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Fortunately, I have a hard copy of the array drive config. (and easy enough to see from Unassigned devices which is my Parity Drive). Because if you look in the disk.cfg file, it has a bunch of info *except* the drive ID/slot info. Probably why it isn't configured correctly on the server at the moment. Really need to know the safe procedure to New Config and assign things correctly. The Manual isn't all that clear to me.

Been troubleshooting a display adapter issue, and tried to roll back my boot flash drive to an earlier configuration. I currently have my flash drive (original one for license key) loaded with the My Servers backup files. When I boot up, it asks for me to reset my password. OK, no problem. But now all of my array drives are no longer in my array, but now in Unassigned Devices. It would really ruin my life day to zero out 40TB of data. How should I proceed? Attached is diag from before I created this mess. malta-tower-diagnostics-20230122-0926.zip

It is said "God helps those who help themselves." I've been trying, and spent the entire morning attempting to help myself. But I have ended up right where I started. Maybe the Unraid gods will look down favorably on me for my efforts. I have been configuring and re-configuring BIOS, removing and reinstalling PCIe boards, and configuring and rebooting the server without getting the Unraid GUI to display on the iGPU whenever the nVidia Quadro P400 is installed. With the P400 installed, I see the Unraid menu, it boots to the Unraid menu selection, I watch the initial boot message text. Then the screen goes blank, and in a minute or too you can access the server from another machine. Without the P400 installed, all boots as described before, but the Unraid GUI displays and works fine. For the things I tried in BIOS, I lost track. Motherboard is a MSI B-550-A Pro, which has the grey BIOS screen (if that helps any). I had made so many changes, I finally got it to the point it was stuck in 640x480 mode, then had it so most of the text was in Chinese. I finally just reset the BIOS, and put back the stable settings I have been running all this week. Some of what I've tried (working from memory here): -- Booted both in EUFI and Legacy modes -- Set the default mode to IGP, Forced (not gaming Mode), and Auto (memory IGPU uses) -- It has a mode to either scan for VGA ability, that is at default (I tried Ignore, that's when things went very bad) -- SVM is enabled (for IOMMU, which I must have) My best guess is that bzroot-gui (which I assume is the graphical terminal code) is choosing the PCIe display adapter over the IGPU, regardless of the setup. Other OS will boot to the iGPU on this hardware, just not Unraid. Is there something I can add to Syslinux that will direct the GUI to the iGPU? I'm open to any and all advice at this point. malta-tower-diagnostics-20230121-1347.zip

With DDR4 prices dropping, decided to double what I have in the server, also dropping from 4 sticks to 2. 32GB for my modest system.

I have the APC 1350VA equivalent to the one you linked. Has been excellent. -- https://www.amazon.com/APC-Sinewave-Battery-Protector-BR1350MS/dp/B0779QFRRT Sticking with APC gives you better capabilities with communication software, and less chance of smoke.

Background: Been running my server headless for the past couple years. I just upgraded the 1500X/B350 to a 5700G/B550 yesterday, and has been running well for the past 24 hours. I believe I have it all configured/working as it was previously. One reason I went with the 5700G was to use the iGPU to connect to a PiKVM (thanks Hoopster!) and leave the nVidia P400 unconnected for Unraid to use for transcoding use (Plex/Unmanic). Now for the head scratching part: Booting from the Unraid OS GUI Mode, I see the initial boot up text on the screen (attached to the 5700G's iGPU). After that, the screen goes blank for a bit, then that screen has only a non-blinking underline cursor. If you reboot/shutdown from another computer browser, you can then see the shutdown text as Unraid unmounts/kills stuff in the shutdown process. Another interesting thing to not is I have the GPU Statistics plugin, and it always shows at least one process running (the bzroot-gui? nvidia-smi shows the process is /usr/libexec/Xorg). I have double checked the BIOS settings, and I believe I have it set to boot to the iGPU (which, in fact, it does). Though this may be the first MSI motherboard I have owned (ever?), so I don't know my way around the menus as I do for Gigabyte or ASRock. I have not tried with a monitor attached to the P400, as I only have one monitor (easily) available, and the results would likely have been influenced by having a monitor attached to it anyway. When I was running the 1500X combo, I could boot the Unraid GUI locally if I wished. So the question is: Is there something I can do to force the Unraid GUI to display on the iGPU? malta-tower-diagnostics-20230117-1344.zip

Thanks for the reply. I figured that would be part of the solution. Sometime this year I will have my Internet upgraded to 500/500 fiber, and know my SOHO router isn't going to cut it. So researching if pfSense on my server is the solution. It is a good time to rethink my entire network here at home. So laying the ground work, to plan ahead as to what I'll need to do. there will be some stuff I'll need figure out once I actually have pfSense installed.

Did you find an answer to this? Planning to install a pfSense VM in my server soon, and this is one of the configuration questions I have as well.

Obviously one isn't backing up 130TB to USB external HDDs. 😆 But TimTheSettler is correct - Drive and network throughput is likely the limiting factor. Especially painful for non-fiber Internet users and cloud backup solutions.

Backup strategy is very personal. Everyone has a different opinion of what is valuable, and what is irreplaceable. So the first thing to do is assess what of your 130TB is irreplaceable. Is the data business or personal? For me, it is personal data. Photos, personal movies, important documents and the like. Backups of my personal daily driver computer. I have backup up (with Macrium) that system where I can easily re-image over 1TB of data. While I would miss my media library, built up over a number of years, the cost to back it up is more than I am willing to invest a backup system to do. I would rebuild if all was lost. A bigger concern is where, physically, you store the backup. It does no good to have it in a system sitting next to the current one if some major tragedy happens at your site. I back up my backups, on drives in USB enclosures. Roughly each month, I swapped drives and keep one in my desk at work. Backup to a system at your location is certain to be faster than cloud backups. While the initial backup will take some time (especially if you chose to back up all 130TB) at least you don't need to sit and watch while it takes place. Afterward, a periodic incremental backup can be scheduled to keep the backup in sync. My computers back up to my server daily. Weekly, Unraid backs up my appdata and VMs, followed by a backup to the aforementioned USB external drives.

This is exactly what I do (along with Unmanic as well). My drive is a *very* old Kingston HyperX 120GB. It has been in at least a half dozen machines previously. Figured I'd just beat the snot out of it until it finally dies. I can't complain for the use it has given me all of these years. How exactly did you revert back to the previous version? I needed to do this awhile back, as Plex broke their live TV streaming. It would stop the playback every 10 minutes or so. Hard to watch a football game that way. After some searching around the Internet, I found which was the best version for this issue. Then searched the linuxserver.io tags for that version. Goes in the Repository line as in my screenshot. Plex always has issues. They fix or add one thing, and break two or more. Their regression testing is terrible to non-existent. It isn't linuxserver.io's fault - They take the application's current release, put it in a Docker container with the appropriate hooks, and put it up for download. Issues with the application are on the application's developers, not them.

Switch to Advanced View. Then a few lines down from the Repository entry.

We'll find out Soon™️

Latest Quadro T400 currently selling @ $150-200 new. Previous Quadro P400 can be found used in the $50-75 range. I have a Quadro P400 in my system, does fine with a couple of transcodes and a basic display duties for the server.

It's much more nuanced than that. I get more of an inside look how the sausage is made where I work. There are other ways to manage profit margins during inflationary times. Just ask the several hundred folks who worked there before Christmas who don't now.

Memory (both DRAM and NAND) is a commodity market, much like soybeans or orange juice. It is an early indicator of the greater semiconductor market, which in turn is driven by demand of the products these semi chips go into. The semiconductor market as a whole is cyclical, with memory being the easiest to be impacted by supply and demand due to its high volume/low profit margin nature. But now other parts of the semi industry are seeing orders being scaled back. Many companies had placed large orders during 2022, reaching out through 2023-24. They are now renegotiating them, as they now have too much inventory and see their customers scaling back orders. Everyone in the industry, from semi manufacturers to distributors of finished electronic products are forecasting a bleak 2023. While everyone in the industry would love to just raise prices to cover the lost revenue, it will not stimulate more sales. As the value of today's technology falls as the next greatest tech is released, clearing out inventory, even at a loss, is much more preferred than just dumping it in a landfill. There will be bargains, as distributors fight for scraps.

Scroll to the bottom of your Docker tab. Last button on the right.

Check prices again in 4-6 months. Coming out of the 4Q 2022, semiconductor and most tech businesses slammed on the breaks, anticipating there will be 2 quarters of low sales volume, at the minimum. Prices on consumer grade components already are starting to drop, especially memory. Enterprise/server grade stuff should follow. There was such a big demand on all semiconductors with the pandemic - With everyone at home, people discovered their home network sucked. Need a new PC, some tablets for the kids. ISPs suddenly were seeing peak demand all hours of the day. The big data guys, like AWS, couldn't put hardware in fast enough. With components in short supply, every company was ordering and buying more than they needed to not be left short handed. That's now over, and most everyone has more inventory than they can use. Especially for things in the tech world which get old as fast as potato salad left out on the picnic table during summer. There will be bargains. You just need to wait a little bit.

NGINX Proxy Manager (NPM) NGINX Proxy Manager: How to Install and Setup Reverse Proxy on Unraid (2021)

As CA isn't part of the paid base Unraid software, but the work of people who volunteer their time and skills to create this plugin, perhaps the option is to uninstall it from your system and write your own plugin that meets your expectations?

Check that the date and time are correct on your server.

Try it without the SRT subtitles, and see what happens.

Check your memory speed in BIOS. I would suggest you set it for 2133. Your memory (F4-2400C15-4GIS) only has a native speed of 2133, regardless of the marketing/XMP speed of 2400. https://www.gskill.com/specification/165/185/1535967340/F4-2400C15S-4GIS-Specification

I also have only one Media share. I do, however, use the Exclude Disks to force media files to a few drives which I do not allow to spin down. This eliminates the delay when spinning up a disk that the Plex client will sometimes end up with a timeout error. That my media files (Movies, 4K Movies, TV, Music) are scattered across several disks aren't an issue, for unless you are doing some sort of system maintenance/upgrade, you are typically either working with shares or some sort of software client GUI such as Plex.