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well, since files on shares have gone away and i can't work on them I'll stop parity and disable cache. Cache is nice but not critical. ETA: disabled cache drive, rebooted, shares appeared. THANKS!

would it be better to wait for parity to end then power down and check connection? or stop parity check, disable cache, run parity, then power down to reset? Wonder what could have killed the cache, as the system hasn't been touched.

And yes I know I'm full up. I'm in the middle of a purge and ordering some more 6tb drives. tower-diagnostics-20161105-0938.zip

Thank you Squid. If it is the cache, I would guess that I could stop parity, turn off cache (nothing critical on it right now), then re-run parity.

And to make everyone happy I'll edit my posts to add the e.

no problems noted in Squid's plugin other than cache drive not happy. System is in a parity check, so I'll wait until it is done to run any other diags that you link me to. And so sorry that my fingers are stuck with not adding the e. It's what my fingers are used to.

That I knew about /user and /user0. That is not the problem. With no files added, and no changes, the SHARE shows no files. The looking at /user and /user0 were to verify that my files were still there. Shouldn't the share show files regardless of which /user directory it is in? Again - the look at the 2 /user directories was to look for the files. It is the share that is not showing ANY files.

Some shares on /mnt/user/ are empty. When I ssh in and look at /mnt/user0/ I can find my files. What could have caused this?

Thanks! First thing I'll do is get the plugin run. since I have an unused 1.5 or 2tb drive, I can just do a swap with the dying drive. And I realize that I have a clarification needed. once I move the drives to their "rational' physical locations, I need to put them logically in the same drive number location they were in before: i.e. Drive 1 is a WD on sdc and drive 2 is a seagate on sdd(using brand instead of serial). once I move the physical locations the WD thinks it is sdh but needs to be put in Drive 1 and the seagate, as with the WD goes in the drive 2 slot, regardless of its sd(?).

I am about to start upgrading drives on my server. Really critical as I have a drive failing. My current plan is to get a new 6tb and make that the new parity. Then take the old parity and replace the dying drive with it. When I built the system the drives were installed somewhat ad-hoc. The question: can I change the controllers (and physical locations) of the drives to 'rationalize' them for future upgrades? For example I have a 4 in 3 chassis that I would like to move my 4 smallest drives into, so that as I get new 6tb drives I would not have to open up the system completely. Then once those 4 are upgraded, swap them to the 'bottom' of the internal stack and move the next 4 smallest to the front mount chassis. Obviously I plan on carefully noting both the sd# <-> drive mapping and then mapping the physical controller <-> drive to know which is where. Is this an insane idea, or doable but not a good idea, or is it a smart thing to do? Thanks!

Thanks all for the quick responses. My MB is an old dell, so I am Ivory Certain (99.44%) certain that it can't deal with 3/4tb. I'll deal with that once I have the system fully populated. FreeMan: Thankfully it was a WHS system, which means all data is available through a dock. It behaved similar to unraid, but lord gates' people decided to drop it. DalwWilliams: Thanks for the warning. I have a 4port sata card, I'll double check it against the list before I install into the system. The old system had a mixture of 1.5 and 2tb drives and I'll migrate the 2s first, then start upgrading to 3/4. Extra drives can fit in an external 4 bay esata/usb case I have that I can drop on my desktop system.

So I have basically decided to join the cult I'm 'migrating' from a windows home server that blew the backplane with 8 drives total. I have a new case, new power, older usb, older MB. At this moment in time it is running the demo 3 drive version. As I am budget limited, I can't purchase the key and a new MB at the same time. So between upgrading the MB and getting the registration key which should be done first? My new MB will have 3/4tb capability and as many sata ports as I can find on the affordable shelves at MicroCenter. I already plan on starting migrating the data and disks to the current 3 drive system (which has 3 small drives) and moving the 1.5 and 2tb from the dead system into the demo system. Good idea? Bad Idea?