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Thank you very much for your help! I really appreciate the link you sent as well, that was exactly what I needed. The drive is rebuilt and healthy now. I've deleted some old 'stuff' from the drive/shares, and set minimum free space on the shares that get heavily used. Thank you again!

I was actually trying to resolve a merge issue with Veeam Agent for Windows by running a full backup, and my drive on the main PC is right at 2TB used... so yikes, I have some definite configuration issue going on here. I'll start the rebuild process (have to look up how to do that), and then it sounds like I need to set a minimum free space for my drives and then choose some different targets to overflow onto, if I'm using the right terminology?

Good morning everyone, I was running a full backup of my main PC to my Unraid server and woke up this morning to a disabled device. Looks like it has had a write error, but there's currently no SMART errors reported on the dashboard for it. Could someone please take a look at my diagnostics and let me know what my next step should be? The disk is full it seems from the backup and I'm not sure if I have a misconfiguration or some action I should take to free space, there's several other drives in the server that are open to use, but aren't I believe because of the way it's set to use them. Thank you for reading, and any advice you could provide! tower-diagnostics-20230126-0819.zip

Hmm, I missed the option... didn't see it I think, I would have checked that box.

Ah, I didn't spot it! Thank you!! Though in the end I suppose it didn't really matter. I ran a new config and I have all my shares back and the parity disks are syncing now. Thanks everyone!

I'm hoping I won't have to deal with that for a long time, but I'll be taking extra steps I think to try to mark what's what. So in looking at the drives, I can tell which ones were the parity drives, and which 3 WD's were the data drives, the 1.2-1.8TB SAS dries didn't have any data on them yet since I had just recently brought up the Dell server and thankfully nothing had hit those drives yet. With the parity drives though I can't tell which was parity 1 and which was parity 2, does that matter, is there a way for me to determine that? Unassigned devices plugin helps to see that clearly with the parity/data, but luckily the two WD drives are WD80EFAX drives, so easy to tell apart from the data drives which are all WD80EMAZ... however, if I make a new config, does the order of the data drives matter?? I'm really hoping to (of course) not lose any data/backups/pictures, etc.

Yes, both servers have (had?) RAID array controllers in them that connect the MB to the hot swap backplane. Both controllers though I had in HBA mode, so they pass through the disks directly, RAID functions are disabled in HBA mode, which may be a contributing factor here, but I think this is more a matter that the disks are identifying differently (with more information it seems?) than they were on the last controller.

Sorry for the quick quoted reply, but I opened up the webui in Edge and it's populated, so I'm guessing some caching issue in Brave. Here's the Array/pool shots!

I'm going to have to reboot the server I guess, this happens once in a while, including on the old hardware as well, the drives are there but everything is blank.

Hmm... not that I know of on the daily array health report, is there somewhere I can look that it might be stored? I do have the server in My Servers if there's anything that may be there? Diagnostics attached. tower-diagnostics-20220911-1617.zip

Hi everyone, Sadly I had a server that just decided to up and stop powering on at all, out of warranty of course and I don't have the funds to buy components to swap out hardware to see what failed (most likely motherboard I think). I've swapped from the (dead) Dell R730XD server to an HP DL380 Gen8 server, but Unraid isn't able to automatically recognize the drives, or at least most of them. I can work out what some of them are, but when I do select that it says "Wrong" now instead of missing. For the ones that I can't identify, because I have several WD 8TB drives, what can I do? I had two WD 8TB parity drives, and data drives consisting of three WD 8TB drives, one Seagate 4TB drive, and several other 1.2-1.8 SAS drives, some of those 1.2's I couldn't move into the HP server as I was missing enough drive trays to move them all. I did try to search the forums but didn't come up with something similar, likely my fault in search terms I think! I do have the HP P420i array controller in HBA mode thanks to another post on the forums, so I should be set there, but I think due to the controller differences it's getting more(?) information from the drives and that doesn't match what it had previously.

I'm having difficulty locating this via searching in CA, and my normal method of narrowing results by encasing search terms in quotes doesn't seem to net me less results, or any depending on how I format... how can I find this package in CA's search?

Thank you!! I can see my data drives now, I didn't set parity yet, but will do that now. Thank you everyone who's chipped in here, you all have been extremely helpful and I really appreciate it! Great community!

I've generated a new USB stick, Unraid is running, I assigned all the drives and started the array. SDB and SDE came up as unmountable, so my parity drives. I stopped the array and tried setting everything to no device, then Parity 1 SDB, Parity 2 SDE, then Disk 1, 2, and 3 the remaining drives, but I'm not able to start the array, it's telling me Wrong on those 3 drives, and Missing on the last 2, do I need to clear a config somehow?

and hooray (sarcasm) for SMR drives.... going to take a while to generate, but at least I have a path! I'll be working on this today.

Thanks Squid!!

Unfortunately I can't recall which drives were set for parity... they are all WD 8TB drives and I set it up almost a year ago. Is it possible to plug the drives into a windows machine and read the drives?

Looks like I might be in trouble then, the config folder has two folders in it, SSL and plugins-removed. So now I guess I need to set it up again... I know my data is all still there, but I don't know the drives order, etc.

Yes, it is. Whoever wrote the batch file did a great job, it called it out that the volume name needed to be UNRAID, once I set that, it made the drive bootable, but the web interface doesn't come up, and looks like the root password was wiped out.

I can't seem to find an exact match to my issue here, please forgive if it's addressed elsewhere, I did try to search it out, just coming up blank. So my (bonehead) 18 year old needed a USB stick, and you guessed it, pulled my Unraid stick. He did copy the drive contents to his desktop first, then formatted the drive. I copied the files back over again, but it was unbootable. I then ran the makeboot.bat, which did get it booting, but the web interface isn't coming up. I'm able to SSH into the box, but it's not prompting for a password when I log in as root. Am I totally buggered here?

Yeah, I wasn't very clear there, I should have said something like "is it literally any attached mass storage/hard drive, or does it only count against drives that can be used as storage. I was curious if the parity drives counted against the number of devices or not, since (as far as I am aware) can't be used to store files on.

Hey everyone, I'm currently using a trial of Unraid. I've got 4 array/storage drives no cache drive and two parity drives, so I think a Basic license would cover me, but if I ever wanted to add more drives I'm unsure of I need to step up to the middle-tier. I've seen it said that all attached drives count for licensing, but I've also seen it said that cache/array/unassigned drives count. So I'm looking for clarification, is is literally any attached storage device (parity/cache/array, but not the USB boot drive), or does it only count against drives that can be used for storage? Thanks!