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Except for that trend Iron Mountain is reporting...

I assume the different bays worked as expected with a different drive - correct? I'm not aware of UAD doing anything like that (my oldest drive is from 2009 and is used in UAD as temp storage). Like @SimonF said - post diagnostics.

It's offered by GoHardDrive - I had poor interactions with them years ago and haven't given them another try. They had a horrible reputation for a very long time. However, I've read relatively recent posts on SlickDeals where some people have said they have had no issues with GoHardDrive. Meh. In the past everything GoHardDrive offered was either reman or refurb. Don't know if that is still true. I buy my harddrives (mostly enterprise) used from ServerPartsDeals. Outside of the occasional BlackFriday level sale WD sometimes has, I don't buy new drives (generally). I've purchased 10 drives so far (over the last 5 years) from SPD (all used), 1 failure that they promptly replaced (with a fraction of the hassle that I've had with WD or Seagate). **ETA - 2 failures: 1 drive didn't pass preclear that they replaced without question. 1 drive failed at about 16 months (so still within SPD's warranty period), that SPD replaced promptly. All without any of the hassle that I've had from WD or Seagate, and much more quickly. Seagate and WD each took almost a year to "close" an RMA (mark the failing drive as received and that the RMA was completed in accordance with their terms). Granted, that's the worst example I've had for either, but even the shortest experience still took probably 100 days to "resolve".

What does it work out to on a $/TB basis, final cost (obviously, switch out dollars for pounds or euros as appropriate)? How does that compare to your other options? Personally, I quit shucking drives several years ago and buy mostly serverpartsdeals refurb drives now. It usually works out that I can buy 3 drives from SPD for less than the price of 2 new drives - usually. I still buy at the size that gives me the best $/TB - so it has varied between 14TB, 18TB and 20TB.

The more common hba’s (inexpensive ones) will handle 4 drives per port. I have 2x Dell 310’s (4 per port, 2 ports) as spares and run 9300-16i (4 per port, 4 ports) as my primary. I run a mix of 12tb to 20tb hdd. No drive size limit that I’m aware of. The card must be flashed to IT mode for Unraid use.

You can read up on HBA's here. You will probably find some discussions on these boards about different ways of adding additional drives. I'm sure someone here could chime in on the AE card - but I personally wouldn't chance it working. I'd buy an 8 or 16 port HBA off of ebay - specifically from the Art of Server. I upgraded from 2x Dell 310 HBAs (8 port) to a single 16 port 9300-16 HBA - all purchased from there. I'm sure there are probably other reputable sellers as well.

Try downgrading your version of docker desktop to 24.x and compare.

If the Rokus are relatively recent, there is no issue. Tone mapping is abandoned if the TV doesn’t support it. You can play UHD material on a non-UHD TV without any issue. It simply ignores the UHD information. If the Roku reports as a client that doesn’t support 4K, then you will have to transcode.

I agree with @JorgeB. Depending on the jbod unit, you might have a few more options for connecting (exposes individual connections vs an expander for example). Have you picked the unit? Can you share model info?

I don't understand. My Roku has no issues with UHD (and it's from 2018). AFAIK the last 2 generations of the Roku stick haven't had issues either. It would be cheaper to upgrade that than anything else. The current Fire stick is supposed to handle UHD as well. All of these are around $40.

Whichever is cheaper. If you’re looking for stats, backblaze has probably the best collection of hard drive stats available, from an actual realistic use of the drive point of view.

Unfortunately, a good case is going to be pricey - especially a SFF case. U-NAS - I'd do some research on compatible PS and see what I can find separately. If you have a 3d printer, you can print your own case.

Sounds like you found a satisfactory solution.

The reports don't really say anything at this point. Because of the low hours, you need to stress test them and look at the report after. Run preclear (I run 3 cycles), then run the long smart report.

90-something hours iirc, but it’s been awhile…

Why are you trying to put everything on 1 disk if you assigned multiple disks to the share?

You don't worry about the drives. You only worry about the shares. The shares are under `/mnt/user/........<here>.......` As long as you can see `/mnt/user/<the_name_of_the_share_i_am_interested_in>` then that share exists. The only way you know which drive a folder will end up on is if that is the only drive assigned to that share. If you assign more than 1 drive to a share, a given folder path will not show up on a given drive until the allotment algorithm used indicates it is time to write to the next drive the share has access to. FYI, there are details I leave out because I don't know everything that actually happens. I do know that I use the "high water allocation" algorithm/method/process/whatever for most of my shares - and eventually the "share" ends up on all the drives allocated to that share. That's what happens when I copy-paste everything after mistyping it the first time.

In the terminal, the only way to see a share is to navigate to `/mnt/usr`. If you 'ls' you will see whatever shares are defined. As far as terminal commands are concerned (AFAICT), a share is folder under `/mnt/usr` - `/mnt/usr/data`, '/mnt/usr/TV', etc. The rules of where the data is stored are defined at the share level in Unraid. If I copy/move a file to '/mnt/usr/MyShare' - I don't know what drive it will specifically be on unless that share is mapped to a single drive. Movies, TV, Music shares were set to use most of my drives (I believe 8 out of 10 of my data drives). The data share is configured identically.

What I had: Shares - Movies, TV, Music What I did: Create "data" share. Using the terminal - create a folder `/mnt/usr/data/media`. Then, I moved the Movies folder from `/mnt/usr/` to `/mnt/usr/data/media/`. Repeat for TV and Music.

Correct. All my used drives have been from ServerPartsDeals on ebay. They've been in business for a while. I've bought 10 drives so far, 8TB to 16TB, including WD Ultrastar, Seagate Exos, Seagate Ironwolf and Toshiba. I treat any drive I buy, new or used, the same - it gets 3 passes of preclear before anything else. I've had new drives and used drives fail this process (and more new drives failed than used). My most recent purchase was for new drives because of a ridiculous deal WD had on a 2-fer for WD Pro 18TB (which was ~$8 per TB IIRC) - 1 of them failed the 3x preclear process, so I had it replaced under warranty. I had the same issue with 1 drive I bought from ServerPartsDeals - and had it replaced under their warranty. The only advantage WD has is they would do an advanced replace, where they send me the new drive before my old drive actually gets to them - but they've only offered that to me once (and I've had 5 total "new" WD drives fail previously prior to warranty expiration). Given the hassle WD and Seagate have made their warranty process for retail drives - I see no point in paying their premium anymore.

I don’t buy anything else these days unless it’sa ridiculously good deal.

You're missing the point - so much software today is a monthly subscription model. If it's software that I use all the time, I'd much rather pay for it outright and avoid any subscription model. I changed a word that hopefully makes it more clear to you.

Compared to the other subscription models where you're spending $10 (or more) per month, I'll pay the $250 to get lifetime. I'm unlikely to change server OS's once I pick one (assuming nothing drastic happens), so the lifetime cost makes sense to my wallet and peace of mind. I've been using unraid since version 4. It's the best money I've spent on software.

Never had issues with it. Cooling can suffer if you don't have a fan blowing on the drives in the unit.

Is anything by Intel a good alternative? I've been trying to work through this same issue (currently on Ryzen/AM4 platform).