BillR

Thanks for the suggestion. I have already tried that - I shut down the server, removed the power cable and let everything completely discharge before powering back up, but it didn't help. Then I shut down again, removed and re-seated the nvme drives, but again, no dice. Due to the fact that the web GUI and the pop-up warning disagree with each other, I still don't know which physical drive is bad, so I am going to have to remove one at a time to find out. These nvme disks are only about 3 or 4 weeks old, but it does seem that one had died - I just don't know which one, due to the conflicting error messages in UNRAID. Cheers, Bill.

Hey There, My Unraid server was showing pop-up messages about a missing cache disk (I have 2 x nvme), but the UI showed both disks intact. So I rebooted my server. Now, the server shows a disk missing, but the pop-up warning shows that it's the other disk that's missing. Which one is correct and why do they disagree? The pop-up message tells me that the disk with the name/serial number TEAM_TM8FP6001T_112203280020020 (nvme0n1) is missing, but the UI tells me that the disk with the name/serial number TEAM_TM8FP6001T_112203280020220, which was (nvme1n1) is the one that's missing. Why do the pop-up message and the UI each report that the opposite disk is missing? I don't know which one I should replace. Do my logs show which is correct? unr1-diagnostics-20220912-1403.zip

The fans built into the drive cages seem to keep the disks nice and cool. It's winter here, but when I shut the unit down after hours of use, I can put my finger on the CPU heat-sink and it is barely warm. I will re-assess when the weather gets warm, but right now, everything seems cool. The little 80mm side fan is currently set to intake, and between it and the drive cage fans, there's plenty of air flow. The CPU TDP is 65 watt, including the GPU, so not a lot of heat generated. I think it will be fine.

Thanks. OK, so this first pic is from top down. The case is designed to take a full sized ATX PSU, but I opted for a SFF power supply to give me some wiggle room. If I'd gone with a regular PSU, you wouldn't be able to see the CPU fan. So an added bonus of the SFF PSU is better airflow to the CPU. The second pic shows the rig from the left side. You can see the strips of steel I used to stabilise the drive cages. The front of the case was literally cut out with tin snips, after measuring up and scoring the outline on the steel. The plastic front panel, I cut with a hacksaw blade and then smoothed out with a rasp. Not a lot of room to play with, but everything is there. The motherboard itself only has 4 onboard SATA ports, so I have a PCIe card with 2 more. But I'm replacing that with a 4-port card to cater for all bays full plus sata SSD. Bill.

Hey folks, I'm an unRAID newb, but thought I'd share my little project. I picked up a 2nd hand Coolermaster Elite 130 Mini-ITX case that originally had just one external 5.25" drive bay and a couple of internal mounts for drives. I took to it with a pair of tin snips and a hacksaw and was able to squeeze in a pair of 3-bay hot-plug drive cages and made up my own internal brackets to mount them. I can take some internal photos if anyone's interested, but with the depth of the drive cages, there is not a millimeter to spare between the back of the drive and the motherboard. I wanted something small, quiet, low-power and with external drive access. Internally, I also have a pair of SSDs for cache - one m.2 and one 2.5". The motherboard is a ROG Strix X470-i, populated with a Ryzen 2200G and 16 GB of RAM. The solitary PCIe slot is populated with a 2-port (soon to be replaced with a 4-port) SATA board. I have a pair of 3 TB 7200 rpm drives installed and two more arriving tomorrow. The box is just going to be a home storage & plex server to start with and we'll see where it goes from there...