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@bjp999Unfortunately I am based in Sweden so I won't be able to shop for the good American prices. Even if it was possible, the shipping cost would made expensive What I can get a hold on are the following: LaCie Porsche Design P'9233 8TB or Seagate Backup Plus Hub 8TB Both for around $250 each. A bit cheaper than buying a 8TB. However then I know what drive I actually get.

@tdallen Unfortunately I have to order from other sources.. Which sucks.. But I am starting to think that using my (currently unused, used it as a hackintosh back at my old company) i7-6700 (or if it's a 7700, can't remember) will be the new unRAID instead and then I will use it for gaming as well. The motherboard that is currently in use for the build is this: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD5, if it supports IOMMU or not, I am not sure. My main concern is that it won't be able to pass through the gfx well enough for me to play BF1. @trurl Looking at my change in approach now I am certain I would need a larger SSD for cache. Generally the unRAID was intended for movies and tv-shows with one stream. But looking at it now where I want to replace my game computer and run it from unRAID I will need a cache or two to store the games as well as the apps. @Frank1940Not high at all tbh, at least not the movies and tv-shows. Documents will be backed up to a remote location at regular intervals. Looking at it from a security perspective, which I really should do as I am security consultant that's a really good idea. I've never been targeted with a ransom ware, but it's not a matter of if, but when. I think I have a 512GB cache available for this, I will use it for this case while using a 256 for apps and VMs. @BobPhoenixNot a terrible idea, good use of money there. I have some SSD laying around so won't be needing to put a small SSD in it. Thanks for the suggestion though =) So I guess that comes down to a whole other dimension now. What's currently holding me back is that I don't know what license I have on my unRAID, thus I don't know how many disks I will be able to use. But can we all agree on that if the motherboard can handle IOMMU and VT-d, it would be a way better idea to use my i7-6700(or 7700) along with 64GB DDR4 for the unRAID and put the GTX 1060 3G in the unRAID and run games in VMs rather than use the i5 for storage only? In this way I don't need to buy anything other than new disks and if the pass through of the GFX works fine I can discontinue my i5 computer, perhaps build myself something else with that one.

@trurl Ahhh yeah, didn't thought of that. Good point. I will use an SSD as cache. Is there a preferred size of the cache drive? @tdallen Yeah, me too. But the price of an intel is about twice the price of a low end AMD. I do however have an Intel i5-3570 that have 16gb RAM. I am thinking of selling it, I could just use it for unRAID and use my other i7 system with 64GB as a gaming computer. I play BF1. Is is possible to run that from unRAID? Then maybe I could take the i7 system with the 1060 GFX to run it from unRAID? =) Great, I will likely not go for more than 4 drives anyway.

Thank you very much @tdallen. Excellent, at least that's a comfort. I am probably only going to run 2 docker instances at the same time. Plex and torrent + VPN. I am not sure whether or not the steam will be transcoded, so I can't say much about that part. Unfortunately it's not possible to upgrade the CPU since the socket on the motherboard only support AM1. At top I could get a CPU that gives me about 2700 Passmark score. I believe I do have 2 or 4 gb ram, I will have to double check this when I get to the server. But I could buy the following: CPU and this Motherboard with these RAM That would be a total of under $200. The only problem I found was that the motherboard only support 4 SATA 6gb/s. Do I need to buy a raid card or should I rather get one with 6 SATA ports? Excellent tip about the community edition there. Thanks a lot. Great, and just as @Frank1940 mentioned, I will go with best price per gb version. I checked and the 4TB one are the best one for me. Thanks for the advice on the SSD, I will absolutely use an SSD for cache, IF I will introduce cache in the equation. I am not sure yet. Great, a new installation will be made instead of upgrading then. Thanks

Hi, I used unRAID up until about 2 years ago and really liked it. Now I again see the need to have a better storage area for my files. What I have: I do have the old license and USB-drive I use to run on before. I also have the computer, except the hard drives. It's an AMD Sempron 145 with some 2-4 GB RAM on it. What I want: I would want to have, maybe to start with, 4TB disk space available to use. I also want to be able to run this box as a torrent machine and that traffic is suppose to go over VPN (I have an OpenVPN account available). It will run as a plex server, streaming to my AppleTV gen4. Only ONE stream at any given time. Preferable run as a backup solution for my apple devices Also be used as a shared storage area for documents What do I need? First question would be, do my hardware support this? As I can see the Sempron 145 supports AMD-V, but it's a single core CPU with about 2Ghz. So, do I need new hardware? If I remember correctly I would use one parity drive (the largest one) and the rest would be run as data drives? Would I best go with WD Red 4TB or HGST Deskstar NAS v2 4TB? As I tend to go with rather (in my books) large disks I can easily expand to more free space. If I were to start out with 2x 4TB, I would put one as parity and one as data drive. How many data drives could I add before I would need another parity, or is one parity sufficient? If I recall correctly, unRAID runs a propriety RAID version, so I don't have to choose which one to run at installation!? With unRAID 6.* it introduces Docker support. I understand that the easiest and has the least impact on the hardware is to run Plex and OpenVPN + torrent in a docker container!? Can anyone point me in the right direction here? Using it as a Time Machine for my apple devices should be as easy as enabling AFP? For documents, just create folders for the users, either using SMB or SFP? Also, should I start new with the old USB-drive I have or should I just do a fresh install with the latest version of unRAID instead of doing an upgrade? Is there any other pitfalls I should look out for? Anything else I should know? I've send Lime-Technology a question regarding my license, so I know how many drives I can use and whether or not the one I bought is valid for unRAID 6.* as well. I guess it is, but doesn't hurt to ask. Thanks in advance.

The cron.hourly script is called "smtp_status.sh" It seems to be some sort of status mailing script that mails the status of the unRAID-server every hour to a set email address. It's a part of unraid-unmenu, probably I havent set it up correctly.

Here's a clip from the syslog. http://pastebin.com/NmeDsCdt I came across exact the same problem again. I was watching films on my XBMC through unRAID, everything worked fine. When I woke up this morning I could not access the unRAID server...

Yeah, I an considering that, just haven't taken myself time to do that yet. But it's on my to-do list. I'll keep my fingers crossed for the RT card fixes as well. As of right now everything seems to be running smoothly though (Y) Yeah, I would have attached the syslogs.. however, I had about 30Mb of syslogs, when the machine were rebooted.... they disappeared.. I don't know why, maybe the /var/log path is just virtual and not on the USB-memory!? But when I checked the syslogs after that, it was only a couple of Kb. And they were not rotated.

Thanks for the tips, but I don't think the router nor the switch is the issue. Here's a netstat from a different machine sitting on the same switch. It shows that no packets were dropped. Name Ipkts Ierrs Ibytes Opkts Oerrs Obytes Coll Drop en0 263087024 - 139483937107 436095233 - 452422310635 - - The cable have already been replaced with a new cable. I do have some network cards laying around at home so the cost wouldn't be that big. I was more concerned about drivers and installation. Cheers

A couple of days ago my unRAID server started to behave strange. First I could not access it through hostname nor IP-address, neither via gui or SSH/telnet. I logged on to the console of the machine and it had an IP address set, the hostname was fine, everything was fine.. I checked the router and everything was fine there as well. I did general network troubleshooting as reseating the cable, change cable, change port on the switch, etc. Also did troubleshooting at the machine, changing the config, ifconfig ups and downs, /etc/rc.d/rc.inetd and inet1 restarts. Nothing worked. Finally I rebooted the server after stopping all services and unmounting the disks. Then everything worked as it should. The following day I experienced the exact same behaviour. This time I just restarted the machine. It worked for a while. Now looking at the ifconfig I can see a significant amount of dropped packages. However It has only transferred 20Mb, but I saw a significant amount of dropped packages earlier as well, but didn't thought much of it. So the question is, is this normal behaviour? Should I invest in a new NIC, instead of using the one attached to the mother board? Version of unRAID: 5.0-rc5 Hardware: Mobo - Asus M5A78L-M LE CPU - AMD Sempron 145 2,8GHz RAM - Kingston ValueRAM DDR3 PC8500/1066MHz CL7 4GB Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Link partner advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: MII PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: pumbg Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x00000033 (51) Link detected: yes driver: r8169 version: 2.3LK-NAPI firmware-version: N/A bus-info: 0000:02:00.0 Module Size Used by md_mod 45765 3 xor 13949 1 md_mod sg 13023 0 asus_atk0110 6597 0 r8169 30022 0 atiixp 1792 0 k10temp 1911 0 hwmon 945 2 asus_atk0110,k10temp ahci 17441 4 libahci 13678 1 ahci NIC statistics: tx_packets: 6802 rx_packets: 112474 tx_errors: 0 rx_errors: 0 rx_missed: 0 align_errors: 0 tx_single_collisions: 0 tx_multi_collisions: 0 unicast: 5067 broadcast: 94174 multicast: 13233 tx_aborted: 0 tx_underrun: 0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 54:04:a6:xx:zz:yy inet addr:10.0.10.22 Bcast:10.0.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:111911 errors:0 dropped:32055 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6667 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:21577471 (20.5 MiB) TX bytes:1800384 (1.7 MiB) Interrupt:41 Base address:0xa000