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The results of the first pass of memtest after about 6 hours, I’m gonna let it run about 24 hours total.

Honestly, I can't say for certain so I apologize. I remember resetting the config in the past and never lost data. I think it just resets what drives unraid has in its memory. But if you're worried about it losing data, wait for someone who's more certain to chime in.

Are you able to go to tools>new config and check the tick box and click apply?

This all started back at the end of November, so about a month ago when I went from crucial SSD's for my cache drives (kept getting 197 errors on them) to Samsung 980 nvme drives. I installed 2 pci adapters to then install the 2, 2TB nvme's. I've been dealing with the server crashing anywhere from 2-4 days apart, consistently, and I can't find anything in the logs referencing what the issue is at the time it occurred. This morning 12/31/23 it crashed at roughly 10:11 am and the only thing I saw in the syslog was well before that at 9:02 am. I'm sure with everything that I've messed with over the past month, that there's things misconfigured as I've got more than one thing wrong with the server/disks at the moment. When it crashed at 10:11 am this morning, upon rebooting it, the docker containers are ALL gone, but the appdata and folders remain on the cache, and I do have them backed up, but it wouldn't let me restore. Something seems like it's corrupted now with the docker image but it won't let me access or delete it, on the server itself in the docker settings, or in the directory itself. I can navigate to /mnt/usr/system/docker/ but then it won't let me access the folder with the docker image in it because of file permissions it says. Also, one of my 12TB parity drives started giving me errors about a week ago so I replaced and upgraded those to 14TB drives. I still have the 2 crucial drives in the system, but they aren't mounted. Oh, also, I changed the cache file system to zfs from btrfs when I upgraded to the nvme's. Would someone mind poking around my diagnostics and see if you guys can point me in the right direction here? I'd surely appreciate it! Oh, I also am currently running memtest but it's 256GB so those results might be tomorrow before I see them. trailheadmedia-diagnostics-20231231-1212.zip

Unraid 6.12.6 So I have something I think I screwed up. I swapped cache drives and used the mover to move everything from the cache drives to the array, everything went very well. The folders moved were the appdata, domains, system, and a folder I call mymedia. The last one is a folder in which all of my mappings to certain folders within "mymedia" exist for things like Emby, DVR recordings, and other docker mounted targets. The problem began when I moved everything back from the array to the cache, it moved EVERY folder on the "mymedia" share so now it lists everything on the array in that folder, not just the ones that I had previously mapped for its exact purpose. Now everything in that mymedia folder is showing under that share in Unraid. Not ideal. Is there any common sense way to fix this besides deleting the whole share and remapping everything?

Will do, thanks!

Did this ever get solved? Dealing with the same issue and am running into nothing but dead ends. I have the same crashing issue and timeouts…I also have 10Gbe nics in my server too…

So I’ve got this all up and running and have purchased my pro license. Very happy so far. I’ve recently started messing with a couple VM’s and instantly realized 3 problems I need help solving. I’ve been reading for 3 evenings straight on GPU install in this server and I’m more confused now than ever. The 3 problems are my graphics look like garbage, not full screen even when remote accessed with proper software...mouse has tracers, icons look grainy. Problem 2, I have zero sound. 3rd, and possibly the most annoying, my mouse scroller doesn’t work in my VM’s. I don’t do any gaming or need any extreme performance, I just want my VM’s resolutions to look proper on a 27” monitor, nice and crispy and my sound and mouse roller to work. Can someone please help me cut through the trauma and point me towards a solution for these 3 problems? Please 😂 TIA

Man, this restored write speeds to 130 MB/s consistently, thank you SO much! Saved my Unraid install...I was about to abort! Thanks @Vexorg

Well the drive write cache is disabled by default. Found this thread thanks @Vexorg and it worked perfectly...back to 111 MB/s transfer speeds writing to Unraid. You my friend, saved my Unraid install...As for the severe delay on stopping the array, it seemed to resolve itself with a fresh install on another USB drive. Hope this helps someone else...

Alright, here you go. Priority is obviously what's wrong with it taking so long to shutdown and stop the array, but figuring out why it goes from 111 MB/s down to 11 MB/s on the transfer sure would be a sweet bonus. Anything else would be much appreciated, seriously.

Anything in particular from the diagnostics files I should upload or just the whole zip?

Thanks @jpowell8672 I’m just wondering if it’s because this is my first time, or it’s a brand new setup, or what...but I can’t imagine this is normal behavior. Opened files plugin shows 1873 PID running with 4 files open but if I kill it, I have to do so in the terminal, the plugin button opens a blank window and does nothing...the terminal kills it, but it doesn’t seem to change anything. Still 45 minutes to stop the array and reboot. I’ve since rebooted and disabled parity so I can get the media transferred and then I’ll re-enable it. I would LOVE to get to the bottom of this and not give up ha!

What type of information would you guys need from me to help me figure out why it takes 45 minutes to stop my array? I'm trying to transfer data and it works for 15-20 minutes at 1 Gbps then it drops abysmally slow down to 11 MB/s. I noticed it was when the fix common problems message pops up is when the speeds drag, so that's prompted me to do a couple stoppages of the array today and it literally takes 45 minutes to stop it and actually execute the powerdown -r command. I don't wanna give up on this, but something tells me you guys don't wait 45 minutes for your array to stop...TIA

Now the web UI isn't accessible by firefox, but I can get it in chrome...lol, never ends

Holy effing holy! Boy, sure would be cool if this was in the documentation...legacy mode works, UEFI is NOT compatible with this particular Dell server...4 years old.

Negative, I am trying to run it on a machine that all the drive data has been wiped from. I just don't know anything about any of this so I'm just spitballing. I did just figure out a setting I missed so we are about to see if legacy mode was the answer this whole time...shortly

Could it be because I have zero vitrual disks setup, only physical?

Tried 3 different USB flash drives of multiple manufacturers and even different USB ports like the ones on the front and the back, not the problem. I'm thinking it has to have something to do with my servers config that I haven't figured out. I must have missed something in the settings. Hate to say it, but after 2 nights of this I'm about to throw in the towel...

Awesome, glad you found the issue...I would have never figured out to look in iDrac.

Which makes me think of another question...Once I get it up and running, assuming I figure this out, should I swap out the rear 147GB SAS drives for 480GB SSD's or would there be no performance benefits there? Also, my apologies @trurl, somehow my eyes glazed right over the "2" after you asked if it was a USB2 port.

It's a 2.0 port

I am booting from the same port on the board that I was able to successfully boot ESXi from. It's internal, right on the board in front of the flex bay backplane. I'm going to try a different brand USB drive tonight. The imation nano's I used were identical and they did have a unique serial number attached to them, which unraid says is a prerequisite.

Howdy folks! Pleasure to be on the forum...Although, I'm in need of a little help. So, I tried for about 3 hours last night to install unraid on one of my servers and was unsuccessful. I did make a lot of drastic changes last night to my system so I'm curious if I potentially missed something. Little history...Machine is a Dell R720XD LFF with dual Xeon E5-2680 v2 processors 256GB memory 12 x 3.5" 3TB SAS and 2 2.5" SAS in the flex bay. Raid card WAS an H710 mini and I ordered and swapped it last night with the passthrough H310 mini. I went in the config and cleared the current raid config and switched ALL the drives to non-raid. Previous to the swap, I transferred all the data from the 12 front drives that were running in RAID 6 on the H710 to another network attached storage, but I left the two rear drives data intact but cleared the RAID 1 config they were in. I also went into the system config and made the internal USB the first and prioritized boot device in the UEFI boot manager. I ran the unraid USB creator tool, customized, correct network info, UEFI bootable, ran the make_bootable as administrator and I get nothing but an install that won't start or initialize. This machine will install and boot ESXi no problem on the internal USB port. I am getting the following attached error, see picture. I have tried 2 different thumb drives, both of them are identical in make and model 16GB imation nano. I will try a different brand but I'm just not sure what to order on Amazon. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I really want to see what this unraid is all about...TIA