DavidIrwin

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  1. Thank you both for the confirmation. I will post once I've done the changes to let you know it worked. David
  2. Thanks for the advice. When I can I will shut it down, remove and clean all disk connections (it's an HP MicroServer so not expecting much to change there) and clean out any dust before starting again. I am concerned about the warning on the page: I am unclear from this whether my existing data will be retained or everything wiped?
  3. Thank you. Attached davidserver-diagnostics-20170119-1926.zip
  4. Hi, The title is the TL;DR; and I could be being stupid about this but before I try and get my drive replaced I would like to be sure. This week whilst a parity check was running on my unRAID sevrer (I didn't realise until later) I was doing some moving of files using unBalance and got a warning that some permissions were wrong. To fix this I did what was advised which was to run the "New Permissions (Docker Safe)" tool which I did. While this was running the parity check stopped (failed) and the parity check aborted with an error. I assumed that this was because I ran the permissions tool and immediately started another parity check which finished reporting no errors. The Dashboard status shows: Last checked on Mon 16 Jan 2017 10:41:37 AM GMT (three days ago), finding 0 errors. Duration: 17 hours, 57 minutes, 48 seconds. Average speed: 123.7 MB/sec I later noticed that the parity device is showing as Disabled on the Main tab of the UI, with 17 errors listed but this is where my confusion starts. I looked in the system log and found: Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 6445719816 Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: md: disk0 write error, sector=6445719752 Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 6445719688 Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 6445719808 Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 6445719744 Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: md: disk0 write error, sector=6445719760 Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: md: disk0 write error, sector=6445719768 Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: md: disk0 write error, sector=6445719776 Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: md: disk0 write error, sector=6445719784 Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: md: disk0 write error, sector=6445719792 Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: md: disk0 write error, sector=6445719800 Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: md: disk0 write error, sector=6445719808 Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: md: disk0 write error, sector=6445719624 Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: md: disk0 write error, sector=6445719632 Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: md: disk0 write error, sector=6445719640 Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: md: disk0 write error, sector=6445719648 Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: md: disk0 write error, sector=6445719656 Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: md: disk0 write error, sector=6445719664 Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: md: disk0 write error, sector=6445719672 Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: md: disk0 write error, sector=6445719744 Jan 15 16:25:40 DavidServer kernel: md: disk0 write error, sector=6445719680 So my question is how did the parity check run through and pass with no errors on 16th if the disk failed on the 15th? Looking on the properties of the drive all of the SMART tests come back as PASS and no errors are shown on the page so I am unsure whether I really have a faulty drive or something funny went on with the Parity check and Permissions fix running at the same time. Any advice appreciated on how to test further and prove whether there really is a fault with this drive. Thank you David
  5. Hi, I'm a relatively new unRAID user, but to monitor my setup I decided to add the Dynamix System Statistics plugin (alongside some others) to ensure my server is running as it should be. Today I saw something a little odd on the Network graph (screenshot attached). As you can see the peaks show values above 200Gb/s. My network is two 1Gbit connections configured as bond for failover, and my internet connection is only 40Mb/10Mb so there is no way that level of network traffic should have been generated. The server is an HP MicroServer Gen8 with 4x SATA HDD (3d,1p), 1xSATA SSD Cache. If you need any more details please ask me but I'm curious how this stat anomaly has happened and would be happy to provide more details if this would help fix a possible problem. Thanks David
  6. You are absolutely correct in both parts. I have not yet worked out how to back up the full 10Tb (and growing) collection of data, but for the most part it is Films and TV shows which I have on DVD/BluRay so not irretrievable. The critical data I do have copied/backed up/synchronised to various locations including OneDrive, offline USB drives, etc.
  7. Apologies for picking up an old topic, but makes most sense for me as I've already explained the background to where I am with unRAID (soon to be new user). I have finally got my server upgraded to be ready for my migration from Windows Server 2012 R2 to unRAID but I have realised there is one more part of the configuration which I am unclear on. I currently have 3x 4TB drives with data on which will eventually become data drives used by unRAID, however I will only be able to add them progressively to the system so my plan is: [*]Initialise system with unRAID from USB drive, 16Gb RAM, Xeon E3-1220v2 processor (yes, I've upgraded a bit) and one new (blank) HDD. This is likely to be a 6Tb drive as best value (cost per Tb). [*]Connect existing 4Tb drive to Windows 10 client PC and copy data across the network onto unRAID share. [*]Install freed up HDD into unRAID system and add to storage pool. [*]Connect next existing 4Tb drive to Windows 10 client PC, copy data [*]Install free up HDD into unRAID system This leads to one issue (which I have identified from the documentation) and one which I have not managed to get my head around. The first is that my first installed HDD will be the largest hard disk I have in the server. The documentation says that the parity disk should be the largest in the system, however as this will be the first disk I add into the server I am unsure how I will get to the right configuration for this? As I will be starting with a single data disk and then progressively adding more I assume that there will be no protection of the data until I have managed to free up and install more disks. Am I able to allocate all hard disks as disks without allocating any to Parity until I have installed all disks, and then select the 6Tb hard disk to be for parity and let unRAID do it's magic and sort out what is where? Edit: I forgot to add that I intend to add an SSD as a cache drive, however this will be the last disk to become available and be installed into the system. Will this be a problem? Do I need to configure anything when I do the initial setup in preparation for this to work correctly? Thank you in advance.
  8. Thank you all for the helpful answers, I appreciate the comprehensive responses and now need to look at when to start playing. The server hardware I have is an HP MicroServer Gen8 with (currently) Celeron 1610 processor which is coping with the same application setup running Windows Server 2012 R2 so I expect with unRAID will also cope. The reason for looking at the NTFS disks internally is to simplify the install process (not hvaing to use second machine, etc.) but also to speeed up the transfers so good to know that will be possible, I just need to do some learning For the final setup I am intending to have 32Gb USB as the boot device, 120Gb SATA SSD for apps/docker and 4x 4Tb SATA disks for file data storage. The hardware of the server prevents me from booting from the SSD as I have it connected to the Optical Drive SATA port (silly HP design for SATA controllers). As a final question, I currently only have 2Gb RAM in the server which I intend to upgrade to 16Gb but that is waiting on some additional funds becoming available. Should I wait until after that upgrade before starting with unRAID or would it be OK with 2Gb? I also intent to upgrade the CPU to a Xeon E3-1230v2 but again waiting on having the money avaialable. Will unRAID cope with me upgrading this later or will a reinstall be needed?
  9. Hi, I am not yet an unRAID user and wondered if someone could answer some questions before I start trying to see if this will work for me. I am looking to create a home media server based on an HP MicroServer which I already own, and am fairly sure unRAID will do what I need, but wanted to confirm before I start the process of setting up and migrating. 1. I intend to use either an internal microSD card or USB memory stick as the boot device. Are either of these an issue? 2. I will have to gradually add hard disks as I migrate the data from an existing Windows Server 2012 install (NTFS format drives) Can I do this within unRAID or will I have to connect the drives to a Windows machine and copy data across the network onto the unRAID machine? 3. My data is predominantly two types, TV series and Movies. I would like these to be shown as two shares or folders but the data within them will have to spread across more than one drive due to the quantity of data. Is this possible? 4. I intend to install and use Plex, SickBeark, Couchpotato and SABnzbd on this server to manage my media. Are there any limitations which may cause me issues running these? 5. I am not a linux expert, will I have to do much setup at the command line to get the above to work or is it fairly simple/web gui based? I have had a month of issues having tried this setup with freeNAS only to find that managing the storage and adding drives progressively leads to a situation of one drive fails and all data lost which I really want to avoid. As this is a home setup I will be running with minimal resilience and no backup for some of the data (I can always re-rip my DVD/BluRay discs if I have to) but would rather not lose all my data in the event of a failure. Thank you in advance for you help. David