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With a i5-11400? A lot. It isn't so much how many VM and docker containers you have installed and/or running. It is more about how hard you are running those activities. A Windows VM sitting idle or browsing the Internet doesn't need a lot of processing power. Plex/Emby streaming a Direct Play video on your home LAN uses very little. Playing a video game in Windows while transcoding several video streams, well that needs much more. My biggest suggestion is to add some more DRAM to your system. 16GB is low if you are running VMs (especially Windows. Would you run Win10/11 on bare metal with 4GB?). 32GB for the system is better. I also added an inexpensive SSD to put my Domains and ISO shares - They run faster from SSD, and it saves space and wear and tear on my primary cache pool.

I would be very happy if those were the only things expected from me. For me, the list keeps on growing. 😆

This is a question that depends not on what you will be running, but how you are running the applications on the server. Running a Win11 VM? Will it just be used to open a few browser tabs and watch a YouTube video, or will you be playing games or doing CPU intensive activities like editing video, etc. Will the Plex be used occasionally to stream Direct Play video for one user on the LAN, or will there be several people watching different videos on devices out on the Internet, all of them transcoding at the same time? Will there be other dockers (such as the arrs) also be active at the time, downloading torrents or Usenet files, while these other activities are taking place? If what you plan to do would only be marginal running on bare metal with an 8th Generation Intel (released 7 years ago), it won't run any better on a server, with several layers of code to execute (Base Linux, Unraid server code, Docker/VM layer code). While it may be a cheaper option, is it really a value to save a few bucks only to decide you need to upgrade to reach the level of satisfaction you desire?

I don't have a solution for your issue, but I do applaud your diligence in testing the hardware. 😄

They probably sent you to this thread - The support thread for Unassigned Devices:

801 Posts and counting here:

First, this is a good thread to review. It is *very* long, but the info in the first post has great info that is still valid today. Both the JBM585 (that I use in my main server) and several of the Asmedia based SATA are all good choices. Note that N5105 boards have a limited number of PCIe lanes, and that many of the boards only use one PCIe lane for the M.2 slot (vs the 4 lanes typically used for M.2 nVME storage). So be sure the SATA adapter you buy matches what the motherboard has electrically.

I've been running a APC BR1350MS for a few years and I have zero complaints. It is plug and play with Unraid and apcupsd. With a fresh battery it reports ~50 minute run time at ~100W load. I recently replaced the battery after 2+ years with the battery for the 1500 model (APCRBC163) - It was a drop in replacement, a few $$ cheaper, and I get some extra A/hr. I don't give too much heed to the UPS reviews I've read. I think that across the board for what is considered consumer UPS, the cheaper models are just that - cheap. Move up the product line some, temper your expectations, and most choices will work out OK.

Sounds like it may only affect you when it needs to transcode. A simple fix that has worked for many is to go into your appdata, tunnel down to the Codec folder and delete all of the files in it. When you start up Plex, it will go out and repopulate these with fresh copies. Many folks have found this to fix intermittent/fluky playback problems. The joys of Plex!

Perhaps because a firewall device, be it a sophisticated data center one, a box running pfsense/OPNsense, or even a cheap home router, is designed to do firewall things. The code is written for routing packets, and those with better code do packet inspection and other bad actor vulnerabilities. These tasks are best run on hardware which is dedicated to this task, both for bandwidth and to reduce possible attack vectors. Unraid is written to be a NAS. It has since gained virtualization and Docker capabilities. With all of this already on its plate (and many folks pushing things to the limit of both the hardware and software), the best advice is leave firewall activities to those focused on writing firewall code. The biggest risk to any system on one's LAN is usually the user who configures and uses the network.

The way that many small companies who distribute OS solve this is to do their damnedest to get users to upgrade to the latest version (Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet,...)

I hope your don't actually have the address as "192,168.x.0/24" - as there is a comma after 192.

Gut feeling it is related to your LSI SAS3008 controller. But I'll let the experts with these see if they agree and offer advice.

contact support, as the message said. This is a community support forum.

All three of my pools are BTRFS. Running at least one server for the past 3 years and never had an issue with BTRFS. ZFS has had its issues as well. Perhaps growing pains being newly implemented on Unraid, but don't expect zero issues or unexpected compromises. If you keep a current backup of your appdata share, recovering from an issue, while annoying, is usually not a big issue.

I would think this would be dependent on which application you are using to serve the audio data.

I don't have as many as I did years ago, when every computer needed files/drivers/etc from many different sources. Right now (off the top of my head as I am not at home) I believe it is: Windows Recovery USBs (daily driver desktop and one made from a recently required laptop) Linux Mint - Live ISO and installer Hiren's BootCD - Tons of freeware utilities Macrium Reflect Rescue bootable USB - I use Macrium to back up my Windows machines to my Unraid server. I also keep one in the box with my off-site external USB HD (which I swap out with the one attached to my server - contains backups of the Windows machines). OPNsense installer - for my router/firewall Configuration files - Lives in the USB slot of my server. A script copies the saved configurations from things such as my firewall, managed switches, wireless AP, Unraid flash drives and diagnostic files.

This is generally the complaints I've heard as well, though I have never had it happen to me. But I have seen other issues with Plex on the web client, such as not able to restart a video after pausing for several minutes. Things I've never seen with a "real" client. It could also be an issue with the release of Plex he's running. I had the GUI from my server crash the other day while trying to transcode an OTA TV stream. Needed to SSH in and couldn't clean shut down (wouldn't unmount my cache drive). Maybe unrelated to anything, but who knows? First time in several years of running this server and configuration, always has been rock solid. Anyway, the Plex web client is the least reliable test bed for making any assumptions when troubleshooting an issue.

The Plex Web Client is known to have issues for quite some time.

True. Fat32 can actually support a volume up to 2TB, but Micro$oft somehow decided it would set an arbitrary 32GB limit. 😖

LT is aware of the issues with the USB Creator program. They have been looking for a developer to rewrite the program (I saw the thread here on this forum). Along with flash drives having more capacity as the years have passed, many companies have been adding funky partitions to their drives (for various bloatware things like backup software). A refactoring to a new Creator program will hopefully address this issue. The strength of Unraid is in its configurability. This is what makes it difficult for things such as setup wizards (and on Linux, WiFi) to exist. Hardware and desired configuration can vary greatly from one user to another. Trying to do this would quickly bloat the software (both on flash and in RAM) and force people into a setup that they do not desire. Unraid is more of a home lab, not a toaster. If you need simplicity, buy an appliance such as a Synology NAS, where they control the hardware configuration and the infrastructure of how and what you can install and configure. For Unraid, it is more about the flexibility you have to configure it however you want (and occasionally break things along the way).

Did anyone tested the fix I have. Ran a backup early this morning, all works as expected. I had installed your patch yesterday.

I have face recognition working here. You may want to check your Settings, try a few things, then go to Jobs and rerun ALL for Face Detection / Face Recognition (note: This will wipe out any previous set manual naming of people you have done). I'm waiting to see Ed's 2nd Immich video as well. Hoping he has something on setting up NPM to work with this. I've tried a bunch of stuff, but no joy so far. 😒

You can use your XP key to activate a fresh install of Windows 11. Need to find a better analogy.