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I need to read up more on how to take care of this thing. I've been lucky its survived my neglect. I was thinking about creating a backup like you have with the extra disk I have. Maybe getting something with 12TB. Is there a good place to look at recommended hardware for a backup server?

Thank you very much for your time. I will work on all these things!

Thank you both for your responses! I acknowledged the error I disabled mover logging. My parity check is set to weekly and write corrections to parity disk is set to yet. Thank you for the comment about the Marvell controller. When I was replacing the fans I was wondering why I went out of my way to use certain ports and now I remember that I hit something related to the Marvell controller. I should switch them back. But I do recall the error happened before that. Should I configure notifications with a dummy gmail account? I do not know how to rebuild parity.

I've been running this Unraid server mostly for Plex for about 3 years with no issues. I noticed recently that my drives were getting hot and two of my fans had died. I've replaced all my fans and everything seems to be cooler. I've also noticed that my parity disk(sdf) is disabled and Disk 2(sde) has a smart error with a thumbs down in the dashboard. I ran the full Smart test on both and nothing seems to jump out at me. How can I get my server to a healthy state? And are there any other things that jump out as needing tweaking? I have another new 4TB drive that I can put in there to replace a disk. Its not doing much at the moment! It was on sale.

Thanks for taking a look dmacias. Do you think I should switch up what everything is cabled to? I've never heard of magnetic filters! Should I buy three of these? Would this be a good PSU to replace my current one with?

Alright I'll give it a go. Thanks for your time!

Then I need to wait 8 hours for the parity check and when thats done try to start copying files over again?

I set up BMC and I've updated 3 things: BIOS, BMC and the Marvell SE 9230 FW. Link to my mobo website: http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2750D4I#Download From there I downloaded BMC 00.30.00, BIOS 2.90 and there is a link at the top to Marvell SE 9230 FW. I created a DOS bootable USB and used that to update the FW successfully. I just realized this motherboard has a million SATA ports. Most are plugged into SATA 3 but I'm not sure which controller. What should be my next step now? Is there an easy way to blow the drive configuration away and start over? I don't have anything copied on there I care about. I've attached some pictures of the box and the firmware update.

Thanks jonnie.black. I've never updated any of the firmware or BIOS on here. I just realized I could have set up BMC. I'm going to work on all this and update here when I'm finished.

Hi Jonathanm, thanks for the quick reply. I just built my hardware list out on pcpartpicker to make it easier to view: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/y3B2wV I have no monitor hooked up to the box so I couldn't see any messages.

Also these were the errors I received when copying the files over: Jun 21 07:05:52 Tower kernel: md: disk1 write error, sector=5870528136 Jun 21 07:05:52 Tower kernel: md: disk1 write error, sector=5870528144 Jun 21 07:05:52 Tower kernel: md: disk1 write error, sector=5870528152 Jun 21 07:05:52 Tower kernel: md: disk1 write error, sector=5870528160

I was using my Unraid server only for Plex. I started noticing that my Unraid was offline without me turning it off and I would just boot it back up again. After finally logging in and taking a look a notice that my Seagate drives were showing errors in the error tab and after trying to get them working one just became unusable. I put both drives in my windows PC and ran Seatools and they passed with flying colors but I decided to advanced RMA them anyway. I received the replacement drives yesterday and promptly put them in my Unraid. I also added a 500GB Samsung SSD for a cache drive. One of my old drives(WD Red) still had my old data on it but I copied everything off onto my Windows PC before this so I changed the FS from xfs to brtfs and back to xfs to format it and start clean. I let the parity check run overnight and this morning started to copy files over through the windows share I created. Halfway through the first 100GB the first disk that it was writing to(ST4000VN000-2AH166_ZDH15K2P) started showing errors and Unraid disabled it. I tried running a smart test on the drive and it says Short INQUIRY response, skip product id A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. So I'm not sure what to do here. I haven't shipped the old disks back. Was planning on doing it today but I will wait a bit. Am I doing something wrong with setting things up? I thought I kept it pretty simple. Also, I don't think my cache disk was being used. I just stuck it in and told Unraid it was a cache disk. Do I need to do anything else to set it up? I've attached my old diagnostics report from before the RMA if its useful. Also the current one has a date of today and is labeled NEW in the front. NEW-tower-diagnostics-20170621-0800.zip OLD-tower-diagnostics-20170608-1624.zip