VFRLuke

well the good news is that I found another board/cpu laying around and have my server back in order now, but I definitely do want to upgrade from in if nothing else just for power consumption purposes. It's not an emergency any longer though so I will read up on some things and pull the trigger on something soon. Not sure I'm wanting to make the plunge for server hardware just because my use case is pretty low. I'll read up on options. and I insulated the dryer vent pipe that caused the chaos.

Hello all and thanks in advance for any advice. I'll start my story and try and keep it short. I've been using Unraid for a long time, but only with basic functionality of a NAS. I'm on my 2nd system, but have always put old hardware to use except for hard drives. I currently have a retired gaming motherboard and processor that's a 2nd gen i5-2500k and asus motherboard. I don't have any onboard video and have been running headless for years. Last night it crashed while streaming a video file from the server, and I couldn't get a response or ping it, power cycled it and it came up. I thought it was weird as it's been pretty solid, but then this am before I left for work it was down again. fast forward to this evening I've been down there working on it when I believe I have figured out that there's hardware failure and why. I just moved and put a server rack in the basement and there's a dryer vent above it. I suppose with the heat and humidity I have condensation inside the dryer vent, leaked out of the seam and into my unraid machine. It's the back of the PC, not where the drives reside. I need to get some hardware ordered up pretty fast. I use it for NAS only but maybe would like to do some very small things in the future. I assume an up to date i3 would do the trick. I have 8 drives and 6 of them are in the array, 1 cache, 1 hot spare. all 8 sata ports are on the motherboard. I need a motherboard, cpu, memory, extra card for sata ports if the motherboard doesn't have 8 (more is always better), and I'm thinking I might get a new power supply for good measure. Any form factor mobo is ok as I have it in a mid tower fractal define case (with the vented top of course to allow for water intrusion). I'm going to devise a way to defect any condensation away from my bench. Also if I put all of my current drives in with the existing USB drive, is there anything I should do beforehand? Would it be beneficial to replace my old mechanical cache drive with an NVME drive? I'm not really worried about cost, but I don't want to just waste money. Looking to keep the power draw low. I was happy with a 2nd gen i5 so I'm sure I'll be really happy with whatever level of performance. Thanks for any advice or help! Luke

I pulled it out. I'll keep it at 8 ports for now. If I want to ever add another I'll get one of the LSI controllers I suppose.

I did not replace the power supply. the one I have is a quality unit with a 12v rail capable of 49A. so if I have 9 drives (8 now) and no GPU that gives me a ton of headroom. I thought about replacing it just to have a modular power supply and neaten up the wiring.

I replaced 4 cables and eliminated drive 9 as I was just using it as a second spot for preclearing. so far so good. I powered it up and down about 5 times and it booted every time. I might run a parity check and set it to not write corrections just to stress test it a bit.

tower-diagnostics-20211118-0611.zip Hello, I had all of my hardware in an old cooler master case and I couldn't find any of the drive bays for it, so I decided to treat myself to a Fractal Define 7 that newegg had on sale. Long story short. I have 9 drives installed and after the install it only wants to boot up about half the time and my cpu load seems to be much higher than what it was before. This thing was rock solid before, and the only thing that could be different is maybe some sata cables and maybe the way that I utilized the power supply connections. I did add another drive in there to try and preclear it to see what kind of shape it was in, but I tried to unplug the connections from that particular drive and it still seems to only want to boot up about half the time. I only use this for storage, no docker containers. It's a retired gaming machine with a P8P67 motherboard, i5-2500k cpu. The motherboard has 8 sata ports on it and I have another little 2 port sata controller on it for the 9th drive (that's the one that I unplugged). I also have no GPU in this machine to even see what is happening during the boot. I can find something to install, but I wanted to post a thread with the diagnostics to see if anyone had any ideas of what I might check. I was thinking of just replacing a few of the SATA cables and checking to see if it's better, but I'm certainly up for suggestions. The sata cable theory might make sense because I disturbed all of them and may have even put in a couple of different ones to try and get the lengths closer to what I needed in the new case. The unassigned WD40EZRX is the disk that I tried unplugging. I see the error rate is really high on that disk as well and I suspected issues from that particular drive in the past. Thanks in advance, Luke

Did the parity swap and that went perfectly, thanks.

Thanks for the reply. I'll start that tomorrow.

Hello, I have recently started getting some smart errors on some of my old 2TB drives and I picked up a couple of 12TB drives to replace them. They are over 10 years old. Obviously I want to assign one new drive as the parity, Use the old parity 8TB drive and the other new 12TB drive to replace disks 3 and 4. I have the new drives in and precleared. I was thinking this order 1. Replace the parity drive and let it rebuild 2. Replace disk 3 with the other new drive 3. Preclear the old parity drive and replace disk 4 with it Would there be a better way of doing things? I wasn't sure if the parity swap procedure was appropriate since I have all drives currently installed. Thanks in advance for your help, Luke Disk 3 smart: Disk 4 smart:

It's been slow with multiple USB sticks except that one. When I transferred the license file is when it happened to this one. When it loads the page it happens fast, there's just a really big delay before the page loads.

So I recently upgraded my box to some of the hardware from my old gaming rig. It's up and running but the webgui is really slow. I thought for sure I had it narrowed down to the usb thumb drive. I built the new machine and got it up and running with a trial license long enough to transfer everything over. The thumb drive I had in there for that seemed to work well, the webgui was very snappy. I formatted my original USB key and put it in and I got the really slow webgui. Well it's 2017 now and I kind of wanted one of those low profile usb drives anyway so I ordered one of the san disk Cruiser Fit newer version, turns out it was really slow on that as well. I read through a couple of threads, plugged it into every USB port on the machine, disabled USB 3.0 in bios (Asus P8P67pro motherboard) and no matter what I couldn't get any speed out of the webgui with that thumb drive. I gave up and put the one that I had the trial key back in and my speed was back. I transferred the license from my old thumb drive guid to this one and now it's slow as well. That's really frustrating to me. The only things plugged into usb are the thumb drive and the cable to the UPS. Would one of you guys be able to look into the diagnostics and steer me in the right direction? Thanks in advance, Luke tower-diagnostics-20171226-1900.zip

OK, hopefully my last question. I'm almost finished copying stuff over to the new temporary build. Once that's finished I'm going to install all of the hardware in my existing case with all of the drives. My question is about the flash Drive. I will need to use the drive from the old server since it has the key on it I assume. Should I copy the entire contents of the "tower2" thumb drive over to the thumb drive for "tower 1"? Is there anything common mistakes that I need to look out for? I just want to make sure the part of it that remembers the data disk is in tact, the rest of it I can muddle through and play with settings if need be. Thanks in advance, Luke

I was being stupid. I didn't have a filesystem on the new disk yet so it wouldn't let me create the shares. I was hoping I got my question deleted before I exposed my ignorance Thanks for your help. I am in the process of copying the files over now

Hello guys, I wanted to bump this as I think I have my upgrade plan pretty well planned out in my mind. I just want someone to make sure I'm not overlooking anything. * I'm upgrading hardware, I have a cpu/mobo/memory that I will be using from my last gaming pc. * I'm planning on putting 2 precleared 8TB drives into my old gaming PC which will hold everything on my server. * I got a 30 day trial of another liscence and I have 2 boxes up now (no drives yet in the new box) Here's my plan 1. Get temporary install of unraid running on gaming machine with new hardware (done) 2. Install 2 8G hard drives in this machine 3. Transfer everything on my current server to that array (what's the best way to transfer a massive amount of data between 2 unraid machines?) 4. Take down original unraid machine and transfer the new motherboard into my current case and populate with drive I want to reuse 5. Reformat the additional drives with the newer file system and add into array I know that's pretty basic, but is there anything I should be careful of with the handling of the USB drives and or keys? Thanks in advance! Luke

thanks...this project just keeps getting bigger...