Dan's NAS/media server stuff

[Ekona]

Massive failure on mine in the last week, sodding parity drive decided to give up the ghost. Okay, no problem, I have a spare WD Red 3TB floating around in case a drive fails, so I'll just use that. Goes through preclear, starts a parity write, fails with errors. WTF? It's a brand new drive!

Turns out the new drive is DOA, so I had to get another new one and start the process all over again. It's the preclear that's the issue, it takes like 30 hours just to do that which is a right pain. Still, all up and running and secured again now, but that's the first drive failure I've had on this system. And of course, now that one has gone you know the others won't be far behind...

[Ekona]

Just looking back on this thread, looks like the drive lasted over three years. Blimey.

[NeoDude]

Nice to see some of you guys using UnRaid, I've been using it for a couple of years now. My main gaming PC runs as a VM within UnRaid as well as my Router and all my media servers and downloaders. It's a great bit of software...

[Ekona]

Mine shit itself the other day, randomly decided to forget that it had any shares at all which was a little panicking.

Dropped the USB key in my WinPC and it didn't show any errors, popped it back in the NAS and it started working again perfectly. Very odd, but I'm not complaining!