Oakley707

Well, you are TOTALLY right. I may kiss someone, I had an additional 8 TB drive and in reality don't think I had used it much at all. Started the new array, no errors, mount issues, or asking about formatting... I've already opened up some personal photos and SHOCKINGLY, they all seem to be there. Apparently I was lucky this time around. Thanks again so much! Maybe 2020 wasn't such a bust. Happy New Year!

Alright jonathanm, I'm looking to you for coaching. Drives came back and unfortunately, they were right only 2 drives came back useful... The parity and Disk 2. It appears unRAID will NOT let me start the array with 'too many missing disks', what is the recommended strategy from here? Any use in trying to access the drives somehow to recover files / things? Or just blow it all up? Again, I'm hopeful that I have good info on the cache drive, but don't know that either yet because I haven't started the array. Much appreciated in advance!

All swapped. I also removed the LSI SAS card and moved all drives to on board SATA, just because at this point.

I agree and it was replaced as part of the troubleshooting. Good point though.

So, the error happened overnight with no warning signs. Everything worked, woke up to the unraid box off. Still doesn't make much sense, but the gpu doesn't work now either? So, I'm thinking some sort of power blip from the PSU? The SSD and the nvme drive were unharmed. I can turn it on and grab the diagnostic zip in a bit, not currently home. I do have a full copy of the screenshot, I truncated for some reason as I thought giving the serials would impact something, 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️. The HD recovery company has agreed to replace the PCB in all drives, so 🤞🤞🤞that one is the parity and why they think it is "empty"... They didn't respond to my comment around bit perfect at all. Thanks again.

I really appreciate the prompt response! I sent the HD recovery place an e-mail this morning and their response was below... Any chance you can point me to the diagnostic file location? I can turn on unRAID, but I fear that the info would be on the array, which is toast? I've asked the recovery company to replace the PCB boards on the other units, just in case they are thinking they are broken but instead it is the parity drive, fingers crossed. Thanks again!

I apologize if this has been discussed before, I did try a search, but couldn't find an exactly similar situation. I had four (4) 8 TB WD drives that all experienced what I believe to be a power spike / failure. No disks would spin up when power was applied. I've since sent them to a repair shop to be looked at and only two (2) of the drives are able to be recovered. My setup included three (3) drives for data with one (1) in parity. With two (2) drives failing, I believe I have a total loss of data at this point. I'm trying to come to grips with this, as it truly is what it is, 2020 has struck... This configuration also included a SSD cache drive which still shows as available / good in unRAID and in BIOS. I have purchased one (1) new 2TB drive for now, simply to get things back operational (I was utilizing, HomeAssistant, MQTT, Plex, Unifi, etc dockers and would prefer them to be working sooner than later). Also, I'm hopeful, but honestly cannot remember if I had it setup to backup my appdata folder to the cache drive or the array or both. The more I think about it, I think it was only the array, which sucks for obvious reasons... I haven't re-started the array to check, because it is showing all of the drive failures and I didn't want to go down the wrong path. Is there any reason to wait until the two (2) drives are recovered to do anything with the current unRAID array setup? I've come to grips with the loss of data and have a better plan moving forward, but would really love some coaching as to the 'easiest' way to get things back to 'normal'. Ideally, I'm able to start a new array and 'apply' my appdata from the existing cache drive to the new 2TB drive? Thank you all in advance!

For my ignorance, I'm contemplating upgrading to a Ryzen 5 3600 setup. Do I NEED a graphics card to run unRAID? I'm coming from an old crusty i3-6100 with integrated graphics. I do not use any VMs yet, so I'm not worried about having to pass it thru. I just want to make sure that the mobo will POST without a graphics card and that unRAID will work. Thank you in advance.

Bump?

I'm sorry, I'm new to this whole scene. Just added a used 2TB drive to my array for more storage and this is the first drive I've used pre-clear on. Would any of you mind taking a look at the logs to confirm I'm good to go? Everything came back as passed, but wanted to be sure. If you need anything else, let me know. Thank you in advance. preclear_report_W340A8TT_2017.09.07_08.50.19.txt ST2000DM001-1CH164_W340A8TT-20170907-1449.txt