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if the PCIe card has died, it may have taken out other components on the motherboard that may be causing the issue you are seeing. new motherboard?

If I want to watch some media, I just navigate into the read only share using windows explorer into the folder structure I setup and open with MPC.... what is the advantage of plex if I know what i'm going to watch anyway? using it away from home when at work? I'd rather just go out to the bars / restaurants than watch 480p episodes of south park from 1998 in my hotel room...? or is that the use only case?

Due to power usage issues using parity drives I have changed my setup to have two unraid servers as a "live" and a "cold storage" backup. I like this approach better as it protects from ransomware/hardware/lightning failures, etc over 2x parity drives In order to sync my data I have been using winmerge in Windows and a manual approach to sync the data. This works well as there is only a few folders that change in a week. I have looked at luckybackup but it always creates a new folder structure where all the data is preexisting. Is there a better solution to what I'm doing?

I'm currently using two cold storage ubuntu boxes with luckybackup installed to automate an rsync for 50% of my main tower to each PC, containing 8TB drives If you are buying this amount of storage and it is that important, perhaps it is time to migrate to tape backup solution?

I found myself thinking of this, as it would help me a lot when I am done with my tower for the day/week and wont need it for a few more days/weeks. What would be great if I could create a blank file or folder in the /share/, called "shutmedown.tower" or similar, and by some check after a few minutes the tower would perform a safe controlled shutdown. This would be great timesaver for me, as then I can finish my work and then plonk the file down, instead of opening a web browser, login, find the page/ button, etc.

I logged into my tower after around 1 day uptime with little activity to see if the drives had spun down and it saying I have a device under "Historical Devices", "Ultra_4C53....." does this mean my boot usb is about to fail?

hinata-diagnostics-20180414-1329.zip

Hi, So I have a second tower with some old 2tb hard drives I made to test dockers out, and one of the drives failed (Disk 1). Never Mind, I thought, I will replace it with another drive and that failed to rebuild with a red cross. twice more this happened untill I have it starting to rebuild again. I go out to fix my lawnmower and I come back at 34% and it seems the replace drive that was suppost to be rebuilding (Disk 1) to has spun down and my Disk 2 has turned into an unassigned device AND still being used in the array. What is going on?

Hi here is the diagnostics tower-diagnostics-20180107-1026.zip

I started out three days about doing a backup (7TB of data) onto some USB hard drives using unassigned devices. I was using the Krusader plug in and that worked fine for the first two days where it was writing to the drives at 100mbs+ I then started the next few folders (1.5TB) onto another USB hard drive, turned off my main PC and then went to bed. I woke up this morning and there was no drive activity, but when I went to the web browser for tower.local it was VERY slow to the point nothing would load I then tried going into the main to see what the unassigned devices was and it only had 500GB copied. something is locking up the system I have tried to reboot the krusader docker, then the login window to krusader locks up on the same screen! I then rebooted and nothing changed I was still not able to login, I tried uninstalling krusader and installed dolpfin, which did not work at all, do I uninstalled it streight away. Now im looking at the front of the tower and it seems to have disk activity on one drive for 5 mins and then will jump to the next drive for another few mins. it then does this for some more disks and then the web browser GUI will come back to life The last time this happened it was suggested to increase the docker image file, which is now at 70GB! I am now trying to peice my krusader configuration backtogether from a youtube video! Is there a permanant solution for any of this or am I just wasting my time with unraid?

I have ordered 3 of https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-IBM-LSI-ServeRAID-M1015-6Gbps-PCI-E-controller-46M0861-SAS9220-8I/192161127069?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 To go on a backplane and they worked fine in unraid without flashing the firmware I then ordered 2 more (from the same seller, about 3 months later) and they required reflashing to detect drives in unraid. I'm sure they are running diffrent firmware, even though they look like the same card, the two that needed flashing no longer have the webUI. I'm now waiting on the SAS to 4x SATA cables before I can try them out proper ( I only had one cable to test)

thanks, that was what I was looking for

I'm copying in some new data using krusader from hard drive to hard drive, and there is an error in krusader / unraid where I can start the move overnight, then close down the web browser overnight, keep the tower running, but then when I get up in the morning and see what the progress is, the disk activity has stopped and the act of starting the web browser allows the move to continue. how can this be fixed? Also if you click anywhere on the krusader application, the move file dialog dissapears and there is no way to bring the dialog back. seems like a UI bug there.

I can't move the USB drive due to licening issues. I have two USB drives with a pro licence and a plus licence. I want to move the drives onto the pro licence, but that particular USB drive has a diffrent drive config on it.

hi, Ive got two unraid towers going. one has 10 drives, the other 24. both are liceneded OK. I have backed up all my data from the a 24 bay array (it wasnt much) now I want to move the 10 drives into the 24 bay tower. Is there anything special I have to do when I install the 10 drives into the new tower to make that main? without losing any data on the 10 drives? Is it just plug and play? will unraid complain where the other 24 drives went?