jmztaylor

I don't do conversions of files much but in the past I have used Tdarr. Dunno if this will work in your case.

Yeah you just select new cache pool when array is stopped and assign a device to it.

One option is to just use the 1 drive in another cache pool and only use that for data that will be pushed to array quickly. And leave important stuff like VMs and appdata on the 2 drive pool.

Yeah I understand that. I was simply mentioning that Unraid doesn't "stripe" files across disks.

Can you post your diagnostics?

Personally, I have a share called media. Every *arr docker has /mnt/user/media mapped to /media inside the container. My share media is on all disks but Unraid by default spreads this across all disks evenly. So its possible that 1 episode is on disk 1 and the next episode is on disk 2. But it doesn't separate a single file across multiple disks. If you want say tv on a single disk and movies on another, you will have to create those shares separately and in the share settings specify which disk you want them on. If you have parity disk then its possible all disks will be spun up anyways if turbo write is enabled. Using a cache pool pretty much negates the path mappings part of the trash guides also.

try running a btrfs scrub. Also post diagnostics.

First try running a btrfs scrub. Also post diagnostics. Removing docker.img is not destructive. All your app data should be in appdata. If you remove it, then when you start docker again, your containers will be "missing" but going to previous apps in the apps tab, they will all be right there and just have to reinstall them. It will keep all your previous settings.

I don't venture much into different copying techniques but I always use this. Logged into destination server rsync -avzP --progress root@sourceIP:/mnt/user/WHATEVER_SHARE/ /mnt/user/WHATEVER_SHARE/ And any failures can easily be picked back up by running the command again. Once its done I would recommend running again to make sure no data changed on the source server in the meantime.

You can try the manual install to the USB drive

Are you able to load plex at all? Do your libraries show up in plex? Or is the only issue not able to play videos.

Parity Swap should work for you

I'll let someone else chime in to verify. But one way to test without breakage is to stop the auto start of the array, swap the drive to a new spot and see if it shows up properly before starting array. If it doesn't show up properly just swap it back. As long as the array isn't started there isn't any risk of breaking the array Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk

Did you ever solve this?

Unraid doesn't care which ports things are hooked up to. Unraid only cares about the identifier (model+serial?) that shows up in unraid. I have moved drives between controllers and unraid doesn't care. It still worked without issue. Not sure if that was what you are looking for or not.

That server has an issue with the ethernet drivers. Read the release notes I will let someone else chime in but I am pretty sure your only option right now is to downgrade or disable VT-d. VMs will still work but you won't be able to pass through devices to the VMs

My quick guess is that the ports aren't forwarded on your router. I think Windows apps would use uPnP to open the ports automatically. Try setting up port forwarding in your router for that port to see if that works

Most likely will need to do a parity swap. Your data drive cannot be larger than the parity drive.

In my experience with plex, only if the client needs a lower quality will transcoding happen. If it doesn't then it just uses direct stream. As for using CPU instead of GPU I am not sure about. If you check Plex dashboard when playing the local transcode what does the dashboard say. It should say transcode for video and audio and whether it is using cpu or gpu

Does local need transcoding? Remote defaults to transcode typically. Have you tried forcing transcoding locally?

Are you able to ping 8.8.8.8 from the terminal?

Please post diagnostics.

Yes that would be the best option. If you can access it from SSH then you can just run the diagnostics command and the file will be on your flash drive in the logs folder.

So how would be the best way to use a unraid share inside of the LXC container. Would it be crazy to just symlink the folder to inside the rootfs folder somwhere?

Whats the hardware? Are you able to access via SSH? Please post diagnostics.