Frank1940

There are so many ways to interpret what you just said. It appears that there are six SATA outlets on that supply. Are they saying that each outlet is limited to 40A or that all six are limited to 40A? Where did you find this specification?

If you have a Tower Login, login. At the command prompt, type diagnostics and that will write the file to your flash drive in the logs folder/directory.

Use a Volt Meter to measure the voltages and make sure that the proper voltages appear on the right pins on the hard drive end.

I did a very quick read through of this thread. I want to caution you about these detachable power cables that many vendors are now providing with their power supplies. They are not interchangeable between vendors for sure. (One fellow zapped several hard drives when he did so!) I would even be careful on mixing cables from the same vendor. (Different product lines could be sourced from different suppliers.) Buzz testing is the surest way to make sure that the right voltages end up on the correct pins on the hard drive connector end!

@Shad0wWulf, how much memory do you have in your server?

Click on the circled Question Mark in the screen capture above. The underline of the question mark means that the "Help" system is turned on.

@oOSGearOo, what happens when you pointed to 'Mirror syslog to flash:' (A question mark-- ? --should appear as the mouse cursor hovers over the phase) and left click with your mouse. (That should remove and re-display the blue text box with each mouse click.)

Print out this section on paper: Now write the name of each folder (not any file names, as the split level strictly deals with folders/directories) on the paper. There is not such thing as a 'sub-dir"! It is either a folder or a file. I do believe at this point, you need a split level of at least three. (By the way, I doubt if you truly need any split level if you are using .mkv files for media storage. Each show or movie is in one (and only one) file and that means that there will be no pause in the playing of any movie or show while a second disk spins up. You may have a slight delay while loading file names but that is usually only a few seconds.)

Here is that section (Found it with Google): https://wiki.unraid.net/Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#Split_level

I think you need to set your split level higher. This quote is from the following section in the Unraid 6 manual found here: https://wiki.unraid.net/index.php/UnRAID_Manual_6#Parameters I realize that it is virtually 'legalese' and very difficult to understand. (At one time, there was a Wiki entry that had a much clear description of how the split level worked but I can't seem to be able to find it any more.) The split level assignment number has caused confusion for years. It is intended to keep the .VOB files in the VIDEO_TS directory of a DVD on the same hard disk so that the movie/show/video does not pause should the .VOB files be split across two disks.

Why not try Googling this term and read some of the hits?

If It were my drive, I would return it to the vendor as a DOA. It appears that the Current Pending Sectors is on a steady increase and that does not bode well..

See the post by @bonienl that is right below your post above. Note that the 'Remote syslog server:' IP address is the same as the actual server (as shown in the banner)! You will have to select a Share Folder in which this syslog file will be written. As the 'Help' for this page indicates, it is best if the share is 'cache only' or a 'cache preferred' to limit array activity. You can also use the provision to write the syslog to your flash drive if you don't have a cache drive. (That will result in a lot more write activity on your flash drive which is not the most desirable thing.) This should give you a syslog which is up-to-date to the moment of the crash/lockup.

Let me make sure that I understand how this works. If You enable the "Local Syslog server" setting, you can set the address of the "Remote syslog server:" to be this same server. (i.e.; the sending server is the same as the receiving server.) Let's say, we have a crash of our server setup this way. Won't the restart of the server overwrite the syslog from before the crash or will the new syslog info just be appended to the existing syslog file?

I don't know how I missed the switch for mirroring to the flash drive... One quick question-- Are these settings from the default sticky? That is-- will they survive a reboot?

@bonienl, could you possibly give explicit instructions on how to do this?

May I assume that this can also be run from a Command Line?

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Not an issue here with my setup. Please describe in greater detail what you experiencing. What Protocol --SMB, NFS, etc.? Are you talking about 'User access' or 'Security settings'? ('User access' is the only one on my system that "read" vs "read-write" option.)

Is this a coming feature (6.7.0-rc4) or is something amiss in my setup?

Start here: https://wiki.unraid.net/index.php/UnRAID_Manual_6#WORK_IN_PROGRESS Section 1.1.1 explains how single parity works. (Dual parity merely adds a second parity disk in addition to this first single parity disk. The contents of this second disk requires an advance degree in Mathematics to fully understand!)

I can remember running Flex on a Radio Shack Color Computer back in the early 1980's. Then, I moved on to OS9 (A UNIX type OS) for the same machine. I had Word Processors for both of those OS's. You had to save to do a spell check and then save it again to do the printing. (Three separate programs!) Of course, the Color Computer only had a max of 64KB of RAM. (That is right--- Kilobytes!!!)

There is no real data on this. But common sense would (almost) tell you that the worst thing you can do is to spinning them up for a short period (say, fifteen minutes) and the spinning them down for another equally short period. But you could also make a case that loading up a drive with data and then removing from a computer, storing it on shelf for twenty years and then expecting to function when reactivated might be a big gamble. We all know that a constantly spun-up drive will fail eventually. (And we have some data from a big server farm company-- Backblaze --to support that!) What we don't know is if there a happy medium between these two extremes...

Is this an academic question? You can only display two temperatures out the (in your case) thirteen shown in the table. I have two temperatures on one of my servers that are in the range of 128C. I would simply pick two that seem indicate the true temperature states of the CPU and MB. (I personally went with the highest one for each.)

Thinking about this further, I can see where a considerable delay could occur since all hard drives now use a ram cache and the drive head would probably have to physically move to get back to the data storage area for re-read of the media to resend the data. Since bad SATA cables and bad SATA connections cause virtually all of CRC errors and that condition is so easily fixed, there is little need to have a quicker error recovery procedure...