pdxrealtor1

I ended up grabbing an i7 3770 quad core cpu, 8 more gigs of ram for a total of 12 gb, and a new heatsink cooler for 95.00. I plan to upgrade to unRAID 6 and use Immich to organize my thousands of photos and videos. I'll use it more of a file/photo backup than an active media server these days. Thanks for chiming in with some direction. I'll probably be hopping around the various forums while I get the new setup situated. Cheers!

Thanks. Still oly one read but the rest look like you said they should. At what time do people start replacing drives? Is there a total on time target, or antoher indicator or is the norm to wait until one dies then repalce? Also, I know this is probably not the right place but I seem to remember one of the neat things about unRAID was that you could take an old laptop hard drive and add it to the unRAID easitly. But, my question is .... .doesn't that slow down the overall server box having a slower laptop drive in the mix? If i want to switch mother boards is that a pretty easy thing to do with unRAID? I Have two SATA slots left but the socket came off the motherboard for both ... and my CPU fan is broken so I was thinking about getting a mothboard that would work with the ram and other parts I used to build the machine .... 12 years ago.

Removed disk, rebooted. Shut down, added drive back, rebooted and started the rebuild process. So far so good.

Thanks- I think that is making sence. I just swapped SATA cables, then SATA ports, and also power cables between two drives and .... no change at all. What is the emulated disk? Is that Parity? Sorry I'm not so smart when it comes to these things these days. Do I get another drive of the same size to replace the problematic drive? It's weird I can read files from the drive and all...... Besides no parity check I can't see how anything is different except the red dot.

So it looks like I'm testing power and SATA cables. I thought I had done this already, but probably should do it again as suggested. Any specific order of operations or things to be careful of ? smart_sdd_after_test.txt

I looked at NAS boxes and wasn't impressed. I'm more interested in getting the tinker bug going again at this point, and playing with unRAID. No more being dumb - sorry for the laziness earlier. My version is unRAID server PLUS - version 5.0 - screen shot of home screen attached Also attached is my syslog and a short SMART report for the problem drive. I have reports for all drives if you'd like them - chatgpt told me they all look in good shape but they're over 8 years of on time. I am currently running an extended SMART report for the problem drive, so if you want it I'll have it in about 4 hours. Thanks Sep 10 151604 wdisk syslogd 1.4.1 r.txt smart_sdd.txt

Man I thought of this like two hours after I asked - apologies it was clear what you typed I was just being dumb. I pulled this machine out and the cpu fan was so full of dust I don't know how it didn't catch fire! The clips broke so now the tower has to lean on its side for the cpu fan to remain in place. Ugg. I may just go NAS box. I'm just not into tinkering with these types of things the last few years.

Thank you! I will head over there. Unfortunately the system has been rebooted severa times. Are you asking for the syslog and SMART report here?

I have had this box just running running running for years without reallly touching it except to reboot. Recently though I have had the disk 1 identified as a red dot vs. a green one, and I noticed that there is no parity check available in the array status area. DId the disk fail or what ... is happening? And, how do I proceed from here? I've haven't tinkered with anything like this for so long I don't know where to begin.