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Just checking in Johnnie to see if things were still going good with your JMB585 based SATA controller. I've been looking for a SATA upgrade so that I can expand my array but my Dell T30 really doesn't offer a lot of space or cooling. Was considering a Dell H310 but I think that's overkill for my needs. Only going to add one more drive to this NAS and I'd like to not add a whole lot more heat which I know the LSI based cards produce. Figured I'd try a JMB585-based option and put my cache drive on that to free up a mobo port for one more HD. If you still haven't experienced any issues I think I may get the JMB585 and go with that.

Hi, I've been using unRAID for about a year and half and it's been great. I purchased a small Dell T30 server for my build and added 4 disks - 3 HDD & 1 SSD. I've got one parity drive and two data drives. I'd like to add another HDD to the array but I'm currently using all of the SATA ports that came on the T30 motherboard. I've therefore decided to purchase an expansion SATA adapter card so that I can add additional drives. I'm wondering what the best way to do this is so that I don't hose up my array or lose data. 1. Can I simply install the SATA card and add the new drive, preclear and add to the array without doing any other modifications? 2. If I wanted I should be able to move one or more of my existing drives to the new SATA card and not lose data, correct? Are there any special steps I need to follow for this to work? 3. What's the best practice for these types of upgrades? I feel (probably naively) like it would be best to have my parity drive on either my SATA expansion card and the data drives on the motherboard SATA controller but not both intermixed? Am I being overly paranoid here? Are there any go to configurations for using both an onboard SATA controller and expansion controller at the same time in the same system? Finally, does anyone have any recommendations for a good quality SATA adapter card that works well with unRAID? Thank you!

Thanks Squid. After looking at this I'm assuming Array Status Notifications are something I should have turned on. What's a sane frequency for this notification? Is once a week sufficient for most?

I have Fix Common Problems Notifications set up but no others. What should I be looking for here? Which notifications are you referring to?

We had a widespread power outage here yesterday and my unRAID server lost power and experienced an unclean shutdown. Upon restarting it has automatically begun a parity check which I understand to be normal behavior and something that I was planning to do anyway. Once the parity check completes is there anything else I should be checking to ensure that there was no data loss such as a filesystem check or file integrity test? What's the standard operating procedure after an unclean shutdown BEYOND the parity check part? My server has a cache drive and mover is only scheduled for once a day very early in the morning. There shouldn't have been any write activity to the array during the outage but I want to make sure I'm checking everything I can. And yes, I am already researching UPSes to make sure this doesn't happen again :-) Thank you for you help