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I could put this in any of a half dozen threads, but this is the most recent of the @binhex containers I've installed. I have been using NBZGET running through DelugeVPN for the past few years. But with NZBGET development on hold (was hoping the -ng group would pull something together) it was time to move on to SABnzb. Again, you did not let me down. I first loaded the non-vpn version and configured one of my arr containers to use it. Worked smooth as silk. After a few days testing (my boss expects me to work, dammit!) I switched to the SABnzbVPN container and set up for PIA. Again, totally painless. Today, I moved the rest of the arr containers to use SABnzbVPN and shut down DelugeVPN and NZBget (I haven't used the torrent part of the container in well over a year). A Docker cleanup I've been planning to do for too long, and one of the few times everything just worked as it should. Enjoy a beer, and some pizza, as a token of my appreciation. My thanks to you, for all you provide to the Unraid community.

Thanks for the quick reply. Was second guessing myself, wondering maybe I *did* have it set to Latest before. Wasn't much of a concern for me. The GT710 is only in the system from when I first set up the server a few months back, and the Ryzen 1500X doesn't have a iGPU, so needed something to config the BIOS. I agree the GT710 is almost worthless. It's one strength is it is the cheapest GPU that allowed you to install Win10. So it is the card in the drawer, when I need a card... 😉 I follow the Nvidia Driver thread, and know some folks have a need for not running the Latest driver version. Just thought I'd give them a heads up to check after updating their OS.

I decided to stick my toe into the water and updated my backup server from 6.10.3 to 6.12.3. The system is as bare bone as can be - No parity/cache/Docker/VM. Just a basic PC with 3 HDD plugged into the motherboard. I wanted to start playing around, checking the new Dashboard interface and have a look at what has changed. The update went with no real issues. One thing I did observe: I had updated all my plugins before updating. The Plug In Helper did again update the Nvidia Driver plugin. I am pretty certain I had it set for v470.129.06 (though not 100% sure), as I have an old GT710 in the server. After rebooting, I found it was set to Latest. I recommend that those of you who are not using the Latest driver for some reason double check that the setting is what you wish it to be.

If you have the same GUID on multiple flash drives, they are most certainly counterfeit and not from SanDisk. GUID stands for "Globally Unique Identifier", the equivalent of a serial number. The GUID is programmed into a small NVRAM that is part of the flash drive's controller chip. SanDisk will generate a different GUID for each flash drive it manufactures. Someone making fake drives likely won't be bothered to do this, as it costs more time and money to do so. Sorry you got burned by buying a not genuine part. Earlier you said you bought the 3-pack for cheap. Now you understand why it was inexpensive.

It doesn't take much of a power sag or spike to disrupt a system. It doesn't even need to be perceptible to you by the light flickering. A UPS does more than keep your server running when the room goes dark. All but the least expensive ones also provide power filtering to smooth out these low/high voltage situations.

Well, there *are* quite a number of "Post Diagnostics" But seriously, I add my thanks and appreciation as well. I can't count how many times I've opened the General Support sub-forum, and have seen JorgeB's avatar down the entire right side of my screen.

Did you try some sort of system security/port scanner/etc. type of program recently? The logins have Users that are some of the most common default Users.

I too would like to learn of this as well, as I really don't wish to remodel my entire network model when switching from macvlan to ipvlan.

Any rumors on the street if/when 6.12.3 might be released? Soon™?

Even without knowing what your current boot flash drive is, I would recommend that you just keep using it, if it has not been having any issues. Why do I suggest this?: There have been quite a few reports in the past year of flash drive failures which are likely due to counterfeit flash drives. Most common are Sandisk and Samsung (the two most popular brands). Online storefronts of Amazon, Newegg and Alibaba are where you are most likely to find these. Brick and mortar stores have a much more reliable logistics chain. 64GB is much more storage than needed for an Unraid flash. I have less than 1GB on the 8GB drive for my main server (20 of 34 dockers running). The extra space on the boot drive will tempt you to use it for other server storage. Which will accelerate wear. Flash drives are designed for intermittent R/W access, which works for Unraid - The system is read from the flash drive and loaded into RAM, then sits idle for most of the time (installing/updating plugins and such). Newer technology flash drives have smaller and denser memory cells, which are more prone to failures from heat (generated by excessive duty cycle from writes). In my opinion (working in semiconductor manufacturing for nearly 25 years) the older flash memory is more durable. I also have a Samsung Fit 64GB in my main server. I almost never use it, but leave it plugged in for when I need to copy something off the server and take the flash drive (and files) with me somewhere.

6.10.3 has been stable as a rock and trouble free. Would have upgraded to 6.11.x, but was waiting for a final release then had some questions regarding the kernel playing nice with AMD processors. I'll think of upgrading to 6.12.x once it is finally understood what the issues are currently. There will be more releases.

I have never seen hovering display actual memory usage. Ever. And I know I have tried once or twice in the past. But only have experienced 6.9 and 6.10, so do not know when it may have become available. (I'll believe it when I see it )

Well, that at least removes some possible reasons for what you are seeing. I know FF can be, uh, problematic at times (but hat is my goto browser when I'm allowed to choose).

Does it behave the same way in different browsers? Have you tried clearing cookies?

2 Unraid servers Over 80TB of storage 20 Dockers running 24/7 Have not seen a crash or hang in 2 years Even with several hardware upgrades, repurposed hardware changes, and new software packages Unraid 6.10.3 Take a step back, and have an objective read of the recent forum threads. It makes my head hurt. Something ain't right.

Going the Magic Mirror (or similar) route would end being so much easier to implement (and likely more customizable) that running something natively from your sever.

Perhaps I spoke too soon (no ™). Let me restate: I won't even think of updating until I see a few weeks of quiet in the most recent of the 6.12.x Release Announcement threads. 😞

Corrupted codecs and needing to delete the codecs folder has been a thing with Plex for years. Though needing to do this a few times a month is a bit excessive. When I ran my Plex server on my daily driver Windows machine, I was maybe once every 6 months or so. Since I moved to Unraid (I run this LIO docker) I haven't needed to do it once. I would start thinking if there is something out of the ordinary for your Plex install. Unique encoding or container types, re-encoded files, over encoded files, oddball or over stressed/intermittent hardware, etc. Everyone's implementation and usage is different, so you are the best person to know what could be triggering this happening.

Plex has had these issues with later Intel iGPU and HDR for several years now. Best is to find a earlier release that works for you, then stay there for awhile. I've stopped chasing the latest Plex updates. They keep breaking stuff as they rush to roll out the newest enhancements.

Thank you JorgeB. This is why I asked for your input. Even more important than the things you know is knowing what things you don't! 😁

I don't have first hand experience with switching from ReiserFS to XFS, I came to Unraid after XFS was the default. I did recently upgrade my 6TB drives to 16TB, and shrank my array. So confident in my answers for that part. My feeling is that as long as you change the Disk Setting File system type: from the default "auto" to "XFS" before formatting the drive (checking the format box at starting the array, after assigning the new drive) it *should* format to XFS and rebuild. (Data is data). But I will defer to @JorgeB or one of the true Unraid gurus to confirm if I'm correct. Of course, swapping one XFS drive for another should definitely not be an issue. I would still manually set File system type: to XFS anyway. That's my common practice.

Replace one of the 2TB drives with a 4TB drive. Allow the drive to be rebuilt from parity. Repeat, until all 3 4TB drives have been installed. Then follow the Shrink Array procedure from the Unraid docs. There is a couple ways to do this, but in your case (small capacity drives) the easiest would be to move the data on the drives to be removed to the new 4TB drives, remove/uninstall the drives from the array, and rebuild parity.

Plex has had issues for years with HDR Tone Mapping. It will work/not work depending on the version of Plex and the processor/iGPU/GPU used. Probably the best bet is to roll back to a previous (preferably known good) version of Plex and see if you have a problem still.

There are no files on your (former) 4TB Parity drives. They contain parity data, and aren't even formatted with a file system.