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I just removed the loud Intel heatsink and used my original heatsink which has larger quieter fans. The issue is still there but not as bad now since the fans are pretty quiet. I may try installing the IPMI Tools but I an not really sure how to SSH into the server. I'm surprised there is no plugin that can install this.

The IPMI support is not actually working. I thought it was for a while. I loaded up some torrent downloads and the fan speed went up to 9000 RPM's again. I lowered the maximum % to 25 but that didn't work. Not sure what to do now.

What board do you have? Supermicro X8DTL. I just installed the IPMI support plugin and set the fan speed to 50%. Seems good now.

Any other way to manage the fan speeds other than this?

So I have to switch my current parity disk from 2 to 1, but leave slot 2 open? The parity disk will have to rebuild as you said? Will I loose any data doing this? I think what I did was when I setup the array the first time I had a 3TB HDD as parity 1, then I added a 5TB drive that I decommissioned from my gaming PC and added it as parity 2. Then I removed the parity 1 3TB disk and added it to the array for more storage. Now I have 1 parity drive (the 5TB) drive and it stayed as parity 2.

I setup my array with the option to add a second parity disk but I do not currently have a second disk. Should I change it to one parity disk? If I do that can I add a second parity disk later?

I setup my array with the option to add a second parity disk but I do not currently have a second disk. Should I change it to one parity disk? If I do that can I add a second parity disk later? Hope it is fixed soon. I have 9 days left in my trial and I think I might buy it. I don't think parity checks need to run daily. How often do you suggest running them?

The partiy check option is not there in scheduler

Post your diagnostics Here are the diagnostics unraid-diagnostics-20171006-0823.zip

I am running the trial version of UnRaid 6. Is it normal for the parity check to run daily? I looked in the schedules section in settings and there is nothing there for scheduling the parity frequency.

I set system and app data to prefer for the cache disk option. Everything else is set to no. Hope that is correct.

OK, thanks itimpi & tdallen. Your help has been great. I will have to wait until Sunday to do anything with my server. For some reason one of my Xeon CPU HSF fans stopped working and the system was running way too hot and the motherboard alarm started. The heatsink where the fan had failed was super hot. I had to order a new HSF. I actually ordered two since this is a dual CPU system. I will replace the other HSF too so that they are both a matching set and since i am afraid it will also fail. The HSF that failed is supposed to be a good one too. This is what failed http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Intel-Heatsink-and-Fan-for-i7-990X-i7-980X-i7-980-i7-970-Socket-LGA1366/332322327289?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 I purchased these tonight on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003NVPLNE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

There are two MKV movie files that I copied over at 2GB each and a lot of files that I copied over days ago to my download share totaling 226GB. I was able to see these files using Krusader. Is it safe to just move them to the array via Krusader? I ran "mover" in the unraid UI but it has been running for hours and it does not look to me moving anything. I also went back to all the shares and set them all to "prefer" on user the cache disk option. This can be changed back later.

Ok, I have set app data, isos, domains & system shares to "prefer" for the use cache disk option. I set the shares that I created (downloads, backup & media) to "no" for the use cache disk option. I am noticing that my SSD is getting hot and triggering alerts. It was at 45 degrees C, and now it is at 52 degrees C. It is also almost full. I am not transferring any data files at all. Why would it be full? That is not really that hot either but it is hotter than the alert trigger is set to which is 40 degrees C.

OK, I am going to use the 256GB Samsung SSD as my Cache drive but only for Dockers. I have to look at how to do that. I already have Krusader and Plex installed, so I hope I can just change that in the settings to run them from the Cache drive. I will add the 2TB drive to my array. So I will have a 5TB parity drive, (6) 3TB HDD's and (1) 2TB HDD in the array. This should server me well. I THINK, I go into Shares, and set the setting for use cache disk to "only" for the App Data, ISOS, Domains shares. I THINK I set my Download, Backup and Media Shares to use cache disk to "no". What should i set "system" to?