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One quick followup JorgeB... I pulled out my previous (512MB) cache drive and will try to install it to see if it still has backups on it (I upgraded the 512MB cache drive to this 1TB WD Blue that you've been helping troubleshoot... the 512 worked fine but I wanted to get a larger cache drive, so in theory still has intact backups). In the process I installed all new SATA power and data cables. The 1TB is still not mountable, but I wanted to see if you'd look at the latest diagnostics (attached) to confirm you're indeed still seeing the ATA errors suggesting an imminent drive failure? Thank you tower-diagnostics-20230830-1129.zip

Thanks.. just have the 512MB drive that the 1TB replaced. However I'll get a new 1TB asap since it sounds like this one might be on the way out. Will post a followup here asap.

Okay, sorry so slow, took a few days to get new SATA power and data cables here! Still visually the same error on bootup, attaching the latest diagnostics here. tower-diagnostics-20230826-1543.zip

Attaching new diagnostics here tower-diagnostics-20230823-1040.zip

Okay went in and double checked, "File system type" is listed as btrfs, not xfs, in the GUI. Just to be sure, I reselected btrfs and hit "Done" (Apply was grayed out), then took the array offline and did a reboot, still listed as btrfs when everything boots back up. Still the same "Unavailable" error.

Thanks for the assist. Took about 90 minutes, here's the result of that command: Phase 1 - find and verify superblock... bad primary superblock - bad magic number !!! attempting to find secondary superblock... ................................................................................ ##repeated a few thousand times Sorry, could not find valid secondary superblock Exiting now.

Unraid was running solid for several months while I was away on travel. Came back to a few VMs needing updated, and noticed one of the VMs wouldn't come back up after I updated. After a bit of troubleshooting, rebooted my Unraid server and came back up to the Cache drive "Unmountable: Wrong or no filesystem" error. Other drives all seem to be intact. Attaching diagnostics. tower-diagnostics-20230820-1607.zip

Anyone have suggestions on a build that would: 1. Support four separate Windows VMs capable of simultaneous 4k direct play 2. Run as quiet as possible, using passive cooling where I can get away with it along with a few low RPM case fans For the passive/quiet option, I think my GPU options would have to be fanless GT 1030s... but I'm unsure of a motherboard+CPU combination that would enable this build (and also allow for 4 independent USB passthroughs to each VM)? Flexible on price, mainly focused on hardware that works well with Unraid.

Thanks SIO for an amazing guide. Open question: I've followed everything to a T and everything is smooth up to getting my High Sierra vm working well over VNC and also in Splashtop. However in trying to go to the next step and enable passthrough to my GT710, I'm not able to get any display on my monitor (black screen during the entire boot process). I've got the nVidia webdrivers and downloaded the extra nvidia software from Benjamin Dobell. Funny thing is, Splashtop *looks* like it's detecting my Mac booting up and ready for a VNC connection (I've got High Sierra set to auto log in to my account), however whenever I click Connect, Splashtop just says "connecting to your computer" for maybe 30 seconds, then says "Cannot connect to your computer". I was hoping to use Splashtop to be able to try to figure out what's going wrong when I switch my VM settings from VNC to my nVidia card, but this doesn't seem to be an option. Any suggestions on where I can try to troubleshoot what might be going on? Thanks!