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I found this in the unraid docs: I guess I need to wait for my mover to finish, then stop the array, then see if I can fix it there, at "Settings->Global Share Settings". I did not do anything there previously to cause this problem. The only thing unusual, is Drive 7 used to be my parity, before I got a new parity.

I added drive 7 recently. It looks good on the "main" tab. But when I go to a share, I cannot pick the drive. Here is the 2 screenshots, and diagnostic zip: Notice below, I can only pick drives 1-6 for a share. Why dos it not show Disk 7? tower-diagnostics-20210908-2258.zip I just realized it shows as a Disk share. see below. I don't know how it happened. I am guessing I need to stop it from being a disk share. How do I do that?

You are correct, this Exos is CMR. Here it the Amazon listing title: Seagate Exos X18 18TB Enterprise HDD - CMR 3.5 Inch Hyperscale SATA 6Gb/s, 7200 RPM, 512e and 4Kn FastFormat, Low Latency with Enhanced Caching (ST18000NM000J).

Yes. I did not even notice until you mentioned it, but my order record shows it is from HyperHawk. I would be upset about the switch (if it was a switch or hidden), except I got the 5yr factory warranty, so it is OK. Ordered Aug. 30, recvd Sept 6, warranty to Sept. 30, 2026. I think they go by mfg date plus 1 month to sell, plus 5 yr., or something similar. It is difficult to know if you are getting factory warranty, or dealer warranty which is more risky. In this case, if Seagate factory did not show for the serial number I received, I would have returned it. But it is scary since the listing does not say "factory" warranty. Is Exos an SMR? If it is not SMR, then that's one more reason it is a sweet spot for me.

What hard drive purchase makes sense today, Sept. 2021? For me, it is 18TB Seagate Exos, w 5yr warranty. Amazon $400. ($22/tb) Shucked drives? Currently I am seeing no bargains. Back in July Aug. 2021 Costco had Seagate 8TB for for $130 ($16/tb). Now everywhere seems to be $170 ($21/tb). No warranty when shucked. Internal w 2 to 3 yr warranty: Also currently 8TB for $170 ($21/tb). Why do I prefer to pay $22/tb for an 18TB vs waiting for an 8TB sale ($16/tb)? Because: 1) 5yr warranty 2) Lot more TB in a single unraid enclosure (tower or case). Of course all of this may not apply to those who do not need more storage to fit in their enclosure. I only buy Amazon as last resort, since power corrupts. If anyone knows what is going on with the Amazon seller "Seagate Store": Is it the same as "Seagate Technology Inc."? When I did online warranty check on the serial of the 18TB I received, it did show 5yr factory warranty. But I am curious if this is a way for the factory to circumvent the dealers and compete with their own dealers? My guess is they use a loophole in the dealer agreement, by creating "Seagate Store" as a company, and we do not know if it is the same owners? I gave up on trying to figure out which of the 3 major makers make more reliable drives. So I buy the cheapest which tends to be Seagate more often.

I went ahead, and put the 6.9.1 backup on my new "fast" flash, 32GB Samsung Fit Plus. My system does not seem any faster, for shutdown or reboot of unraid. Roughly the same. My prior one was Sandisk 16GB UltrFit. It was USB3 also.

I want to boot faster. Seems like I need to boot or re-boot often. Does not faster flash speed make faster boots? "USB3 drives are far more prone to failure than USB2 ones" Is it still that bad after all these years? I was going by SpaceInvaderOne video about the flash he tested. He only used a standard flash test app, not unraid test. He made a guess that the pro-USB2 (anti-USB3) for unraid may have been long ago, and may be is no longer true. Don't forget my other issue: I cannot do a flash backup since I went from .1 to .2

on the unraid tower, the flash is 16GB. and Ram is also 16GB.

I am trying to upgrade my unraid flash hardware to a faster one. I am using Win10 PC, and unraid web interface, and go to Main, then Flash, then click "Flash Backup" button. It goes to my Win10 downloads folder, but it stops and ends with the file name "Unconfirmed 551776.crdownload". I rebooted unraid and tried again w same result. Then rebooted Wind10 and same result. I recently updated to Unraid 6.9.2, but before I updated from 6.9.1 I was able to create flash backup. It created as file name "tower-flash-backup-20210824-1742.zip". What should i do - go back to my last backup of 6.9.1 ?

trurl, Thanks. What you suggested sounds like something I can do.

I tried to use "Clear an unRAID array data drive" but I couild not figure out how to put files on the flash drive. I clicked "Add a new script" so I wa able to give it a name, and I think it automatically created a folder on the flash drive in the config/plugins/user.scripts/scripts folder. I downloaded the "description" and "script" files to my Windows 10 machine. But I don't know how to put them in the unraid flash drive in the config/plugins/user.scripts/scripts folder. When I use Krusader, and go to FLASH it says, "Error: Cannot open the folder /FLASH". And even if i could open it, how do i move the file from Win10 to unraid flash?

Both repairs were on the same disk #5.

I was able to do successful xfs repair again and I got my music back. It was a hard drive problem. I do wonder if Unraid is not able to deal with hard drive issues that other software can deal with, since I have much fewer hard drive problems on Windows. Just one anecdote.

Yes. I had a lost+found folder from doing xfs repair about 8 months ago. It seemed too laborious to go thru. Also, since it has so many files and folders, it took time just to open the folder and subfolders, in windows Explorer. I assume the xfs repair yesterday may have added more to the old lost+found folder. I guess when it creates files there, they keep their old creation date, so I could not separate the ones from the 2 repairs. My guess is that it is not worth it to save them, but I need to search for info and read more about it. I don't know Linux, but I may try the file command. Thanks.

The xfs repair appears to have worked, it appears I got my music back. I will separately post a general question about lost+found. Thanks for checking my diagnostics and helping me.

I will try what you suggested. Thanks. How did you know which disk it is (disk 5)? Does "md5" mean 'media disk 5'?

MY MUSIC FILES DISAPPEARED, from my music share. It happened about 8 months ago and I recovered most/all of it by doing xfs repair. It happened yesterday and I am still seeking advice at My music disappeared. before I do xfs repair. But I am wondering if unraid is not robust. Or it could be my harddrive(s) fault. Or it could be I just did a Roon update. Anyone else using Unraid and Roon having this problem?

Tried reboot, but it did not help. I think I even did power cycle (shutdown, then power back up) prior to posting.

I have a share called "music" and it had about 2TB of music files. When I go to the "SHARES" tab, and click on view to see the files in that share, I get a message that says "No listing: Too many files." I also can't see the files in Windows Explorer, or by using Krusader. I know the files are there though, because when I view the files by looking at the Disks, either on the "MAIN" tab or in Krusader, I can see them. I cannot see nor play the music with my music players . Please help. Diagnostics attached. Thanks. tower-diagnostics-20210810-1735.zip

The update nag came back, every time i restart Roon on any devices. I succeeded in doing update today, to 1.8 build 806. It was scary at first, since my remotes did not work at first. I don't know how much of this was needed, or if I caused the problem by what I did, so I just tried things to fix it: Rebooted unraid, but remotes still not working (remotes are windows PC, and iphone) Uninstalled Roon on the remote PC. Downloaded new Roon to remote PC. All is working now. The iphone remote started working correctly after this, without doing re-install or anything. Only 194 nags and updates to go, to get to even 1000. Give me a break, Roon. Thankfully this docker is handling updates well.

Thanks to your advice, I was able to find I was using "backup" in my Roon container. I changed it to "backups" now. I got a feeling that will fix it. Thanks very much. Edit: I found nzbHydra2 also created a "backup" folder as a default. Fixed that too.

I deleted a user share named "backup", and deleted it's folder using Krusader, but it keeps coming back into my user shares. It does not come back immediately, but it comes back eventually. How do I delete it permanently? I have another share I want to keep, named "backups" with an "s", which has not been any problem, but I wonder if it causes the above problem. Just now deleted the share "backup" again. But I was not able to see it in Krusader after that. I may have been mixed up about the sequence when I recall deleting in Krusader in the past. But I do expect it to come back eventually, based on past experience.

If I use this app, CA Appdata Backup, then is there any reason to backup Sonarr (using the backup feature inside Sonarr) ? I run Sonarr with a Unraid container.

Good news for this Roon container. I now think I did not have a port conflict problem. After I fixed an emby path problem, all works good for both emby and this Roon container, without any port re-assignments. Also I did another update of this Roon container yesterday, and all is working.

Jonatham, you mentioned the affect of frequency. There may be a curve for freq. vs effic. but but I cannot find it. Maybe the T model keeps the freq in a more effcient spot than the K (if we ignore other equipment affected by making it all run longer). Adding how the other equip is affected preferably would be included, if I knew how. I am guessing hi freq is less effic because it get hotter, and hotter conductors have more resistance, compounding the issue and wasting more on heat. I am not confident in that guess. If my guess is correct, do better CPU coolers save energy on the CPU? Some info for reference only (still does not give the effic numbers we need): Intel defines TDP "represents the average power, in watts, the processor dissipates when operating at Base Frequency with all cores active under an Intel-defined, high-complexity workload." So, as you say, it is not an efficiency number directly. For i7-7700 T and K: TDP for T is 35W, for K is 91W. (K is 260% of T, or 160% above T) Passmark for T is 7895 , for K is 9710 (K is 123% of T, or 23% above T) Processor Base Frequency: for T is 2.90 GHz, for K is 4.20 GHz Max Turbo Frequency for T is 3.80 GHz, for K is 4.50 GHz