Hi All,

 

I have been running an unraid server so long I don't remember when I started.  At least 8 years ago.  I have gone through two sets of hardware, but my last hardware has been running for years now (knock on wood!).  In this entire time, I've only had two drives fail I believe (WD green drives).  The server is for my home and runs 24/365. 

 

I just rebuilt the array due to one drive getting some errors on it.  I had just purchased a drive to make the array bigger, then immediately had to (1) use my hot spare as another array drive and (2) use the new drive as my hot spare.  Now, I'll have to buy another drive.  However, it was incredibly easy to do.  I printed out the configuration, shut down the server, found the bad drive, replaced it with the new drive, started up the server, remapped the hot spare/cache drive as an array drive, and started rebuilding the array.  I then used the tutorial to remember how to initialize the new drive and did that.  Within a day, I'm back to having the array rebuilt and having a hot spare cache drive.

 

I'm still on version 4.7.  I have 6TB of storage (2.0, 1.5, 15. and 1.0 TB drives), a 2TB cache drive, and a 2TB parity drive. 

 

So, from my perspective, your product is great.  I just wanted you to know.

 

Hi All,

 

I have been running an unraid server so long I don't remember when I started.  At least 8 years ago.  I have gone through two sets of hardware, but my last hardware has been running for years now (knock on wood!).  In this entire time, I've only had two drives fail I believe (WD green drives).  The server is for my home and runs 24/365. 

 

I just rebuilt the array due to one drive getting some errors on it.  I had just purchased a drive to make the array bigger, then immediately had to (1) use my hot spare as another array drive and (2) use the new drive as my hot spare.  Now, I'll have to buy another drive.  However, it was incredibly easy to do.  I printed out the configuration, shut down the server, found the bad drive, replaced it with the new drive, started up the server, remapped the hot spare/cache drive as an array drive, and started rebuilding the array.  I then used the tutorial to remember how to initialize the new drive and did that.  Within a day, I'm back to having the array rebuilt and having a hot spare cache drive.

 

I'm still on version 4.7.  I have 6TB of storage (2.0, 1.5, 15. and 1.0 TB drives), a 2TB cache drive, and a 2TB parity drive. 

 

So, from my perspective, your product is great.  I just wanted you to know.

Wow!  That's great feedback!  Thank you for taking the time to let us know and we are hard at work to keep making this better and better!

No problem.  I usually don't leave feedback (in fact, in my house, I'm famous for never leaving feedback, even if people ask me to do so). But in this case, I thought it was appropriate.  Once I got a motherboard, memory, etc. that played well together, I have rarely touched my unRaid server in the last 8+ years.  And my WD green drives have proven to be very reliable, with few failures.  I'm not even sure I had to replace the previous drive, as it only had 208 errors, but I had another drive I had ordered to expand capacity.  So, I just used the new drive to replace the drive with errors.