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Thanks, that board looks great but about $300. More than I wanted to spend but I suppose that's just the cost of boards with IPMI. I'll have to consider if it's really worth the upgrade over my budget low power zeon-d build.

I was recently given an AM4 Ryzen 3600x and figured it would be good to use to upgrade my unraid server. Currently have an integrated motherboard with intel zeon-d 5120, which is pretty underpowered. Any suggestions for a motherboard for the Ryzen 3600x? Biggest desire is IPMI as my server is buried in a closet without a monitor. Lower cost is better! Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk

I've noticed that my parity check speeds are usually consistent at about 121 MB/s, however I occasionally have a parity check that goes MUCH faster, over 200 MB/s. Any idea what causes the inconsistencies? Or maybe a better way to ask it - how can I speed up my parity checks? See attached image for history.

Guess I'd better double check but I'm 99% sure the two fronts are intakes and two rears are exhaust. Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk

Ok took it apart to replace a broken fan (came that way) and added all the fans to a controller. The 120mm front fans have terrible vents and really should be 140mm or have a 3rd 120mm fan. The drive cage is as basic as it gets and you have to unplug everything to take the whole thing out to add or replace a drive. It's a budget case though and fine for what it is. Pics attached. Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk

I'm planning on opening it up in a day or two and I'll remember to take photos and measure the GPU clearance. Ive got a super small and low powered build that I just transfered from my fractal Node 304, but I wanted room to add more HDDs so right now it's pretty empty and a big mess of cables because I just wanted to get it back up and running asap. Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk

Ended up buying the Rosewill RSV-R4200U rack mount case to replace my mITX Fractal Node 304. Ran out of SATA ports and HDD bays in the Fractal at the same time I moved out of a condo and into a house. House already had a small rack supporting the audio equipment for the in-ceiling speakers. Wanted to get the Rosewill RSV-L4500U but found this R4200U for $150: https://www.beachaudio.com/rosewill-rsv-r4200u-svr-chassis-rosewill-rsv-r4200u-r-rsvr4200u/ Not a lot of info out there so I figured I'd give a rundown: 1) it says 11 3.5" drives + 3 2.5" drives but it is really 14 3.5" drives and comes with 3 adapters for 2.5" drives that can be removed. 2) I didn't know this, but rack mount cases are not all the same depth. This RSV-R4200U is significantly shorter than the L4500U, and that's a good thing as it is basically the same depth as my rack! Not sure I could have made the L4500U fit. 3) Installation of the 3.5" drives really stinks. I'm not looking forward to adding more drives in the future. you have to pull out the entire drive insert and screw them in on top and bottom. 4) only having two 120mm fans on the front intake isn't a lot. Things will likely get toasty during parity checks. First one scheduled tomorrow. Looking forward to expanding my array with my new LSI SAS card too. Will take more pics once I tear it open again. Forgot to get more. Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk

Ah I didn't even think of that. Thanks, I'll look into how to do this. Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk

My motherboard is mITX with a single PCIe slot currently populated with a PCIe SSD used as a cache/docker drive. My motherboard's 6 SATA ports are all occupied with 3.5" HDDs for the array/parity. I'd like to add a PCIe SATA controller to expand my array. The problem is that I then need to replace the PCIe SSD with a SATA SSD. Can I put the PCIe SSD in a compatible USB enclosure, install the PCIe SATA controller with the SATA SSD, copy the data to the new SATA SSD, and then finally remove the old PCIe (USB) SSD from the array?

Just happened a few minutes ago and the only relevant item from the log seems to be reading SMART data: Feb 24 10:01:39 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdf Feb 24 10:02:03 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdd Feb 24 10:02:20 Tower webGUI: Successful login user root from 192.168.1.19 Feb 24 10:02:43 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdg Feb 24 10:04:49 Tower emhttpd: cmd: /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/scripts/tail_log syslog Feb 24 10:17:34 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdd tower-diagnostics-20220224-1024.zip

Thanks - the issue isn't why is a different disk spinning up - it's why when a different disk spins up it causes playback/browsing of the other disk to pause. For example, my music is stored on disk 1 and it's spun up because I'm listening to music on a client device. If someone in my family accesses movies on disk 2 then disk 2 spins up. But when disk 2 spins up the playback of my music on disk 1 pauses/hangs until disk 2 is spun up. Is that normal expected behavior?

Hi all - long time unRaid user here. I mostly use my unRaid as a basic file server. It has always bugged me that there are times that when drives spin up all activity seems to stop on the server. It is most notable during two instances - playing music in Foobar2000 on a client PC and loading Kodi/Emby on a client PC. If I have music playing in Foobar2000 and a drive spins up (presumably a DIFFERENT drive than what the music is on, as the music is already playing), for some reason all music in Foobar2000 stops for several seconds until the drive(s) spin up. When I load Kodi (with the Emby plugin) the entire system basically hangs until drives spin up. I would have assumed drives wouldn't need to spin up until I select a media file to play, but at least one drive seems to spin up once I open Kodi on the client. Maybe because it is checking for new media? I've tried the Cache Dir plugin, which sort of helps when browsing files through file explorer (sometimes) but doesn't really seem to help with these other instances. This issue has been going on for numerous versions of unRaid. I've had many hardware swaps over the years but the "array" has never changed (i.e. I never started over from scratch). Pretty basic server config, see screenshot. For dockers I run Deluge, Emby, and Logitech Media Server. No VMs. Just wondering if this is normal/expected behavior or if there are any tweaks I can try to prevent this.

My little 6 drive ITX server in a Fractal Node304 has hit its capacity. Instead up upgrading my 8TB parity and data drives I think it makes more sense to get a new case and a PCIE SATA expansion card and just add more drives. Conveniently my new house has a networking rack/closet so I can go rack mount. I don't really see myself going above 10 drives (with a 4 slot PCIE expander?) but I don't really know what else to look for. I've just got a Gigabyte mitx server board with a Xeon-D processor at the moment. SFX PSU and nothing else special. I will also need to remove my PCIE cache SSD and replace it with a SATA SSD to be used in conjunction with the new PCIE SATA expansion card since I don't think I can combine PCIE/SATA. But SSDs are pretty cheap these days. Looking for recs for cases or PCIE SATA expansion cards. Budget is king here for my low power server that mostly just functions as a NAS. Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk

Thanks I just updated this morning and now it shows I'm on 8.3! Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk

How do I update LMS? V8.1 was installed with the docker package but it keeps telling me 8.3 is available. No clue how to download/install. Thanks for the docker. Working great with my PiCorePlayer!

I just updated to the latest version of the docker through the unRaid interface and am no longer connecting to any torrents. When I rebooted the docker I got the "connection manager" prompt which I've never gotten before. log.txt

Thanks for the utility/plugin/docker again. I'm benchmarking my drives now and came across something I hadn't seen before. See attached 1) What does "bandwidth capped" mean? 2) "following" is misspelled

I've got an older mITX Atom D525 motherboard with 2GB of RAM that supports 6 SATA drives, a 16x PCIe slot, and IPMI that I'll let go super cheap. https://m.newegg.com/products/N82E16813182242

Hey everyone, I think I've found something. The drive successfully spins down, but it seems to spin UP at inappropriate times, which is why I thought it wasn't spinning down. For example, I just downloaded a file to my server which should use the cache drive. It does in fact use the cache drive but the data drive in question is also spinning up. Also, browsing files (with the cache files plugin) this data drive spins up. The 'Dashboard' tab of the unRaid GUI shows no streams to any of my shares, and the read/write count of this drive does not go up, but it seems to spin up whenever anything else on the server is accessed.

I'm using a Molex to SATA cable like this one: https://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=384&area=en It's from the PSU manufacturer, I'm not concerned about the fire risk that the cheap ones had. SMART attributes attached WDC_WD80EMAZ-00WJTA0_7JKPTLPC-20180626-1541.txt

Howdy folks, I just upgraded an old 2TB drive to a new 8TB drive out of a WD EasyStore. The drive is model number WD80EMAZ, which is the one that has 3.3v pin issues. It turns out my PSU, a Silverstone SX500-LG isn't compatible with these drives, so I've used a Molex to SATA power adapter and got the drive working fine (half of the drives in my case are attached via a Molex to SATA strand from Silverstone). Anyways, the drive precleared with no errors and I successfully rebuilt the array after upgrading the 2TB to 8TB drive. Read and write speeds are just fine, however the drive WILL NOT SPIN DOWN. It is set to default spindown like all my other array drives, but it never spins down. Manual spindown does seem to work. Is it possible the inability to spindown is related to the 3.3v issue many people have with these drives? Logs don't show anything out of the ordinary.

Guess it's time to replace my aging 2TB HDD

Hi all, we had some storms out this way a week or so ago and both my desktop PC I use for work and my unRaid server lost power for just a second during the storm. Of course that meant they both died resulting in a lengthy and inconvenient parity check on the server and lost unsaved work on the desktop PC. I was wondering if anyone had small and inexpensive battery backup solutions for either knowing that I'm interested in keeping the devices alive during power flickers only. I live in a small apartment so minimal size is important. Each device needs its own battery and I don't anticipate plugging any other devices into the batteries.

So that explains why I can't see \\tower anymore... hmmm

For some reason if I copy a file from one user share to another, it transfers at 30-50MB/sec even though it physically winds up on the SSD cache. I've tried using things like Krusader and Midnight Commander in addition to just dragging and dropping files in Windows. If I take a file on one network computer (SSD) and transfer it to unraid via Windows drag-and-drop it maxes out the gigabit Ethernet connection 4 out of 5 times or so. Occasionally it also decides to transfer at 30-50MB/sec. Good to know about the Ebay listings. Probably worth putting it up there. I've even got a little 2GB stick of RAM to go with it.