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Fantastic. Will upgrade to v6 just as soon as I've switched my drive out.

thanks. Think I'll keep it simple® and just swap the failing drive. Are there any tools that can regularly do a smart report and flag potential failures, or is it just something I should do regularly myself

I've ordered a new 2TB drive for now - prices are cheap enough to do that and then look at upgrading later. I attached the smart report to my previous post - is that not the correct one? I'll grab a syslog in a short while - is that just copy/paste everything from the syslog page into a text file and attach? edit: syslog attached. syslog-2016-01-22.zip

Appreciate the simple language, thanks All my drives are 2TB, so does that mean I would need to upgrade my parity drive at the same time? I just figure it would be a waste to replace with another 2TB drive, and I was looking to slowly upgrade the space anyway so I figured it was a good time to start. I got a smart report, which I've attached. Summary of first lines is ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 178 178 051 Pre-fail Always - 45139 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 170 168 021 Pre-fail Always - 6483 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 2112 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 I was noticing it stuttering during playback of a video. Managed to eventually copy that file off to a local drive on my PC but it took a couple of retries. edit: if the disk does need replacing, am I stuck replacing it with a 2TB? I don't think I should update the parity drive to a larger drive until my disk2 is sorted. Unless I can use a 4TB drive but only 2TB will be used - then update parity to 4TB, then redo disk 2 to a full 4TB? smart.txt

Hi, Getting a lot of read errors on my disk 2. First time since I built this server which was a few years ago now. So I figure I might as well replace the drive and take the opportunity to upgrade the space from 2-4TB. Then consider looking to upgrade the other drives over the next 12-18 months. But I have no more physical space to attach new drives, so does that mean I can't preclear them - my only real choice is remove the faulty drive, put the new one in and just have unraid sort it out (with the array offline)? Any way around that? I have a crappy old laptop that I don't use anymore in case I could use that to boot a version of unraid just for preclearing, perhaps with a USB-Sata enclosure/dock? Any suggestions gratefully received.

Hi, Apologies if this has already been covered, but can an N36L use 4TB drives without needing a custom BIOS etc? I'm currently running 5x2TB drives with unraid 4.7, and would like to upgrade the storage. But before I start down that road I'd like to check it will work.

for preclearing disks to have sitting ready - can you just stop an array and pull a drive out to give you a spare slot to do the preclearing? All of my available slots are full with active drives currently.

ok, will look into that thanks - there shouldn't have been any power outages - we've had some short periods where the power was off but I have a UPS that covered that. If it had powered up with the drive not being connected, how do I proceed once checking connections etc - trust it/check parity/something else?

nobody?

I started up unraid (after a clean shutdown) and the array wouldn't start. It said I'd installed a new parity drive but I hadn't. I've attached the syslog from the startup this morning, along with the smart report for sda which is the one reporting the issue - this seems ok but I'm not really sure what I'm looking for other than the main items mentioned in the wiki. All drives are 2TB western digital greens - 5x2TB in a HP microserver (four in front bay, 1 in top optical bay with adapter) Any suggestions? syslog.txt smart.txt

Is it safe for sickbeard (and perhaps apps in general) to let them update themselves? It works, so I haven't looked at changing previously, but I need an API key to access it from my smartphone, which means getting a more recent version.

Very good points. I have a 700VA ups, and everything connected should be less than 100W even fully loaded (half that at idle), so if I set the server to power down at 50% battery, then the mac at 60% so it goes first? The switch and router can just sit there until the ups switches off. Do you like to use time elapsed, battery remaining, or time remaining - Or a combination of all three?so eg time elapsed 300 seconds, or battery left 50% or time remaining 5 minutes

Ok, thanks. As an aside, any Things to consider regarding shut down timing for unraid? Eg if my mac and server are idle, current draw will be fairly low. If I set shutdown to 10%, is it possible the spike in power with the drives spinning up etc would mess with the APC's estimate of remaining time?

ok, that seems to have been the issue - I was simply installing in the wrong location. Thanks for your patience. Installing in /mnt/cache works and shows up in explorer. lucky I was transferring a TV show across otherwise I'd probably not have spotted it.

quick update, I transfered a TV show across to the TV share, and browsing the cache drive on windows explorer I can see the TV folder was created and I can browse it. But still no _sabnzbd folder showing up. Strange. Telnetting in, I seem to have the cache directory in two places. In mnt/cache, the TV folder is appearing. in mnt/disk/cache the TV folder does not appear, but the _sabnzbd folder does appear. So i think maybe I'm installing sab in the wrong place. Will check now

which version of unraid are you using? I'm on 4.7 and on tower/unraid_main if I click on the cache drive link I only get info on the partition type and spinup/down settings. under the 'shares' tab, the cache section only lets me change move timings and size etc, no specific setting for sharing. Disk shares are currently read/write and not hidden I installed sabnzbd on mnt/disk/cache/_sabnzbd and it does create the directory - I can use the built in file browser to browse to /mnt/disk/cache and _sabnzbd is there, and I can go into it and all the files are in there. I can also go to the cache drive by typing \\tower\cache in windows explorer. But in that case I don't see anything. If I try typing \\tower\cache\_sabnzbd I get an error it if helps or makes any difference, the disk the cache drive is on is sde, and the cache drive is sde1. My array drives are sda, sdb, sdc, sdd, sdf

appreciated, thanks.

So the mac just hears the battery warning (broadcast from apcupsd on my unraid server) and then looks after its own business based on the rules I give it? Ok, thanks.

MyKroFt, I think you are right. It sounds much simpler. I'm just confused what is stopping me seeing the folders on my cache disk. if its useful, the cache drive shows up in file browser on unraid as /mnt/disk/cache, whereas my other shares are /mnt/user/movies etc. all show up in windows explorer or osx finder, but the cache folder is the only one that shows up as empty (other than .DS store)

I'm on 4.7 and not planning to move just yet. Does the unraid wiki have info on how to mount drives as writable and shared?

That's what I want. But eg, if I have the unraid to shut down at 10% battery left, do I set the mac to shut down at 15%, or will the unraid tell the mac for me? Just wondering if you set them separately or the master deals with it

sure. I can see the cache drive in explorer, but all I see is a .DS store (when I have 'show hidden files' checked). I can't see the _sabnzbd folder at all. But I can see it when using file browser on the unraid webserver, or when telnetting in and browsing that way.

thanks, found that just after posting, looking at it now. Will apcupsd send out a notification immediately on a power outage, or only after the delays/thresholds defined in the settings? As the Mac will be a slave I'm wondering whether I need to set its thresholds lower than the unraid server so it shuts down first, or whether the unraid master handles that?

Can't remember why I did it at the beginning. I tried what you said, changing the install to /cache/.sabnzbd, but then I can't see those folders on OSX due to them being hidden. So I installed the '_' mover plugin, and installed to /cache/_sabnzbd. But for some reason I still can't see the _sabnzbd folder on either my mac mini or windows laptop. Cache disk is shared and I can browse it, but nothing shows up. I tried tweaking the permissions but still nothing.

Hi, Just installed my APC UPS on my unraid server, and the associated apcupsd as master. But there isn't a compatible version of powerchute for Snow Leopard on Mac. OSX has its own built in UPS support but it seems to only work if it is connected directly to the USB cable from the UPS. So I can't find a way to get the mac to listen as a slave. I expect there are a bunch of people on here with UPSes protecting their servers, and some of you must also have macs. So how have you gotten around this problem?