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Should I just ignore the parity check saying there are errors? tower-diagnostics-20220424-1703.zip I saw the little warning box saying I had 300 errors (rounding off) after parity check. Is there a log or file I can see those errors listed? Where?

Newegg has user reviews of the 18TB Exos, and I interpret it as one "Dead on Arrival" for every 5 ordered. My experience is worse, but I still ordered one more today for $310 from serverpartdeals.com w free ship to USA. before, my usual source was Amazon, but they have none today. I am depending on the 5yr warranty and hoping if not DOA it will be OK. If DOA I return it. Of course I'd rather that the DOA rate be much much lower. Maybe the 18TB HGST, for $350 from serverpartdeals.com are a better choice? I don't see much info about the DOA rates, but the low quantity info shows them to be much better in that regards, but only 17 reviews at newegg, so not too meaningful (1 DOA per 17).

I do not understand your reply. I meant the physical disk will not be affected, so will keep its preclear. I am not concerned about separate things like the log. I assume the log is not stored on the subject disk, and that the preclear signature is stored on the subject disk.

If I click the red x, does the disk keeps its precleared state and remain precleared?

I am not sure if I am using the correct pre-clear. I use the one by clicking the paintbrush on the right side of this graphic: Does that mean I am using the "unassigned devices pre-clear" which is OK, and that I am NOT using the problematic one by gfjardim? UPDATE: I removed the gfjardim preclear plugin, and now the paintbrush is gone, so now I need to figure out how to do the unassigned devices pre-clear. UPDATE: For idiots like me, that have not done a plug in for so long I forgot how: Click on "Apps", then on the text list on the left side click on "plugins", then in the search box near the top type "unassigned" or "unass" and it will be easy to find "unassigned devices pre-clear". After installing the plugin, on main page, you will see, if you look carefully, a very small paint brush (in monchrome blue) on the right as shown on this graphic: I was looking for the big colorful paintbrush, so it took me awhile to notice this. I did not need to reboot to see it. Thanks to dlandon for the plugin. Info at https://forums.unraid.net/topic/120567-unassigned-devices-preclear-a-utility-to-preclear-disks-before-adding-them-to-the-array/?tab=comments#comment-1101719 For the sake of completeness on this set of graphics I am posting here (otherwise I would post this at the link above). I clicked the blue paintbrush and selected "Verify Signature" (as I had done gfjardim preclear months ago) and in 20 seconds it verified the disk was already in a good preclear state. And the graphic changed to this: then I clicked on the black paintbrush which did nothing and clicked on the "PRECLEAR" gray button which did nothing. So I could not run the "Verify Disk" (where the disk signature is checked and the disk is verified to be zeroed).

I think maybe a few files got messed up while being used by an app, or some kind of glitch. I was able to delete the files using Krusader and all seems to be OK again.

It was a public share at the time of the problem. So I tried secure share and same problem.

I have a Unraid share folder called "data" that I view and use from a Windows 10 PC. Until yesterday I could write (delete files) in ALL subfolders in "data". But today, i can only write to some of the subfolders. On the others I get a Windows dialog "You require permissions from TOWER/nobody to make changes to this file." How can I fix this so I can write (delete) from all subfolders?

Of the 8 drives I got (all 18TB Exos), 3 had to be sent back for exchange due to immediate failure. 38% dead on arrival, is bad. I only buy from vendors giving easy returns, and free shipping if defective. So I keep on ordering. As soon as I receive a drive, I go online, input serial number, and check warranty. So far, all 8 have had 5yr warranty. If not, I would return. 10 to 15 years ago, I thought WD was better than Seagate, but for the last 7 years, I think they are equal, and am not at all sure if one is better than the other. I did try to determine if one is better, but I could not determine. Hence the warranty is important for me.

I see on 2nd post that I do not see the choices above because I do not have 2 step verification setup in gmail. So instead, in gmail settings, I went to "security" and set "Less secure app access" to "on". So I got it to work and it passed the unraid test email. My unraid settings at "Notifications" for email looked like the screenshot by Partyhat, not the OP screenshot. If I could have figured out how to use my hotmail instead, I would have preferred, but I could not get that to work.

wepee, when I got o my google account and my Gmail account, I do not see anything that relates to your steps - my comment in parenthesis. 3.1) Click on App passwords (I do not see this choice) 3.2) Sign in your normal gmail accounts 3.3) click: Select app, then select: Mail 3.4) click: Select device, then select: Custom (I do not see this choice)

dkerlee, Is roon running bit perfect with the purple star, meaning no DSP? "purportedly lossless via Apple Music ALAC". I guess you say "purportedly" because like me, you are skeptical and cautious about streaming claims of large music providers. If your flac is 14MB, and Apples alac is 5MB, maybe it is from lower rez. Are they both 16/44? "VON reports 32MB " is maybe including transmission overhead, like re-sending missed packets. What is VON?

Price is dropping in USA for the Seagate. These prices are USA per drive, before tax, but include free shipping: 2021-9 $390 2021-11 $370 2022-2 $320 (for me, with tax, is $350) Kim, agreed that the jump from 8TB to 18TB was a big surprise (and very welcome). For decades in the past, the sweet spot size increase was usually much smaller - or incremental. This is a huge jump of great significance to data hoarders, like I suspect many unraiders are. I see your source has the Toshiba 18TB at €269 ($308) including VAT tax and including shipping. That is excellent and beats my USA price.

Thanks for the excellent replies!

I got videos in ISO and BDMV files/folders on the unraid server and want to convert all to mkv, which will also be on the unraid sever. I use Emby to paly videos and mkv works better for Emby. I assume I can do it from my Win10 computer with an app running on the Win10 computer. But should I instead do it with an app on the unraid server? Does having the app and the files on the same machine make it faster? How do you do it - on Win10 or on unraid? Any suggestion what app to use? Apps that require knowing linux, would not be good for me.

It seems like most people do one or two cycles. If I have time, I do two. About half of my drives I do one cycle. An 18TB takes about 1.5 days for one cycle. I use default settings as shown below. Usually I am doing new drives, so I pick "clear" (not erase and clear). But I am not too sure about it, so I hope you get some replies.

If you want internal w 5yr warranty, this Seagate 18TB is competitive. Price dropped by $40 since Sept.

Limetech could add some more info in describing the number of drives limits per license type. Currently all it says is: If you know what "attached to the server" means, and the significance of "before starting the array", then it is complete, but some extra words would have helped me. From reading on the forum, I think the following is true. I use the word "drives" to be the same as "storage devices": "Attached to the server" means it includes parity drives, array drives, cache drives, and 'unassigned devices' drives. Am I missing anything? "Attached to the server before starting the array" means you can attach more drives after the array is started, and they will show up as "unassigned devices" and they will not count towards your drive limit. This it very useful since SATA drives are usually hot-swapable, meaning they can be attached to the server while it is running. VM drives for the "Basic" and "Plus" licenses: I will leave for others to clarify. After Unraid starts, does it show somewhere the number of drives it counted?

Wow. Awesome support from you , xthursdayx! Thanks very much. Your reply is a great reference for me since my memory and knowledge of this stuff is not the greatest. And your tips for emby i will follow. I don't know how emby uses DLNA or what for, but so far all is working well again, and I did not loose anything from roon playlists etc. If you want to see the 3 question marks for roon ports, go into any unraid docker container setting screen, and click the and you will see it. But now with your reply, I know what really is going on with the roon ports. I also posted at roon labs forum and steef replied that he does not recommend messing with assigning ports for roon in the container settings - that when he tried it, it did not work well. I think i went thru 3 or 4 updates with no problems, but this last one got me. Thankfully fixable. There was one good side effect - my Sabnzbd container downloads about 25% faster now! My guess is it had something to do with emby and removing the DLNA port assignment.

Over at roon labs forum, one other person, Perter L, reported the same problem as me after the last roon update. I have narrowed it down to be a roon vs emby conflict. I can run any and all containers, except emby, and roon works fine (both server and remotes). Here is what unraid shows for port allocaitons: I think I had this problem before, I fixed it by changing a path and/or path mapping in emby. This time, I fixed it a different way - by deleting emby port 1900 allocation (DNLA UDP). So now, it seems everything is working, both emby and roon, and remotes for both. Here is details for the port allocation I deleted: I think this came automatically with the container by linuxserver. It said "optiona"l, so I deleted it. I don't know what it is for, or if I will discover other problems later. Can I assign a port number to the roon container?

xthurdayx, thanks for the time for your extensive reply. I am guessing maybe its a port assignment error. When I look at the room container port mapping it only show 3 question marks. I cannot remember if that is normal. All other containers show a 4 digit port number. Roon labs say they do not support undoing updates. They also do not support unraid. The nag to update came on my ipad running roon remote. It asked if I should update all devices and I replied yes. I assume, and it appears to update all remotes - ipad, iphone, Win10 desktop. But I don't know if it can, or did, update the server in the unraid container, and I don't know how to check that. Too bad I think I loose my playlists if I do this. So far, the roon backup seems to always be useless for how my system fails. Very false sense of security. This is the 5th time I loose my playlist in 2 years. I use SSD cache for the appdata directory. Here is my mappings: If I recall correctly, the last path, the data path, is a secondary location for some of my music. Maybe I should delete that path map. My regular unraid parity check just completed today and reported, in a yellow box (not red box) "836 errors". The previous one a month ago had no errors. So today I ran "Fix common problems" and it says "no errors". Today I ran for all 8 disks the "SMART short self-test" and all 8 say "Completed without error".

Sorry for complaining, but it is info. I got the usual nag to update roon. I knew if I said "no" to the update, it would nag constantly into the infinite future. So I gave in, I updated roon from my ipad running Roon Remote, and now nothing works. The 3 devices that run roon do NOT work. the Unraid server with roon container - No web interface but I guess it is workin. And I cannot figure out how to undo the update, and Roon website i was not able to find info, not even how to contact a HUMAN. So I sent in a help request in "how to contact a human". There is definitely humans here, so Howdy to y'all. and if you got anything to add, I'm all ears (eyes?). Friday night and roon ain't working blues.

Recently, I was able to go about a good 10 days before it slowed down. Was down to less than 100 queued. Then did remove and re-install. Worked only for 2 days. Then did remove and re-install. Worked only for 2 days. Then did remove and re-install. Only 180 downloads queued now. Eventually I may give SABnzb a try.

My usenet is paid version of nzb.su and nzbgeek, and free versions of nzbhunter and usenet-crawler. With these, for 4 months, never had the problem, until this last week.

Happened again. Took only 12 hrs to drop from 5MBs to 0.5MBs download rate. Did reinstall again and it "fixed" it again, but now I am pretty sure it will slowly slow down over 12 hours. I guess at some point I may switch to Sabnzb, but I hate to recreate the queue. I have 500 downloads queued. Is that part of the problem? Is there any way to troubleshoot this with logs? I also wonder if my ISP is doing this.