Aran

What's your budget? I think you need 2 change two things. Your case and (as stated before) your power supply. You need decent cooling in your case. Second hand cases can be found for cheap, if not free. If you are from france, check 'leboncoin' or similar. I can't see the brand on your psu but judging by the casing and cables i guess it's a noname-psu or an old one which should be replaced asap. At least put a fan on those drives. Remove the front 5.25" or 3.5" brackets and velcro/stick a fan on it. Move your ssd's to the bottom of the case so you get more space between the hdd's.

Well, this was a short trip... The motherboard shows some strange behaviour. It sometimes loses network connection, has sluggish webgui preformance, the pci-e slot doesn't work anymore and it randomly won't boot. I changed the ram but that didn't do anything. So i switched to a asrock B75M-itx with an intel G630T which is a dual core, 35W TDP cpu without HT and an antec 80w PSU. It runs surprisingly well for a dual core at 2.3Ghz and has a pci-e x16 slot albeit at 2.0 speeds but i now can use my 10gb nic when i find a compatible riser card. Copying over 10gb will stress that cpu though. Major downsides are no Quick Sync, no VT-d and no AES. I did move the server to the basement and now HDD's sit at 21c and 24c at idle and 30c to 34c at typical home-use load so that's a nice improvement. It's ok for now but i will start my quest for a new itx motherboard. Any recommendations are welcome.

What do you mean? You set your storage path ( shown as "/shared") in your docker template. You can set a storage limit per user in the seafile user configuration.

Afther 4 years of fiddeling with unraid i now know what i really need to build a 'sit and forget-type' of server running 24h/24h. With only 5 dockers and a rclone onedrive share I think i can downsize from my current 95w i7 6700K to a humble 6w celeron j3160. The plan is to fit it a short depth 19" rack case so i bought the "Inter-Tech 1.5U-1528L". The rest of the hardware was already in my posession and collected over the years so i had enough spare parts laying around. Expect very low, entry-level hardware... Hardware used: asrock J3160DC-ITX 4GB ddr3 x1 500GB 2.5"ssd cache x1 2TB 2.5" ssd userdata x2 3TB 3.5" hdd media/backups 90w laptop-style psu 19v - 4.74amp The celeron 3160 has 4 cores at a 1.6ghz/2.2ghz boost and quicksync which is just enough to transcode one 1080p stream if needed. The cpu does sit at 100% after starting up the server. Maybe adding a container startup wait-time could help here. I'll test this later. A ram upgrade is needed and will be done when i find a not overpriced ddr3 sodimm stick. The four sata ports are enough for our needs. The hotswap bays cannot fit 2.5" drives because you have to screw them in at the bottom of the hotswap trays but the screws stick out so the hdd-tray wont fit anymore. The hotswap bays have power and activity leds but lack active cooling so don't use high performance drives. I only use them to store our media. The top drive is sitting at 36°C which is not bad but i feel there is some room for improvement here. An upgrade to 10gb ethernet is planned but then i need another motherboard, cpu, riser cable and psu and don't want to buy new parts so it will take some time. That asus aquantia card is not the best in power savings but i know it fits and it's what i have so... Unraid runs well on low spec hardware in my opinion. We will see how this goes.

Attach a monitor to it if you want hard proof. Your device manager shows no error so i assume all is fine. That last screenshot from the taskmanager... is taken from your pc/laptop or your vm? Because it shows wifi and Intel integrated graphics.

Have fun. I have two of my vortex hot swap bays passed through to a clonezilla vm so i can clone my non-unraid drives without much hassle.

Don't forget to enable hot swap function in the bios. If it's there...

I just tested this myself. I plugged in a hdd in my trusted 'icy dock black vortex' and it showed up in 'Unassigned Devices'. You could set it to auto mount and run a backup-script automatically. Then i un-mounted the drive, took it out and connected it to my linux-vm through usb. I don't know much about file-systems so i'm not 100% sure this is recommended.

You can't. I used seafile a few years ago and IIRC you can't mount a remote share like you do in nextcloud. Correct me if i'm wrong. Also, seafile (and nextcloud) is 'database based' so you have to upload all your files to the seafile server manually. I installed the seafile client for windows and had it run overnight to upload all my files. You can't just copy/paste files or folders into the "/shared/" seafile folder. They must be uploaded through your seafile website or client. You could do this in nextcloud but then you have to update your database manually (or script it) in the cli. I don't know if this works for seafile too. I actually had an overall good experience with seafile, much better than with nextcloud.

Hi, I can't upload an image from an URL when i try to post it in this forum. I know the preferred way is through imgur but i already have xbackbone installed. What do i do wrong?

Glad to help. A friend of my had the same problem. I searched the www and stumbled upon my own post 😛 Home Assistant became an important part of our house now so i moved (again) from a vm to bare metal (nuc).

Just for info. I'm searching for a new home for my hardware and found this one: https://www.inter-tech.de/productdetails-147/Y-5508_1.html It's around €160 in europe and i almost bought it but i think it's not the best case for cablemanagement. (no cut-out for psu cables on top f.e.)

To be fair, you will never find a self hosted equally good alternative to google, microsoft, amazon, dropbox, etc... I tried lychee, photoprism, immich, librephotos, piwigo, and every other docker container from the CA plugin. Next, you have owncloud, nextcloud, seafile, etc... and they work ok'ish until you try to access your images through a smartphone with mobile internet f.e. IMO, there is nothing wrong with a paid subscription for a decent cloud-based solution for your photos/videos/files. We moved to a cloud-based solution a few years ago and use it together with unraid. Best of both worlds. There are plenty of options if you just want to backup your files to/with unraid but if you need an AIO solution then i suggest you take a look at paid subscriptions.

If all you do is plex and backup storage, then do your wallet a favor and wait with the noctua and ram until you really need it. Also, maybe i misunderstood but are you planning for 8x 14TB drives? 122TB raw storage?

Did you search this forum for 'self hosted cloud', 'phone backup', or something similar? There are a few options but you wil never come close to what commercial players (microsoft, google, dropbox, etc...) are offering. If you want a complete self hosted cloud option then nextcloud is a good start. But i had a better experience with Seafile. Downside (for me) is, both are database-based and tbh., nextcloud needed mothly maintenance... Other options are resillio or syncthing which are file-based and just powerfull sync-software. A third option is to use a free dropbox (or other) account and have a user script move the files overnight to your local server. If you only want to backup your phone camera folder to your server over local wifi, you can also install some samba-app on your smartphone and use a user script to backup the files.