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Thanks again. Your last suggestion worked like a charm!

Wow, thanks so much. Way easier than what I've been attempting. One last question, though. This allows me access to my files via my home network. But since I don't have a IP address that I've assigned to my server, how do I access the Unraid GUI via my browser? I used to be able to input http://192.168.1.38/Main into the address bar and access it (because I assigned that IP to it). Thanks again. I can't tell you how much I appreciate this.

Hello, I've had an Unraid server for 16 years (time flies) and have updated it sparingly. It is currently running headless v6.5. I only use it as a data server--nothing else is running. I don't have a great tech brain, but I can follow instructions. Here's my problem: I swapped internet providers to AT&T Fiber. I haven't been able to connect to my server since. I have logged into the internet using the ethernet connection that my server uses. Using the info I got from running ipconfig, I have changed my network.cfg to the following: # Generated network settings USE_DHCP=no IPADDR=192.168.1.38 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=192.168.1.254 I've done this before, having swapped ISP's (and physically moved) several times over the past 16 years, but for whatever reason, I am failing today. Any suggestions? I have no idea where to go from here.

Hi, CreZo---everything went flawlessly. Good luck!

Interesting—wouldn’t have guessed this. I will definitely run a parity check after adding the drives. Thanks!

With three brand new drives, I’m thinking it’s better to clear them. I’m not in any big rush, so I don’t mind spending the time. As for the new config setting, thanks so much. This is exactly why I made the post.

I have successfully dealt with a host of recent issues in my 20-drive system. I’ve bumped my parity drive up to 8TB from 6TB and I have moved the data off three of my smaller drives onto a couple of my larger drives (currently I have a mix of data drives ranging from 1.5TB to 6TB, with ten 3TB in the middle). The plan is to remove those three older (and now empty) drives and replace them all with 8TB drives (preferably XFS-formatted). Before I do something really stupid, I’d like to review the process. I have never “shrunk” my array in the ten years I’ve had it; I’ve only added drives. 1) Power down and remove the three smaller drives (again, to be clear, I have emptied these drives of all data). 2) Power up and those drives will now be (I think) reported as missing, and the array will not have started. 3) In the Tools tab, run New Config. This essentially tells Unraid that the missing disks are intentionally missing and that everything is okay, right? 4) Rebuild the parity (I think this will probably begin automatically?) 5) After parity has completed, power down and add the three new drives. 6) Power up, assign the new drives, and start the array. The new 8TB drives will be added after they are cleared and XFS-formatted. This will take several (many?) hours. Is all that correct? Thanks!

johnnie: All right! Finally--I am back up. I'm so thankful. I've attached my syslog in case you have the time to give it a quick glance. I think I'm good? Moving forward, I thought I would move to 12TB drives and retire all of my 1.5TB, 2TB, and 3TB drives, but after weighing the cost of 12TB drives vs. 6TB drives, I think I'll stick with 6TB drives and do the same at way less cost. It will take six of them to retire all 15 of my smaller drives. Question(s): I am right in thinking that I should upgrade to 6.5 first before doing this, right? Also I believe Unraid also now supports dual parity, so it also seems a good idea to add another parity as soon as I have an empty slot in my Norco case, yeah? Oh, and johnnie--in looking at your profile, you have me beat as a forum member by four days (December 2007). But it's amazing how much more you know than I do; I feel ashamed, hahaha. Again, thanks so much for helping me out. I can't tell you how much I freaking appreciate it. syslog_180329.txt

johnnie: I swapped disk14 and disk10's positions in my chassis and started another rebuild. So far, this one has been going okay, I think? There were a handful of errors on yet another disk, disk13, but I think those are sorted? I actually have no idea. I am 31% into the rebuild. I'm attaching a jpg and my syslog. Am I okay to allow this to continue? It has slowed down considerably and another odd thing is that even though my other 1.5TB drives have gone to sleep (because my rebuild is beyond their size at this point), the "trouble" drive disk14 hasn't yet gone to sleep. I thought that was odd. (Note: I'm about to go into work and won't be able to check in on things for about 11 hours or so). And to jowi: My plan after this is to go up to a 12TB parity and then replace one of my 1.5TB with another 12TB, and then copy all of my other smaller, older drives' data onto that new disk. I am not in a position where I can easily dispose of the data that are on these drives. Yes, I should have paid better attention and should have replaced those drives earlier, but I am where I'm at right now trying to make the best of it. Do you really think I'm in an un-salvageable state with my data? syslog_180328AM.txt

Swapped the cable for the backplane of disk14 and tried to rebuild. Unfortunately, the errors started accumulating around 7% thru the rebuild. Syslog attached. Any other ideas? I really appreciate the help. SMART_180326.txt

And, finally, the results of the extended SMART test (attached). Looks like no errors? Is there any way to get this drive up and running successfully? Because if I am reading the situation correctly, if I can't get this drive back up, I might lose all the data on both disk14 and disk16, right? If there is ANY way to avoid that, I cannot tell you how appreciative I'd be. SMART_Extended.txt

Ah, didn't realize about my syslog being so short. This will be better. Since my syslog is full of individual sector errors for disk14, it's rather long and (probably) redundant. So I offer three sizes. The full one is really unwieldy. Just to be clear: all three start from the beginning, the difference is in how "far" they go. NOTE: I have to zip them in order to upload them because of their size, sorry. I am going to run the extended SMART now. Thanks so much for the syslog_three-lengths.zip

Not sure if this is the same info I just posted as smart.txt in my previous post, but just in case this is different information or just plain easier to read, here's the SMART report from my telnet session. Disk14_SMART.txt

And here is the SMART report for disk14. smart.txt

I really need to learn how to read a syslog. Sorry to waste your time. I was under the impression that the syslog file on my thumb drive was always updated to the last restart. I am attaching the real one now. I will search on how to pull a SMART report for disk14 and post it once I've figured it out. Serversyslog.txt