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Which SATA controller did you end up using and what kind of speeds are you seeing? Need to get a new card and was looking at the Startech.com PEXSAT34RH which led me to your post.

I did look through the posts and 'think' my issue may be needing to reset permissions but I'll explain my problem and hope someone can verify. I had previously setup AFP and SMB but recently wanted to take further advantage of a back-up program and wanted to give NFS a shot. I enable the protocol and used the NFS Mount available with OSX's Dis Utility. In Finder, I can't locate the share and when trying through Terminal I get 'access denied'. From what I read, I think the issue is that by default unRAID files are no longer under public access. Can someone tell me how I either reassign the file permission OR get my Mac to access the files with the right permissions. Hopefully, this makes sense. Please note my "newbie" status. Thanks in advance.

Followed your directions, came home today to a very happy server. All files recovered, array has been expanded by 4 TB (total) and I now have a 1TB drive available for my new cache drive. Thanks for all of your help. Now, is there a cheat sheet for using the New Config command?

Firstly, thank you! Cried when I read your first reply then smiled upon the second one. Will unRaid associate things properly, i.e. act like nothing happened? And please confirm my steps, just paranoid now: 1. remember drive assignments 2. stop array 3. select new config 4. assign all drives and add the old 1TB as the new one 5. restart and parity check 6. pray

This story is going to sound like a bit of time paradox in its complexity so hopefully some of you smart people out there will follow and tell me where I went wrong. I'm running 5.0 and had finished preclearing my old 2TB parity drive (will now be referred to as 2TBP) and a new 3TB data drive (3TBN). I wanted to replace my 1TB Data Drive (1TBD) with 2TBP and ultimately make 1TBD a cache drive. 1. I backed up my entire Flash drive and stopped the array. 2. I selected 'new config' and put 2TBP into the slot previously occupied by 1TBD. 3. I formatted the drive and ran a parity check. (I thought at this point the former data on 1TBD would have been copied on to 2TBP but this didn't happen). 4. I restarted the array and ran another parity check. 5. Got back home and the slot previously occupied by 1TBD is now occupied by 2TBP and it is showing pretty much 2TB available. 6. I stopped the array and physically disconnected 1TBD (thinking maybe unRaid was confused). 7. Started the array back up and no change, the data from the drive is essentially gone. I haven't copied anything to the array since and a verification shows that data is indeed missing. I'm thinking that my mistake was when I had intended to replace the drive that I needed to completely remove it from the array before having a drive take its place. Hoping someone can verify this But my real question is, how can I get the data back? I thought about adding the drive back into the array into its old spot but of course I am no paranoid. I have also not touched 3TBN for fear that any other additions to the array will be irreparable. I also still have the backup of Flash that I made but I'm not sure of the consequence of just copying it all back without changing the drive order or something. Would greatly appreciate any and all suggestions. Thanks.