So I am a complete noob, and I am fairly certain that I have lost my data. But I am in hopes that I am wrong, and you all can help me salvage 15 years worth of my life. 

I recently moved my HTPC to Unraid. I wanted to ensure that I did not lose my movie collection. After several days waiting for parity to successfully complete, I rebooted my machine as I needed to address some mounting issues with my SSD cache. Upon powering the machine back up, I no longer had access to my cache pool. When I pulled my drives and look at them via Windows disk manager, they show partitions and I can access them… As much as you can access BTFS in windows. I attempted to get them to populate multiple times with no luck. So I read on another form post that someone had luck with doing a new config… So I did…. Now I still can't see my cache drives… and I can't get my array to spin up. I am fairly certain that I did that part right, as I did “Preserve current assignments." Any help is greatly appreciated, I have been working on this project for over a month and have moved from HexOS, to TrueNAS, to Unraid. I want the reliability of raid, but at this point the complexity and my lack of knowledge are shining through. I REALLY don't want to go back to windows as I have grown to despise it, but I am not sure what to do. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.dionysus-diagnostics-20250203-2237.zip

Edited February 4, 20251 yr by Jman3885
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Please don't attempt to work with Unraid disks in Windows.

 

Post screenshots of Main - Array Devices and Main - Pool Devices and Main - Unassigned Devices

Also a screenshot of Main - Array Operations

The Image in Light mode is the original Cache setup. As you can see, they are not showing at all. The only reason I attached the drives to a Windows machine was to ensure that they functioned. As soon as I could see them, I removed them.  I removed the cache pool as I couldnt get the array to start with it missing. So even now I cant get it to spin up.

Edited February 4, 20251 yr by Jman3885
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Also a screenshot of Main - Array Operations <<< Unsure what screen you are asking for.

Sorry, I meant Array Operation without the s at the end. It is the last tab in your other Main screenshots

All good, I am a lil slow sometimes.

I didn't see those pool disks in diagnostics. How are they attached?

You should disable Docker in Settings until everything is working well.

In my first post with the screenshots, I stated that I had deleted the pool devices as they were not recognizing... Dumb move, but I could not activate the array with them attached. After having my machine sit for 40 min, I now have the array active, but still can't detect the other 3 SSD's that were in the pool. I have the 2 18 TB drives that I moved data from and the onboard NVMe

Do you mean they aren't attached currently?

2 minutes ago, Jman3885 said:

I now have the array active

Post new diagnostics

Ok, the screenshot in light mode has (3) 4TB drives listed. Those drives WERE my cache pool. Since I could not get the (4) 24TB drives in the Array to spin up due to the Cache pool having missing drives, I deleted it. As I know that Cache drives are not necessary for this to work. However, I still can't get the 3 previous cache drives to be recognized by Unraid. When I am 100% positive that they are functional. The only thing I can think of is that the 3D-Printed mounting brackets for the drive bays aren't letting them seat. But the drives are flush and click into place.

 

dionysus-diagnostics-20250203-2339.zip

15 minutes ago, trurl said:

You should disable Docker in Settings until everything is working well.

Looks like it has already recreated all that on the array. Disable for now and we can clean it up later.

 

Can you see those pool disks in BIOS?

 

Way past bedtime. I'll be back about 9am EST.

I'm back.

7 hours ago, trurl said:

Can you see those pool disks in BIOS?