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Hallelujah!! It worked! Thank you two for helping. You saved me!

Ok thanks! trying now, I"ll let you know . . .

I don't think so. How do I do that? Thanks in advance!

Hey folks, Sorry for the urgency, but I leave for Afghanistan tomorrow and I there is a bunch of stuff on my tower that I want to take with me, and I'm stuck. Here's what happened. I upgraded to 5.0. Since then I can no longer access my shares. I can find my tower and browse to \\Tower and see all my discs, my flash and my shares. When I try to access any of the shares however I get the following message: "Movies" is available but the user account that you are logged on with was denied access" I am logged on as the administrator. I've got 3 different PC's running Vista, Windows 7 and Windows XP and none of them can access it. Obviously my shares are set on "Public" and "Export" I've changed nothing else. Please help!

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Thanks in advance for your help. Yesterday I upgraded to 5.0 and had no issue with the server, it was behaving normally. Today I powered down, removed a 1TB drive and replaced it with a 3TB drive. Then powered on. Using the Web GUI, it recognized the 1TB drive was missing and I selected the 3TB to replace it. I clicked the "start array array and rebuid/expand" or whatever it is, but then nothing happens. The drives didn't all spin up to rebuild the 1TB onto the new 3TB. I could no longer access the Web GUI, the shares all disappeared and I could only access the flash drive over the nextwork. I have attached the syslog Any ideas? syslog-2013-08-22.txt

Ok the preclear worked and showed no errors - it took 27 hours (is that about right for a 2tb drive?) I'm now rebuilding the drive, but its going a ton slower than normal. Its been almost 24 hours and its at 50% now, running at about 5,000KB/s If my memory serves its usually like 40-60,000KB/s My equipment is pretty new: Mobo: SUPERMICRO MBD-X8SIL-F-O CPU: Intel i3 540 Clarkdale RAM: Kingston 4GB DDR3 1333 Power and cooling 750 Watt PS 3 sets of Supermicro CSE-M35T-1B drive cages with 15 drives SATA cards: 1) Supermicro-AOC-SASLP-MV8 SATA2 Serial ATA II PCI-Express RAID Controller Card 2) Monoprice SATA2 Serial ATA II PCI-Express RAID Controller Card 4,000KB/s is way too slow right?

Ok, well I'll start the preclear and let you know what happens. Can anyone think why all my drive expansions are failing UNLESS I preclear first? In the past, this hasn't been necessary.

Ok, Thanks here is the SMART report. Any ideas? smart.txt

I replaced a working 500gb disc (disc 14 in my array) with a new WD 2TB drive last night and started the expansion. When I woke this AM, the drive is flashing red and shows 288 errors. The one thing I didn't do this time, was run preclear on my new drive first. A few months ago I did a couple expansions that froze, but when I precleared the discs and repeated it, it worked. (http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=16249.msg150448#msg150448) Here is a snapshot. I rebooted the computer immediately before I started the expansion and yet somehow the syslog is still 1.8 MB the last 90% of it just repeats the same error, so I cut that part to make it fit. What went wrong? I guess I'll preclear the disc, and try again, but I don't understand why its failing if I don't preclear first. I have done dozens of expansion, but until the last 2 most recent expansions I didn't have to preclear the disc to get an expansion to work. Thanks in advance! syslog_truncated.txt

SOLVED!! Johnm, you were exactly right. It was the Maxtor drive. I put in a 2007 Seagate 7200 rpm, and now its transfering at 55 MB/s! Thanks for everyone's help!

Yeah, it is an old drive, I have a 500 gb seagate 7200 that is a couple years newer, I'll try that and see if it makes a difference. . .

added syslog, also I'm using unraid 4.7 Thanks in advance for your suggestions. syslog1.txt

I recently upgraded my unraid server to the following components. Reading the forums, it seems that I'm getting significantly slower speeds than everyone else - especially with respect to the cache drive. Mobo: SUPERMICRO MBD-X8SIL-F-O CPU: Intel i3 540 Clarkdale RAM: Kingston 4GB DDR3 1333 Power and cooling 750 Watt PS 3 sets of Supermicro CSE-M35T-1B drive cages with 15 drives SATA cards: 1) Supermicro-AOC-SASLP-MV8 SATA2 Serial ATA II PCI-Express RAID Controller Card 2) Monoprice SATA2 Serial ATA II PCI-Express RAID Controller Card My network: Cat 6 Ethernet cables, a Router: Gigabit D-link DIR 655. Transfer source: i5 2500k windows 7 system with a gigabit ethernet port. Using both WD green 3tb drive 5400 rpm and a 128gb OCZ vetex 3 SSD - Speed of transfer did not change more than 1-2 gb/s between the two. The files in question are large 35 gb movie files (with a folder file system, not a single ISO file) With a cache drive speeds are: 13 - 20 MB/s (Cache drive = Maxtor 500gm 7200rpm drive on the the #2 sata card shown above) Without a cache drive speeds are: ~ 15 MB/s The network is otherwise not being used at all. I did read in the forums about some issue with remote differential compression, so I turned this off, and speeds have not changed at all. Thoughts?

Well, preclear finished with no issues, so the drive didn't look bad. I turned the "spindown time" to "never" and added the drive to the array and started the rebuild . and . . Its done! No errors, and all the files I've tried on the drive since the rebuild seem to work fine. So . . . it was either the spindown feature, or is it possible that preclear actually helped something? Thoughts? Regardless, as always thanks for the folks who gave advice - you are what make unraid great!