r/unRAID

Could use some guidance on re-adding drives without formatting

Sorry if this is basic knowledge; I've been trying to find the right term to describe what I'm trying to do but am struggling to do so.

Here's what I need help with:

I have 4x 12TB HDDs containing data and parity. I also have 3x 1tb NVME SSDs containing appdata and cache.

My flash drive corrupted so I had to bake another one. I am now starting with a fresh install on Unraid. Unraid wants to format my disks to add to the new array.

What I'd like to do is add all the drives to the array just as they were WITHOUT formatting ANY of them. I do have backups + parity, but I'd rather not nuke all those drives if I do not have to. I effectively want to pick up where I left off, if possible.

Once again sorry if this is basic stuff -- I am new to Unraid in this sense, but I figured I'd have to do this sort of thing one day anyway.

Thank you all in advance!!!!

u/Clunkbot — 14 hours ago

Seeking Feedback on an Unraid Server + Linux Gaming VM Build

Hey everyone, I'm in the planning stages of a new build and would love some input from the community.

The foundation is an ASUS ProArt Creator motherboard, paired with either a Ryzen 9 9900X3D or 9950X, cooled by an Arctic 420mm AIO.

I'll be running Unraid with a dedicated Linux gaming VM, pinning six to eight cores depending on the processor model and passing through 16GB of RAM.

Storage is covered by a Samsung 990 Plus 4 terabyte NVMe, three 22 terabyte Seagate HDDs, and an additional 3 terabyte drive. I'm starting with a 1070 and plan to upgrade to a 5070 Ti down the road eventually.

I have long-term plans to upgrade the system over time, including adding more SSDs and mechanical drives, upgrading the CPU, and generally enhancing various components over the next few years.

I'm primarily focused on a stable unraid server with a smooth gaming VM, so any insights on resource management, drive configuration, or achieving the best performance for remote play on my Legion Go would be greatly appreciated.

u/LatErAluSe86 — 14 hours ago

Bitwarden Chrome iOS icon not showing up on keyboard for local Unraid IP addresses

This just started recently. I no longer see suggested logins or the Bitwarden key icon on top of my keyboard on Chrome iOS when logging into local IPs associated with Unraid machine.

I’ve tried adjusting Match Detection to no avail. Is anyone experiencing this?

u/DamnShaneIsThatU — 17 hours ago

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Just updated to 7.3 and got a kernel panic

I dont know where to go from here

u/Ok-Wrongdoer-7021 — 1 day ago

USB creator tool doesn't see flash drive

Hi all, trying to install unraid to give it a trial but I can't get it to see my USB drive.

It's a 64gb SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.1 drive

I used rufus to fully format it to fat32 and it didn't show up so I started digging.

Found the legacy method, tried that, ran the make_bootable script and it said it was successful, still doesn't show up.

Is this drive just not supported, or is there something I'm doing wrong?

*edit to give the full name of the drive*

u/PSAOgre — 1 day ago

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600000 errors on Pool Device.

I ran a full SMART extended self-test afterwards no errors.

Should i remove it or run till fail?

u/Hauptfeldwebel — 1 day ago

Can't update in Russia

Hi! I'm Russian user of unRAID, and today i realise, that I can't update my server, because unraid.net domain is blocked for me. I have Amnesia WG 2.0 config (.vpn file), but I don't have any ideas, how can I use it for all my server to download an update .zip package. Please, HELP ME!

u/Additional-Monk-7022 — 1 day ago

Drive spin down timer?

Hi folks.. fairly new here. I used Claude extensively to get going with UNRAID, which I have running on a 4-bay Terramaster NAS. Everything seems to work fairly well - my main use cases / applications are qbittorrent and Plex. I have currently set the spin down timer for the drives/array to 2 hours. This is what the LLM recommended, but today Gemini seems to think it would be healthier long-term to just let the drives keep running perpetually and reduce spin up/down cycles. Who's right and why ? What would the optimal setting here be?

u/psyritual — 2 days ago

Assistance with Array and Parity

So I have 3 4TB set up in my array, with 2 of them as parity. Does that mean I only have 4TB of space on my array?

https://preview.redd.it/cgpmauw1ca2h1.png?width=3440&format=png&auto=webp&s=3fffad8e1402bb92c8708a0b0be2ab64ebbdad35

u/leonmc321 — 1 day ago

Suddenly no qBittorrent (linuxserver) WebGUI

Solved! Thanks to u/clintkev251. If anyone else has this issue, apparently there was a bug on a recent version where the lockfile gets left behind. Just stop qbit, go to qbit's appdata directory, rm the lockfile, and restart. Everything is back up and running.

Hopefully someone can help with this - I made no changes at all to me server in the past few weeks. Yesterday I went to open the qBittorrent (linuxserver - no VPN) WebGUI and it wouldn't load. The last time I opened it was last week at some point.

No changes to the server, no additional containers added, no port conflicts, logs show no crashes, and on the Docker tab, it even shows it as running and using RAM.

I've blown away the container and recreated from a template, I've changed the WebGUI port (and then reverted it back when that didn't work), I renamed qBittorrent.conf and started it again to see if my conf file was corrupted but that's not the case, and as a hail Mary I just updated to 7.3.0 and it's still not popping up the WebGUI. (Edit: I had also force updated it and tried downgrading)

I've also tried multiple browsers, PCs, incognito windows, Tailscale on and off - can;t get it to load.

I do have roughly 4600 seeding torrents if that's part of the problem? 64gb on RAM on the box. Everything else (Sonarr x2, Radarr x2, AdGuard, Seer, Prowlarr, Plex, Jellyfin - everything else is running without any issues whatsoever.

Anyone have any ideas? I have no clue what else I can try.

u/PurpleK00lA1d — 1 day ago

Where do I go for help to get Caesura for Unraid to work?

I have tried.

1.) unraid discord

2.) GitHub for caesura

3.) AI for months

4.) now trying Reddit

5.) tried tracker multiple times

What should I be doing to get help? It will not move the files from output folder to auto add folder because it has 755 permission instead of 775. I have been trying to solve this since February.

u/EmekaEgbukaPukaNacua — 2 days ago

Port forwarding

Ok, I have spent weeks attempting to figure this out, perhaps the community can assist.

I am trying to set up port forwarding on my router to allow me to access my Jellyfin service from outside of my network. I thought I could so this by doing the following:

Create a port forwarding rule on my Asus RT-AX5400 router.

I created the rule so that it takes any traffic from my cell phone's IP address, and forwards it to the appropriate IP:port on my internal network.

It doesn't work, it just times out. I have tried using my phone, my tablet tethered to my phone, as well as a pc on another network.

Gemini states that I need to set the internal and external ports of the port forwarding rule to 8096, but it doesn't seem to matter regardless of the external port specified (and used) nothing ever loads.

u/jumboshrimp76 — 2 days ago

▲ 1 r/unRAID+1 crossposts

[Almost] Dream Server Build

After a year or more of researching, I think I've narrowed down the build list for my server, and I'm looking for some feedback. It's not basic/cheap, but it's also not unlimited-budget either, as my main goals were reliability, stability, longevity, and some future-proof-ness, as well as performing well for what I intend to do with it. It will be running Unraid, and it will be used for Plex/Jellyfin, Immich, Time Machine backups, Home Assistant, Paperless, Unifi console, and more in the future. I'll add the disclaimer that I know it's overpowered, but I have a decent budget to work with and so I am going for the best within that budget. Here's the build:

Supermicro H13SAE-MF motherboard
Ryzen 7000/8000/9000 CPU (not set on specific model, whatever is on sale)
DDR5 ECC UDIMM
Seasonic or Corsair ATX Platinum-rated PSU
Intel Arc A310 or A380

I already have a LSI 9341-8i HBA, 2 x 8TB WD Red SATA drives and 6 x 8TB WD SAS enterprise drives, and the case to fit it all.

Any experience with or advice anyone has on this build or any particular part, would be happy to hear it.

u/Exact_Efficiency_356 — 2 days ago

First Array

Alright I’ve setup my Array. I have two of my HDD set as Disk 1 and Disk 2, then a third as the parity. I’ve started the array and it’s now doing a parity synch on my empty drives. I’m showing 35 TB of available space so I feel good that I’ve set this up correctly.

Now I need to wait for this sync to complete before I can do anything else?

Magically now my Docker tab is working. Yesterday it kept telling me to enable it, but every time I enabled it in settings I could never get it to work on the actual Docker tab.

When I Add Container within the Docker tab I want this container on the array drives or my cache drive; this will where I install plex to.

I see when I select Add Container it has an option for tailscale. If I want to use headscale do I still select this?

Lots of questions sorry for the long post. Thanks for your patience and assistance

u/Zealousideal_Sir_782 — 2 days ago

macOS Data Migration

Hi everyone,

So I finally built my Unraid server and in the process of moving 270TB from my Mac DAS to Unraid. I have faced a few hiccups but used Gemini to help with rsync copy commands. I wanted to double check that running with these flags is ok? I need to later read the files from macOS over SMB and locally through Unraid.

Disclaimer: I am good at following directions, but I am not in anyway close to being a power user.

Illegal characters SMB does not like can cause the rsync copy to break and unmount the share from macOS. In order to avoid that Gemini suggested I add some SMB extras in Unraid and to also run rsync with certain flags.

caffeinate -s /opt/homebrew/bin/rsync -rlvptDhP --no-links --append-verify --fsync /Path/To/Source/ /Path/To/Destination/

Additionally, I was running rsync without the --append-verify and --fsync, and I was only getting around 135 mb/s transfer speed on average, but with the command above I am hitting up to 240 mb/s, however mostly hovering around 175 mb/s (according to rsync not according to Unraid, with the latter being very liberal in its disk write speed reporting). So noticeable benefit to using the flags in addition to avoiding the illegal characters issue with SMB.

Quick rundown:
Unraid v 7.3
Copying to array directly
Split as required
Highwater
I don't have parity assigned (yet)
No cache

I also wanted to be notified when the transfer starts and finish or gets interrupted. Email is obviously the easiest way. So this is the entire command including the email:

EMAIL_TO="YOUR_EMAIL"
EMAIL_FROM="YOUR_EMAIL"
SMTP_SERVER="smtps://smtp.gmail.com:465"
SMTP_PASS="CREATE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD_THROUGH_PROVIDER"
LOG_FILE="$HOME/rsync_transfer_errors.txt"
rm -f "$LOG_FILE"
curl -s --url "$SMTP_SERVER" --ssl-reqd --mail-from "$EMAIL_TO" --mail-rcpt "$EMAIL_TO" --user "$EMAIL_FROM:$SMTP_PASS" -T &lt;(echo -e "Subject: Rsync v3 Media Sync Resumed\n\nThe rsync operation has started.")
caffeinate -s /opt/homebrew/bin/rsync -rlvptDhP --no-links --append-verify --fsync /PATH/TO/SOURCE/ /PATH/TO/DESTINATION/ 2&gt; "$LOG_FILE"
EXIT_CODE=$?
if [ -s "$LOG_FILE" ]; then
    EMAIL_BODY=$(cat "$LOG_FILE" | head -n 50)
    curl -s --url "$SMTP_SERVER" --ssl-reqd --mail-from "$EMAIL_TO" --mail-rcpt "$EMAIL_TO" --user "$EMAIL_FROM:$SMTP_PASS" -T &lt;(echo -e "Subject: ⚠️ Rsync Transfer Completed WITH ERRORS\n\nThe transfer finished, but errors were detected. Full log saved at $LOG_FILE.\n\nHere are the first few errors:\n\n$EMAIL_BODY")
else
    if [ $EXIT_CODE -eq 0 ]; then
        curl -s --url "$SMTP_SERVER" --ssl-reqd --mail-from "$EMAIL_TO" --mail-rcpt "$EMAIL_TO" --user "$EMAIL_FROM:$SMTP_PASS" -T &lt;(echo -e "Subject: Rsync Transfer SUCCESSFUL 🎉\n\nGreat news! The upgraded rsync process completed flawlessly with zero errors.")
    else
        curl -s --url "$SMTP_SERVER" --ssl-reqd --mail-from "$EMAIL_TO" --mail-rcpt "$EMAIL_TO" --user "$EMAIL_FROM:$SMTP_PASS" -T &lt;(echo -e "Subject: ALERT: Rsync Transfer Interrupted ❌\n\nThe rsync transfer exited prematurely with error code: $EXIT_CODE.")
    fi
fi

TLDR; Is the rsync copy command above fine to run on massive data migration from macOS to Unraid over SMB and later read it from macOS over SMB or from Unraid?

u/This_Is_Mo — 2 days ago

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Where did Ibracorp go (again)?

I was pretty excited when ibracorp announced his return 8 months ago, because I really enjoyed his videos and the ones from spaceinvaderone. They haven’t posted a video in four and five months respectively. Who do y’all recommend as a replacement, or should I just figure things out the old-fashioned way and read countless Reddit threads?

u/buildintechie — 3 days ago

Server turns off randomly

It now happened two times within a month. The server was shut down, I noticed it because PiHole and thus DNS didn't work anymore.

Can I check somewhere what caused the shutdown?

u/smoothvibe — 3 days ago

spindown disabled a disk, thanks unraid

Hi !

Just wanted to share my experience.

Yesterday, a power loss scheduled by my provider happened. So I wanted to turn off unraid and avoid draining batteries. So, I stopped all VMs and Containers, then, spin down all the (capable) disks. (I wanted to check UPS time left in case disks are spin down)

Then I stopped the array. I imediatly saw disk 6 disabled, amazing..

Had to rebuild the disk once power was restored, even if the disk was completly fine, and the data intact. (Unraid started the array at boot even if a disk was disabled, it was to late.. thanks unraid)

What I think happened:

Something tried to write something to disks after spin down, wich caused them to spin up. The disk took to much time to be ready, and SAS maybe "rejected the write". Unraid threated it as a write error, and tagged the disk as bad.

What drove me crazy:

- Unraid not telling me why the disk is disabled.

- Unraid trying to preserve your data by disabling a disk, then start the array even if there is something "wrong" without asking me (Array auto start is enabled)

- the fact that I can't say "No, this this is okay, everything is okay, just do a parity check if you want"

- the fact that by trying to preserve data, it rather put it in danger, because there is no solution other than rebuild, wich cause higher load on every disks

I'm okay with unraid being conservative but, come on, tell me why you flagged the disk and give me the option to overide it if I'm sure everything is okay.

And, I think I get it wrong, isn't actually the point of parity check to correct possible write errors happened ?

Btw, except those often frictions, I still really like unraid, but I also hate it sometimes.

The kind of software that is good when everything is fine but.. a different story when something go wrong.

TL;DR: Avoid spinning down disk in SAS setup if you don't want to rebuild disk. Unraid won't let you tell the disk is okay

EDIT: Everything was rebuilt in 14h and is fine now, I'm not blaming, but still wondering what happened

EDIT2 : Just wanted to add that, after using unraid for 8 years, my general experience is : everything is good until you have to stop the array and / or reboot. But when you don't, it runs rock solid for month and handle load without issues. Sadly you have to stop the array for almost any modification in settings (I get that it is to protect data, but if this then cause issues... )

u/Seb_7o — 3 days ago

Internal boot RAID0

Is there a way to make the internal boot share a RAID0? I am using cache drive for downloads only and it will never have any files on it. So I'd rather have it 1tb of data than being RAID1. So I would like to keep RAID1 for Boot Partition and RAID0 for Data partition, or is it impossible to do?

https://preview.redd.it/hxnkqo7fk42h1.png?width=2972&format=png&auto=webp&s=ba63c20a17b6d9c036b5dd01d7f7f3d9a701c0c5

u/flikzzio — 2 days ago

▲ 111 r/unRAID

I think its time to update but i'm concerned ive left it too long and somethings gonna go wrong. Reassure me please.

Custom box being used as just a plex server and file manager.

Havent touched it in a while as ive been busy and its been working fine.

I feel like im missing some new features that would be useful (and probably more secure).

Im worried that if i update im gonna cause myself headache.

Is there anything i should do/avoid doing?

Also, how do i even update at this point? Tools-Update OS and im good?

u/DEFAULTUSER1 — 4 days ago