My unraid rig (which has been running almost constantly for more years than I can remember,) died recently. It was accidentally unplugged, and the MB would not boot afterwards. I had an old Core2 Duo PC in the attic ( the old box had a celeron in it), and after dealing with a number of issues, was finaly able to boot the server on that box. My old rig consisted of 3 drives, a WD Red 3tb parity drive, a WD Blue data 3tb drive and a WD 750 gig data drive. The 750 was an IDE interface drive (told you it had been running for years) and the new MB didn't have an IDE interface. So I bought a new WD Blue 3tb, placed it in the array, and rebuilt that drive. After the rebuild ended the GUI interface showed 128 errors on the parity drive.

 

My questions are: how big of a problem is this?; do I need to replace the parity drive right away?; and how much does it matter what type of drive I replace it with?

 

I'm thinking I would just get another of the WD Blue drives, but if another drive is more appropriate, I'd like to know that. I mainly use the server for streaming my music collection to my squeezeboxes, but my son wants to set up a VPN on it, and I often contemplate ripping all my blu-ray discs to the server and using it as a media server, although I haven't yet found time to get that project going, and wonder if it is likely that I ever will.

 

Thanks in advance for any advice,

Fran

tower-diagnostics-20201003-1409.zip

Go into your BIOS and set SATA controller to AHCI (currently using IDE mode) and try rebuild again

So I tried to do this but the only option seemed to be under sata emulation, where my choices were ide or raid. It was set to ide and I left it that way.

Set it to raid, that's Intel fake raid, and it should make it use the AHCI driver.

 

You should also run an extended SMART test on parity, since SMART is showing some issues.

 

 

I've made the change and have started the extended smart test. I'll report back when I get the results. Thanks for all the help thus far.

The extended smart check on the parity drive returned no errors. So I guess I'm good to go?

tower-smart-20201005-0432.zip

Yep.

Thanks again. I'll run one more parity check before I go back to taking this server for granted.

Edited October 6, 20205 yr by franohern

3 hours ago, franohern said:

taking this server for granted.

Do you have Notifications setup to alert you by email or other agent as soon as a problem is detected? 

Was just reading about them in another thread and was looking at how to go about setting them up.