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Tried this, it couldn't find anything. Appreciate the suggestion, I'm going to hold on to this program! Ultimately ended up using the Unassigned Devices plugin to find my parity drives. I wasn't sure of the order of the disks so after assigning my parity drives, I just assigned everything else to a slot (and created the cache pool with my two cache drives) and started the array. Parity is rebuilding but nothing was lost. My setup isn't that complex so rebuilding parity and reinstalling the Docker apps was the most challenging thing...and that is pretty simple stuff. While the USB may not have been backed up anywhere, all of my important files are backed up to Crashplan so I wasn't up against a catastrophic data loss or anything. Even setting up the Docker containers again was a breeze because all of the data is saved on the cache drive. It recognized everything and I was back in business within minutes of starting the array. Thanks for the help!

Long story short, my USB drive is toast. It happens. It's over 10 years old. Can't read it, windows views it as a RAW disk and wants to format it. I've tried everything from moving it to a new USB slot, etc...all with no luck. I have setup a new USB drive and transferred my key to it. Now I need to start the array. Herein lies the problem. I don't know what my array config was and don't have a backup (I don't think, anyway). I used to have a script back it up, but stopped using it a couple months ago. Problem is, it would be saved on my cache drive. Should I just load up all disks as disks to figure out which ones have data and which ones were parity? Then stop the array and reassign the parity drives (I run two) and rebuild the parity? Or should I build the cache pool, assign those drives (I know which drives were my cache) as well as the 8TB and lower disks (also know those were all data drives) and see if my config is backed up on my cache?

I'm doing something similar, but my new motherboard supports NVMe drives so my plan is to add two drives and move my cache to one of them. Should I just boot server and start the array with the two NVMe drives left unassigned, just to make sure everything started and is running fine? Then after that's finished, add the NVMe drives in to the cache pool? Or should I fire everything up first just to confirm everything works, then physically install the drives in to the motherboard and add to Unraid?