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updated diagnostics after smart tests alcserver-diagnostics-20230111-0742.zip

thanks, diagnostics attached alcserver-diagnostics-20230109-2126.zip

so i think i've got a dead/dying HDD, wanted to get some smarter people to take a look and give their thoughts i have 3x 3TB WD greens, they're old but haven't seen a great deal of use over the years. when pre clearing them for unraid, one of the drives has been incredibly slow compared to the other two, and i've attached the relevant logs for each drive and the syslog d1 d2 d3 syslog

hi all, new to unRaid but have worked with ESXi and KVM before, i'm in the process of moving my main rig over to unRaid primarily for testing before deploying to my server. Main Rig Specs: i7-4770 24GB DDR3 AsRock extreme6 z77 (with dual gigabit LAN) GeForce 770GTX 2x Samsung 850 PRO SSD 3x WD Green 2TB 1x 16GB Verbatum USB Stick Rig is currently used to run Plex/Deluge/Minecraft server for the home network, as well as my main gaming/development rig. I'm hoping to move the "background" programs to Docker, giving it 2/8 threads and 8GB RAM, and then running a Win10 Pro VM as my main workstation Couple of quick questions tho... 1. I currently use one of the SSD drives as my Windows drive, with programs etc installed, and the second SSD as my dev drive (which is backed up nightly to my server). If i set both of these drives to the unRaid cache, which as I understand it uses RAID1, I will only have 250GB of usable space? Is there a way to create the Win10 VM, store on cache, and then pass the other SSD directly to the VM? Are there any performance issues doing this? 2. the WD Greens are used primarily for local storage of files/media, as well as a local weekly snapshot of my dev drive. does unraid support snapshots, or is there a plugin/docker that I can use to automate this process? if so, am i then able to use this for my nightly backup to a different machine as well (via SMB)? 3. are there any noticeable performance issues running Win10 as a VM, in particular in regards to video card pass-through? I've tried this before with ESXi and it was a complete pain in the rear, the reason I am trying out unRaid is thanks to the linus tech tips videos (and hey, if he can do it, it cant be that hard right? ) 4. is it possible within unRaid to pass through network controllers as well? so my Win10 VM has a dedicated gigabit LAN, and unraid/docker uses the other one? 5. with regards to my server, which down the road would be setup in a similar way but with alot more storage, how well does unRaid scale for larger storage deployments? If I was looking at say 10+ drives for the storage array. is there a suggested cache drive size to use, or any preference between SSD and mechanical drives?