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I just updated my admittedly rather simple media server. The only thing out of the ordinary was having to run the command in the first post to stop the array, but stop it did. The system came up without starting a parity check and I'm back in business. Thank you team!

Just upgraded my server from 6.11.5 and it went smooth as silk. Thank you Unraid team!

After thinking about it, I don't need the additional space right now. I have a little over 7TB of space and since I've been converting the full disc ISO's to movie only MKV's on my server (it's primarily a media server) I've been reclaiming space. I just added 26 movies and didn't touch the 7TB, just used up the reclaimed space (and still have some of that left) and I still have movies and TV shows to convert. When I actually do run out of space I'll decide what size to move up to, do I want to consolidate etc., at that time. Hopefully you'll be around to offer some more of your great advise! I remember 5 1/4" drives, that's all my first computer had. I remember being so happy when 3 1/2" 1.44MB floppys became available. I think my first hard drive was a Quantum but I don't remember the size. I'm going to stick with your original advice and just replace disk 4 and hopefully be able to clear it and have an emergency spare. Thanks again Frank1940, I told you getting me thinking was dangerous lol

Nope, I have a 10TB parity. That's why I was thinking of upgrading parity and then using the parity drive to replace disk 4. My thinking is that if other ageing drives start needing to be replaced I would be able to replace them with larger drives. If I don't need the extra space right away I could shrink the array, less disks less problems. The reason for considering enterprise drives is it seems for an equal size the enterprise drives (bare drive) are a bit less expensive than NAS drives (retail?). The longer warranty is just a bonus (if it's honored on bare drive). I'm in the "keep everything spun up" camp. The only time I've lost equipment (power supplies and drives) is when the were spun down or powered off. Now you have me thinking (which is always dangerous). After a quick check, 14TB seems to be the sweet spot for price/TB but I don't think it's enough of a jump up in size to make sense. I think 20TB drives will be out some time next year and that jump in size would make sense to me. This may take a little more thought, or advise lol

Yes, those sectors were found in the last parity check. No, I don't really need the extra space right now as I still have a little over 7TB of space left. Thank you for pointing out the giant flaw in my plan (price/TB), I failed to think of that! Seagate has released their 18TB Exos drives which can be had for about $400 (bare drive) but who knows if it has the Seagate 5 year warranty. It seems to be a crap shoot with bare enterprise drives. Funny thing is 10TB IronWolf drives go for $315 or so. It looks like I'll be giving a Toshiba enterprise drive a whirl as they are around $225 for a 10TB and Newegg says they have the manufacturers 5 year warranty. I'm taking your very good advice. As soon as I do a little more research on what 10TB drive I want, I'll replace that drive and then see what it looks like after 3 preclear cycles. Thank you Frank1940!

My monthly non correcting parity check completed with no errors but I got a warning of reallocated sectors on disk 4. The dashboard shows a thumbs down but it's still mounted and seems to be running fine. Before I do something stupid, I was hoping someone smarter than me can take a look at my diagnostics and tell me if the drive needs to be replaced or just watched to see if the sectors increase. If the advice is to replace, I was thinking of swapping my parity drive for a larger one and replacing disk 4 with the current parity drive. What I question about that is the parity drive is one of the oldest in my array and I'm not sure it would be wise to do that. Any advise would be most welcome, thanks in advance! tower-diagnostics-20211002-1908.zip

Updated from 6.9.1 -> 6.9.2 smoothly with all dockers up and running with no issues (knock on wood).

Updated from 6.8.3 following the instructions for the upgrade (for once) and it was very uneventful, just how I like it. The server was up and running in a matter of minutes. Thank you for the update!

I went with 2 16GB ECC Kingston Value Ram on my Supermicro X11SSH-F motherboard. They aren't on the tested memory list but I've not had a problem with them at all, knock on wood.

Happy birthday Squid! Try thinking about it like this, girls get old guys get better. That's been working for me for quite some time 😀

If you do decide to spring for the case, I don't think you'll be disappointed with the quality. I built a watercooled system in one years ago and was very pleased with the case. Ouch is right, that shipping quote is a bit much. It is a beautiful case though......😁

The only ones that I know of that are close are the Mountain Mod cube cases. They do make a 5x2 configuration but are rather large and a bit pricey.

Updated from 6.7.2, went smooth as silk.

I use a Vero 4K+ and a Zidoo X9S. Both handle 4K very well.

My server has 5 Seagate IronWolf 10TB disks and I've no issues (knock on wood).