Strega

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  1. 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!
  2. Just upgraded my server from 6.11.5 and it went smooth as silk. Thank you Unraid team!
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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!
  6. 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
  7. Updated from 6.9.1 -> 6.9.2 smoothly with all dockers up and running with no issues (knock on wood).
  8. 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!
  9. 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.
  10. Strega

    Squid is 50!

    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 😀
  11. 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......😁
  12. 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.
  13. Updated from 6.7.2, went smooth as silk.
  14. I use a Vero 4K+ and a Zidoo X9S. Both handle 4K very well.
  15. My server has 5 Seagate IronWolf 10TB disks and I've no issues (knock on wood).
  16. I can tell you a 10TB IronWolf array (1 parity and 4 data) takes 15 hours and 38 minutes.
  17. An uneventful upgrade, just the way I like it.
  18. This is what I did- I renamed the EFI- folder to EFI and set my BIOS back to the way it was with 6.4.1. Actually the only change I made was changing Boot Option Filter back to UEFI and Legacy. I left my boot order alone and didn't update the BIOS. My graphics is set to AUTO. Mine did the same as Hoopster, got stuck at /bizroot....OK. i went back into BIOS and changed the boot order to #1 UEFI: Sandisk and set all the others to Disable. It booted up normally. I have rebooted it a couple of times and it boots up. Gamephreak did discover the fix. Rename the EFI- folder to EFI and set the boot order to #1 UEFI (Flash Drive) and disable all other boot options.
  19. And mine is still on the shipping BIOS. I'm running an E3 1245 V5 with 32GB of Kingston EEC memory. The only other hardware in my system is a Mellanox 10GB card.
  20. The first thing I did was to see if it boots in GUI mode which it does. I then modified the syslinx.cfg file with notepad++ and went into bios to make sure it's booting in legacy. Unfortunately no success for me either, it hangs in the exact same spot. Rebooted in GUI mode and it's up and running. For the record my motherboard is an ASRock C236 WSI.
  21. I'll try booting in GUI mode with the proper user name when I get home from work. If that doesn't work I'll try running checkdisk on the flash drive and if that doesn't work I'll revert back. Thank you itimpi and trurl!
  22. I upgraded to 6.5.0 from 6.4.1 through Tools>Update OS. Everything seemed to go fine except when I rebooted. After hooking up a monitor and keyboard I found out it was getting hung right after bizroot...OK. Right after the "OK" the screen would flash and the "Starting OS in 1 second" would be displayed and the system would be locked up. I tried booting in safe mode and it did the same thing. Next I tried booting to GUI and it went all the way to the screen that asks for user name and password. I never set a user name or password so I tried "user" and left the password field blank but it didn't like that and just asked for the user name again. I did move the flash drive to another USB port (a 2.0 port) but it didn't help. This is the first issue I have had with Unraid since I started using it a year and a half ago. Before I really mess something up I thought I better ask for a little help!