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    Unassigned Devices - Managing Disk Drives and Remote Shares Outside of The Unraid Array

    in Plugin Support

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    Can Someone explain howto reformat external usb disb drive with UD ?

    Already installed UD+, precleared disk and signature is valid and destuctive mode is enabled...

    cant find anything with reformat the disc or creating fs (even with stopped array) :D

     

    Can someone explain me also why a seperate plugin (UD+) is needed for formatting disks and I have to enable destructive mode ?

     

    Do I need UD for mounting external disks to unraid ? I am sure formatting / mounting the disk with terminal tools will be faster than looking howto reformat disks with UD :D

    [SOLVED][Bug Network Settings] IPv4 / IPv6 DNS Settings

    in General Support

    Posted · Edited by MisterT

    I only have eth0 on my unraid, but good to know - make sense :D

     

    Yep I know coz DHCP gives you DNS entrys anyway.

    But I fully agree your post but on my Server (Unraid 6.12.3) I cant change to static DNS on static IP (like I said in first post).

    Watch Screenshots:

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    This is my current IPv4 config... (DNS server is fixed to automatic)

     

    When I change IPv4 Address config to automatic:

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    I can change DNS Servers...

     

    But If I switch back IPv4 Address config to static:

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    DNS Address config is fixed to static (like you said) - BUT If I setup my DNS Server here and save it...

    The Settings will fall back like in Screenshot 1 and "/etc/resolv.conf" is empty also...

     

    For now: I am using my current IPv4 Settings (Screenshot 1) with a startup script (using go file on flash device) - which replace complete resolv.conf with my correct DNS Servers and domains after complete startup.

    [SOLVED][Bug Network Settings] IPv4 / IPv6 DNS Settings

    in General Support

    Posted · Edited by MisterT
    changed title - solved

    Hi Guys :)


    I just want to know why I cant setup a static DNS Adress when IP is configured to static on unraid Webinterface ?
    Same goes with IPv6...

     

    I can only change it to static DNS if Address configuration is automatic / DHCP ?
    I thought DNS configuration is seperated from IP configuration, so it doesnt matter if IP is set to DHCP or static to change DNS settings ? :o

     

    have a nice day!

    Creating new Unraid-Server for myself - need for perfect config [long!]

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by MisterT

    for first question I found the solution :D

    2nd: and without IPMI ? I know dmesg (also journalctl) showing RAM errors by kernel event - but there I need terminal access - would be nice to get it also on the first site of unraid dashboard :D

     

    reason: there are no server board with mITX and B550 with IPMI support.... also wanna avoid server boards because of not ment for home use so no priority to get low power consumption on idle / soft off :D

    Creating new Unraid-Server for myself - need for perfect config [long!]

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by MisterT
    question added

    4 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

    Depends mostly on how important data integrity is for you, if it is very important then yes, use ECC RAM, all my servers have ECC, and memory errors are extremely rare, but they happen, I got ECC corrected errors twice one one server (in the same day) in the last 10 years, or worst case scenario and a dimm goes bad it can go several days or more without being noticed corrupting all the written data in the meantime.

    Hm ok, do you know on Ryzen B550 chipsets which ECC dimms I have to use ? most desktop MOBOs just say "ECC Supported"

    but not which type of DIMMs (RDIMMs for example) ?

     

    EDIT: Is there maybe a plugin to show ECC corrected RAM errors on unraid dashboard ? :o

    Creating new Unraid-Server for myself - need for perfect config [long!]

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by MisterT

    2 hours ago, Harro said:

    You could look into jellyfin. That would load in a browser and also could transcode.

    Thanks looks very nice !

    Do you use jellyfin also ? It seemd to me browser playback wont play video files directly, Video files will be transcoded everytime ? 

     

    As I understand the transcoding options are only for hardware acceleration - if non: more cpu usage ?

     

    Back to topic:

    My first choice on CPU side:
    AMD Ryzen 5 3400G, 4C/8T, 3.70-4.20GHz with APU (Zen+) ?

    Btw: Will APUs also work for unraids GPU passthrough ?

     

    Or better wait till 2021 for Ryzen 4000 Series APUs with more cores and Zen2 archiectur fur this purpose ?

     

    Want avoid Intel for his Desktop SKUs for ALOT of reasons but mainly because AMD has really awesome power consumption when idle with his Ryzen CPUs.

    Heard about 0.2v voltage per core - someone told me its nearly the same like mobile CPUs...

     

     

    Creating new Unraid-Server for myself - need for perfect config [long!]

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by MisterT
    text addendum

    Hello Folks :)

    First of all: I want to create a new (and first) Unraid-Server for home usage and I want share it with you to get some configuration Tipps - to get nearly perfect hardware Setup :)

    Be patient: This thread will be very long (I think) - So sorry for that ;)

     

    I will list here some use cases for this Server and how often it will be used:

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    1. Copying / Reading files from Samba share - but no crazy big files or rendering stuff! (everytime)

    2. Using docker Services - I think at least 8 docker services same time (everytime

    3. Virtualization for business testing purposes - only 2 VM same time with GPU passthrough (often)

    4. For Media Streaming with transcoding using PLEX - maybe with hardware transcoding ?* (rare)

    5. Backups to Samba share using rsync I think (1x monthly)

    6. Backup to an remote offsite Server - 3-2-1 backup rule (1x monthly)

     

    * I am a single person and the only one who uses this server - but I am calculating with 3 transcoding streams sametime in 4k (for future proof and If the event I have guests at home :) )

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    My Server Requirements:

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    1. Low power usage primarly in idle (I know that 30 watt Server is not possible because physics has limitations :D but it should  have a good ratio of both)
    2. Small case (Thinking of 4bay 3.5inch sata howswap case with headless unraid usage)
    3. Low noise but not fanless - Server will be placed in my living room (so good ratio also like point 1)

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    But enough info for know I think - only want go thru question by question and not all the same time

     

    First questions before I am looking for my hardware:

    • Is hardware transcoding in PLEX usable with unraid ? (I know: only dedicated nvidia cards with driver support)
    • better doing transcoding on a M.2 SSD drive temporaly or is an mechanical SATA drive enough for 1gbit LAN speed (I thing the LAN speed is the bottleneck here?)
    • Unraid power management: If I am not using the nvidia card for transcoding and use unraid headless... Whats about the 75watts from the PCIE slot itself - will it drain the 75 watts power anytime as soon dedicated cpu is connected or 0 watts then ?

     

    Sorry for the weeird questions, but its important for my next calculations :D

    Anyway thank you all for helping me out!

     

    Have a nice day and stay healty!

     

    EDIT: For Sure - I will post also my hardware config here later to discuss the config for improvements !