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I'm preparing for a parity swap, so I've begun by running preclear on a new Western Digital Red Pro 16Tb drive. It is currently 70% the way through the first pre-read phase (15 hours to this point overnight). I noticed the drive seems to be making a ticking noise once a second, almost like a wall clock ticking. I've read that WD drives can tick every 5 seconds but wasn't sure if this was the same thing. I ran a SMART test prior to starting the preclear and nothing came up during that step. Not sure if I'm over reacting.. ! Thanks

So I've been operating 6 x Seagate Archive 8Tb drives for the last 6 or so years. For the most part they're still ticking along although the first has just failed (awful whirring sound), so I'm looking to replace the drive. I'm thinking now is a sensible time to start slowly transitioning the setup to larger volume drives, so will be starting with a parity swap out. While I was initially focused on the Seagate Ironwolf Pro and Western Digital Red Pro lineups, I noticed the Seagate EXOS X16 16Tb is on Amazon for a rather surreal £262; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-ST16000NM001G-EXOS-X16-Internal/dp/B07SPFPKF4/ Considering most the Ironwolf Pro and Red Pro 16Tb drives are £400-500 this seems like quite a bargain. My Unraid box (in a Fractal Design R5 case) is on the floor next to my desk. I have lived with the whir of the 6x Seagate Archive 8Tb drives without complaint, but am worried that these enterprise/data centre drives may be a lot louder. I can see a lot of comments only saying their very loud, on the other hand I came across this article (see bottom of page) which seems to suggest in a comparison that they're not too bad; https://www.nikktech.com/main/articles/pc-hardware/storage/hard-disk-drives/10110-seagate-exos-x16-16tb-sata-iii-hdd-review?start=7 Does anyone have any experience of these drives in close proximity regular use? Only other thing putting me off the Amazon link is that it mentions its an OEM drive / US sourced and the reviews seem to indicate Seagate won't honour the warranty. I suppose its a trade off on that much storage per £ vs much higher with a warranty.

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Hi all, After 5 years of running my unraid box I'm pretty sure I'm encountering my first drive failure (I can hear the drive struggling lol). Before I power things down, etc, I thought I'd pull the diagnostics and share here for any insights - have to admit I'm not very good at deciphering these ! Essentially I woke this morning to hear a new sound (a louder whirring sound, like a fan failing), and saw unraid had a "Disk 4 in error state" message. The drive has been disabled and I can't access any of the SMART reports, but I'm guessing if I can hear it its a lost cause. I have some questions regarding replacing the drive and rebuilding the array (apologies they are likely to be super basic/obvious, just never been through this process before). Right now I have 6x Seagate 8Tb drives, 1 parity, 5 storage. Firstly, I presume I can remove the failed drive for now, then when I receive a replacement drive the array will rebuild? Secondly, as 5 years has elapsed since building this setup, I want to get a larger drive (Ironwolf Pro 12Tb), so presume I'll need to follow this process (https://wiki.unraid.net/The_parity_swap_procedure) and make the 12tb drive the new parity? I'm a bit confused on whether the failed drive also needs to be present but disabled in this scenario, or unplugged and removed is ok Appreciate any advice and thanks in advance ultron-diagnostics-20211016-1211.zip

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Thanks for this great docker and guide. First time setting up a VM so please excuse the basic questions; i have setup a High Sierra VM as I have a Nvidia GTX970, but can I pass this through if I only have the one GPU? I have followed the guidance from one of your other videos on adding the associates sound card and changing the XML to mention multifunction. When I start the VM from the servers GUI I get a black screen. Appreciate I have taken the GPU away from Unraid but was expecting MacOS to appear. Any tips or guidance appreciated

Thanks Jimmy, that did the trick.

Hi all, I'm not having a lot of luck getting the WebGUI to load (getting ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT), sure I'm doing something very obvious incorrectly. I installed the docker and set config to: /mnt/cache/appdata/ And data to: /mnt/user/downloads/ I set my PIA username and password and set VPN_PROV to pia, besides that left everything else as default. I'm unsure what LAN_NETWORK should be pointing to, should it be my default gateway? I have uninstalled/reinstalled the docker, cleared my appdata directory completely, in case something was clogging it up, not sure if I have mis configured or something is blocking it. I haven't made any changes to my router. What's the best way for me to debug? Have to admit I'm still grappling with the basics here with unRAID and Linux!