kenny1921

hi all, i have a disk that has died, (disk 1) so i have purchased a couple of new drives. i got 3x 8tb drives which are larger than my parity drive of 5tb. the aim is to replace the parity drive with an 8tb drive. then use the old 5tb parity drive as disk 1. what would be the procedure to do this? i am currently running a parity sync and added an 8tb drive as the second parity. i assume i need to finish the rebuild on the 8tb parity, then remove the old 5tb parity. also is there anyway to move the 2nd parity disk into the primary parity slot or would i need to rebuild a new primary parity drive? many thanks

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F191999081163 this is the card I have flash the card to IT mode which is really easy to do and it will support 8 drives per card. I currently have 2 of these cards and am planning on getting a third

Very interesting tool thank you for suggesting it. i let the build complete, replaced disk 2 with an un-assigned disk and went to rebuild. Was getting 45 - 50mbps build speed again. i powered down the server and physically removed the 1tb drive from the server. Powered on and started the rebuild on the new disk (drive 2) and am now getting the usual 100+mbps speeds. will end up replacing all the smaller drives in the array when I next get paid

thank you for the reply, i will try out the docker you suggested.

i have recently epxerienced a few issues with a cable from the raid controller. one of my 5tb drives got knocked off the array, i tried swapping cable 3 and 4 (both connected to the same 8087 connector on the same HBA) I purchased a new drive to replace the drive and used a different cable from my second HBA, had to rebuild the contents on disk 4 and had a normal speed of 100 - 150mbps. i ran the old 5tb drive through a preclear and it passed so i assume the raid controller or cable was to blame yesterday evening drive 3 got knocked off the array (drive 1 - 4) used the same connector on the same raid controller i turned off the server this morning and swapped the cables so that no drives are using that cable, turned the server back on and get loads of read errors and a wierd tick then motor noise repeating from disk 2 (an old 1tb). i turned the server back off and checked my cables are connected firmly, now turned it back on. - Drive 2 still says reallocated sectors (but is still online) - Rebuild of disk 3 is running at 50mbps Disk 3 is a 4tb SAS drive using an adapter to change SAS to SATA is there anything that can be causing the slow rebuild speed besides the sector count of disk 2 please find my attached diag file i intend to replace disk 3 once this rebuild has completed and am also going to purchase 2 new cables plus maybe a new controller when i get paid lissy-diagnostics-20191107-2351.zip

okay, thank you for the reply. i shal ltry that when people have finished watching stuff.. Many thanks

hi, sorry if this has already been posted. i did have a search and could not find anything related to my problem. i have got my server running with 1x 500gb cache drive and all the shares that i want to use the cache drive are set to "yes". i set the schedule to run the mover script every day at 03:00 but for some reason it will not move any files off the cache drive and onto the array. now if i click the move now button the the main page it will move all the files from the cache drive. Is there anyway to make the schedule work correctly so i dont have to manually click the button? i have attached a copy of my diagnostics incase it is needed. also the time is set correctly within unraid tower-diagnostics-20190110-1703.zip

64gb DDR3 10600R

isnt that to do with virtual machines? im not currently running any.

hi all, upgraded my server about in January to a server board, 2 cpu's and 64gb ecc memory and since the upgrade i have had to restart my server every month. it keeps running without a restart but the performance seems to be effected e.g. copying files ot the server i get slow speeds and trying to watch media via kodi keeps buffering all the time. as soon as i have restarted the server and the array comes back online everything is back to normal and performance is as it should be. is this normal? i never had to restart the old server but then that was just a dual core cpu and 16Gb memory