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Yes, it is updating the parity to match the new data. I think what they mean is not have several big stream of data to the array at the same time as such : This would be much slower than a single stream.

Good to see all those translations ! I will allow the community to grow and also provide Lime Tech more ressources for an even better product ! 👍

The only logic course of action would be to change your name, move to another country hoping to escape the hitman after you. 😱

Did you check that the cache setting on the shares are set appropriatly for what you want it to do ? It would help if you posted your diagnostics file so the guys could look at it.

J'attends toujours des pièces pour me lancer moi même alors les autres me corrigeront si je dis des bétises. Normalement, unRAID fonctionne avec les numéros de série des disques, si tu changes de matériel ça ne devrait poser aucun problème. Dans le doute, je te conseille tout de même de bien noter quels disques sont en data, parity, cache, etc. En cas de soucis, tu n'auras qu'à le ré-assigner de la même façon et tout devrait rouler. Pour la parity, je crois qu'il faut différencier parity1 et 2 (mais tu n'es pas concerné).

You cannot trust pictures too much on ebay, Amazon and the likes. Not saying that all cards from China are local reproductions not to be trusted, but if I was selling counterfeit products, I would do my best to use pictures of the real thing.

En revanche, de ce que je lis sur le forum c'est que unRAID est plutôt orienté home user / hobbyist. Ce n'est pas forcement aussi sécurisé que des solutions pro, notamment pour ce qui est vis à vis d'internet. Quelques ressources qui peuvent aider en plus du forum : - les vidéos de SpaceInvaderOne sur Youtube (en anglais) - les articles sur Presse Citron :

Thank you Spencer.

La licence est à vie et comprend aussi les futures versions.

We can even hope for a nice Spaceinvaderone video on this ? Along side the guide it would be great.

I will definitly try Bitwarden. The possible avantage I can see is that it's free. If I can have a good product and skip the Lastpass fee, I could be interested. Will depend how efficient it is, if and how I can import/export the data, etc.

Ok with Energen answers, some time on the internet and reading the supermicro manuals I have narrowed my question list. Is there a limitation on using SATA2 with spinners ? 3Gbps looks more than enough for me, is there a catch ? The Broadcom / LSI 2208 looks OK and it seems it can be flashed to IT mode. Do you see an issue ? Can I expect TRIM on any of those ports ? (SATA2, SATA3, SAS)

Thank you for the link, always usefull to know specialists. Edit : spent a bit more time on the website, really cool search engine. Not sure how they are on the price but i'll look later.

I think this card uses the RTL8125 NIC, the driver was added only on 6.9 beta 22 or 24. You could try the beta version.

Difficult to answer with so few details. What form factor are looking for ? What size of drive are you planning to use ? Do you have an idea of the motherboard type ? Do you want internal bays or hotswap ?

Thanks for your feedback Energen. I am doing this topic to cover as much stuff in advance and not having any buyers remorses. Regarding the drives, I didn't went in too much details because I was focusing more on the general architecture and base components choices at first. I bought those 2x 14TB to use as data + parity at first before getting too serious and removing the other drives from the NAS. The good thing is that I can transfer all my actual data on the 14TB data drive and build up the array later. On the Motherboard side, what I like on those boards is the important number of expansion slots for GPU and future use. On the hole placement, I am asking because they are not simple ATX size but "Extended ATX", meaning that they are 13.68" x 13" (34.74cm x 33cm) or 12" x 13" (30.5cm x 33.2cm) witch is between SSI MEB and SSI EEB. I guess my question on the PSU wasn't super clear. I see there are 1x 24pin power connector and 2x 8pins. I think they are the same as regular consumer MB, just wanted to confirm. On the topic of RAM, same as above, I was planning to tackle that question once the architecture was set. On those plateforms, it would be silly not to use ECC RAM and possibly lots of it. I'll look into it but probably big sticks on each CPUs but I have to consider the memory channels and not spend an insane amount of money. I'll look into it during the weekend or next week. If someone has any more information on this first batch of question, I'll be glad to hear it.

So taking all the elements above, I started to look at hardware. My first approach was to look a brand new stuff and the various Ryzen do offer a lot for the price compared to their Intel equivalent. Sure, they mostly lack an IGP and there are some issues (johnnie.black must be sooooo bored to link the same posts again and again :D). 3900X or 3800X seemed nice for what they offer. B450 and X470 is out for 2.5G LAN (except one ASUS board), there is some choice with 2.5G LAN. But looking at the number of drives I plan on using on the short term (2+2+2 HDDs, 2 or 4 SSDs) and some future array expansion I do find some limitations for the drives since I can at best go for 8 SATA + 2 M.2. Sure, I could use less HDD, skip the redunduncy on cache drives; but I forsee that I would have to increased my array capacity, maybe go for twin parity and from what I see on the forums, RAID1 cache seems a pretty good idea. There is then the HBA route obviously LSI 8i boards a accessible that's not a big deal. But I will probably need a GPU for media conversion and maybe in the future a 10G LAN. And if that doesn't seem to work so well with X570 (or Z490 for that matter even if the IGP might be of some help) ==> GPU PCIE 16x / HBA PCIE 8x / 10G LAN PCIE x4 All those boards can either offer 16x or 8x/8x. So I spent quite some time looking at second hand server stuff, so original, nobody ever does that... The more recent stuff with DDR4 is quite rare and expensive, so I looked at DDR3 stuff. But that's where I have some questions since I am out of my depth there. I did spend some time on ebay, Intel ARK and the Supermicro website. I saw some boards that looked interesting (PCIE only, no PCI, recent enough, etc.) : X9DAX-7F / X9DRi-F / X9DAX-iF / X9DRH-7F. Much more PCIE extensions (2x 16x + 3x 8x + 1x 4x), more SATA, SAS some times. I saw some differences in size, number and type of SATA connectors and some have a SAS controler... are the attachement points of the server mother boards compatible with standard cases ? (think so^^) are those boards compatible with standard with regular PSUs ? those boards mainly use SATA2 (x8) with some SATA3 (x2), does this cause any issue ? As for speed on HDDs, I do not think it is an issue, for SATA SSDs, it might be an issue. What about TRIM ? It seems to be integrated in SATA 3.1. on the Supermicro website, I see mention of SCU and AHCI SATA, is there any issue with SCU ? is the Broadcom 2208 controler is useful ? Can it be used as an HBA or should I skip it ? I am wondering what's the best choice as for CPU if I go this way. I made speadsheets taking into account nb of threads, base clock, cache and price. Sure E5-2697v2, 2695v2 or 2690v2 are the best in this range, but I am wondering if going for a pair of 2630v2 or 2637v2 on the cheap would be a good way to startup and learn? And maybe switching for more powerful stuff later on if necessary? are there mono CPU server boards that offer more PCIE lanes than modern architectures ?

After a month or so on the forum, I think I have enough information to get serious about building my first unRAID server. But before ordering stuff, I'd like to run things by you to prevent beginners mistakes. Objective: File server Media player with Plex, Emby, Jellyfin or something else on a docker maybe some sonarr/radarr/or other stuff, I'd would have to take the time to understand and decide about it possibly some WireGuard or other thing of the sort, but not right now Out of scope: No gaming VM: I have a one year old gaming rig that is pretty good No home automation: I live in a small flat, no real need for it. Constraints: I cannot find a good place in my place for the server except in my living room. So, no ultra loud stuff, it will have to be a tower and if possible not be super ugly. I am looking at a Fractal Design Define 7 XL, Define XL R2 or Silverstone CS380. Maybe server specific cases ? I will use 2x 14TB (should have them tomorrow) and once it is stable enough, I'll reuse 2x 6TB from my NAS and maybe 2 or 3x 3TB from my NAS or spare. My NAS (DS414) will end up being a repository for the backup of the unRAID and some family members. It will also probably upload the backups to some cloud service (maybe BackBlaze ?). Hypothesis: I will need 1 or 2 SSDs for the array cache and maybe 1 or 2 others for the dockers once 6.9 is out. It would be great if I can reuse my old GTX770 for Plex conversion, I'll try I will probably increase my array size both from adding drives and replacing others. It would be nice to have at least some 2.5G LAN on the motherboard since my ISP is offering 2.5G fiber and networking on the last router. 10G LAN would be better for futureproofing. With the basics out of the way, I do have a bunch of things to clarify regarding the architecture, the possible expansions, etc. I will keep the original post clean and hopefully up to date, so the questions will be in the next post(s).

Maybe you were OK on 5x with you specific setup. I think unRAID 6x requires more RAM than the old version you were running.

I am not sure what is your request exactly, it is already possible to hide whole section in the forums, but not a specific category. Say I don't care about Application Support, it is possible to collapse it. However, it is not possible to pick and choose, for exemple only keep General and French in the Multi Language section since I don't really speak chinese or norwegian. It would be neat though for specific elements.

While the deal on the 14TB is off on amazon.fr, there are still good prices on lower capacities.

It was the same thing on the EU side, got myself 2x 14TB for 250€ a piece ... compared to the 496€ for a Red drive ... But today the price is back up to 320€. So I would suggest not to wait too long if the price looks good for you.

Salut, je me présente rapidement moi aussi : Pierre, 41 ans, je suis sur la région lyonnaise. Je me monte mes PCs persos depuis +20ans, tous les 4-5 ans. Mais je n'ai aucune expérience Linux, serveurs ou réseau. Niveau usage, j'ai actuellement un Syno DS414 qui commence à se faire vieux et qui est assez limité en CPU/RAM et ne permet pas grand chose. Aussi, au lieu de faire une simple mise à jour HDD ou HW, je pense me monter un serveur dans les semaines/mois qui viennent. Comme beaucoup, j'ai aussi visité le site, la documentation et le forum FreeNAS et ça ne donne pas super envie de se lancer pour un débutant. 😒 La différence avec la communauté unRAID est énorme. Aussi je traîne sur le forum pour bien comprendre les limites, les bonnes pratiques, les bons choix HW, etc. Malgré tout ça, je ne doute pas que je vais tout de même avoir plein de problèmes de débutant. Je pense commencer doucement avec un serveur multimédia, je fais des essais actuellement sur Plex, Emby et Jellyfin, il faudra trancher. Et dans un second temps, il est possible que je joue un peu avec d'autres types de dockers. Je pense reconditionner le Syno avec des petits disques qui traînent pour faire les sauvegardes depuis unRAID et de diverses données pour la famille. Et probablement envoyer faire ensuite un backup du Syno en ligne (Backblaze, Amazon, etc). Il est probable que je pose plutôt mes questions sur la partie anglophone, mais peut-être que pour des détails précis, je poserai mes questions ici.

Not sure if you have time for this, but it would be interesting to have some feedback from Kingston. As jonathanm said, it is possible a deliberate choice from Kingston in their 3 pack ? I was looking at this model too since I already have one on my keychain, it is quite tough, I am happy with it. Plus it seems a good model for heat dissipation.

Hey, just an idea, why not just upgrade the server you already bought to replace the elements doing too much noise ? I think that changing the fans and maybe the power supply would be much cheaper. But if you want to use the project to learn stuff, better tune the system to your needs etc, sure go for it.