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Hi guys. I have made a video about how to install LibreElec without using the limetech template. The version installed in this video is a custom build complete the emulation station and retro arch built in. This as well as chrome and spotify. In this video you will see how to fix the audio problems that can bug some of us, with Libre or Open Elec. Hope you find it useful. Install a custom LibreElec complete with emulation station and other apps on unRAID

You should see a small improvement, but don't expect a lot, IIRC I got about 75MB/s sustained with the same disks, you'll get more with turbo write (copying from other computer, not so much disk to disk)

No current HDD can exceed SATA2 speeds during sustained transfers, speeds are mostly a result of the disk's rpms and number of plates, search for the diskspeed plugin, it will give you a graphical display of your disks speeds.

SATA2 vs SATA3 won't make a difference with HDDs, but speed should improve some if/when you also replace parity with a similar disk, current parity is WD green with similar speeds to the Samsungs, so you can't take advantage of the Toshibas higher speed.

You'll also need to change the default password. Once you get to the pihole webGUI page. you need to ssh into the server and run: docker exec -it pihole pihole -a -p <YOURSECUREPASSWORD> Replace <YOURSECUREPASSWORD> with whatever password you want.

It's normal for xfs.

Stop the KVM Hyper-Visor (Virtual Machine Manager) in unraids settings, install pi-hole, then restart the KVM. Should work. If you then get an issue with port 80 you need to edit the ~/boot/config/go file from 80 to 81 (look this up because I forget the proper syntax)

Hey Steve, See you've found the UnRaid forum Knowledgeable guys in here! (I suggested UnRaid to Steve on another PC enthusiast forum )

I'm experiment with that right now. Apparently it's easier than you think with 6.4-rc9f

Eric is out of the office until the middle of the week. There is an IPS update that I want him to apply after we make one more backup of the forums. If that update doesn't resolve the issue, we will once again escalate with IPS. Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk

It's strange because I can't think of anything that would explain those reads, but it's what the stats show, it was reading at ~50MB/s and writing (syncing parity) at ~30MB/s. All other data disks are reading at ~30MB/s, that normal, they should be reading at the same speed as the parity is writing, and the cache disk was writing @ 110MB/s

High Sierra 10.13 So now High Sierra is here its time for a new video. Things are a lot better for OSX VMs now. Since qemu 2.9 we don't need to use a patched clover. We can pass through the CPU frequency to the guest from the XML. This video although for High Sierra will also work for Sierra HOW TO INSTALL HIGH SIERRA OR SIERRA ON UNRAID Video how to create the install media is below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFPiK1Ggbks

I migrated all the drives to XFS, took a long time.. but worth it... a stable system... loving it. Now I am really enjoying the step up from Version 5

If your parity drives are 80 GB then your data drives can be any size up to 80 GB. Parity drives must be as large or larger than your data drives. There is no need for raid in your data array. You would just add as many disks as you want to the array as long as none of them are larger than 80 GB. How Parity Works

Here is a simplified guide for running unRAID 6.4.0-rc5 or greater in a VM: https://forums.lime-technology.com/topic/60106-guide-how-to-install-an-unraid-vm-on-an-unraid-host/

Hello everyone, I just found the thread regarding the Seagate Backup Plus hub external drive, which I own too since yesterday. Mine came fitted with the same Barracuda shown in the above picture. I do not know if it is a good or a bad thing, while comparing the Archive drive the Seagate Bakup Plus hub external drive is usually fitted with and that Barracuda. It is most definitely not a Barracuda Pro, the Pro's comes in a totally different metal case, they're filled with helium, and their top cover is completely flat which this Barracuda's isn't Also the model number is ST8000DM004 and not ST8000DM0004 (two zeros not three), a model which is listed in their Barracuda range together with ST6000DM003, ST4000DM004, ST3000DM007 and ST2000DM005. I decided to open the enclosure, the damn clips and the plastic they used for the case makes it impossible to open the external enclosure without breaking at least half of them, but anyway, I opened it and with the hard drive now as an internal I decided to take off the electronic pcb to check what type of buffer size is the drive coming with... It is not hard to spot the ram they decided to use, a Samsung DDR3L BGA chip SEC 646 K482G1646F BCK0, and searching about that I found out it is a 2Gb DDR3L in 16*128 accessing mode. So 2Gb divided by 8 means that the drive is coming with 256MB of DDR3L twice the amount the Archive drives are coming with. I don't know if the cache works in the same way as the one is by the Pro ("multi-tier caching technology (MTC Technology), an intelligent caching architecture for maximized performance), and whether AgileArray feature is available ("optimizes drive performance via error recovery control, dual-plane balancing, and power management), these features maybe available only for Pro's. From Barracuda 100805918d.pdf I see that the recording method is neither Perpendicular as the PRO's nor Shingled as the Archive but TGMR and the drive is using 4 platters / 8 heads configuration when the 8TB Archive drive is working in a 6 platters 12 heads configuration, and knowing that it is not helium filled drive I think it is a better option in terms of life expectancy than a 6 platters 12 heads drive, with 2 platters 4 heads less, yet coming with the same capacity that means Seagate is using 2TB platters on this drive, and that is confirmed by the pdf. Compared to the Pro, this one has an advertised 600000 load/unload cycles, double the amount the Pro which is advertised with only 300k the same amount Archive drives are credited with (300k). Also regarding the workload this one is advertised as <55TB per year while the Pro with 300TB per year and the Archive with 180TB/year. Running SeaTools the reported annual workload is much higher than the advertised one: 168,83TB/year. To conclude, I think the ones who find inside their Seagate external drive a Barracuda and not an Archive could be happy, double the cache size than Archive, less platters for the same capacity yet less workload per year compared to the Archive. I do not know whether TGMR recording is better than SMR, but i guess Pro's perpendicular is the best recording method. I hope these findings to be useful for anyone else who's going to find a Barracuda inside its external newly purchased external drive 100805918d.pdf

I think I have this sorted. It's simple, but not very spelled out for a newbie like myself. To target the plexpass tag, you just need to append ":plexpass" to the end of the repo name in your settings. I'm attaching an image to illustrate. Hope it helps!