irishdab

My 2 cents on this is I think it is fair and understandable. You are fulfilling to your existing customers what you sold them and the need for more cash inflow so you can hire more people to maintain and upgrade the product line will only make the software better. As stated, this effects none of us long time backers. It is rare these days that a software company goes out of their way to make sure that their existing users base is not effected by changes like this. To anyone that does not like this the answer is simple, buy your key NOW and as stated none of this will apply to you.

Well than this could go bad if people find a way to attack your system. Effected cpu's: 6th, 7th and 8th Generation Intel Core processors Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 and v6 processors Intel Xeon Scalable processors Intel Xeon W processors Intel Atom C3000 processors Apollo Lake Intel Atom E3900 series Apollo Lake Intel Pentiums Celeron N and J series processors https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/20/intel_flags_firmware_flaws/ For the program to tell for sure if you are effected follow this link. https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27150

Your drive ST4000DM000-1F2168_S30091TE-20171118-2219 in the smart data is listed as failing now. Is that the drive you keep having to run xfs_repair on? Edit to be more clear the smart data shows the error is: 184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 094 094 099 Old_age Always FAILING_NOW 6 https://kb.acronis.com/content/9119 Best to replace that disk in my view.

Thank you for all the information SSD. I'm still very much learning. The drive that I had that went bad was a new drive. It was built in Jan 2017 I've had it since April sitting on a shelf waiting till I got all the parts needed. When I tried to preclear it after about 15 mins it started to give me Current_Pending_Sector errors after a little over an hour the smart had recorded over 7000 of them. I tried to run a short smart test it failed. I then tried to run a long test it also fail. I never had a wd drive fail before. ( I have had other makes fail on me but none so new.) I did wonder about cabling or controller problem so I removed the drive from my Unraid server and put the drive in my windows 10 computer. I launched wd hard drive test software it also fail to be able to run the short test. The long test did run but stopped early and said there were bad sectors on the disk. It gave me the choice to repair but when it tried it failed and told me to contact wd support. I have thought about getting HGST but am on the fence. I heard they run hot and loud. But I've never had one before. I have used WD since the Maxtor loud click issue years ago that killed a lot of peoples drives. I was one of them and lost data I could not get back. Now a days I do backups and I am very careful with my data.

Ok so here is a short back story. I just setup my first unraid server. During preclear the WD 8tb Red drive that I had planed on using as my parity drive failed 10 mins in on the first pass. I'm going to RMA it but I've heard you normally get a used older drive back. Not what I want as my parity drive. I was rethinking my needs and since I figure my array will only have 4 tb drives in it I was thinking of buying a new 4tb to use as a parity (I will use my rma drive for something else.) So here is my question right now WD gold 4tb drives are pretty much the same price as 4tb red pro and really only a few dollars more then a normally red. That stats on the Gold just seem better then the red (Non Pro). (longer warranty, faster speed, MTBF is double for the Gold compared to the Red.) Since they are pretty much the same cost is there any reason I should not use Gold drives in my Unraid??

I just got a brand new wd red 8tb went to preclear it and got a ton of Current_Pending_Sector errors (over 7000). Tried to run a smart test but both the short and long failed.