Hello all,

 

I'm moving from TrueNas to Unraid using my NAS enclosure and drives (QNAP TS-673A 6 drives). My hardware configuration is as follows:

 

   6 drive array (1 parity drive) with BTRFS.

   2 NVME 1Tb drives assigned to cache.

   1 64Gb USB drive for boot.

 

As for additional software I've installed the BinHex Plex server, placing the docker containers data in the cache pool, and assigning the plex media share to reside on disk1.

 

The installation and management of Unraid was very easy and Im positive I'll purchase the license. However compared to TruNas there's a peculiar behavior when using Unraid; Four of my disk activity lights continuously blink as if the drives are being accessed. The web page shows all drives are on standby, and I verified this via smartctl on the terminal.

 

Any idea as to what could be causing this ??

Attach Diagnostics to your NEXT post in this thread.

Here is the diag report

Unconfirmed 514408.crdownload

You must have attached the file before download was complete. It should be a .zip file named for your server and timestamp

I was able to open it.

 

Your docker share has files on the array. These files are always open.

Well I re-ran the diagnostics two more times and after the animation stops, I select DONE and there's no zip file on my desktop, only the file that I uploaded. I'm using a Mac system, don't know if that might be the issue.

 

I do see that in disk1 there's a docker folder that contains the docker.img. I assume this the file you are referring to, so I found a solution on the forum and moved the docker files to the cache, re-install the plex app and all seems to work fine except the 4 lights on the QNAP are still blinking away....

Attaching new diag report, no zip file generated. How do I open this file so I can see the text

 

 

Unconfirmed 430608.crdownload

6 hours ago, theohose said:

The web page shows all drives are on standby, and I verified this via smartctl on the terminal.

The web page is also using smartctl. Maybe this is the correct answer regardless of what the leds say.

You must confirm you want to keep the file in the browser when downloading, for it to get correctly renamed to zip, but it's complete, it just makes us have to rename it first.

 

As for the LED issue, there probably won't be much you can do, possibly some firmware issue with the controller, do also see the lights blinking if the drives are spun up but idle?

 

So I re-ran the diags and sure enough (if I'm looking at the screen) on Chrome, there's a tiny "keep" next to the file on a dropdown dialog that quickly disappears and it does generate a .zip file; Thanks..

So oddly enough when the array is spun up and idle all six lights are on but steady; I can live with this either way but just bring this up to the attention of the developers (if they monitor this forum) that this is not a controller issue as the same hardware does not exhibit this behavior when running TrueNas Scale. I was using ZFS now BTRFS, that may give a clue.

 

Thanks 

 

40 minutes ago, theohose said:

same hardware does not exhibit this behavior when running TrueNas Scale.

And were you spinning the disks down? I believe TrueNAS does not support spin down, at least no natively, or were the lights not steady when idle?

Yes the drives did spin down, it was not outside TrueNas but I forget how I set it up, it was a few years back. The drives only blink when they were accessed all of them as I did not have the ability to for example isolate the Plex media to one drive (really like that feature) and so when I play a movie the whole array spun up.

Otherwise activity lights were on.