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I love that unRAID OS has been maintained, for me since 2011, and continued adding new features while still running on my ol HP G7 microserver N40L. For 2020, I’d really appreciate it if more drivers were bundled, while their installation would be optional. I’m thinking in particular about the great Linux homeserver team’s work on Nvidia and DVB drivers. It’d be mental if, say after install, limetech included plugins to run custom install of drivers based on user selection.

Hi guys. I thought I'd share my experience with this little gem. I have been running one (N40L) 24/7 since 2012. Amazing little box. Other than the occasional OS update, its uptime has been an amazing 100%. The original HDDs when setup are still in use. Those are four WD 3TB (1 red for parity and 3 greens); one 2TB Seagate Green I had from a prior build; and, one 2.5" 1 TB WD Blue used as a cache drive. My 11 TB array has now less than 10% free space. I guess it is time for an upgrade. So I started with buying HDD. (Good enough offers so I couldn't resist). I now have 6x WD My Book (4x 10 TB and 2x 8 TB). They all are WD Whites and are now pre-cleared. The main use for my shoebox is to serve - without transcoding, though if I found a 1050 that'd fit, I will squeeze it in to assist with - a few kodi boxes using the Emby docker. (Although I have started looking into Jellyfin). Other dockers used are Sickchill, Deluge VPN and Let's Encrypt for connecting two remote kodi boxes. The server has 8 GB of RAM and only less than half is used. So I am considering giving the server more to do and adding nextcloud and OpenVPN but I don't know whether the CPU has enough stamina. I might have reached the limit of this box. What do you think? Are you guys getting more out of them? Should I consider building from scratch, in which case, the Ryzen 5 2600 looks appealing (I saw one for 100 euros new yesterday) even if I currently have no use for VMs... Voila, my 2cents using this box. Comments are welcome, especially if you use it differently or have found a more recent replacement.

Great, will give it a try and update. Thanks Sam

Thanks. Looking forward to reading your feedback. Cheers.

Could you please indicate how you did it? I have 3 drives, same model (WD30EZRX) in a HP microserver N40L. Currently my BIOS setting for SATA mode is set to AHCI, should I change this for the purpose of running wdidle3? I plan on loading freedos on a spare bootable usb stick using unetbootin and copy there wdidle3.exe as well. Then I'll run it once for all 3 disks(?) Is this the proper way of doing this? Also, I just got a 2.5" WD Scorpio Blue 1TB (WD10JPVT) which will be my cache disk. Does anyone know if it's possible/how to change the Intelli Park setting on this model?

Not quite sure what's been changed lately but I had the exact same issue you were describing. Solved or rather circumvented it using the following telnet command: installplg /boot/config/plugins/simpleFeatures.core.webGUI-1.0.5-noarch-1.plg Off course you will have already copied the plg file in directory /boot/config/plugins/ before running the code above. Hope this helps while real experts find a real fix.