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Experts please help me out. I appreciate your brilliance! Upgraded from 4.7 to 5.0 then 5.0 to 5.04. Unraid has been running perfect for 3 years on 4.7. I am having the exact issue right now that the OP had. Permissions error with the root folder of the share. I have a Share called Docs. I can open Docs and see all of the folders within. I can open a folder in Docs and write a file within that folder. But in the root of the Docs folder, I can cannot create a new folder. Gives me a permissions error. I've ran the permissions utility, twice.

Just had a 2TB Green die in my array. S.M.A.R.T detected it beginning to fail. Switching to Reds from now on. I'm certain the greens are meant to be used in a server environment such as an UNRAID NAS. In hind site, we are probably getting a bit greedy and lucky using Greens in our NAS boxes. Reds from now on for this guy.

I started my unraid server with WD Black drives 1TB. Then forum members recommended the WD Green drives for cost effectiveness, they felt the Blacks were not necessary by unraid. Overkill...Fair enough. Disk 5 of the 2TB Greens in my array has failed after 2 years, luckily still under warranty. I replaced a 2tb green Parity with a new 3TB red. After parity was finished, unraid reported everything healthy. So I went to add another drive into Unraid. When I rebooted the server the BIOS reported Disk 5 S.M.A.R.T failure and refused to boot up. I ignored the error and let unraid boot. Unraid reported no problem with Disk 5. I powered down, and swapped cables etc. but Disk 5 kept getting same error. So I took disk 5 out and mounted it in windows and used Western Digital diagnostics and it reported a S.M.A.R.T error. I tried wiping the drive and it found bad sectors and failed to write zeros. RMA'd it. Doing some researched I find many are reporting the Green drives failing after a few years. I don't think the green drives are built tough enough for a server (heat, 24/7 operation, lots of writing). I will be switching to Reds now. Parity is rebuilding the drive. Time for unraid to do it's duty!

WebGui should show progress during a Clear, what browser and version are you using? I am using the latest chrome browser.

Update: I left the box running overnight. It finished clearing and I was able to format it. So I guess the webgui freezes until the clearing of the disk is completed. I can live with that. Starting the second disk now...

version: 5.0-rc6-r8168-test2 Supermicro X7SPA-H-D525 Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 firmware version .21 I'm having problems adding disks attached to the SAS controller card. I have 6 disks currently attached to the motherboard, everything is working fine on RC5. Tonight I added the AOC-SASLP-MV8 and 1 WD 3.0TB drive plugged into port 0 on the breakout cable. I boot into unraid just fine with RC5 and RC6. I stop the array, select disk 6 drop down and find the disk. It shows up with a blue dot and shows temperature etc. I then "Yes I want to do this" and hit the start button. It says "Spinning up all drives...clearing disk 6... Now the webgui is locked up and I cannot refresh it. It doesn't show me any progress of the clearing of the disk. The webgui seems locked up. How long should I wait for the webgui to show up again?

Tom needs to make the interface a bit more intuitive. Too many guys are missing this setting hidden away in the settings page.

Thank you for the suggestions, but it's a pain in the ass for me to remove my cages from unraid. I'd rather not have to fuss with my server anymore. I have a sata port and power supply that I can plug into my windows laptop. I'd like to do it from there.

I'm trying to avoid messing up anything. That is why I'd like to use a utility in windows 7.

Is there a windows 7 utility that I can use to return the 2TB green drives to factory defaults? I'd like to put them in a new unraid build and want unraid to see them as off the shelf drives. They currently have an unaligned 4K partition from unraid on them.

Okay guys. I just replaced the 2TB WD Green Parity that was previously not MBR 4K aligned with a new disk. The new parity disk is 4K-aligned showing no errors. Can I take the old (unaligned) 2TB parity disk and replace the other 2TB Drive disk (disk 2, not 4K-aligned) with it? Will unraid reformat the unaligned drive to be 4K aligned?

I performed another parity check just for kicks, and this time it found 0 errors... I am going to play it safe and pull out the suspicious drive and run it through some thorough hard drive testing tools.

I don't really have the time. Although I read a bit about the script and it does seem valuable. I'm surprised Tom doesn't include it in the software.

Smartmon didn't seem to detect any faults with the drive. I have two new WD 2TB drives on the shelf. Should I just set unraid to Default Partition Format set to: MBR-4K aligned, swapping the exisiting unaligned drives with the brand new ones?

Please inform me how to do that. What are the commands?