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I recently installed Immich, following several of the tutorials that have been posted on the Internet. It has been working fine, and have about 5100 photos and 200 small video files. FCP warned that my docker.img file was over 80% (24GB out of 30GB), so I looked at my Container Size: A quick question, and an ask - Does 4 GB+ seem correct? If you are running Immich, please post what Container Size is reporting for you. I know Immich is still very much in Beta, and understand if they want to keep things in the Docker image vs mapping it out to an Appdata file (which potentially can change in the future). For me, it really doesn't matter where the data is, as both my Docker image and my Appdata reside on the same 2 TB pool drive. So increasing the image size is a non-issue. I just want to know if what I am seeing is normal, as I don't want to be caught unaware if the image keeps growing.

First I've heard of this behavior. Initial thought that came to mind is check your BIOS again, looking as security type settings (Secure Boot, etc).

Incorrect. The Preclear in Unraid (Unassigned Devices) runs in 3 basic steps - reads every data location, writes zero to every data location, then reads/confirms zero is at every location. Afterward, it writes a pre-cleared value to the drive, so you can then put the drive into your array and not need to rebuild parity (as Unraid sees that all locations contain zero, so no changes needed to the parity data). So after running Preclear, any data which may have been on he drive is now all zeros. Not a multi-pass Department of Defense wipe, but sufficient for keeping your info away from whomever gets their hands on your RMS.

I would think a Preclear would do a good enough job. Writes zeros to all data locations.

The first picture isn't that far off from reality. I used to have them scattered all over. Untagged. You are likely in a stressed situation when you need one of them, and many don't give you much info as to what is on the drive when you pop them into a running system and look at the contents. Organization, labeling and a small inventory text file I keep really helps.

What type of mini PC? Is your M.2 slot x1 or x4 PCIe lanes? I know a number of the the recent Celeron (N100 and such) boards come with x1 M.2 slots.

I have a keyring of flash drives. Each is loaded with bootable software needed to recover each of the major devices (two Unraid servers, my firewall, a few PCs) I have at home. Each has a tag on it, identifying to which it goes. I also have a ISO files for each saved on the external USB HDs I swap out to keep an off-site backup copy. (There's a few troubleshooting tools flash drives on the keyring as well). An important part of the process is to test and make sure that the restoration of your backup actually works (and you know how to do it). Too many folks just click on the "Make Recovery Key" button, burn a flash drive, then toss it in the desk drawer. You need to try it out, otherwise it is just security theater. Makes you feel good, but may not be helpful in a crisis.

4Kn and 512e does not have anything to do with the filesystem format. It is the hardware low level formatting for how sector size is mapped to the physical sectors of the drive. What is the exact model # of the drive and LSI card?

4Kn and 512e format? I'll let the LSI HBA experts comment. (Also, He8 doesn't use the Pin 3 Power Disable).

Set up syslog server to start with.

You're not wrong Jonathan. But time flies - The 1st gen Ryzen released April 2017, which soon will be 7 years ago. So Ryzen is no longer in the early adopter designation. The funny thing is, soon AMD will likely have the more stable platform, as Intel starts updating its lineup with the mix of high performance and efficiency cores, as well as the rebranding of the Core processor line and rolling out more mobile processors as mainstream. It will be fun to see how things look in a year or two.

NerdPack was deprecated quite some time ago. It has been replaced by NerdTools.

I would think that would be correct. Another piece of the puzzle is the AMD motherboard chip set, and the BIOS (and the AGESA it is built with). The 3xx series had a limited amount of NVRAM. With the AM4 socket having such a long life, the MB manufactures started to run out of space for their code, as new CPUs were released. The AGESA started to grow in size, and the pretty things (fancy screens, overclocking, fan control etc.) the MB makers wanted in the BIOS, sometimes settings and such would disappear from the latest version of their BIOS. I found using the last version of the BIOS released before the next generation of CPU released works best for 1st/2nd gen Ryzen. Such is to be expected with Linux and any brand new hardware model. Microsoft and the motherboard manufactures get pre-production information and CPU samples well in advance. They certainly sign non disclosure agreements, which is something difficult to de for Linux with it being open source. Early adopter Linux users should expect to have issues.

Looks as it was handling it. A snapshot in time of CPU utilization doesn't give much info to make that decision. Play around streaming different files, settings (resolutions/audio/subs) on different clients, and observe what the CPU/GPU usage looks like to see if all works. If you don't have stuttering and CPU threads aren't pinned to 100%, you're good.

Plex only hardware transcodes the video. The burned in subtitles and audio down to Opus is done by the CPU. The higher the bit rate of the source file, the more data the CPU needs to process.

There is really little difference between EPYC and Threadripper/Ryzen. They all use the same ZEN processor dies, with only the I/O chiplet that glues the processors together and handles connecting PCIe lanes and other connections to the physical package. First Gen Ryzen does have an acknowledged bug in Linux. My thoughts are that AMD was so focused on having Windows benchmarks that kicked Intel's butt that they didn't do enough to insure there weren't going to be problems in Linux. Understandable - AMD had nearly no data center business at the time, and Linux isn't as sexy as gaming and Cinebench benchmarks for Dr. Su to flaunt in product release Powerpoint presentations. Each generation has updated how the CPU power management is done on the die. By ZEN2 (your EPYC) they have addressed the Linux bug. If they hadn't, the AMD server market share would not have grown to its current 20%+ from a lowly single digit. I have been running a 1st Gen Ryzen 1500 with Unraid for several years. Was my first server, now is my backup doing NAS only service. I did see lockups until I set the Idle Current correctly in BIOS, then never a problem. My main server's 5700G (ZEN3) has been perfect since Day 1. The 3900X (ZEN2) the original poster is using should be sure to follow the info for Ryzen in the Unraid FAQ - Setting the Typical Idle Current in BIOS and not exceeding the RAM speeds from the charts.

The folks who own all of those datacenters running EPYC servers would disagree with you, Jorge. 😜

Hate to repeat myself, but it always depends on your needs. 1TB or 256GB as cache? All depends on your work loads. What is the largest amount of data you will copy to your cached enabled array share? I back up a few desktop systems, with full (compressed) images approaching 700GB, So 256GB wouldn't work for me at all. I also have Usenet downloads go to a cached share, but set my Media share non-cache enabled. Makes no sense to download a file to cache, then "move" it to cache for the mover to then move it to the array. Might as well have it moved to the array right after the download is complete. You need to understand your work flows, then decide what is best.

Perhaps posting in the NUT Plugin Support Thread will get you an answer?

Or motherboard power stages are marginal/failing, BIOS settings wrong. BIOS needs updating, just a few that come to mind.

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/119052-psa-on-sandisk-usbs/

Isn't this a bit like saying your car overheats when you drive on the highway, and you fixed your car by not going on the highway any more? Seems you need to find the root cause of the issue, Something isn't right with your system.

Looks as there isn't one. You can reach out to @welfare, but hasn't been on the forum for a month, and last post is Aug 2023. https://forums.unraid.net/profile/129748-welfare/

I had the same issue, going back to Halloween. I finally just turned off VPN, which wasn't my desired outcome, but it crippled my download speed otherwise.

It should be sufficient. It isn't always Can it do all these things, but more how hard you work things. The only limitations I see is I would add more memory (16GB is limiting when spinning up a few VMs) and note that you only have 4 SATA ports on the motherboard and 1x16 and 2x1 PCIe slots if you need add a HBA/SATA card for more drives.