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I have been enjoying unraid for a while now. I have had very few problems over the years and am very happy with unraid. I have not been following things closely so I do feel a bit out of the loop. The last time I switched systems was back in 2012 and I don't remember having any problems. I have been running an older 24 bay system from supermicro. I am currently waiting on delivery for the parts to a new server to replace that system. I would welcome any recommendations or warnings about potential issues I might run into. Current 2012 unraid server: unRAID 6.8.3 - Pro Case: SuperMicro SC846TQ 24 Bay Server Chassis Power Supply: Thermaltake Smart 700W Mobo: SuperMicro H8DME-2 CPU: Dual Core AMD Opteron, 2212 HE 2 GHz Mem: 8GB DDR2 EEC SATA Controller: AOC-SAT2-MV8 PCI-X (x2) Parity: WD Red 8TB Cache: None 35TB Array: (3x) WD Red 8TB, (3x) WD Red 3TB, (1x) WD Green 2TB New 2020 unraid server: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xcrWhg unRAID 6.8.3 - Pro Case: Antec P101 Silent ATX Mid Tower Power Supply: Thermaltake Smart 700W Mobo: Gigabyte B360M D3H GSM Micro ATX LGA1151 CPU: Intel Core i3-8100 3.6 GHz Mem: 16 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 CL16 SATA Controller: Dell H310 SAS HBA card Parity: WD Red 8TB Cache: OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD 41TB Array: (4x) WD Red 8TB, (3x) WD Red 3TB One of my goals is to try and keep the cost down as much as possible. I recently bought the power supply to replace a dead one for the current system so I intend to reuse it in the new system. I am going to re-use all the hard drives as well and replace my final old 2TB drive with a new 8TB drive (recently removed four 2TB drives that were around 8+ years old). I am assuming that if I bring over the USB flash drive with my unraid os on it, I should be good there and don't need to do anything with the license to make it work. I intend to continue running Deluge, Sonarr, and Radarr on my new server. I do not intend to run a Plex docker. My main PC runs a plex server and handles the transcoding so it does not have to be run on my unraid server. I added the 120GB SSD cache drive to be used by the dockers for AppData. I do not intend for it to be used by the other unraid shares. I don't copy much data from my PC to unraid, things download directly to unraid so I don't need that functionality (hence the small SSD). It was a surprisingly difficult decision deciding how many drives I wanted to support. I have loved the ability to just add new drives and leave the old ones in the system and had 14ish drives going at one point. I have been replacing old 2TB drives with newer larger drives and am now down to 8 drives total ( 1 parity+7 data). This was important because that was the main dictating factor on what type of case was acceptable. The Antec case I chose has eight 3.5" drive bays and one 5.25" bay, it can also hold two SSD drives behind the mobo. This lets me keep all my current drives and have room to add one more in the 5.25" bay if I am in a pinch and need to upgrade. I figure for expandability I could slowly replace the 3TB drives with larger drives as they start to age out. I am very much looking forward to a much quieter system. I am not really anticipating any problems, at least not now that I remembered to also order the SATA cables I would need. Still any tips or recommendations would be welcome.

Thanks for the quick reply, that is really awesome news!

I really love this, thanks so much for creating it! It took me a bit to get it running because I didn't fully realise that I needed to use /data in my deluge settings and not the share name from unraid. When I fixed that, it all started working great! I do have a question about the VPN support. I use PIA and had it running in a VM on my windows desktop prior to setting this up on unraid. The PIA app would lose the VPN connection every few days or so and sometimes restarting the app wasn't enough and a reboot was required to get the VPN to reconnect. All torrenting would stop in those cases and rebooting the VM wasn't that big a hassle so I never looked into it further. I am curious if there is a way to tell that the VPN connection has died when using the docker? Thanks!

I am wondering if there is anyway to stop a move in progress? I was looking into using unBalance to move some data off the nearly full drives in my array over to the freshly added 3TB drive. Long story short I started a move of 1.8TB instead of the .2TB I intended. It isn't actually a big problem because I did want to empty my old ReiserFS drives and reformat them to XFS. I would have prefered to do it at a later date though as I want to install a cache disk and don't want to shut down the system in the middle of the unBalance move. For future reference though is there anyway to pause or stop the transfer after it has started? BTW, great plugin I think it will be really convenient in the future.