Russ Uno

Has anyone been able to make this work with Carbon Copy Cloner 6 (ccc) and MacOS 12 or 13? Just want a simple way to backup to sparseimage or sparseimage, so far it's been torture. I all works great with CCC5 and older MacOS, 10,12 and 10,13.

Personally I keep an extra key just in case one flash dies or when upgrading OS I can easily swap versions. And I would rather have more than 12 smaller (2-4TB drives) than fewer big drives because if 1 drive dies I can be up and running in < 4-8 hours, preclear time is faster, less risk of data loss with fewer files on each drive, parity time check is shorter and the drives are cheap. That's my take on more smaller drives although my max right now is 9. But I just upgraded one key to Pro and plan to do the rest. I may never need it but...

I'm not sure why it doesn't see it as X13SAE-F, maybe there is a setting that is only visible with the array stopped, can't check that right now since there are TV recordings happening, I'll look later. But the fan setting on the MB via IPMI is set to Full Speed (I changed that but the IPMI plug must be setting it there). In the IPMI plug page under Fan Control > Fan Control is set to yes, A picture is worth 1k words so: The settings below, I believe are the only ones I changed. The MB seems ok with these and the fan runs around 560 rpm except when the server is fairly active it will run around 700 rpm. I'm not sure what will happen when summer comes and the ambient temp is higher but I will have to see when it comes.

As far as unRAID you can set up a Share and have New files saved to the Cache drive then use a User Script to check the Share on the Cache drive (set the script up to run every so often or at a certain time) do what it needs to do and run Mover to move the files to the Share on the array. Maybe some one else has a better Idea.

I have a few Seagates like that.. Still in great condition after running preclear and long Smart test.. Could use as a warm spare, just in case.. I also use them as external drives for older system startup disk when I need to boot my Macs on an older OS, or even current OS with utilities when I need do Maintenance that I can't do from the internal Boot drive. Also for secondary backup of little used files.

Well I think it was 3 hrs or so for a 1TB drive for the Long Smart Test... So it could take a while. This still could be hardware related and not the Disk itself if it was caused by loose cables. Some place I read a post and it lead me to Western Digital about SATA Cables and their drives. They require a SATA connector that has bumps inside to secure it in place.. Found it, WD SATA Cables I had an issue a while back with errors on parity check that I thought was a fairly new drive (WD) but turned out to be cable connections. I only have a couple WD drives all others are Seagate..

I would do a long smart test on the drive(s) in question.. I know it's a pain and time consuming, I just did the same thing, the short test let some stuff slide by while the long test showed some errors. Better to catch it now than trying to fight it in a hardware upgrade and wonder what caused it.

1. Current Parity check 2. Run smart test on drives (just to make sure there are no pending issues) 3. Stop all dockers & vm's 4. Turn off auto start for the array 5. Down load diagnostics 6. Stop the Array 7. Make a backup of the flash drive 8. Take a screen shot of drive assignments on the the main page 9. Cable placement shouldn't matter but drive assignment does (assign correct drive/Serial # to useage, IE Parity, Cache, Disk1 etc..) 10. Make your hardware changes. 11. Start it up.. 12. Make your drive assignments. 13. Double, Triple check drive assignments. 14. You will have to start the array manually since auto start is off. Someone correct me if I'm wrong... or missed something.

Maybe TrueNas and Synology already have SMB mods built in? And maybe the mods shown here need to be tweaked for Sonoma? I do think though that unRAID should do a better job at MAC compatibility.

Try this, it's pinned some where above: Optimal SAMBA settings to get better MacOS to Unraid performance ChannelD Just copy and paste the Mac setting, you can use Text Edit in plain text mode to create the file. On my Mac it won't let me save it where it should go so I just save to desktop the drag it to the correct directory. Not sure if Sonoma will let you do that, but you can also use Terminal to do it. In unRAID it's simple, just copy and paste... edit out the comments on the right where is says <--- To Match .....

I tried it, not the latest OS but 10.12.6 and unRAID 6.11.5 and it worked without issue. I did try it first without the unRAID user PW set and it did not work, got the Shaky Box. smb://testusr:@xxx.xxx.x.xx/TestShare Then you put in the --unRAID user-- PW.. for tmuser or in my case testusr. I do have the SMB mods in unRAID and also on the MAC side. So unless it's something strange with Sonoma, it should work. But I would recommend doing the SMB mods, it makes it connecting with the Mac much better.

I jumped from 6.9.2 to 6.10.3 to 6.11.5 and then 6.12.4 with maybe a few days between, just enough time between to make sure it all worked, with no issue. Some place I read that the 13th gen with IGPU requires Linux 6.xx and it looks like going to unRAID 6.12.xxx includes that jump from Linux 5.x.x.. It worked for me... for my new media build with an i5-13500.

Consider a MB with 6 SATA ports, much more common, and picking up a Adaptec 1430SA 4 port controller on eBay. They can be had for as low as $25. I have 2, 1 in each of my builds. I've attached the user guide for it below. ADAPTEC 1430SA_installation_and_users_guide_09_06.pdf

I originally was looking for a low power, lower cost Xeon build but was, after a lot of research, a PIA finding all I wanted in my build with that, so I decided to bite the bullet and spend a couple hundred more and just go for a build that will hopefully last me another 10 years as my previous system did. So here it is: (FPB) = from previous build unRAID v6.12.4 (upgraded from 6.10.3) Case: Fractal Design Define R5 (FPB) PSU: SeaSonic SSR-450RM (FPB), may upgrade at some point MB: SuperMicro X13SAE-F CPU: i5-13500 RAM: 32GB Micron DDR5 ECC DRIVES: (FPB) WD Gold- Parity 1x 2TB, Cache 1x 1TB • DATA- Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm 2x 1TB + 4x 2TB • 1TB Unassigned SATA CONTROLLER: Adaptec 1430SA (FPB) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D9L Cooler Power Consumption: All 9 Drives spun down = 36w (same as previous build) All 9 Drives spun up but idle = 63w (9w lower than previous) I Haven't checked it under typical full load yet. Update: Running ChannelsDVR in a Docker and Recording 4 HD TV Show Streams to unRAID and Streaming 1 HD Show to an Apple TV from unRAID and also Transcoding 1 HD stream to an iPAD power consumption is 99w. Without the Transcode stream consumption bounces between 63w and 72w I suspect the bouncing maybe do to saving the recording streams to the Cache HDD. IGPU & CPU Fan: To get the igpu to work for transcoding I had to change the Primary Video in BIOS to IGFX I also had to install IPMI Tools to control the CPU Fan so SuperMicro's Fan Sensors wouldn't complain about the fan speed being too low. I set the Min fan speed to 31.2% in the IPMI Tools plugin so it would run at 560 RPM and SM's IPMI Fan control at Standard (before setting it in IPMI Tools), the IPMI Tools plugin seems to change it back to Full Speed so that's where I left it. I did set the Max speed in the IPMI Tools plugin to 100% If the Fan is set to Full Speed in SM's IPMI without the IPMI Tools plugin the power consumption at idle with drives spun down jumps to 56w. The setting I have doesn't seem to affect power consumption. Previous Build for ref. MEDIA: V 6.10.3 plus • Fractal Design Define R5 • SeaSonic SSR-450RM • SanDisk Ultra FIT 16GB • SuperMicro X9SCM-F-O • i3 3240 • 4GB Kingston Value RAM • DRIVES- WD Gold- Parity 1x 2TB, Cache 1x 1TB • DATA- Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm 2x 1TB + 4x 2TB • 1TB Unassigned • Adaptec 1430SA SATA Controller • Stock Cooler I hope this info is helpful to someone in the future since it seems hard to find in one place.

I'm running unRAID 6.10.3 and Mac OS 10.12.6, 2011 iMac and have no problem with viewing jpgs on my Mac or on My iPad Mini, IOS 16. I did recently make the SMB mods on both the Mac and unRaid so I'm not sure if that helps or not. I know it helps with file transfers and just viewing the share contents in finder as a list big time.. You may want to check that out here. Until recently I was running unRAID 6.9.2 and I don't remember having issues with that either. I don't have my Newer Mac running OS 13 (Ventura) up at the moment so I can't check that.