I think it is time to say I give.

[gumby327]

I have been trying to make a stable unRAID server as many of you may know for weeks now.  I finally got really close to a working build ... down to final parity check complete and usable ... it said key missing or what ever like it always does.  So I rebooted to get it back and gone.  I have nothing, will not boot.  you want to see a grown man cry, ... tons of data loaded and now this.

[JonathanM]

1 hour ago, gumby327 said:

I have nothing, will not boot. 

What exactly does that mean? No POST, no video, flashing cursor, etc...

 

There are many different flavors of no boot, most hardware related.

[gumby327]

the old USB would not detect it kept sending me to bios.  made a new one and it goes to the logon prompt but the interface is not loading

 

[JonathanM]

USB 2.0?

[gumby327]

Yes 2.0    It was the plague of multiples.  The USB is toast it shows as raw.  I have a old backup I am placing on another USB.  I know it is a major setback.  The second of the problems was that I made my lan wire loose all the yanking on the heavy server.  So it was not finding network.

 

Edited December 22, 2021 by gumby327

[gumby327]

I think (I feel) the old USB flash drive failure may have been my problem all along.  So, I am willing to try one more Parity-Sync.  I think this is my 10th.

[gumby327]

So, last night when I went to bed it said 6 hours remaining in the Parity-Sync.  Today it says more than a day.

[gumby327]

today I turned off FTP and stopped Plex Docker and Parity-Sync is now just over an hour away from being done.

 

[gumby327]

Let me follow up on this.  The new USB flash drive has been working just fine since that day.  There have been problems of course, but when you use this much hardware things are bound to come up.