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    [Solved] Registration key file is corrupted or missing

    in General Support

    Posted

    2 hours ago, johnnie.black said:

    Yes, problems with the flash drive:

      

    
May  9 04:40:03 NAS kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 30541) failed
May  9 04:40:03 NAS kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 30542) failed
May  9 04:40:03 NAS kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 30543) failed
May  9 04:40:03 NAS kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 30536) failed
May  9 04:40:03 NAS kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 30537) failed

     

    Try chkdsk to see if it's fixable, also make sure you're using a USB 2.0 port, not 3.0.

    I'm using a 3.0 input  as it has two in front, is that the reason why it has failed? 😮

    [Solved] Registration key file is corrupted or missing

    in General Support

    Posted · Edited by HAJFAJV

    Hey

     

    I have no idea what happened, I havn't used my nas for a few days and it has been running 24 7.

    I'm the type of person with way too many browser tabs open all the time and wanted to see something on the nas, and the gui was still running. However it said that I had some system noticfications disabled, so I clicked on the link and enabled it and hit apply, then I did something and it was disabled again, I thought that was odd and maybe I had clicked reset, so I tried again with same result. So I went and turned off the disks in the "main" tab when it was done with that my disks were not assigned which also seems a bit odd, but no big deal I could just assign them again, so I did. Now the "start" button is grayed out and there is a message saying, "Invalid, missing or expired registration key." which also seems a bit odd since I'm running the trial version and I believe that's a 30 day period or so, and I have been using it for 9 days more or less. But in the "Invalid, missing or expired registration key." you can click on registration key and you get taken to the "tools" tab and if you look at the screenshot it says the key is missing or corrupted, I'm a bit confused and don't really want to buy a key after trying a trial for 9 days that then corrupt the key or loses it, it seems a bit like saying, yes please sell me something that doesn't work for me :D

    But really I have no done anything up/download on the server in the days prior and it has been on all the time, so I really don't understand what has gone wrong here.

    Also I read that you can get your key from customer support but only once a year or something, and I don't want to do that after 9 days ;D

     

    One last thing, I want to attach a log file but how do I get it now that I can't even start the drives anymore?

     

     

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    SSD Instead of Thumb drive?

    in Storage Devices and Controllers

    Posted

    On 5/9/2019 at 5:53 PM, Squid said:

    No. Unraid loads the files from the flash, but executes completely from RAM. Even if you could load the OS from a ssd there is zero performance benefit from doing so

    Sent via telekinesis
     

    Oh thanks then it actually makes no sense why anyone would want a "fast" flash drive. Maybe I'm confusing Unraid with Freenas or something.

    On 5/9/2019 at 6:52 PM, primeval_god said:

    Just to add to Squid's response here. unRAID uses the USB flash drive in its licensing scheme, that is why it must be a USB flash drive. It doesnt need to be an expensive, fast or even a very large USB flash drive. Mine is a 16G USB2 Monster Digital one, cost like $5. 

    Thanks for helping clearing this up for me.

    SSD Instead of Thumb drive?

    in Storage Devices and Controllers

    Posted · Edited by HAJFAJV

    Is it possible to use one of my ssd's instead of a flash drive? I don't really have flash drives but many ssd's also I know what speed they are instead of having to buy a "really expensive" flash drive just for unraid, since I have the ssd's just lying around.

     

    Edit: I want to add that I did search on "ssd" before posting this, and it netted zero results.

    USB Flash Drives

    in Good Deals!

    Posted · Edited by HAJFAJV

    I read somewhere that you might want to switch usb drive for a faster one if you just slapped unraid on an old one you had on hand, but what is a fast usb drive?

     

    Edit:

    It seems that no matter which drive a search for on amazon half the comments are; "slow slow slow" -.-

    3TB HGST Refirbs (eBay Newegg) 55 cad

    in Good Deals!

    Posted

    9 hours ago, ashman70 said:

    I won't buy anything smaller than 6TB these days, simply not worth it for me. I also won't buy refurbed drives, while you can get lucky and get a deal, they usually come with limited warranties and I'd rather spend the extra few $$ to get the two or three year warranty. When the 8TB Seagate externals are on sale for $179 CAD then they are a deal and I'll buy a bunch, but I haven't see that price in awhile now so I am waiting. I have 17 of the 8TB Seagate's deployed between three of my unRAID servers, no issues in over three years.

    That's 130'ish USD, there is no way that's a 8 TB high reliability drive, right? :D

    Personally I never had any drive fail on me, the most dramatic thing I have seen was my diablo 2 CD shatter inside my optical drive.

    3TB HGST Refirbs (eBay Newegg) 55 cad

    in Good Deals!

    Posted

    9 hours ago, tr0910 said:

    The sweet spot right now is the 8tb drives.  Very affordable, and stable.  I really wouldn't recommend buying smaller drives today.  The WD and the Seagates both are working well.  Note that the Seagates 8tb Archives are SMR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording) and the WD are PMR (non shingled).  Exhaustive research here on the forum proved that SMR drives work good with unRaid.  Many are using them.  However if this worries you, grab the WD drives.  The best price is found in external USB drives that need to be shucked from their plastic cases to install bare metal into unRaid servers.  Note USB drives can be used with unRaid, as non-array storage, but the USB interface is not supported for array drives.  Shucking is required and for that you save $50 - $100 per drive.

     

    These newer 8tb drives are about twice as fast as the 3tb Hitachi's.  There are faster drives if you don't mind jumping to the 10tb, 12tb and 14tb size, but the increased speed is less than 20%.  You will however be paying at least double the price for a small increase in capacity and speed for the newest and largest drives.

    I thought external drives were like buying a prebuild pc at Wallmart, a bad deal compared to buying components. 50-100$ per drive is quite nice!

    Also if the higher capacity drives are actually faster then it's a no brainer, since you get more capacity per dollar with larger drives.

    Personally I just want to have somewhere to dumb raw video I use for youtube, so I don't really need that much storage yet. However in my use case large drives are perfect considering I just need to expand every now and then

    (SOLVED) Wrong disk showing

    in General Support

    Posted

    It seems to be a problem with my cache ssd, I stopped everything and remounted the 4 tb hdd to disk 2 instead of disk 1 and that didn't do anything, then I mounted it back on disk 1 and so everything was as when I started.

    I removed the cache ssd and that did also remove the folders, and then I remade the shared folder with on the hdd active, two things;

    it worked and I could see the 4 tb as the shared folder, secondly I then attached the cache ssd to see what would happen and now I could see the folders have 4.05 tb of capacity, so I guess that is the ssd and some wierd rounding since it is 128 gb, without the ssd cache it said 3.99 or something.

    but I'll just try a different ssd I have quite a few, a KingDian whatever that is, a few of the cheapest 128 mb Kingstons one Intel and one SP I think that's Silicon Power.

    (SOLVED) Wrong disk showing

    in General Support

    Posted

    1 hour ago, itimpi said:

    Is that quite true?     I would have thought you could start the array simply by assigning the disk?   Then when you start it would should up as unformatted and until you format it the space is not available for use.

    At least I couldn't I had to format before starting

    (SOLVED) Wrong disk showing

    in General Support

    Posted

    2 hours ago, trurl said:

    Not entirely clear what you did. You can't preclear a disk that is in the array. If you removed it from the array to preclear it, but haven't added it back to the array and formatted it, then its space isn't yet available.

    I removed it from the array, and precleared it. that took a while, then I added it to the same place again (unraid tells you that a disk is missing). then I started the array again and added it to the shared folder and that is when the screen capture comes in, it should show 4 tb more than it's.

    (SOLVED) Wrong disk showing

    in General Support

    Posted

    22 hours ago, witalit said:

    Yeah that should be fine then. Normally if a disk is included in a share the total space will show with all disks.. I see what you mean now total is only showing your cache.

     

    See what happens after you preclear disk and include it again.

     

    It just finished with the preclear but it still doesn't show the capacity in the free bracket

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    (SOLVED) Wrong disk showing

    in General Support

    Posted

    I cannot seem to move all the files from the ssd to the hdd so I downloaded Preclear and I'm running that atm, as I had already moved all content from the hdd to my other pc, just in case I did something stupid and sure enough :D

     

    Thanks for all you help btw, was really helpful, ty ❤️

    (SOLVED) Wrong disk showing

    in General Support

    Posted

    31 minutes ago, witalit said:

     

    What do you mean not showing? If the options to include cache were ticked before changing and you had wrote data to this share there will be data stored on your cache drive. To move this install the unBALANCE app from Community Apps to move the data. Once it is moved the small ! icon should disappear as no files are stored on cache anymore for that share - Link below gives a small explanation about excluding disks 

     

     

     

    Thank you for the explaination, I'll let you know how it went :)

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