Hello,

 

Ive read up on parrity and the settings options.  Not writing corrections to Parity I feel is the right choice for my plex server.  So far i have a 12TB HDD and a 500GB HDD in the array.  Will be swapping out the 500 for another 12TB when needed.  I have a 12TB HDD as parity.  

Below ive clicked that check assuming to set it to not write corrections.  Once i do and navigate away and return to the Main it is checked on again.  I do have a schedule set up to check parrity every 3 months; in those settings i have marked dont write.  I also have to run parrity weekly for one hour(just because to maybe avoid the full day parrity check-if this thinking is unneccessary please let know).

 

Essentially does it matter if i have a schedule set like i do or if neccessary to ensure not writing corrections to parrity; what am i missing to save the setting?

 

Thanks for reading.

 

Hitock

 

 

That setting only applies to manually started parity checks, but the scheduled parity check should be correcting by default.

6 hours ago, JorgeB said:

That setting only applies to manually started parity checks, but the scheduled parity check should be correcting by default.

Thanks appreciate the answer.  Makes sense.  

On 1/19/2025 at 3:36 PM, JorgeB said:

the scheduled parity check should be correcting by default

Typo?

 

The scheduled parity check should not be correcting

22 minutes ago, trurl said:

Typo?

 

The scheduled parity check should not be correcting

I changed my recommendation, I did some retesting recently, and I now believe the possible parity corruption issues that could happen if there's a read error, only apply to some older Seagate disks, which should no longer be in use, that would explain why I haven't seen any case of the happening in at least the last 6 or more years.

Ok.  Thx.  I have it set up to auto parity check every 90 days and not write errors to parity.  I also have 1 hour cumulative turned on weekly.  So I won’t need the manual.