Zenergy

First, I should be honest... I blindly followed an LLM becuase setting this up was out of my comfort zone and now I am in this mess... lol I did indeed update my BIOS in doing this. It was recommended i turn off Resize Bar and a bunch of other settings to make the passthrough better for the VM. then i noticed my BIOS was 2 versions old, so updated it. I never thought about removing the Binding, just to confirm that is all those check marks items in Tools > System Devices? I did not plug my new boot drive into my 2070 :) It's happily sitting in the furthest spot from my exhust. infering from your post... I should unbind the 2070super, reboot... rebind reboot and try again?

I’ve been running a new Unraid (lastest 7x) server solid for almost a year with zero issues. Recently I decided to set up a Bazzite gaming VM with GPU passthrough. That’s when everything went sideways. Here’s the pattern: • Unraid boots fine • Array starts fine • Docker is fine • The moment I try to start the Bazzite VM (or even open the VM tab sometimes), Unraid throws “Your flash drive is corrupted or offline” • The flash drive gets remounted read‑only • VM won’t start, and the array can’t be stopped cleanly At first I assumed the USB stick was dying. I replaced it with a brand‑new one, transferred the license, restored config, and… the exact same thing happened. So it’s not the USB. I reset the BIOS to defaults. Same issue. In my case, the crash only happened when the VM services loaded, which explains why the array and everything else looked normal until that moment. Disabling VMs in Settings → VM Manager instantly stopped the issue. Array starts clean, no flash errors. Re‑enabling VMs brings the problem back. So I am gussing it's tied to passthrough, not the USB. i've tried rebuilding the VM from scratch using the simplest possible config (Q35‑7.1, OVMF, SATA vdisk, GPU only, no USB controller passthrough, no TPM). but that starts and my entire unraid server becomes slow and unusable... Posting this in case someone knows how to resolve this “flash corrupt” message only when starting a VM with GPU passthrough. 12600k 128gb Mem 2070Super 30tb Z2 3tb Arrary (mixed SSD, NvME)

For some inexplicable reason, every time I reboot my NAS, I have to move the Unraid flash drive to a different USB port for it to boot properly. I know this isn’t really an Unraid issue, but I’m at a loss on how to resolve it. A bit of context:I recently upgraded my video editing machine and decided to retire my old QNAP 670 Pro (which was running Unraid) and build something new. To save some money, I reused the motherboard and CPU from my old PC for the new NAS — so I know the hardware is solid. Specs: Intel 12600K 128GB RAM 30TB ZFS pool (connected via HBA) 2TB cache 4TB SSD array for fast editing (connected via HBA) Standard set of home dockers: Home Assistant, the ARRs, Rustdesk, Unifi, etc. After setting up my pools and everything else, I did a reboot just to confirm all was working. It took a long time to come back online, so I plugged in a monitor — black screen. Tried the reset button, power cycling — same result. The system powers on, the monitor engages, but there’s no BIOS splash, no output at all. Then I had a weird idea: maybe the Unraid flash drive doesn’t like USB 3.0. So I unplugged my keyboard, moved the flash drive to a USB 2.0 port — and boom, it booted like nothing was wrong. Now, I’ve rebooted the rig at least three times (most recently after upgrading my trial key to a lifetime license), and every time I have to move the USB stick to a different port to get it to boot. And yes, I’m only using ports directly connected to the motherboard. I’m stuck on how to troubleshoot this.My plan is to order a DOM from eBay and wait for it to ship overseas… but if this issue persists with the DOM, I’m in for a world of pain every time I need to reboot. Things I’ve confirmed:Secure Boot is disabled Only the flash drive is listed in the boot sequence Motherboard firmware is up to date Any thoughts or suggestions? Has anyone run into something similar? I’d really appreciate any help or ideas.

I have a 12TB Unraid, OneDrive, Amazon Photo, ShareFile and two others back up strategies to backup all our data, I take backing up seriously. But I CAN NOT get my SO to back up her external USB drive. She won't do it; she is just trying to drive me crazy. It's photos, photo book project, Cricut crap etc. She does use two computers hence the USB drive. My problem is the external drive has exceeded the available storage on her internal drive. What is the best strategy to automate backing up a USB drive when connected to the laptop, directly to the cloud (OneDrive) without copying to a local computer first. I am thinking I could use some sort of sync strategy USB to the NAS, and then I can slowly upload the changes to the cloud, but I need help with a workflow. Any suggestions, advice?

I would love some assistance finding the cause of my log file to fill up. Please see attached, and thank you in advance! /var/log is getting full (currently 100 % used) q-nas-diagnostics-20231112-1020.zip

Just a quick short out to all that helped me! I took the low and slow approach, and I am fully upgraded. cheers!

Thank you everyone for the advice!!! What is tripping me up is that the insutctions say the parity drive can not be bigger than the data drives. So when I have two parity drives, how do I do one and not the other?

While I LOVE arguing sematic, this one, i will concede. I am running two parity drives so my question still stands, how do i tweak the instructions to replace both? I received 6x 7200 Red Pro 4TB drives, used, but used far less than my current ones to replace my 6x 5400 3Tb Red. I have assumed that I would see a boost in R/W performance when I replace the drives. Also, I know where these drives were used, so I can trust where they came from.

My request is simple, I would like to update my little NAS to a slightly larger little NAS. I have always been data lose cautious and always ran raid 6 (I took all the articles in the 2010's seriously, RAID 5 IS DEAD). I currently have the OG 3TB Reds and have recently been gifted a set of newer 4TB Red Pro for the slight boost in speed. From readind i need to upgrade my parity drives first, but my concern is all the instructions posted are for setups with one parity drive and not two. How do I tweak the instuctions for two parity drives? Thank you!