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Thanks for sharing Jorge, yeah someone else just told me to disable Global C States and fixes freeze issues.. I'll give it a few days and hopefully my problems are gone.

I have been experiencing freeze and lockups since I upgrade to BIOS 1.40 and Firmware 1.20 for the X570D4U-2L2T. I have two of these boards. One of them is using an LSI card with no use of the MARVEL sata ports while the other has a combination of both. Before using the X570D4U-2L2T for my UNRAID build, I was using the one with no LSI CARD using the MARVEL SATA ports and had no issues with BIOS 1.30 and Firmware 1.10. So I'm not sure if somehow the board has gone bad or it is a bug introduced in the firmware and BIOS. For now, I'll disable Global C States to see if it changes anything. Again this entire story with the use of MARVEL SATA is just to explain that it is the only difference between both systems. One is using an LSI only and on my RAID system I'm using both and before it was only using the board's SATA ports. Not sure if there is a link to be made there as I am not familiar with GLOBAL C STATES but read it caused some people issues, freezes / lockups.

Looking at this thread, someone suggested that there could be a bug related with Global C States. I'll disable them and see what happens. I have the X570D4U-2L2T, the X570D4U's bro.

Thanks I'll enable that!

Hi everyone, During the night I suffered a system freeze and had reboot my UNRAID system by force (I did connect a monitor to the system but there was no output). I was trying to understand what happened but the syslog is a fresh copy and everything that was done previously is gone. Perhaps I'm not looking at the right place. Are logs archived somewhere or is there anything I can do that would help me find out the cause?

Thanks for the info!

So I guess the problem was that I didn't set that up.. The master SMB is UNRAID but was using the wrong domain / workgroup (still set to WORKGROUP). But then this changed (SMB Master) to one of my VMs, oddly enough Home Assistant and not entirely sure why.

I do not have a master server for the SMB network. I just have CFIS enabled and able to connect to each machine's users to get connected. Historically I had no issues but I am not maintaining an AD if that is what you are asking.

Hi, I have some proxmox servers that depend on my NAS for storage. I've noticed that, if I need to take my array offline or reboot it, even when it comes back online, for some reason promox doesn't seen the CIFS share anymore. I tried to remove it and add the storage again, when I enter the user and password I see the list of shares however, it becomes unavailable. I tried with my QNAP to see if it was a Proxmox issue but that doesn't happen with my QNAP. Anyone has a clue? The only way to fix this is my rebooting everything each time.. Extremely annoying.

Hi, Just curious if some of you are using BTRFS as their file system for their HDD array? Any major problem if chosing BTRFS over XFS? Thanks

Well I'm using the X570D4U-2L2T motherboard, 3900XT and ECC RAM (32 gigs for now).

Is BTRFS stable enough to use? Or should I stick to XFS?

Hi, Is there such a concept as defined users HOME directory? What I mean is, on my QNAP NAS, every user had a home directory that could be accessed on their machine by simply going //server ip/username. Is there a feature to enable this in UNRAID? Thanks

BTW, just a quick question.. Is BTRFS safe to use or should I stick to XFS which is the default?

Never mind, I had to format

Nevermind, it was a faulty port on this card I have. Replaced it by another and it works fine. However, now I have another issue... I have this message on 3 drives "Unmountable: Unsupported partition layout". I did take them out and flushed all partitions.. Any clues?

Hi, I'm running a 8 disks array using a DELL H200 which is in TI mode. 4 disks out of 5 are currently detected. One of the disks just wont get detected at all. I validated the cable is OK, same for the disks. All partitions on the disk were wiped. I formatted it with ext4 and I am able to read and write to it. So now I'm wondering, am I limited to 4 disks in the trial version? Thanks

Thanks for explaining this to me.. Appreciate it. I will most likely not run any docker containers on my UNRAID unit. I already have two dedicated machines running Proxmox where I have my VMs and some docker containers on them. I intend to use UNRAID purely as a NAS but I may still add one SSD for caching.

I'm not sure I understand. You mean that if I do not use a SSD drive for caching, to use Docker / VM manager will actually accelerate the writing of data to the UNRAID array?

It is not that bad if write operations are not critical and can skip on the initial deployment by not adding a SSD for caching. I don't think I would go with just a single SSD but two in RAID to make sure there is no loss of information.

Hi, I was thinking of using a SSD in a UNRAID system to accelerate saving data to the NAS but was wondering if any of you are using two SSD in RAID mode to make sure that in case an SSD fails, data wouldn't be lost until the files are transferred to one of the HDDs. Is anyone doing this? Is it worth it? Also, how slow is an UNRAID system if you do not have an SSD cache drive, what are the typical read / write speeds over a network? In other words, what is the best possible performance without an SSD cache drive? I will be using a DELL PERC H200 and WD RED 6TB NAS HDD with 256 MB CACHE on each. Thanks

Very true, that is what I was getting at with separation of concerns, a Software Development habit. If I would put both these in the same box, the idea would be to use a LSI controller converted to IT MODE, something like a LSI SAS9200-8i. I also intend to use SSDs to put my VMs on anyways so it would be very ideally to identify them, putting everything in the new Fractal Design Define 7 XL, plenty of space!

Interesting and makes sense. I could use the USB key, boot UNRAID only or boot Proxmox. It sure does give me some flexibility. I could setup UNRAID first, see how it works. And then I could install Proxmox on a SSD, set everything up to for UNRAID inside Proxmox and see how that goes. Seems flexible enough. Thanks for the tip.

Like you also said it is not supported officially but it does not mean you can't do it. The real question is, even if you can make it work, should you? I still feel like separating concerns is better. A NAS is a system dedicated to storage on its own it is a big task involving specific hardware for a specific task. One would argue that often that is what you do with VMs but you use resources available from a pool, you don't need to dedicate stuff like HDDs, LSI controllers, etc. And if I would install UNRAID under PROXMOX that is would I would do or think I should do anyways. At the same time, like ULDISE said, unless you use the full potential of a build you could find yourself wasting resources but I guess that is only true if you put too much or don't monitor the situation and adjust.. I would be careful with opinions. Many people tend to have an "opinion" that is often not based around facts and you can't really argue with an opinion. It would be like saying "why do you like blue, blue sucks, red is better". It is an opinion, a preference. Some opinions are valid, some are not and only through research like we do with science can we separate an opinion from a fact. I'm a Software Developer, and I'm used to separate things by concerns, not to mix everything together and there is a good reason for that. When you start mixing everything together and you need to change something it can lead to chaos and problems. It limits your ability to refactor, make changes, add, remove features appropriately. So while I do understand the notion of efficiency and not wasting resources like ULDISE, I am also wondering if for something like a storage system like UNRAID if I should mix that with Proxmox. I've been reading on Proxmox and it is an amazing Hypervisor, basically offers same level of features you would have with ESXi or a HYPER-V Server, except for home use it is totally free. With Proxmox you could create a lab where you'd deploy services, micro-services, test ideas with different OSes, etc. Amazing. But should I mix that with a storage system. Lets not forget that all this will generate heat as well. Anyways just food for thought I guess. Perhaps certain things are better to live in separate environments? There is another added advantage of having UNRAID as a VM. With Proxmox you could backup your environment and restore it very easy. Although maybe that is not true because I think UNRAID starts off from a USB key right? If that is true, I could take all hardware I use in a UNRAID box, move it somewhere else, and get up and running really fast if all the configs sit in a USB key and most of UNRAID runs in memory. I wonder, what would they do in the enterprise? Would they put a storage server inside a VM? Not that the enterprise should be the defacto model to follow but I'm just wondering.

Thanks again for all the help, that was very helpful!