HOW DO I INSTALL A ADDITIONAL HARDDRIVE . already HAVE A 1tb AND 2 4tb hd.ADDING 6TB.i CANNOT FORMAT DRIVE. also HOW DO I MAKE plex WORK ON SYSTEM.i AM A NEWBE.nEED STEP BY STEP GUIDELINES

Hi,

welcome to the unRAID forums.

If you didn't know by now, writing everything in CAPITAL letters is considered as SHOUTING to others.

 

Now we have 3 possibilities on the receiver side:

1. You are not sure about your orthography skills and go all capital.  

2. Your caps-lock has been unintentionally stuck.

3. You are intentionally shouting at us.

 

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caps lock was on. Question from above still applies. Sorry about capital letters.

 

I suppose one of your 4TB drives is parity at the moment.
The new drive is bigger than your current drives, so it will have to be the new parity drive. The parity needs to be at least as big as your biggest data drive.
I'm not sure how the preclear is handled in recent versions. Maybe @johnnie.black can help here?

For the Plex thing you should read up on how to use docker containers and see if that works for you.
IIRC there is also a install package on the Plex site if you want to go that way.

Sorry for the global answers, but I'm travelling at the moment and can't provide links as I'm writing this on my mobile.

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1 minute ago, Fireball3 said:

Maybe @johnnie.black can help here?

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You have to begin typing, and then you have to actually make a selection from the matching choices. Just typing it won't work.

 

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Can't help with plex, for the issue with adding a new drive please post the diagnostics: Tools -> Diagnostics

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@trurl I'm using Tapatalk here and I selected the name off the list that popped up but for reasons the link failed!?But I see there is a difference once the post is online.

 

Edit:

Once edited, the link gets fixed...

Just edit and save without any modification.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/config
copy all *.cfg files, go file and the super.dat file. These are configuration files.

/config/shares
copy all *.cfg files. These are user share settings files.

Syslog file(s)
copy the current syslog file and any previous existing syslog files.

System
save output of the following commands:
lsscsi, lspci, lsusb, free, lsof, ps, ethtool & ifconfig.
display of iommu groups.
display of command line parameters (e.g. pcie acs override, pci stubbing, etc).
save system variables.

SMART reports
save a SMART report of each individual disk present in your system.

Docker
save files docker.log, libvirtd.log and libvirt/qemu/*.log.

We need the diagnostics.zip file, attached it to the next post.

I have download diagnostics.zip file. Is this what you need.

nas-diagnostics-20191126-1439.zip

Like mentioned you can't add a data disk that's larger than parity, you can upgrade your parity to 6TB, then add the old 4TB parity as a data disk.

 

If you want to do that with the array stopped assign the new 6TB disk to the parity slot, start the array to begin a parity sync, when that's done you can add the old parity disk to the array as a data disk.

 

 

how do I change parity

 

24 minutes ago, davecoco said:

how do I change parity

Already explained

1 hour ago, johnnie.black said:

with the array stopped assign the new 6TB disk to the parity slot, start the array to begin a parity sync

so tell us what you didn't understand.

 

how do I stop the array. I see in lower left corner of screen Array started. Tried to right mouse click nothing says to stop. Clicked on parity or disk 1 to change parameters nothing works.

Main - Array Operation, there should be a Stop button there

 

 

It sounds like you haven't really explored the webUI much, so it might be better if you get more familiar with using Unraid before trying to make any changes to your disks.

Do you have any data on your server yet?

no. That is why I am trying to do this now. Next step is to get Plex going. Then I can transfer  my music and movies to the NAS.

array started Parity-Sync / Data -Rebuild     is in progress. Is this correct.

 

30 minutes ago, davecoco said:

array started Parity-Sync / Data -Rebuild     is in progress. Is this correct.

Assuming you followed those instructions that is what you should expect to see.

 

If you go to Main - Array Devices, you should also be seeing writes to the new parity disk, and reads from all the other disks.

1 hour ago, davecoco said:

Tried to right mouse click nothing

For future reference, as far as I know nothing in the Unraid webUI responds to right mouse click. The webUI is a web site and web pages typically only respond to left mouse clicks, and in some cases mouse-over. There are many informational popups in the webUI from mouse-over.

 

Another thing is Help (?) in the upper right. It will toggle Help text On/Off for the entire webUI. You can also often toggle help for many specific settings by clicking on the label for the setting.

OK. thanks for you help from a newbee. Once everything is completed , should see 6TB as parity and the 2-4TB disk 1,2. Then must addon dockers for PLEX and music. Is there a video or self help to set this up. Thanks once again. 

3 hours ago, davecoco said:

Once everything is completed , should see 6TB as parity and the 2-4TB disk 1,2

Your diagnostics only had 1 data disk, so I assume you mean after you 

7 hours ago, johnnie.black said:

add the old parity disk to the array as a data disk

 

3 hours ago, davecoco said:

Is there a video

You might start with this one:

 

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/54834-video-guideall-about-docker-in-unraid-docker-principles-and-setup/

 

go to YouTube and type in unraid setup or just unraid there are many diy videos on how to do a lot with unraid look for spaceinvader One here is a link to him 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZDfnUn74N0WeAPvMqTOrtA/videos his videos have taught a lot of use