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SMART results from unraid system, one failing drive, Aug 2014

Wednesday, 2014.08.13 J.D. H. Leave a comment

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (36360) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline

New UnRAID preclear results for WD Green drive

Sunday, 2013.03.17 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Recently I had a 2TB WD Black drive develop some issues. That meant it was time to replace it and thankfully my dad had a 2TB WD Green drive available (he is upgrading to some 3TB Seagate drives). Before adding the Green drive to my unRAID setup I ran preclear_disk.sh and here are the results 🙂 NOTE: the total elapsed time was 36 hours 15 minutes and 22 seconds, which is a bit on the slow side. However, this is

Missing shares after unexpected unraid shutdown

Monday, 2012.05.21 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Recently I had a power outage to my unRAID NAS server. After booting back up I was quite concerned when I browsed to the SAMBA location for the server and found no shares! Thankfully, after waiting a few minutes (10-15) all shares were back 🙂 A parity check had automatically been initiated and I allowed it to complete. No errors were found. A few other users reported that they had to reboot to have their shares appear. However, my recommendation

Upgrading/replacing a parity drive in unRAID

Wednesday, 2010.05.26 J.D. H. 2 comments

I’m preparing to upgrade my 2TB WD Green parity drive to a 2TB WD Black parity drive on my unRAID system. I did a lot of searching for resources on this topic and while there are some great forums posts out there, they are sometimes hard to find. So here is a consolidated list of useful links for parity drive replacement: NOTE: many thanks to all the helpful and supportive unRAID users out there, the credit for all of this

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Brief update

Thursday, 2010.04.29 J.D. H. 2 comments

Our good friends from Arizona are visiting. Went kayaking on the Eleven Point river with friends on Wednesday. Gorgeous trip! Roofing is ordered and should be in this week or next. Mowed last week and weed whacked today. Building a new unRAID based media server :-). Cleaned my “shop” area with Samantha’s excellent help. Weeded our small garden area. Did maintenance on our off-grid battery system today. I redid some of the wiring in our house in preparation for a