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It used to be part of the array and I replaced it with a larger 6TB disk. Then I bought the SATA controller and added the disk back into the server. Added it to the array and Unraid began wiping it (took like 24 hrs). Once complete it shows as unmountable. I thought the wiping of the disk was the same as formatting. I need to run the format?

Looks like the drive is part of the array now but after the pre-clear of the drive it is unmountable. How to fix this. If it is not fixable how can I remove this drive from the array and toss it?

Thanks. Sent you a small token for helping me out lately. I will add this disk to the array and keep an eye out for new errors. The fact that the SMART passed OK means they were there before? They may have been....This drive has been pulled out of the array for over a year so I do not remember.

I just installed a MZHOU 2 SATA Expansion Card, PCI-E 3.0 GEN3 JMICRON + JMB582 Chip (https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B099ZCXJLQ?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details) I then reinstalled a drive I had sitting on a shelf that used to be part of the array and the moment I spun up the server the drive has a SMART Error: 187 Reported uncorrect 0x0032094094000 Old age Always Never 6 I have not yet assigned this disk because of this error, I came straight to the forum. How serious is this? How can I tell if it the drive or the controller I just installed? I also have two other drives with the: 199 UDMA CRC error count 0x000a200200000 Old age Always Never 2 I have read that these are generally not a concern and are due to bad sata cables (my motherboard is approx 15 years old though), I have just changed both of those cables. SMART test on the dev1 drive has completed without error attched. I don't understand how that is possible since we know there is an error ST4000DM000-1F2168_Z300G774-20240417-2027.txt

Excellent. That being said, would be be unwise to over provision your PCIe x1 throughput by adding more disks than you have throughput? for example using a 4 port SATA controller on PCI 1.0. If you leave your parity drive on MOBO dedicated SATA and your cache on MOBO dedicated SATA, one would believe it is fine to over provision or am I missing something? I am trying to think of a scenario where all disks are read/writing at once; then over provisioning would be unwise. Parity check perhaps?

TY! I believe my MOBO may be using PCIe 1.0 (250MB/s). My question is, when you use a SATA controller how are the lanes split? Are the lanes split evenly even if only one port is in use? Or are they split only if you use more than one SATA port? Another way of putting it: I install a 2 port sata controller, does each port receive 125MB/s dedicated or if I decide to only install one disk and only use one port will it receive the full 250MB/s while other port with no disk currently uses 0MB/s?

Are we still recommending this controller for Unraid as of today? I am in need of an extra SATA port (or two) for my PCIe 1x slot. MOBO GA-MA785GM-UD2H-rev-10, very old but solid as a rock and I assume the PCIe x1 is ver 1.0, hence a 2 port controller is sufficient.

About to watch the video but want to ask 'why use SAS expander if you are using SATA drives?' What is the purpose of this and not just use a SATA expander? If the SATA drive has a read/write of 120MB/s, what does using a SAS HBA vs a SATA HBA on SATA drives do?

Bump. Should I get a SATA expander? If so, where do the extra power cables come from? How do people normally power 14 HDD with your average PSU? I have not seen a PSU with 14 HDD cables. Clearly I would love some assistance with rejigging my rig

Rebuilding my 14 yr old unraid server because I don't want to keep upgrading my drives (running GIGABYTE AM2 MOBO with only 5 SATA ports, built to last!). Rather, I would like to start expanding my array with more drives. Wondering what the best option would be in terms of upgrading for minimum 10 drives. Should I just get a new case/MOBO/CPU etc? Seems like over kill since everything is working well. What would you guys do?

Is there any way to see the activity so I can determine what I just deleted?

But what is the point of "High Water Table > Automatically split any directory as required'? I thought that meant unraid will figure out the data allocation

Thanks JorgeB. Two follow up questions: 1. Will this cause the disk to "Become full" and the torrent will fail or will unraid be smart enough to divide it up and start a new disk once disk2 is full? 2. If the former happens and the torrent fails, how do I try again without having this limitation?

Hello can somebody explain the behavior that I am seeing? I have a large 3.5TB torrent downloading but for some reason disk2 keeps filling up. I still have 1.75TB left to download and I am concerned disk2 will fill right up and the torrent will fail. Should the writing not have switched to disk3 already with 1.15TB left to create a more equalized data distribution?

wtf is the point of a server then? Don't have users with R/W, don't expose it to the internet. Why not just say, don't build an unraid server. There, problem solved.

I like this idea and I think a separate read cache would be useful for people who transfer files OFF their array. Great suggestion

Interesting RFE. I use my server as mostly storage. Plex, picture storage etc. I never really transfer multiple or large files off of it but I can see your point if you reversed my data flow! I will support your cause but I don't think it should use the same cache drive. This drive should be separate Back to my question about bottlenecks about data flow TO the server though. I'm guessing the bottle neck would be the write speed of the cache drive right? SSD w SATA being slower than the NVMe. That being said could you set up two SSD SATA cache drives with RAID0 to double the write speed? I understand it would be taking up an extra SATA port but lets assume we have many

Dataflow: End User PC with downloaded media (1TB Samsung 980 Pro M.2 NVMe) > (10gbps NIC w CAT6) > (10gbps switch w 40gbps backbone) > Unraid server (10gbps NIC) > Unraid server (cache drive - 1TB Samsung 980 Pro M.2 NVMe **OR** 1TB SSD with SATA) Where would the bottle neck be in this scenario? I am contemplating on setting up a new server as my server parts are approx 12 years old and want to focus on my transfer rates. I hate waiting for transfers. My current setup is 5x 6TB HGST drives (one is parity) + no cache drive right now as I sometimes download 1TB+ packs. Trying to determine what the new config should look like. I do not have the 10Gig switch yet, I will buy when I fully understand my requirements and limitations with new Unraid config

HEEYYYY OHHHHH!!! WENT FOR A SMOKE AND GOT IT WORKING!!! So I figured out why my free space was going down to only 1TB on my local share, I believe it is because onedrive only has 1TB of space!!! Duh! Now that it is working, I have two intelligent questions: 1. Should I be concerned about the "some or all files are unprotected" warning on the local share? I do not have a cache drive, the share was created via the user script and not via the gui as per usual. Even if you create via the gui and then run the script with the share name, you will trigger the yellow warning about "some or all files are unprotected" 2. writing to this share is SO slow now. Too slow to be honest. I believe (correct me if wrong) that it is so slow because it is also writing each file to the onedrive account. IF, this is the case, is there a way to have the syncing take place once a day rather than instant? I will be writing 5GB at a time and it took 20 seconds to write 60MB to this share! The initial write once I know everything is good, will be 500GB, this will probably take days - which is unacceptable.

ok forget it. I'm obviously completely lost. Maybe rclone just can't be used in the way I want it to be used - to write to an UNRAID share and have that share backed up to the cloud, but also have the local data protected by parity. I get a "some or all files are unprotected" after using the script to create the mnt This seems like a common and simple use case tbh

Hi guys - I posted my below post in General Support and was advised to come here as I am using the pluging ***************************************** Hi Folks been working on this issue for some time and have a few simple questions that would help clear up a lot of, what seems to me are some gaps in knowledge. Please bear with me for the wall of text, but each question leads to another depending on the answer, but I assure you I know enough to tell that this is probably something stupid I am missing. Quick background on the set up: 1. Brand new Ondrive account 2. Have a share that spans all disks called Media that points to folder /user/Media 3. Want to sync the Media share to the new OneDrive account 4. Can't decide if I should try to use the current folder /mnt/user/media as the local mount in the script or if I should create a new folder called /mnt/?/secure, copy data from /user/Media to /mnt/?/secure and then point the /user/Media share to /mnt/?/secure - I decided to go with the new folder and created /mnt/user/secure, I think this might be the problem 5. I will be editing files on the local storage and should automatically update OneDrive, but sync should also work in reverse I would assume I've completed everything up to the point of mounting everything but obviously screwed up somewhere where the instructions were not clear - I think I know where, as per below, here we go: I've completed the UNRAID / RCLONE from SpaceInvaders to get OneDrive working but at one point he asks to create the local mount in /mnt/disks/ QUESTION 1: There is no "/mnt/disks" in UNRAID. Only "/mnt/disk(disk number)". So I decided to use "/mnt/user/secure" as the local mount. Are we supposed to create the /mnt/disks directory, should it not already be there? This leads me to another question QUESTION 2: What is the "disks" directory supposed to be anyway, why doesn't my instance have it and why are we writing directly to it? I was under the impression that you really should not be writing to any disk directly and should always use the /user/ directory to let UNRAID figure out it's magic. Is this not the case here?? I know I am missing something here Moving forward. Current Script below, already ran it. Script: #Local Mount Point mntpoint="/mnt/user/secure" <<<<<<<<<<<<<< Is this wrong to put under /user as per above? #Remote Share remoteshare="secure:" mkdir - $mntpoint rclone mount --max-read-ahead 1024k --allow-other $remoteshare $mntpoint & ISSUE: After the script ran, I uploaded a 1mb doc to onedrive. I then navigate to "shares" GUI, shows the "secure" folder as unprotected and there is nothing in it, even though I just added a 1mb document into the appropriate folder in onedrive. I would expect to see it in the local /secure folder, why is it not there? Is the sync not instant? Again I am missing something obviously. ***********************************

It's the rclone plugin - 2020.09.29

Hi Folks been working on this issue for some time and have a few simple questions that would help clear up a lot of my inherent misconceptions. Please bear with me for the wall of text, but each question leads to another depending on the answer, but I assure you I can tell that this is probably something stupid I am missing and will be a quick thread. Quick background on the set up: 1. Brand new Ondrive account 2. Have a folder called /user/Media and a share /Media that spans all disks 3. Want to use onedrive to sync the Media share 4. Can't decide if I should try to use the current folder as the local mount or if I should create a new folder called /mnt/?/secure, copy data from /user/Media to /mnt/?/secure and then point the /user/Media share to /mnt/?/secure - you will see why I am using a '?' down below 5. I will be editing files on the local storage and should automatically update OneDrive, but sync should also work in reverse I would assume I've completed everything but obviously screwed up somewhere where the instructions we not clear - I think I know where as per below, here we go: I've completed the UNRAID / RCLONE from SpaceInvaders to get OneDrive working but at one point he asks to create the local mount in /mnt/disks/ QUESTION 1: There is no "/mnt/disks" in UNRAID. Only "/mnt/disk(disk number)". I used "/mnt/user" Are we supposed to create the /mnt/disks directory, should it not already be there? This leads me to another question QUESTION 2: What is the "disks" directory, why doesn't my instance have it and why are we writing directly to it? I was under the impression that you really should not be writing to any disk directly and should always use the /user/ directory to let UNRAID figure out it's magic. Is this not the case?? I know I am missing something here Moving forward. Current Script below, already ran it. Script: #Local Mount Point mntpoint="/mnt/user/secure" <<<<<<<<<<<<<< Is this wrong to put under /user as per above? #Remote Share remoteshare="secure:" mkdir - $mntpoint rclone mount --max-read-ahead 1024k --allow-other $remoteshare $mntpoint & ISSUE: After the script ran, I uploaded a 1mb doc to onedrive. I then navigate to "shares" GUI, shows the "secure" folder as unprotected and there is nothing in it, even though I added a 1mb document into the folder in onedrive. I would expect to see it in the /secure folder, why is it not there? Is the sync not instant? Thanks folks in advance, but please do not just post the link to the rclone page - I read it and still don't understand, hence posting here. Need a short discussion on it - this is how I learn.

Hi folks, I'm still having trouble connecting to OneDrive. I kinda walked away from setting this up after I got the token to work a few months ago. I believe it worked for a while but now the token no longer works. Does this token expire every so often? And if so, is there a way to auto refresh it? This kind of defeats the purpose of syncing if you have to get a new token after a certain amount of time. I'm reaching out to the forum because I don't have a second monitor right now to plug into the UNRAID server to go through the onedrive set up process again.

Well that's good, it's a CMR/PMR. Thank you for sending that over and putting me at ease. So it's probably that the ST4000DM000 drive is the culprit then.....or that this is some other issue with qbitorrent and UNRAID