ConnerVT

First, I am relieved that your absence this past month was by choice and not due to some less pleasant reason. It was noted by me, and was concerning. I do wish to thank you for all of the help you have provided me over the years. From the time I built my first Unraid system 5 years ago until now, you have been a wonderful resource for me and countless others. You have always impressed me with your willingness to assist answering questions and solving problems, always in a friendly, patient and calm manner. You will be missed, both by me as well as many others from the Unraid community. I am happy you have new projects to enjoy and learn from. Best wishes to you on the road ahead. Drop in occasionally and say hello.

You would be better off asking in the General Support subforum. https://forums.unraid.net/forum/55-general-support/

@ich777 - Good to see you. Hope the time away was for a restful and enjoyable holiday.

@dorgan - Just got around to updating this plugin. Been running it for years, and it has always worked for me without any issues. OMG! This rewrite definitely brings it to the next level! It looks fantastic. All of the info one could possibly want, all in one place (two, if you have the dashboard widget installed as well as the tab). And it all looks great. Thanks for your work on this.

Yes. There are a number of them on eBay that can save you some $$$. Open box and even used are pretty low risk, especially if you buy from a high(er) volume seller. Many times these are cards included with systems to business clients that were immediately upgraded, and even used cards were normally lightly used, as no one is mining crypto with these.

My opinion is the Nvidia RTX A400 is the best value for transcoding video for a typical home video server. New is as low as $200 USD, used and open-box easily found for less. Single slot, 50W max power and gets all of its power from the PCIe slot (no extra power cable). I replaced the Quadro P400 in my server not long ago with the RTX A400, as Nvidia is no longer supporting the Pascal based cards in their drivers. This eventually trickles down to applications as well, when a product has reached End Of Life. There is the Quadro T400 that was released between the P400 and A400, but it won't be too long before that is EOL as well. The pricing between the T400 and A400 (comparing 4GB cards) are about the same, so the RTX A400 is the best value.

What I know is I fought with my APC UPS to reset it when connected to my Unraid server. Connected it to a Windows laptop, used their app, no more problems. I didn't get into the "why?".

Connect it temporarily to a Windows machine, and use APC's PowerChute program to reset the battery date.

This GPU is basically worthless for transcoding. Nvidia has End Of Life support for cards Pascal and older.

Did you reset the battery install date (or whatever your brand of UPS requires) when you replaced the battery. APC requires doing this, else it retains the status of the previous battery.

Having run Ryzen CPUs since I preordered a 1st gen, I would recommend any B350 or B450 motherboard for your 1600. The B series is the mid-grade chipset - I would avoid the budget A and the deluxe X series, as the former are always a bit questionable and the later overkill, especially for a build with a very old CPU. The B450 will be cheaper to buy new right now, where the B350 used could be much cheaper (free, if you know someone who upgraded and is generous). Be careful with the latest B550. It supports features (such as Gen4 NVMe drives) which your CPU doesn't support, but in the process some motherboards have BIOS which have dropped support for older generation CPUs. You need to check the manufacturer's documentation or you may find yourself chasing issues.

Post diagnostics

I don't download to iOS devices often, but also have seen this before. I found it does not like when you queue several files to do at once. I would try cancelling the Waiting movie, then retrying again, only that one movie.

Seeing as they are currently selling retail for $300+ USD and not much less on eBay, I would say - stay away. If it seems too good to be true... As you wrote in the beginning - prices are currently crazy. It won't be getting better anytime soon.

In your original post the screenshot showed your array writes to be just over 50MB/s, which I replied is pretty typical (and aligned with what I see on my server). Ignoring what AI told you (as its answer doesn't directly answer what you are seeing), 20MB/s is not typical. Things that can influence this are other activity taking place on the array (reads or writes from another source/application) or something related to your source (you mention coming from a VM). I would try copying a fairly large file internally on the server, such as from a pool drive (SSD/NVMe) to the array, using the native Unraid file utilities. This would help narrow down if the issue is you array or the mechanism trying to copy data.

Some routers have security applications which do port scanning and attempt to log in to open ports. Usually with simple user names (boot, admin, etc). Worth a quick check if your router does this.

An unfortunate truth. 🙁

He just added to his repository this week

While I do have trust in the work which @dlandon provides the Unraid community, I am in agreement with @MowMdown 's concerns. If this was some random plugin, I would recommend not installing a plugin from outside the vetted Unraid Community Apps. But the Unassigned Devices suite of plugins are pretty much essential to most Unraid users. Now that @limetech is the owner/author of these plugins (due to unfortunate circumstances) I would hope that, in the future, they would check that any ancillary programs test okay without any breaking changes before releasing OS updates. If issues are found, they should make any required updates and release them to the CA, and perhaps even add these to the plugin checker which runs during the update process.

No. "Parity disk" implies that it is part of an Array. Pools and Array require an error free connection to all disks, something that can't be guaranteed by USB connected drives.

Well, then I got nothing. At least you have 2 less possible causes.

Haven't had an issue here. Suggest clearing cache and maybe cookies.

Between both servers, roughly $96,000 USD worth.

Parity is not a backup. Parity is a useful function to allow reconstruction/replacement of a failed drive while providing some HA (High Availability) of the server during array repair. But a proper backup is the only thing that will truly prevent data loss.