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Looks like a bad ram stick, I ran memtest86 with one stick and memory passed. When I put the other stick in and ran memtest86 with both in it is showing failures. I have opened a ticket with corsair. Thanks

Server crashed again last night, I have the syslog file and the most resent diag dump from the flash drive. Thanks syslog ultimate-diagnostics-20240411-0918.zip

Here are the new SysLog settings.

Ok, I will make the change. It will probably be a week or two before another crash happens. I will post again after the next crash. Thanks

Ok, here is the screenshot. Thanks

I built a new server and it runs great for a few weeks and then locks up, when it locks up I can't access it from the server with a monitor and keyboard, it won't reboot with ctrl-alt-del and it won't do a graceful shutdown by pressing the power button on the server. The only way to get it working again is to force a shutdown with the power button. This has happened 3 times since building the server. When the server starts up it starts running a parity sync, while the sync is running it takes about 3 mins to switch tabs or click on a docker GUI. I enabled the syslog server when the trouble occurred the first time, but I don't see any files after I boot up. After the parity sync finishes the server run great and switching tab or looking a docker pages is instant! ultimate-diagnostics-20240411-0918.zip

Great! Thanks again for sticking around and helping me out! I will wait until parity is rebuilt before moving any files, then I guess my next step will be to replace that old system with a new one. At least I will only need cpu motherboard and ram.

Ok, that sounds easier and if all else fails I can just rip them from the dvd's again. So about the shares, in the system folder I have my docker vd and it is on the array, should it be on the cache disk instead? Also do you see anything else I can do to straighten out my server?

Luckily I do have backups, I thought on the gui of the tv show and bluray movies that I could use the move command and put them on the cache disk then have the mover put them back. Does that sound like it would work?

here are the results of the cmds you asked for, and I found lots of movies and tv shows using the gui. There are 177 folders in the TV shows section so I didn't screenshot it but the movies one was much shorter. Anyway here are the results

Ok, here is the screenshot of the compute Yes, I find the shares and appdata part of unraid a bit hard to understand. I added the second pool to move plex from the main pool because everything was running at a snails pace, after moving plex everything started running much faster.

It looks like I will need to replace the old hardware, is it hard to move everything to a new motherboard? Also, I do have a lost & found folder, can that help with the recovery? How do process those files? I was surprised as how much of my data was still there! Thanks for sticking with me though this disaster! ultimate-diagnostics-20240223-1322.zip

Hope you had a good sleep! I finally found out what my trouble was, I have a bad pc express slot and that's what was causing all of the trouble. I now have everything going the way it should, the parity drives are rebuilding. I will get you a new diag tomorrow, but I thought I would share a screenshot showing the good stuff! Thanks again

I rebooted and started the new config. Disk 3 is disabled and disk 2 is emulated. but I'm not seeing io errors now. Should I stop the system again? I really don't know why I am getting any errors, the drives all passed without error. The only thing I can do is shut down and move those drives back on to the mother board, should I do that, or just let things run for now? ultimate-diagnostics-20240222-1914.zip

I could not stop the parity check and it wasn't doing anything so I rebooted and I am going to do the new config, sorry I should have listened to you in the first place. I will post a new diag after the new config and parity check.

Well, the parity check is not going well, I am seeing lots of errors, should I just stop the parity check and create a new config? Here is a dump ultimate-diagnostics-20240222-1840.zip

would it be better to do a new config?

Just thought I would try copying my backup of the config folder to the flash drive and booted up, everything came up except drive 3, I looked on disk 2 and there is a folder with lost & found, can I fix that data?

Sorry, I missed that, ok, I will clench my teeth and go for it! Thanks for your help.

Ok, I do have a full flash drive backup from when the system was working, can that be of any help? If not how do I create a new config? Thanks

Ok, all the 16tb drives passed with no errors. I put the drives back in the system and booted up, the array did not start due to an invalid configuration. So I went no farther, this diag dump is after installing the 2 drives and booting up. Thanks ultimate-diagnostics-20240222-1610.zip

ok, will do. Thanks for all your help and patience! I won't have the drives back in until tomorrow.

Ok, I have 2 drives out of the system right now, running the disk scan on them, so this diag dump will be missing those disks. ultimate-diagnostics-20240221-1824.zip

Just a quick update, I ran a short self test on the drives that were giving me read errors and the all passed, I was going to run the long test but it would take about 30 hours. I have also been running spinrite on parity drive 1 and it is almost complete and found no errors, so I don't know why I was getting the read errors. The sata cables off of the broadcom card are brand new and had no issues in the beginning. I can connect the drives back to the motherboard but I was getting lots of random errors. Should I use the flash backup on the flash drive? I have never done that before, is it just a matter of extracting it to the flash drive? I plan on running disk 2 on spinrite level 2 to check for errors but it will take 21 hours to complete. If you aren't familiar with spinrite, check it out at grc.com if you want, it's an incredible piece of software. I can see that the data is still on the drives, so if I can get the array running again with no drive issues how can I recover the data? Thanks

Thanks, I do have a complete Flash drive backup I made a few days ago when everything was working properly.