lovaan

Yeah - uptime is somewhere in the 30 day range. Having selected a yearly parity check Sunday isn't even an option to select. I'm still on 6.6.1, so I'll just wait for that next release before I decide to update. In the mean time I suppose I'll just keep an eye out for spontaneous parity checks.

So at midnight last night my server started a parity-check, and as far as I know it shouldn't have. I currently have it in the scheduler to run yearly on the 15th of January. Is there any other reason it would start on it's own without manually starting it, or is it more likely I have a glitch in a config file somewhere?

I don't really have time to answer questions, but I did look at your build and from a cost perspective I believe in general 8TB drives are more cost effective than 4TB drives, and maybe it's just me, but water cooling in a machine that appears to be mission critical scares me. While most are quite reliable it only takes a drop of water from a faulty hose to take down your motherboard and potentially damage other components. You'd be without that system until replacement parts can be brought in an re-assembled. Finally, don't forget a UPS for power outages. Corrupt data in nobody's friend.

So I've been running my VMs off of an unassigned M.2 drive and it routinely wanders above the preassigned temperature warning settings built into unraid. Changing the these settings for an assigned drive is easy enough, but is there a way to change them for an unassigned drive? I'm running the unassigned devices plugin if that matters at all.

Is your server maybe in the DMZ on your network? I put mine on the DMZ last week because I wanted to test something that wasn't covered by my firewall/NAT. In the 3-4 hours it was there I received multiple login attempts from no less than 6 different IP addresses. This is a prime example of why having a secure password is essential.

Once you get your VM setup running you'll be able to access the unraid web gui from inside the VM. Also - if your CPU/MB has integrated graphics you can use that to get everything going inside your VM. When you set up your VM just have 2 video devices one for VNC and one for your graphics card. Once you have all your drivers installed and ready to go, swap your monitor over to you graphics card and you should be good to go. I'm not sure how VMs handle hot swapping a monitor into the setup so you might have to restart it from a tablet/phone.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. tower-diagnostics-20170906-1933.zip