Dreamfault

I might have forgotten how many disk drives I actually had. When I started Unraid OS, it went in to normal state, and working as it should. I think... I connected the 6 data drives I thought I had. 1 seems to be broken and won´t start. I changed both SATA-cable and power cable and changed SATA-port. It will not work. 1 shows as unassigned. Should I consider everything as ok and use it as normal now? Screenshot and diagnostics attached. vars.txt actila-diagnostics-20210817-1944.zip

Hi. I´ve been away from Unraid for about a year due to moving to another house. I sold my server and planned to buy a new one. I kept the USB-stick and disks. I have bought a new one now, but the new motherboard only has 6 SATA-ports. My old motherboard had 8. My HDD setup was 1x4TB parity drive, 2x2TB datadisk, 3x1TB datadisk 1x500GB cache disk. 7 disks in total. I only used about 2-3 TB in total on the server so I have free space on those drives. What i want to accomplish is to change the setup to fewer disks, approx. 4-5 in total instead of 7, incl. cache drive. When the server is up and running that will be easy to fix, but how do I start the Unraid with fewer SATA-ports than before? I don´t want to buy a HBA, because I will only need it the first time. Can i accomplish this in another way? I have thought about a few options, but i don´t know if it is possible. Solution 1: Connect all data-disks+ parity, but not the cache, in totalt 6 disks. I can the use unbalance to move some of the data on the 1TB disks to the other disks. What will happen when Unraid can´t find the cache disk? When I have fewer disks I can connect the cache drive and use Unraid as normal. Solution 2: Connect parity+ 5 datadisks (1 missing) + 1 cache drive, 6 in total. If I choose rebuild without 1 datadisk. Is it possible that Unraid will rebuild on the disks remaining and then I can use the server as normal? Any other solutions that is better?