: start: command not found

It's over 30days already, waited a few weeks to get all the components up to assemble the server, so I guess no exchange. Mine is WD Red, 3TB, can I RMA it with this condition ? I mean, so far, it can read and write properly, just slow sometime ( like what I saw yesterday), it was normal this morning, I'm continue to monitor. Is the bad sector high enought to RMA ?

I do a copy again this morning, and it resumes at normal speed (11MB/s ). I havent done anything. The log i posted is all i have, the unraid server has been running for 2 days now. I'm not sure why it only has 16 minutes log. How bad is the HDD ? It's newly purchased ! Can I RMA with this condition ? Btw, the unraid server running on G1620, 4GB ram, ECS H2-I2 on u-nas 400 box

Running hdparm test /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads: 6720 MB in 2.00 seconds = 3362.81 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 192 MB in 3.00 seconds = 63.93 MB/sec

SMART report smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sdb smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright © 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 Serial Number: WD-WMC1T3766887 Firmware Version: 80.00A80 User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 9 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Sun Aug 18 23:59:55 2013 SGT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. Self-test execution status: ( 249) Self-test routine in progress... 90% of test remaining. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (39360) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 255) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x70bd) SCT Status supported. SCT Error Recovery Control supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 071 071 051 Pre-fail Always - 111980 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 204 166 021 Pre-fail Always - 4783 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 195 195 140 Pre-fail Always - 155 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 97 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 14 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 7 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 9 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 112 110 000 Old_age Always - 38 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 151 151 000 Old_age Always - 49 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 97 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

Hi. I've just finished building the unraid array with 1 single data disk ( no parity ). I'm trying to copy data from my existing drive to unraid array. But the read/ and write speed is painfully slow. Hovering around 100KB/s - 1MB/s Here's what happened. - I let it run overnight, and it managed to copy around 500GB, at 11MB/s ( normal, since I'm on 100Mbps network) - In the morning, suddenly it drops to 1MB/s, and even slower, and continue for next 12hrs until now. - I tried restart the unraid server, restart my pc, still happens. - The strange thing, when I start to copy a file to the unraid server, it start normally at 11MB/s for around 10-20 seconds or so, and continue to slow down , after the first 1 minute, it hovering around 200KB/s-1MB/s. Because it's able to achieve fastest possible speed before, ( at leat 8hrs running continuously), I believe it's not the drive issue - Read speed is <1MB/s One thing to notice during the preclear, just in case it's a hardware issue. - 1st preclear, it stuck and post read, 30%, very slow. Pre read was normal, 100MB/s + - I restart the preclear, stuck at around the same mark again, but in pre-read. - I proceed to do another 2 preclear without pre/post read. Please see the attached syslog. Any comments would be much appreciated. I'm running on 5.0rc16 syslog-2013-08-18.txt

Perfect. Thanks. Will update the progress

Hi. I'm going to build the very first unraid server. I currently have a 3GB hdd with data. Can add it to the fresh array without clearing->copy to temporary hdd-> transfer back the data. My plan is: - 1 3GB hdd with data - Buy a new 3GB hdd, preclear - Add both 2 hdds to the array - set the newly bought hdd ( precleared) as the parity drive. - Sync Should it work ? Btw, my build: case : U-NAS nsc 400, 4 drive bay, built in 250W psu cpu + mobo: G1610 + AsrockH61 Ram: 4GB , 1 piece Is it enough to run all the addon ( torrent, sickbeard, couch potato, + transcoding 1080p to 1 device and 720p to another one ) ? Thanks very much