Exil Risedo

Thanks, I like your perspective. Sometime one can't see the forest for all the trees.

I built an Unraid system back in March 2011 (Unraid 4.7) using 2 SuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 controller cards with thirteen 2 TB (3Gbps) drives (single parity drive) - even though that controller card uses a Marvel SATA controller chip, I have had no major issues. However, the system (now running Unraid 6.11.1) is aging rather fast it seems -- some of the drives are 10 years old and starting to have read errors. My research tells me that I should be able to replace the two SuperMicro cards with two LSI 6Gbps SAS HBA 9200-8I IT Mode 8 port cards, but I am wondering if there are any other gotchas that I need to be aware of? Especially since my base system components are ancient. My intent is to slowly migrate out all the old 2TB/3Gbps drives for larger capacity modern 6Gbps drives (Seagate Exos is the plan). Plus the fact that I chose ReiserFS back in 2011 and I would like to move to XFS or some file system that is supported by the Linux kernel goring forward. Anyway just wondering how bumpy the road ahead might be. Thanks for your time reading all of this... Base System Components circa 2011: Intel DP55WG Motherboard w/ 6 SATA 3Gbps ports, 8 GB RAM Intel i5-760 Quad Core 2.8GHz LGA1156 95W CPU Lexmark JD-Firefly 8GB USB Boot Flash Intel 250GB SSD Cache drive 2 x SuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 4xPCIe Controller Cards 4 x iStarUSA 5-in-3 SATA Trays PC Power & Cooling Silencer MkII 950W PSU

OK, thanks all for the advice, replace I will.

I have a replacement. I thought that "Current Pending Sector" since it was singular just meant that a single sector, number 1323, was pending.

Running UnRaid 6.3.5 for two days now since upgrading from 6.3.4 and I recently received a WebGui notification that stated: UnRaid Disk 1 SMART health [198]: 24-06-2017 1:51 Warning - offline uncorrectable 1 WDC_WD20EARS-00MVWB0_WD-WMAZA4052027 (sdd) The WebGui Dashboard is showing an Array Status of Disk 1 with an orange triangle that has a context menu that states: Reallocated sector count: 2 Current pending sector: 1323 Offline uncorrectable: 1 Click for context menu However, Disk 1 status from the main array page is still showing a green status with reads and writes, but no errors. Disk 1 is a Western Digital drive that is 6 years old, do I need to replace it?? My system hardware specs/plugins-list, some screen shots to accompany my words above, and the SMART Diagnostics file for Disk 1 are attached in the zip file. Thanks for any advice/help. ExilRisedo-Support-Files.zip

You have to MODIFY the original post. Adding [solved] to the title of a reply to the original post will not change the title. And of course, as mentioned earlier, the post has to have been started by you.

Yes. Making the Disk shares themselves Export read/write, hidden on the Shares page. Hides them. Now only the user shares are visible. Quite obvious really. Sometimes my own stupidity exceeds even my expectations.

Thanks, but disk links off the main page on unRAID 4.7 only display: Partition Format, File System Type, Spin Down Delay, and Spinup Groups. However, I did notice on the Shares page an Export Setting for ALL disk shares. So I am going to try and set that to Export Read/Write, Hidden. Maybe that will do the trick.

Recently built my first server and managed to create my user shares. But from Win7 not only are my user shares visible, but so is every individual disk in the array. I was expecting only the user shares to be visible. Is there a way to hide the shares that are the individual disk names?

Thanks Heretic for the additional info. I have not decided if I am actually going to try it though. I think I might just get the X3440 or X3450 CPU and not worry with it. I have enough to do with my file server build-out than to stretch the envelope on this.

Has anyone had any experience with using an i5-760 on the SUPERMICRO MBD-X8SIL-F-O?? SuperMicro support tells me that the X8SIL has not been tested with an i5. The board supports i3 series CPUs. I already have an i5-760 and was wondering what the thoughts are here regarding trying to use it on this board. A comparison of the two chips shows that the differences are mostly lithography, wattage, and surprising to me that the i3 has built-in graphics. See http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=46472,48496,. They are both of course socket 1156.