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4 minutes ago, SeeGee said:
Sandisk 32gb ultra fit usb 3.1
https://shop.westerndigital.com/en-ca/products/usb-flash-drives/sandisk-ultra-fit-usb-3-1#SDCZ430-032G-G46
Im sure it's not the greatest of all that is flash drive, but it's served me well thus far.Thanks SeeGee
I've been using a Sandisk 8Gb USB 2 drive for the past 7 years and have yet to have a problem.
Think I'll get a USB 3.1 Header to USB female cable and give it a go and if no joy try this one (got too impatient and pulled the trigger on the new build last night)
Thanks again
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2 hours ago, SeeGee said:
I use a USB 3.1 flash drive in a USB 3.1 port to boot from without issue. I think that there may be fewer issues with booting from USB 3 on newer hardware.
Doesn't hurt to try, if you experience problems with it, then fall back to the USB 2.0?Thanks for the feedback guys
Just out of interest SeeGee what brand/model of USB drive did you use?
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On 11/27/2020 at 9:13 AM, cakes044 said:
Might be late to the party but everything has been working fine on this board with Unraid apart from all the IPMI fan stuff which I hacked together a solution that you can see in that post.
There is actually a bug on this board that you may not have noticed yet, but RX traffic on the network adapters with the specific version of the firmware/BIOS is actually degrading the network performance to 1/3 of the speed. Again, only on RX.
I have already raised this issue with Asrock Rack and they have confirmed the issue with a specific AMD driver combination after many many emails and actually sending my board back.
A friend of mine has the X570D4U-2L2T and doesn't have this issue, so its only for the X570D4U where the firmware has been affected.
Other than that, this board is killer. I have not found another board on the market that is anything like this for this price tag.
Happy to answer anything else.
Just wondering what USB you're using to boot with? I'm looking at getting the X570D4U02L2T and as best I can see its only got USB 3.1 x2 on the rear plate and a 3.1 Gen 1 header.
Are you using a USB 3.0 flash or USB 2 flash drive?
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Hi Guys
As I've previously posted Im in the process of updating my unraid server. The mother board I'm looking at (ASRock Rack X570D4U-2L2T ) only has USB 3.2 ports on the rear and a a USB 3.1 Gen 1 header. The case I'm looking at also only has 3.1 ports.
I've been hunting around the forums and reddit to work out what going to be the best way of getting unraid to boot on this new system. Ideally I would like the USB to be internal so have been looking at a header to internal USB port adapter cable however the only ones I can find are USB 3.0.
It seems like the current consensus from the reading I've done is that lots of people have had trouble getting USB 3.0 flash drives to work and recommend 2.0 drives/ports for reliability. However it seems like 2.0 USB ports are dying out in the latest motherboards so this is going to be an increasing problem in the future.
I'm just wondering what people have done in a similar position?
Use a USB 2 flash drive in a USB 3.0 port?
Use USB 3.0 and accept they will fail more frequently given heat?
Which USB 3.0 flash drives have worked for you as it seems what some people have recommended (i.e Samsung Bar 32GB) haven't worked for others?
Cheers
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Thanks for the Feedback SeeGee.
Very tempted to pull the trigger on this build.
Do you know if going from an HBA to Sata on a mother board does it matter which drives get plugged it where (i.e do I need to try and match them up to the same order as they currently exist) or will unraid work out that all the drives are plugged into a new system and off we go?
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Hi Guys
I've been running an Intel Xeon E2-1230 V2/Supermicro X9SCM-IIF 8x HDD with 1 SSD for cache based unraid server for the last 6-7 years now and I am thinking about upgrading. Previously I was thinking I'd stick with an Intel Xeon but I'm not sure if its a COVID worldwide thing or an Australian thing (where I live) but it seems hard to get a lot of the CPUs locally and wider it seems like Intel is slipping behind AMD (and they've lost favour with Apple which seems like they've just lost a major business) which is why I'm looking at maybe moving to an AMD based system.
My primary uses are storing my media and running dockers such as Plex, Roon server, SABnzbd, Radarr, Sonarr. I am hoping to have the ability to transcode 4K video through Plex (which I understand is an expensive pursuit). While I do direct play while at home, there is increasing amounts of 4K content in my library.
I don't have a good feel what AMD is like (Given I've always had systems with Intel in them) so hoping for some opinions about whether this system is going to fulfil my needs.
I'm currently looking into building a system with:
- SilverStone CS381B (Currently using a Unas 810A but its pretty tight and won't allow for a GPU)
- ASRock Rack X570D4U-2L2T
- AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
- Leadtek Nvidia Quadro P2200 5GB Workstation Video Card
- Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD
- KSM26ED8/16ME x2
Questions I have are...
1.) Is the 3700X over or under kill from a CPU point of view for this system? Given I'm planning to use a GPU can a get away with a cheaper CPU?
2.) Is the P2200 capable of 4K transcoding and has anyone had success with does this in an AMD/Unraid system (Seems like a lot of posts are based around the P2000 which I take must be the previous version as I can't find P2000 readily in Australia)
3.) I understand to use Nvidia GPU with AMD one needs to use a special unraid Build. It is going to be straight forward enough to transfer my current unraid over to this new hardware or does changing to this build mean starting over?
4.) Given the board has 8x Sata ports and 2x M.2 ports am I right in thinking I can forgo the use of my HBA and plug my 8 drives directly in the mother board and use the M.2 as a cache drive.
Thanks for reading and any advice/opinions that you guys can provide
Cheers
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If you were keen to try 4k transcoding the Kodi wiki has a page of (legitimate) sample files than can be downloaded for all sorts of different video and audio codecs. https://kodi.wiki/view/Samples
I suppose if the 2244 could do this and I'm only running a couple of dockers and no VMs then maybe this would be enough CPU power rather than the beefier (and more expensive) 2288
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Thanks for the reply Hoopster. Yes I have read the thread you started and the plex forum and understand that getting a 4K transcode takes effort (and money).
I already direct play 4k content to a AVR receiver and 4k television. I suppose the aim would be to stream to an ipad somewhere else within the house, rather than needing multiple transcodes going at the same time.
From what I could see in your thread you've had success transcoding multiple 1080p streams but I couldn't see anyone had tried the iGPU with a 4k stream. As such I was wondering if iGPU of these chips offloads some of the high passmark requirements? I would be interesting to know if anyone has had success with either the 2244 or 2288 doing this.
The heat generated sounds like its own issue and the E 2288 sounds like a step too far for the Unas 810A case. Supposedly the Cryorig C7 Full Copper Graphene Coated Top Flow CPU Cooler rates at 125W TDP but even that seems like it wont cut it from what you're saying. If I do go down the E 2288 route I could put it in the Silverstone CS381 which although it doesnt have great clearance (i think I remember it being 57mm) it can apparently hold a radiator.
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Hey guys
I’ve been running unraid over 7 years and starting to think about upgrading.
I’m currently running:
· Intel Xeon E3 1230V2 @ 3.30Ghz
· Supermicro X9SCL-II
· Noctua NHl-9i
· 32GB of DDR3 EEC ram
· IBM RaidServe M1015 flashed to IT mode to act as an HBA to connect 8 hard drives and a single SSD 1TB for cache directly to motherboard.
· UNAS 810A case.
Currently my main uses are running a Plex server, roon core, hdhomerun and some usenet applications.
My main goal ideally would be to have a speedier system and one capable of transcoding a single 4K stream from plex (like heaps of people seem to want) while ideally keeping the UNAS 810A case. I’ve been pretty happy with Intel (its been rock solid) so would be happy to stick with them rather than AMD. If possible, I’d rather stick with the Unas 810A case and not get a dedicated GPU as it won’t fit.
I’ve been having a look at the different threads and can see there is chatter about the Xeon E 22XX series as they have an iGPU.
I’m based in Australia and while Xeon E 2244 are available I haven’t seen any E 2268 or 2288 available as so would need to import these at a higher cost ($1128 AUD for an imported E 2288)
My questions include:
1.) Despite a passmark of 10000 would a Xeon E 2244 be able to transcode 4k plex given the iGPU? Has anyone tried this with either the Xeon E 2244 or 2288? Are there any other benefits to a 2288(will parity checks be quicker?..etc) or is it overkill for what I’m doing?
2.) It looks like the Noctua NHL-9i isn’t compatible with 91/5W TDP Coffee lake intel chips on their website (https://noctua.at/en/nh_l9i_tdp_guidelines) so I take it this fan couldn’t handle the Xeon E2288 95 TDP but probably could the E 2244?
(In which case something like the Cryorig C7 Cu Full Copper Compact cooler should fit the case at 47mm and is rated to 115 TDP).
3.) Is there a preferred mother board for iGPU and unraid (ASUS vs supermicro )? Options for motherboards would include; ASRock E3C246D4 or E3C246D4U2-2L2T(maybe nice to have 10Gb option) or Supermicro X11SCH-F.
4.) Any benefit to going to more than 32GB?
Thanks in advance for any advice or opinions.
XFS Cache Drive: unmountable no file system detected
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HI
Wondering if anyone can help me. I tried to expand my cache pool to include a second 2Tb NVMe. However when I restarted the array my original cache disc was listed being an XFS file system but unmountable with no file system detected.
I've been searching the forums and subsequently have stopped the array, decreased the pool size back to 1, tried forcing XFS as the file system, reboot, tried the XFS repair (but reports no file system found). Remounting the cache drive it comes back as being unmountable with no file system detected.
Ive been able to use ddresecue to clone the drive to the second NVMe and can it looks to be copying data over so it doesn't seem like the data has been wiped?
I am wondering if anyone has any ideas how I can get Unraid to mount and read the drive again or how I can get the data off to another computer or the array as I house my appdata folder on the cache drive and while not the end of the world would be great to not have to set up my Plex, home assistant ..etc from scratch.
Thanks for any help
unraid-diagnostics-20230728-1720.zip