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Yeah, HA works fine on mobile and I can see my cameras without issues. I don't spend much time looking at them so my benchmark is pretty low. Can I see them? check. Does each camera load quickly when I access it? check. Can I move forward or backward in time? check. Done. I was using a Coral TPU, but I switched to a Hailo8 after my 4th camera. The 2k and 4k cameras (even using the detection streams) were taxing the Coral enough that it was leaning on the CPU a lot. The box has 32gb of memory. It's a recent move from using Unraid, but the Frigate UI and camera access are way more responsive. I need to tweak the settings around the Hailo8 a bit more to optimize things. It should use more electricity than a single system, at least in theory. The "T" cpus are the low power options which helps.

I've always heard that Blue Iris is very demanding, it's one of the reasons I'm using Frigate-NVR instead (on top of REQUIRING windows). I imagine running just Blue Iris on a 6th Gen would probably be slow (they do specify "newer processor" and something 10 generations old is not that. Add in that your OS is virtualized + everything else, then yeah I can imagine it being slow. Also, I don't see how Win Server 2025 wouldn't be slow by itself on a 6th Gen CPU, much less virtualized. You don't need Windows Server for BlueIris, so why not just run Win 10 - that's a far less demanding OS if you debloat it. Between Immich + AI, Windows Server 25, and BlueIris - I personally expect them all to be slow. 1. You can upgrade - moving to anything 10th Gen to 13th Gen Intel can still use your existing DDR4 memory. For this I would look for a Dell Optiplex/HP EliteDesk/Lenovo ThinkCentre SFF - essentially just a newer version of what you have. Check out this site that scrapes ebay listings or the r/homelabsales and r/hardwareswap subreddits for equipment. 2. You could split out BlueIris - running Win10 on something like one of the Micro's listed here (the 7070 with 9th Gen should be fine - I use the r/homelabsales subreddit for most of my homelab purchases). I personally think that would be enough to make everything run better. My solution (because I ran into something similar): I run my NVR separate from my Unraid instance, but use Unraid as storage for my NVR (mounted NFS shares). I'm using a Dell Optiplex MFF 5070 with an i5-9500T, 6 cameras (all either 2k or 4k) and my doorbell camera - a mix of wifi and poe. I separated it out because I found transcoding the video + inference put too much of a strain on my Unraid server. Not to mention buying the mini was about $250 and I couldn't upgrade my server for that little. It's been flawless since I made the change. I also separated out Immich as well because I want to experiment with local AI inference on my pics and videos, again without negatively impacting my Unraid server. Just using Immich to store my pics was no problem, but once I started cranking up the inference/detection settings it really became more demanding. I have this running on an HP Elite Mini 600 G9 with an i5-12500T. Again, buying this Tiny/Mini/Micro form-factor desktop was cheaper than upgrading my server. I got this one with 16GB of DDR5 memory for $370. Both of the minis together are still less than I would have spent upgrading my server and should serve me well for many years.

Anyone who says "pure AI slop" isn't going to take the time to actually look at something since their response is on par with 5 year old being told no. There's no actual evaluation being done, just a gut response of irrational hatred.

Docker gives your container a randomish name if you don't name it. If you get into them, you can get some idea what they are. You can try checking the docker logs.

Check if anyone has had issues with the MB chipset you're looking at. Same with CPU and Memory. I just repurposed my 10 year old Dell laptop (Latitude 7390, 8gig ram, i5-8350U cpu, busted screen) to be my Frigate NVR. I'm running 6 cameras (2x 1080, 4x 4K) with a Coral TPU and the Intel UHD620 iGPU. I mapped shares from my Unraid server to the laptop (using NFS) for storage needs. No issues, detections working great, notifications being sent. I had thought about buying something, but thought I'd give this a try. Glad I did, and doubly so, because the iGPU in my server can stay dedicated to Plex.

I use Unraid for my home and as a NAS. My homelab is separate. My homelab uses Unraid for NAS storage, but runs its own stack of containers. I expose a very limited slice of Unraid using tailscale now. I used vpn + reverse proxy previously. Frankly, if you're to the point where you want to use Unraid in a way that they expressly warn not to do ("don't open Unraid to the internet") and you're worried about vulnerabilities - then you need to use Compose with containers that meet your standards. You can start rolling your own containers so you can lock them down. Getting it right and keeping the app you're trying to deploy working correctly isn't always straight-forward or easy. I write some docker files on my own, that I keep in Github. I've never tried to automate maintenance in Unraid (other than the plugins that are available). I use scripts and chron jobs on my homelab server that help to manage containers running there. I use dependabot on my github repo where I keep all my docker files. If I can find something like Snyk to also scan my repo for free, I will add that. I'm looking at adding a Claude review bot to my repo, which would also provide CVE checking. Claude/ChatGPT/whatever can give you pretty solid guidance on how to write a docker file. If you don't use those tools often, then start with OpenAI Academy and one of their beginner tutorials. Learning the basics on how to use them is the difference between solid, basic guidance and hallucinations of unicorns doing it for you. Something you need to accept & remember - you can't control vulnerabilities in the App you use, regardless of what container you use. If something in the *arr stack or immich or whatever has a vulnerability because they use a library or package that is vulnerable - you either quit using that app or you upgrade once they've addressed it. The truth of using nuget/npm/pypi/gems (or any other public source of code) is that there is a chaotic mess of upstream entanglements for a lot of apps we use. You can't fix those issues. You can only choose how you respond to those issues.

What's your question?

I've only encountered this once. It was a cheap, no name SSD I bought on Alibaba. It was recognized by my server, but the information didn't match anything on the label. The information my server reported was correct.

Is there a specific issue you are trying to address?

You’re mistaken here. Commercial just offers you someone to will ignore you or miscommunicate for weeks on end and still get no actual help. Software companies like Unraid manage to split the difference, with actual help coming from both sides, but you still will have to handle the work yourself.

It is highly unlikely that using a molex to sata adapter killed anything. Something else is wrong. If you have another way to test each of the drives, that will tell you for certain if they are dead or not. I keep a usb dock connected to my regular pc that allows me to quickly determine if a drive is (most likely) dead or not.

How do you know your 3.3v mod is still good? Does the system you tested with use the same power supply as your new setup? Do you have a molex to sata power adapter you can test with in your new system?

I shop on price, so I have a mix of Seagate, Western Digital, HGST, Toshiba - but mostly Seagate.