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  1. I understand that port multipliers are, in general, actively discouraged for use with Unraid -- with most/all discussion I'm able to find about them ending in finding alternatives instead of use of them. I'd like to add some more SSD drives to an unraid box, but all PCIe/NVME/SAS/SATA are currently exhausted, and I'd like to avoid replacing the motherboard. (asrock x470 taichi w/ 8 onboard SATA and an IBM M1015 / SAS2008 SAS HBA.) Unfortunately, this puts me in the position of looking at a SAS/SATA port multiplier as a possible option, and I'm hoping there's been some success in finding something that works. I'm thinking if I could find a good multiplier/expansion, I could move some of my 15 array drives to that, opening up some non-expanded SATA ports for more SSDs. I've used IBM 46M0997 SAS Expansion cards with IBM M1015 HBAs in the past (not on unraid) with good results, but they unfortunately require a PCIe slot, which I don't have available. Does something like it exist that's known to work well with unraid and doesn't require a PCIe slot, or am I looking for a unicorn? Perhaps replacing the M1015 with a 9201-16i would be a better option? Edit: After thinking this though, I think the obvious answer is something like the 9201-16i -- not sure why I got hung up on a port expander --- probably because I have some 46M0997 sitting around. Anyone know if the 9201-16i has trouble at PCIe x4?
  2. What's the correct way to re-build a drive marked as disabled that passes extended SMART test without losing the emulated data on it? I'd ideally like to pre-clear the drive as a test before re-adding it back. Are these the correct steps?: 1. Stop array 2. Set device to "No device" (this is the step that concerns me.) 3. Start the array (hopefully my disk 13 will still be emulated even after marking no-device?) 4. Preclear the now un-assigned disk 5. Stop the array 6. Set disk 13 to the pre-cleared disk 7. start the array and let unraid rebuild it. Edit: Here's my "PASSED" smart report for the drive:
  3. I haven't tried, so I may be way off base, but wouldn't it be possible, and far more flexible, to pass through the WiFi adapter to a VM in Unraid (like we do for GPUs, USB controllers, etc.), and then have the VM run, say, OpenWRT or whatever else, to handle Wifi?
  4. A touch too close to the fresh air supply for the furnace -- and no easy way to relocate it.
  5. After taping the vents up, the lowest HDD temp is currently around 14C. A bit too cold yet, but still above the Seagate minimum of 5C, and well above the insanely low -19C I hit in 2019 (Lost a couple drives from that -- and the older drives that died recently I still blame on it.)
  6. Polar vortex time again, and my HDD temps are already falling. (Monday will be even colder.) Throwing some masking tape over the vents in front of the drives as a temporary fix. It really would be nice if Unraid could give notifications for low drive temperatures, seeing that low enough HDD temps can be as bad, or worse, than high HDD temps.
  7. One of my 4TB data drives failed while waiting for my two new 10TB drives to arrive. (All drives were 4TB.) No problem. I figured unraid would let me rebuild the failed 4TB drive onto the 10TB drive, then I could replace the 4TB parity with the other 10TB parity... but unraid doesn't seem to like this Idea. Please don't tell me I need to purchase a 4TB drive just to get back up and running before I can install my 10TB drives? Unraid 6.8.3.
  8. Crap. I see that now for devices under the array. Unfortunately, some of my NVMe devices are Unassigned Devices. Doesn't look it's supported there. Guess this is a question for the Unassigned Devices plugin thread. Thanks.
  9. Is there a way to have certain devices, like NVMe drives, use a higher threshold for temperature warnings? NVMe can and do run at much hotter temperatures than HDDs. When I set the threshold to warn me when HDD temps are getting too high, I end up getting constant warnings when my NVMe devices get heavy write activity.
  10. But I currently have no use for multiple array support. I'd much rather have HA and replication as core features. But above that, I'd like GPU drivers baked in and officially supported. May I suggest cheering in the multiple array thread instead of jeering in the GPU one?
  11. Yeah, let's just get rid of docker, VMs, the whole plugin system ... all that stuff that's not "genuine NAS", whatever that means.
  12. That could be said about any feature request. You may not find it useful, but many others would. For this specific feature, I think some of you may be conflating the burden for Linuxserver.io to do each Unraid Nvidia release with what it would be for Limetech. The burden on Limetech would be many orders of magnitude less, which is why this feature would be beneficial.
  13. Please add GPU drivers to unraid builds. Doesn't Limetech already do this for some NICs, SAS controllers, etc? If so, I see no reason why GPU drivers (specifically for Nvidia in my case) shouldn't be added as well. There's no need to keep up to date with the latest driver, unless there are serious bugs/exploits that need to be patched, just like with any other driver Unraid uses. I really don't get all the "sky is falling" negativity surrounding this request. The work involved for Limetech to include these drivers is far less than for the Linuxserver.io team (and a huge thanks to each of them for that effort!) to add them after the fact.
  14. Until there's ubiquitous, unmetered, gigabit internet just about everywhere, there's going to be a need for transcoding. Transcoding to lower bit rates for streaming, and syncing, while on the road is one of my main uses of Unraid Nvidia. I don't see that going away any time soon.
  15. Having an asrock board and multiple nvidia GPUs, I was a little gun-shy updating to 6.8.1 based on a few past comments. Updated to Nvidia 6.8.1 without issue. @CHBMB Thank you!