I wanted to provide an update from last review, which was a one week review, so it wasn’t much time with Unraid.
I currently have mixed feelings at this point related to Unraid. Why? Well, I had to fix the Unraid images on the USB drive twice now.
The first time this happened was about a month in, and I wasn’t able to access the Unraid dashboard so I did a reboot. On the console, I received an error that “bzfirmware” had a hash mismatch. I started freaking out, thinking that I might have lost all my data and wasn’t sure what to do. After doing some research found that you can take the USB flash drive out and just replace the individual images if you need too, which I did from a downloaded copy of Unraid, and I was back up and operational.
Today was the second time this happened, I should have taken a photo of the error but it said something about invalid opcode and had a large exception. Anyway, I decided to take the USB drive back to my computer and check the sha256 the “bzfirmware” file again, and it didn’t match. I replaced it back from the original one again put back in my server and booted it up and it made it further in its boot process, but then came up with a hash error for “bzmodules“, so I replaced that file as well, and then it booted up.
Since I am only 4 months and and had to fix the USB flash drive twice, makes me kind of nervous. Is this something that is going to happen continuously, or bad USB drive, or just bad luck? I bought what I thought was a good quality USB drive, which is a Verbatim 32GB USB 2.0 drive. I have read that USB 3.0 drives cause issues when I was doing my research, so I made sure to get a 2.0 drive.
On the upside, after I was operational again, I was able to update to 7.1.2. I still love the VM and Docker capabilities of Unraid and use them at least weekly, if not daily.
Next Steps? If it happens a third time, I will for sure try a new USB flash drive. In the meantime, I’m going to do some more research to see if I can find a root cause.