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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.

ok thanks !

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

Selling a brand new, in box/unopened AMD Ryzen 5900X 12 Core / 24 thread processor. It's excess to needs as I have gone with a 5950X instead and only purchased this stupidly in a mad fit to secure a chip. £490 including next day delivery with DPD. If delivered bank transfer preferred or cash on collection (London, willing to meet half way within reason) UK only

Thank you both - following your replies I decided to get more organised and wrote up a series of elimination tests to isolate what the problem was. In the end I confirmed it was indeed the PSU. I ruled out GPU's ,cabling, CMOS battery, UPS v mains, etc. I borrowed an old Antec PSU from a friend and it ran the system fine without issue. If you can believe it I had 8 days left on my 5 year warranty from Super Flower. I have RMA'd it and am awaiting a replacement.

Hi all, would appreciate your input on the following problem. I have been having hardware stability issues for a while and am struggling to pin down the cause. The issues usually materialise as: 1) Random reboots 2) Random reboots, that then get stuck in a constant cycle of trying to power on but failing to do so besides a brief flicker of fans/lights. I need to either (a) trip my UPS to battery mode (turning off then on wall switch) or (b) kill the switch on the PSU for a minute or so then turn back on to stop this. 3) Reboot triggered by loading a game in Windows bare metal (i.e. Star Wars Squadrons) 4) In some Windows 10 VM's I have noticed screen artefacts On the last point this could be a software issue as it only happens in Windows 10 VM's, not bare metal or MacOS / PopOS VMs. On point 3 I have removed my GTX 970, but still experienced random reboots running on just a GT 710. I have also left Memtest running in the past without issue. I thought I'd also test how my server behaves when I turn the wall socket off for my UPS. Even though doing so leads to my UPS going into battery mode, it still triggers a reboot of the server. This surprised me as my UPS is a 1500VA line interactive / pure sine wave, with nothing else connected to it besides the server. I'm thinking the issue may be either the UPS or my PSU. I'm wondering whether I have a config issue on the UPS or if I'm overloading my PSU / have a faulty PSU. I have put my specs below, including a rough calculation for power usage UPS: APC Spart-UPS 1500VA (SMT1500IC) PSU: Superflower Leadex 80 Plus Platinum 750w Motherboard: Asus X99-Deluxe (?w) CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2678v3 (12C/24T @ 2.5GHz, 120w TDP) RAM: 8x 8Gb Hynix DDR-2133 ECC (5w per stick?) GPU 1: Asus GTX 970 STRIX OC 4Gb (148w TDP) GPU 2: Asus GT 710 2Gb (19w TDP) NVMe: 2x Samsung Evo 970 1Tb (one via PCIE add in board. 5w under load each?) SATA: 6x Seagate Archive 8Tb (ST8000AS0002, 7.5w at load each), 1x Samsung 850 1Tb (5w?) Fans: 4x 140mm fans (4w each?) USB devices: Logitech webcam, Jabra conference mic, sometimes an iPhone, Bluetooth dongle, sometimes recharging keyboard Estimating 400-450w load? Would have thought a 750w platinum PSU from Superflower should be able to handle this.

Hi David, Following Spaceinvader One's new Big Sur video I have just set up a new VM. Would you mind sharing the steps you took using CCC to migrate Big Sur to the NVMe? Thanks

Superfast -all done! Thanks !

thanks, will give the recovery method a try. Should I select the “Catalina” disk or “Catalina - Data”?

Hi all, I have setup a Catalina VM, using a vdisk with GPU and USB passthrough. I now want to migrate the vdisk boot drive to use a 1Tb NVMe. I have successfully passed through the controller and can see the drive available within MacOS. Where I am lost is what I need to do next; what needs to be setup, cloned, reconfigured, etc. I may be being blind but having had a search here and on Google I haven't come across any guidance for migrating an existing MacOS vdisk Any guidance would be appreciated!

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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

Ok I have ordered a multimeter, will check voltage at wall and from output of UPS and report back.

Further update, relates to your second suggestion: I tried to boot the server up again with power connected via the UPS this evening and it successfully booted. I checked the screen on the APC at this time and it was showing input and output voltage at 249. Everything was operating as expected for about 7hrs, when I noticed I could no longer remote into the server. I went to take a look and found that the monitor was off and keyboard/mouse didn't wake the system, but server was on with no activity lights flashing. The screen on the APC now read input 249v, output 221v. I turned off the mains power socket leading to the APC, forcing it into battery mode. As soon as I did that the server came back to life and the monitor came on, showing that the system was rebooting, post/bios screen etc not sure if the output voltage dropping is an indicator of a problem or if the problem is setup elsewhere

Hi Benson, Not a typo, here's a photo from the front of the UPS: https://imgur.com/2ivhimb If the input being 251v is causing the issue, and the UPS is acting as a pass through when not on battery, what's confusing me is that the server boots as expected when directly connected to the same mains socket that is feeding the UPS. Thanks for your suggestions, I have tried disconnecting the USB between UPS and Unraid, no change. I'll try your second suggestion later today.

Hi all, hoping someone can help. I purchased an APC Smart-UPS (SMT1500IC), to help my Unraid server shutdown safely in an outage. First time using a UPS, I followed the basic setup steps as described in the box, but I’m seeing some really strange behaviour. The server is the only device connected to the UPS. I booted the server up and entered the Bios. I was about to select the boot device manually when the server suddenly died and then kept trying to turn on and off in a loop constantly. I had to kill the switch on the PSU to stop the loop. After flicking the PSU back on I tried to turn it back on but no joy, so I unplugged the power cable coming from the PSU and reconnected a standard power cable from the mains socket. This time the server POSTed, although it showed a "Chassis Intrude! Please Check Your System Fatal Error" message. I powered down and reconnected the power cable coming from the UPS. This time the server would power up (I can hear the drives spinning up), but the activity light didn’t flash nor did the POST screen appear. I powered down and swapped to mains power, at which point it boots up as expected. I’m probably missing something obvious, but something clearly isn’t sitting right between my PSU and the UPS. Any guidance anyone could give would be appreciated ! PSU: SuperFlower Leadex Titanium 750w UPS: APC Smart-UPS SMT1500IC (showing input 251v, output 223v)

Ok makes sense. In that case a clean shutdown is all I need, as secondary to that I obviously want the unit to last a while! I'm still leaning towards the SMC1500IC, just need to understand whether the SMT1500IC provides any real world benefits that I would appreciate.

In an ideal world, I'd ride out the outage and only trigger a safe shutdown if the UPS continues to detect no power after a certain amount of time. Not sure if the following is realistic, but if a UPS can give 20 minutes power and a clean shut down takes 5 minutes, it'd be good to have a 5-10 minute delay before a shutdown signal is sent. I believe my PSU does support active PFC, I use a Superflower Leadex Platinum 80 750w http://www.super-flower.com.tw/product-data.php?productID=55&amp;lang=en

Hi all, I'm looking to get a UPS for my server - over the last year I've had a couple of 5-10minute outages and its a real pain afterwards to get things back up and running! I've read that unRAID has support for APC built in so focusing on those. Used the following calculator to estimate power needs: https://outervision.com/b/lha000 Attached recommends 1000VA UPS based on 12 core Xeon, 64Gb ram, 8x HDD, 2x SSD. I've been looking at the following three models. To be honest I'm not enough of a power/UPS expert to be able to tell them apart (especially the 2nd and 3rd). Main difference from the 1st to the latter two is sine wave support from what I understand. APC Back-UPS Pro 1500 / BR1500GI / £322 APC Smart-UPS C 1500 SmartConnect / SMC1500IC / £451 APC Smart-UPC 1500 SmartConnect / SMT1500C / £538 Leaning towards the middle one but don't really understand whether its worth paying extra for the SMT! Any advice appreciated.

Thanks both. The poweroff command worked after 40min of being left to run! I have rebooted, installed Tips and Tweaks and set the properties mentioned to 1 and 2%. Have also installed Fix Common Problems. Be keen to hear if you have any other recommendations that would stop this from happening again!

Ok, how would you recommend I reboot though, considering poweroff/powderdown doesn't seem to be working. Should I hit the powerbutton briefly as frank1940 suggested?

Managed to connect to share folders using finder and retrieve the diagnostics zip file (the connection was repeatedly failing, not sure why it let me through all of a sudden) File attached. Thanks for the tip on hitting the power button, I'll hold off on that until you / others have had a chance to look at the diagnostic file in case there is something pertinent in there. [removed]

Hello everyone. I came home to an unresponsive GUI (whether through remote laptop or screen attached to unraid server). I think it may be related to a Plex docker that has gone rogue, judging by the logs. On the unraid server the Firefox browser will not load and the mouse movement on screen is painfully slow. Now I have little to no console experience, but recognised that was going to be the only way to recover the situation! I understand that I need to share a diagnostic zip file to get some relevant support, I need some assistance in retrieving the file. Here's what I've done thus far; 1) used "docker ps" to see a list of dockers and stop plex. 2) I used the "diagnostics" command and after quite some time a file has been generated in the /boot/logs/ folder. 3) tried the "poweroff" command, although even though it gave a msg in the logs saying "The system is going down for system halt NOW!" it doesn't seem to do anything. My question is, how do I retrieve this file using the console to my laptop, as i can't just pull the USB flash drive from the server and can't seem to power it down (although doubt I'm doing that correctly!). Appreciate any help!

Will give it a go