dchamb

I recently moved my Plex system to use the linuxserver.io plex docker. All seems well except occasionally I see a half second blip on screen during playback. I thought it might be related to the transcode folder, since it looks like it is going to the array. I tried to move it to tmp, but that made the problem worse, even causing some content to not play at all. I also noticed that using Plex.tv webgui it tends to skip ahead 5 seconds or so several times. Any thoughts on what is causing this? I had no problems like this running Plex under the PhaZe plugin. Dale

I had a bad experience going to 6.7.0. Two of my array drives showed up as missing. I rolled back to 6.6.6 and all was well. I will not be updating to 6.7.0. I would encourage you to roll back as well. There's a good chance nothing was corrupted. But in the event there was, it will be a matter of rebuilding the Plex appdata and not the media files. I realize this may not be a small feat if your library is as large as mine, but it beats the alternative. I do wish they would test these releases more diligently before making them available. Dale

Monthly parity check shows no errors! Event: unRAID Parity check Subject: Notice [TOWER] - Parity check finished (0 errors) Description: Duration: 23 hours, 49 minutes, 14 seconds. Average speed: 139.9 MB/s Importance: normal Plus that 12TB WD Gold drive has improved the elapsed time of the parity check. I've been very happy with those drives. Dale

My monthly parity check is scheduled for tomorrow so I should know before the weekend is over. Thanks!

I installed my first new drive into the array without using preclear and it went flawlessly! The new drive is a WD Datacenter Gold 12TB which replaced a WD Red 6TB. Here are the stats: Event: unRAID Parity sync / Data rebuild Subject: Notice [TOWER] - Parity sync / Data rebuild finished (0 errors) Description: Duration: 1 day, 33 minutes, 16 seconds. Average speed: 135.8 MB/s Importance: normal Much faster to be fully up and running and have a protected array than it used to be. Good job!

Thanks John_M. Are you referring to SMART diagnostics? Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Also since it appears from the log report it completed the clear operation successfully, is there a way to verify the drive without going through preclear again? I'd like to know if the drive is usable. It just looks like preclear stopped at 18% of the post clear read.

Frank1940, did you see in my post where I already acknowledged the cable issue and replaced it? This problem of hanging on 18% on the post clear read has occurred after the cable was replaced. It seems like it might be an issue with preclear. Any known problems dealing with a drive of 12TB?

I am running into a problem with preclear on a WD Datacenter Gold 12TB drive. It made it through steps 1 through 4 and started on step 5 where it seems stuck at 18%. The drive also shows spun down. The version of Preclear is 2017.11.14. Here is the log report so far. (The 199-UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 106286 is from a previous attempt where I had a faulty cable. The cable has since been replaced and no more CRC errors have been logged): ############################################################################################################################ # # # unRAID Server Preclear of disk 8DG3KEVD # # Cycle 1 of 1, partition start on sector 64. # # # # # # Step 1 of 5 - Pre-read verification: [17:14:58 @ 193 MB/s] SUCCESS # # Step 2 of 5 - Zeroing the disk: [17:08:12 @ 194 MB/s] SUCCESS # # Step 3 of 5 - Writing unRAID's Preclear signature: SUCCESS # # Step 4 of 5 - Verifying unRAID's Preclear signature: SUCCESS # # Step 5 of 5 - Post-Read in progress: (18% Done) # # # # # # # # # # # # ** Time elapsed: 2:36:56 | Current speed: 239 MB/s | Average speed: 239 MB/s # # # ############################################################################################################################ # Cycle elapsed time: 37:00:08 | Total elapsed time: 37:00:08 # ############################################################################################################################ ############################################################################################################################ # # # S.M.A.R.T. Status default # # # # # # ATTRIBUTE INITIAL STATUS # # 5-Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0 - # # 9-Power_On_Hours 93 - # # 194-Temperature_Celsius 35 - # # 196-Reallocated_Event_Count 0 - # # 197-Current_Pending_Sector 0 - # # 198-Offline_Uncorrectable 0 - # # 199-UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 106286 - # # # # # # # # # # # ############################################################################################################################ # SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED # ############################################################################################################################ Segmentation fault root@Tower:/usr/local/emhttp# What do you make of this? Thanks Dale

These links come up "File Not Found"

Same here and running 6.0.1. No answers?

Well I am also interested in a good backup plan that allows me to take the backup disks offsite easily. The only way I know how to do that is to get some drives that can at least match the capacity of what I am using on the unRaid system (8TB right now), and connect them either through esata or USB 3.0. Now unless I use backup software that can span volumes, I would need to break up the files so that they can fit on the external drives, since I don't know of anyone producing drives greater than 4TB these days.