jon928

Thanks for your help. I just switched out Disk 2 for a spare I have and rebuilt the array. Everything looks good now. Appreciate your help!

I'm using 2 of those hot swappable cages that house 5 hdd bays each. Parity drive and drives 1-4 are in one cage and drives 5-7 are in another cage. I have 2 more hdd's on standby in bays 9 and 10 ready to deploy. Since it's drives 1-5 that showed an error and drive 5 is in a separate bay. Drive 5 and Drives 1-4 don't share anything like a cable/splitter. Having only 1 parity drive and having 1 hdd out of commission is making me nervous. I used to have 2 parity drives but then started thinking it was overkill since I haven't had any issues for like 4 years with another service and 3 years so far with my current server. So I got rid of the 2nd parity drive. Should I just go ahead and take out Drive 2 and rebuild the array using one of my spares? Thanks. Jon

Thank you for the quick reply. Should I start a new thread now or just go w/ this one? My server is connected to a UPS and I was seeing some UPS warnings about loss of communication. Should I just shutdown the server and connect the power cable to regular Power strip? Also - a parity check was completed yesterday and it says Parity is valid Last check completed on Wednesday, 10/20/2021, 07:27 AM (today) Finding 2560 errors Duration: 1 day, 3 hours, 57 minutes, 35 seconds. Average speed: 139.1 MB/sec Thank you for your help. Jon

Hi guys, Was wondering if I could get some help. Getting the same issue about the Device being disabled - contents emulated. Attached I have included the Diagnostics and SMART report. I have another hdd on standby I can use to replace Disk 2 but if I don't have to toss the disk I'd rather not. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Jon scornflix-smart-20211020-0914.zip scornflix-diagnostics-20211020-0914.zip

I think you misunderstood what I meant. The nVidia Shield tv can direct stream most x264 encoded content so no transcoding is required from your server. I've tested the Shield with most of my 4k HEVC content and it also direct plays that as well. So no transcoding is required. Since it direct plays the content on your servers, it drastically lowers the cpu requirements on your server. I've tested with a Fire TV 4k and Chromecast Ultra and it does NOT direct play the HEVC 4k content I have. My friends Apple TV 4k I believe is 1 or 2 updates away from direct playing 4k HEVC.

Fair enough. Did you ever mention what your old hardware comprised of? What did you end up doing with it?

I know I'm late to the party here. But if your main goal was the ability to 4k transcode multiple streams, wouldn't it have made more economic sense to move everyone who was using your plex server to a streaming device that could direct play your media content? Like a nvidia shield TV or chromecast ultra. Regardless I'm jealous of your new server ?

Thanks for the quick reply SSD. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-E3-1245-V2-CM8063701098602-SR0P9-CPU-3400-3-4GHz-LGA-1155-100-work/132295989389?epid=127288914&hash=item1ecd74988d:g:r-gAAOSw9ZNZkpLg This CPU should drop right into my mobo correct? I was just reading about QuickSync so that would be awesome if I can do hardware transcoding as well. I have lots of friends and family who use my Plex so being able to handle several concurrent streams and transcoding is a must. Ideally I'd also like to also run a surveillance server for my 6 IP cameras as well. I'm not familiar with transcoding to RAM and what the benefits are and what I would need to do to enable this. edit: Reading this thread about transcoding to RAM now. Thanks. I've never tinkered with VM's so perhaps maybe run 1 VM as well while also handling the PMS transcoding and surveillance server. Thanks.

Hi Everyone, I'm in the process of rebuilding my NAS. I currently have a 27tb system (4-6tb drives and 4-4tb with 2 parity) running on Expenology (it's a version of Synology's DSM that is modified to work with custom hardware). My friend can get me a good deal on some 12tb HDD's so I'm looking to redo my whole NAS and move to Unraid and possibly upgrade my CPU at the same time. 12TB HDD I want to eventually be running: https://www.hgst.com/sites/default/files/resources/Ultrastar-He12-datasheet.pdf This is the motherboard I'm running: SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCM-F-O Server Motherboard https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182253 Currently running this CPU: Intel Core i3-3240 Ivy Bridge Dual-Core 3.4 GHz LGA 1155 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116773 This is the RAM I'm running: Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1333 Server Memory https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239117 I would like to upgrade the CPU to a XEON E3-1245 v2 3.4GHz 8MB 4Core. My question is, is this a worthwhile cpu upgrade? Will the cpu be compatible with the existing RAM and Mobo I have now? Would it be beneficial for me to look into adding another 16GB of RAM??? I mainly use my NAS for Plex that requires several concurrent trancoding, media backup, storage backup, and if I can get a good surveillance program up and running, recording and archiving surveillance for home. Any help would be greatly appreciated. - Jon

Hi Everyone, I'm in the process of rebuilding my NAS. I currently have a 27tb system (4-6tb drives and 4-4tb with 2 parity) running on Expenology (it's a version of Synology's DSM that is modified to work with custom hardware). My friend can get me a good deal on some 12tb HDD's so I'm looking to redo my whole NAS and move to Unraid and possibly upgrade my CPU at the same time. 12TB HDD I want to eventually be running: https://www.hgst.com/sites/default/files/resources/Ultrastar-He12-datasheet.pdf This is the motherboard I'm running: SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCM-F-O Server Motherboard https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182253 Currently running this CPU: Intel Core i3-3240 Ivy Bridge Dual-Core 3.4 GHz LGA 1155 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116773 This is the RAM I'm running: Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1333 Server Memory https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239117 I would like to upgrade the CPU to a XEON E3-1245 v2 3.4GHz 8MB 4Core. My question is, is this a worthwhile cpu upgrade? Will the cpu be compatible with the existing RAM and Mobo I have now? Would it be beneficial for me to look into adding another 16GB of RAM??? I mainly use my NAS for Plex that requires several concurrent trancoding, media backup, storage backup, and if I can get a good surveillance program up and running, recording and archiving surveillance for home. Any help would be greatly appreciated. - Jon

Hi everyone, A buddy can get me several of these hard drives. I was wondering if the 4kn sector size is supported in the newest version 6.4.1? Thanks everyone, - Jon

I'd like to throw my hat into the 4kn support as well. The sooner it can be supported the better please. Much appreciated!

Thank you for the reply. Any idea when that support will be enabled?? Unfortunately my friend doesn't have access to the 512e drives or else I'd opt for those.

Model # ST10000NM0146 Seagate 10TB Note: These Drives utilize 4Kn block size (I just learned what that was today) Hi everyone, Tried doing a search and didn't find anything on this harddrive. I've been away from the Unraid NAS life for a long time. Thinking of rebuilding a NAS and I can get ahold of a few of these hdd's for a good price. My current NAS is running FreeNAS but I'm thinking of returning to Unraid. Since the hdd's in my FreeNAS box are using 512N block size hdd I'd have to essentially redo the whole server with the 10TB which utilize 4Kn block size. If they work then hopefully I can sell my 6TB and 4TB hdd to help cover the cost of the 10TB units. Thanks!

Hi Everyone, Thanks for the tips. I did try modifying the network.cfg while also utilizing lan2 on the mobo (disabled lan1 in BIOS). I've adjusted and tried all variations and nothing seems to work. Very strange seeing as how tinkering with FreeNas, I get a IP Address and GUI and everything works fine over IPMI over Lan1 and Lan2. I might have to just suck it up and comes to grips with the fact that everything is lost on UnRaid machine and try building a FreeNas box seeing as how I can get FreeNas to work.