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This is a follow up to: I replaced Disk 4 since it was already throwing a ton of errors and reading at 1MB/s. I still have another 12TB drive that I would like to add to the array but I don't want to expand the number of drives (power is one aspect, but there is also the failure rate of having too many drives, plus I don't trust some of these drives anymore), so I would like to replace another drive. I've attached new diagnostics; promathia-diagnostics-20231219-1401.zip I'm thinking disk1 should go as it has had some spurious "errors" (from the dashboard) at times, though the SMART data is clean. tldr; you have to replace one of these drives, which would you choose? I will be draining the disks to swap filesystems later.

All the disks in this machine are from 2014/2015. I figure they're probably going to all be dying over the next few years so I'm considering whether it makes sense to replace them all with 6TBs or 8TBs to get fresh drives and another 5-10 years out of them. Thoughts? My server lately grows at about 1.2TB per year, so I'll need more space eventually anyhow.

Thanks! I'm planning maybe to upgrade over half the disks anyway (or maybe replace them all with 8TB) so I think this should take care of it since they'll have all new filesystems. I'll probably just wait until Black Friday for some of them.

Thanks! So if I understand correctly, I can proceed with a parity swap once I order a new disk?

promathia-diagnostics-20230929-0159.zip

It looks like I should replace Disk 4 which has terrible performance and is barely able to read data from (though, I can.. I did manage to copy a few files off it to test). Disk 2 seems fine from a performance standpoint. unRAID has not marked Disk 4 as bad. However, the syslog has a ton of sector read errors. It has to be replaced, clearly. How should I proceed? Should I manually remove this disk from the array and let parity take over? The disk is not marked as bad. Can I buy a couple 8TB disks to take over? This should give me a bit more room and get some of the ageing disks out of the array. Or should I shut it down and replace them then? I have a full backup at home on another machine, so there is no concern there. But it would be nice to avoid needing to copy all 14TB back over gigabit slowly

FYI this is a bit older but make sure to to the Config in Sab and go to "Special" and scroll down to the bottom. There's a section for a whitelist, make sure it reads "tower" or "Tower" depending on how you are trying to access it (or whatever hostname you use for your Sab box) The case sensitivity is key -- it matters.

Hi all, I've recently been using Huginn for a few things and wanted to share an unRAID Template to use it: http://vaughanhilts.me/blog/2018/04/26/setting-up-huggins-on-unraid-for-automation.html I also wrote a guide on using it under unRAID for those less familar. I also wrote a blog post on how to utilize it for something fun here. I hope the community gets some enjoyment out of it.

^ The above advice is good but first; perform a backup.

It was 100% connected to the internet. Unraid let me know I needed to sync to a time server first, which I then did. Then, I verified the time matched my system clock.

Positive; it wouldn't even let me before. I had to sync it to an NTP server.

Hi all, More of a general frustration post than anything but I just finished upgrading from v5 to v6. It all went smooth but I intended to use the trial key to pilot the docker stuff before transiting into the full v6 upgrade, and decide what version to purchase after that. The trial key did not work. I requested one and got one but when I used it, it said it expired. I requested an extension and was told I could not, as my current key had not expired yet. So, since I had already set aside the time to do this upgrade tonight I went ahead and bought a BASIC license. I hope Lime-Tech can fix this so I can have more confidence upgrading to a larger version in the future.

You guys are the best, awesome community! All the best & happy holidays for those celebrating.

How much suffering are we talking here?

And if it isn't, what else can I use? Just one of my existing drives and let it stay spun up? Otherwise, I'm thinking of trying to jam a SSD on my eSATA port of my HP MicroServer...