Sap1ent

I'm in the process of tryting to RMA my parity drive, and the company who supplied have asked for: Photo of the SMART test result (You may run a Seatools test on the drive or use the free trial of HD Sentinel to check its health.) Is it possible to run either of these things in Unraid? When i try and run either the of the self tests within unraid, i get an unknown error (Diagnostics attached). I am unaware it's not a recommended controller, i do intend to change as part of a hardware upgrade shortly. sap1ent_diagnostics-20260311-2321.zip Sap1ent-smart-20260311-2319.zip

Damn, that's frustrating, but thanks both. Going to be fun shipping this back to the states from the UK!

Hi there, Could anyone help with the following error from my parity drive? It's a factory refurbished drive that's barely been used. 20TB. I've included the diagnostics zip. Also, whenever I try and run the SMART test it fails. Thanks in advance! (If you could refrain from telling me I need to buy a new one, it would be appreciated .😉 ) sap1ent-diagnostics-20260304-0952.zip

I am going to hold my hands up here, I am so far out of the game in terms of hardware builds, i'm not convinced i could spec a working machine up from scratch anymore. The learning curve feels enormous, especially for an unraid server build and the quirks that come along with it. There are some enormously helpful people in this community, so if possible, i'd like to drop a few thoughts in here, and work them into a full new build with their help. My existing position is that I've got a server running unraid, that I think is coming up to 10 years old now, running very old hardware. but obviously, in that time unraid has been a delight. My use case is relatively straightforward - at the moment the server is mostly a media server that runs Plex and a few other related dockers (i.e. sabnzb & deluge). It's mostly used in the house, but I have a couple of external users on Plex. I am interested in a few other dockers, when I upgrade, immich, homeassistant and possibly some home secuirity stuff, but nothing that requires too much heavy lifting, but i would like to build it and forget to a degree, i don't want to keep upgrading. I've got around 9 drives at present, ranging from 20tb, to 4tb. (excluding cache) I would like the build to be rackmount as i have a cab in my garage, but it's not a deep one. I do have a case which i'd like to use, it's not identical to this, but more or less the same: https://www.theserver.group/products/logic-case-lc-4480-8b-wh-4u-rackmount-storage-chassis-8x-3-5-sata-hot-swap-480mm-short-depth My initial thoughts are i'd need an additional rackmount disk case (I don't know the correct term for these devices!) to allow for my current setup but also compensate for expansion in the future. Budget wise, realistically it would be around £1k - but obviously this doesn't include a case or HDDs. If it's really necessary, i could go about 50% more i.e. £1500, but I don't want to spend excessively unnecesarily.

Understood, thank you so much for your help @JorgeB - hugely appreciated.

Thanks @JorgeB - this seems to be working now. I've got to wait a day and a bit to know for sure, but it's started! FYI, i think this process is where disk 7 fell over last time, so that might have been why it was in such a strange state. I assume, immediately after this rebuild (and confirmation that everything is working), i should then replace disk 7? (I have another drive sat ready and waiting to go).

that seems to have gotten me a step further! sap1ent-diagnostics-20260226-1140.zip

Thanks again @JorgeB Just about to do so, but just wanted to double check Preserve current assignments and 'retain current configuration' mean the same thing? Appreciate they are very close and wording may have changed in a later build, but i'm extremely risk averse at this stage!

Yes that's correct @JorgeB - one point of note though, disk 3 was unassigned from the array before disk 7 failed (it was being emulated, ready to add the new 14TB drive). Thank you for all your help.

My plan was also to update everything following the hardware upgrade

The extended smart test came back fine on disk 7!

thanks very much for the responses @trurl Re: the raid controller - i'm a bit of a hardware noob, this server has been kicking around a while, so I used what I had to hand back in the day and have gradually increased the storage, funnily enough, once I'd upgraded the storage (now i'm the age where I have a litle cash kicking around) I was going to upgrade all of the hardware, i was just trying to do it in a logical way, which has backfired a little done! done & done running the extended test now

Attached smart report for broken drive sap1ent-smart-20260225-1905.zip

Hello, Seeking some help, trying not to panic. I recently decided to upgrade a lot of my disks, I had 8 (smallish) data disks and a parity. I upgraded the parity to a 20TB drive and rebuilt, all went well. I then proceeded to try and swap a data disk, and since unassigning the disk (3), i've lost another disk (7), I think the disk itself has mechnically stopped working. Which leaves me in this situation, 2 failed disks, but the array is up & running (image), files accessible etc, however, if I stop it, I can't seem to replace the broken disks. I've also attached the diagnostics file. Thanks (hugely) in advance, for any guidance whatsoever. n.b. i still have the 2tb disk i unassigned but have the 14tb disk plugged into the system. sap1ent-diagnostics-20260225-1854.zip

Thank you and thank you very much for the reply. I do have Sonarr, i'm just being a bit lazy about making the move! Thanks again for all your efforts