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Hi, Hoping for help here or just this to start working on its own but can't get UNRAID back up outside of the non-GUI and only when I have a monitor and keyboard connected to the server directly. Unable to access via web browser on other machines on same network. UNRAID does not even appear on the connected devices list within my network at this time. Problem began when my dockers crashed sometime overnight apparently (was working at 2am and don't know exactly when it went bad) and when I went to try and delete the docker.img from settings it then would never restart. Tried a reboot and machine never came back on from reboot or shutdown. After maybe 30 minutes of it still saying it was rebooting I manually powered it off holding power button (I know not the best solution but something had to give after 30 minutes...). I've had the issue of it not booting up correctly in past when it decided to be finicky after me installing another hard drive or something but this time nothing was changed. I managed to pull a diagnostic file through command lines and then removing the flash drive and putting it into my PC to extract file and upload here. Two diagnostics files were apparently generated so attached both to be safe. GUI mode did not boot up using either GUI or GUI safe mode and only gives me the blinking underscore. Any ideas what is going on? Are these diagnostic files any help or did I screw myself on diagnosing issue by rebooting/powering off before pulling a diagnostic file? Kicking myself about that as I knew better too... UPDATE: Still down but what is really leaving me scratching my head is that unless I first go into the BIOS menu when first powering the machine up it will not bring me to an UNRAID boot menu (UNRAID OS, UNRAID OS Web-GUI, etc). Getting nervous something serious corrupted since I've never had it go this long or even be able to load the GUI when plugging a monitor/keyboard/mouse directly into the server itself. Fingers crossed this can be fixed and I don't lose data... jeffunraid-diagnostics-20220405-1959.zip jeffunraid-diagnostics-20220405-2002.zip

96TB is here! Preclear takes what feels like forever on the 12TB drives but now any future drives are going to mean upgrading my UNRAID license type as well. I have 6 more 3.5" HDD slots available in my machine so if I stick to 12TB drives I can get up to 168TB possible. Never imagined I would have this much storage space at home. Still have to research usenet and sonarr and such as have been crazy busy with work and home life lately I haven't had the chance to really dive in.

No splitters. Only original Corsair 4 way SATA power cables that came with the PSUs right now. Specifically ordered the custom cables and from a name brand like cablemod to do it the right way vs extensions/splitters. After spending literally thousands on hard drives alone what is an extra $100 on custom cables? lol

🤦‍♂️ So I'm stupid and forgot to check how many HDD trays I had left BEFORE the new drives arrived so won't be able to post new shots with the 96TB capacity until middle of this coming week. I also ordered custom cables from CableMod since the Quad SATA power cables that come with the HX1200 are not long enough to reach the very top drive position in my Meshify 2 XL. Thankfully not a position I need to use today as the custom cables have a crazy long lead time right now of at least 4-6 weeks and I'm expecting 6-8 weeks at least. Only ordered custom SATA cables for now. This is one downfall to the Fractal Design cases needing to have their HDD trays handy and a downfall to a full tower case in general when normal cables aren't long enough. Part of the cable length issue could be my cable management I'm trying to maintain but nonetheless annoying. I should have the extra HDD trays Tues/Weds from Newegg and already swapped in the HX1200 and mini-SAS to SATA cable for my HBA so should be fairly plug and play with new drives once the trays arrive. This is going to be a slow week waiting for those trays to get in....

Thanks @NZBacon I will check out that link you shared and look into usenet as well. I will admit I don't much at all about usenet today so will be completely new to me. I typically don't find issues with the torrents - even with VPN I will get up to 40-45MB/s of actual download speed combined. My issues come in when I am trying to grab older films/tv shows as I'm picky about wanting higher quality files and don't like the mp4 versions of things if for no other reason than they match in my Plex with the file names, not the movie names even after I rename the files before adding to library. Usenet will help grabbing copies of those older files that maybe don't have the same seed counts as newer popular releases? I also realized I forgot to include my latest Plex counts in my last post. Here they are: ~23 4K TV Series (+10) ~38 4K Movie Remuxes (no change) ~150 720p/1080p TV Series (+60) ~332 4K Movies (+27) ~2,019 720p/1080p movies (+139) The new hard drives are supposed to deliver tomorrow so once those are in I will share updated screenshots and pics of the build sporting new 1200W PSU haha.

Quick update to this thread as has been a while. Currently sitting at 72TB total usable capacity (6x12TB IWP) and JUST ordered two more 12TB IWP which will bring me up 96TB once those arrive this coming Sunday/Monday. They are on sale for $299.99 each right now and had been hovering around $400 for a long while so couldn't resist when got the price drop email from Honey. Also going to take this opportunity to swap in a larger PSU for a HX1200 I had sitting around. Keep debating adding a high end GPU and taking another look at gaming so figure why not while I'm in there and minimize efforts later. I'll update with new screenshot once those two drives arrive. Really wondering if I should buy a 3rd right now just to say I have over 100TB of storage and well I could stretch and say 100TB because of the 2 2TB SSDs that just feels like cheating on such a milestone. Overall my strategy with new drives has been to keep my drives under 75-80% used capacity each and with these two new drives I definitely won't be having any problems anytime soon lol. One thing I really need to figure out how to do is setup automatic downloads of new movie and select TV shows torrents from sites like rarbg. I just am afraid it will grab EVERYTHING when I right now being manual only grab the highest quality 1080p copies and maybe a 4K copy too if the movie seems like there is a production value to be had. Any suggestions and anyone know if they can be set up to download only certain tv series when new episodes are released?

So jealous! That is just too cool. One day I will get there but my better half would kill me if I did something like that all in one shot. She does not care about this stuff at all the way I do. Concerts... dang you for suggesting a new media category to consider that will require more drives.... lol

Wow! What is your library like with 134TB? What kind of rig you using for that size? Is that all Media or mix of other data too? I picked my case because it has space for 16 3.5" drives and my HBA card supports 16 drives and I frankly until recently never thought I would EVER approach using 16 drives and regretted not getting the smaller non-XL case and 8 drive HBA card. Now I am glad I did all this because I'll likely be at 8 3.5" HDD by years end and approaching 16 drives within next couple years after that. That would give me 168TB of possible space sticking to my 12TB IronWolf Pros (14x12TB for Data with another 2x12TB as Parity). I just honestly don't know how I could ever hit that amount of data. I am going to run out of stuff to download that interests me as well soon too so expecting my growth rate should slow down at some point to just new films and tv shows. Until then... just waiting for my ISP to complain. You'd think downloading multiple TB in a single month would catch their eye haha.

Wellllllll it did not take long for this latest HDD to fill up adding a lot more 1080p TV Series and another 100+ 1080p movies. Can't believe how quick and easy it was to hit 43TB! Spoiled with the gigabit connection I guess lol. Now I am hoping for a Black Friday sale on the 12TB IronWolf Pro to get an 8th to give me 72TB of storage. They are all still $409.99 minimum right now and the first 6 I picked up for $329.99 each barely 6 months ago... New count is: ~13 4K TV Series ~38 4K Movie Remuxes ~90 720p/1080p TV Series ~305 4K Movies ~1,880 720p/1080p movies

I basically only use my UNRAID for Plex tbh - that at least is why I built it. I never got serious with VMs since I got caught up with other things in life and never circled back since I have other laptops for those needs and haven't played a video game in years. I really wanted just a stupid amount of storage space for all the movies and tv shows I could ever want that was relatively easy to configure, could add drives easily later as needed vs a RAID setup or what seemed to be complicated process with FreeNAS and had some sort of parity feature to help against data loss in event of drive failure. External HDD plugged into a Shield TV wasn't going to cut it and there was no parity at all with that option. I'd either have a Plex library or a paper weight. At least with 2 parity drives I think I only lose the server being offline for maybe a day or so (whatever the time is is inconsequential to me) while it rebuilds itself and restores all the missing data vs me having to re-download whatever files were stored on that drive and hoping all the movie files are still up. As far as redownloading finding 1080p mp4s usually isn't a problem but I only download the mkv files and try to find the ones with best sound files (atmos 7.1 version, etc) and those can be more annoying to replace since I have some torrents sit stuck at 99% for weeks and then suddenly complete randomly one night. The few mp4s and 720p files I have leftover from before I'm actively replacing with the 1080p mkvs and only have a few left.

So anything in my 4K libraries are duplicated in my 1080p libraries - doesn't stop some friends I share with that don't grasp playing a 4K movie file on a 1080p TV doesn't mean it's going to be better quality than playing the 1080p movie file. They do have 4K TVs in their house hence still sharing the 4K libraries. One transcode doesn't kill my machine but as I am sharing with more and more people the odds are simultaneous transcodes increases. People take I have parity drives because I don't want to have to re-download 12TB of files - at least that is the hope to avoid that. My understanding of the parity drives is that I can have 1-2 drives fail and not lose any data and since I could afford to buy 2 parity drives on top of the data drives I did. Even with an unlimited gigabit (up/down) fiber connection coming into my home I am still limited by who is sharing the files and some files are harder to replace/take FOREVER to download. Not to mention remembering all the files I may have lost. Furthermore I'm hoping the extra money I spent on the Ironwolf Pros to get nearly enterprise grade drives helps mitigate failure risk. I do wish I had radarr setup - every file I download I have to manually add to deluge using magnet links from rarbg. I do like selecting specific file versions/movies as I don't just want everything being released. Is there a good guide to setting up radarr? I am far from UNRAID expert and learning as I go - much I have not figured out yet. Also I am just going to sell the 3060. I don't mine and don't have desire. Appreciate feedback towards iGPU. Glad I waited for 11th gen intel too since they upgraded iGPU with this gen.

So what started my Plex adventures out using an 8TB external HDD that I had plugged into my first Shield TV Pro which I figured I would never be able to fill up which slowly became a 10TB external HDD and then a 14TB external HDD. In April the 14TB drive was getting full and when they released the 11th gen Intel CPUs I pulled trigger and built my first UNRAID. It started with 5x12TB Ironwolf Pros (2 parity, 3 data) and never thought I could realistically fill that despite ambitions of grandeur to build most immense 4K library assembled anywhere... In June I was ordering a 6th 12TB Ironwolf Pro and couldn't believe I was getting such a high usage % (trying to keep under 80% on all data disks) of the original HDDs so quickly. Now here we are in October and I am waiting for the estimated 12 hour disk clear to finish on the 7th 12TB Ironwolf Pro giving me a total usable space of 60TB. Not sure how it takes before I have this 7th drive nearing full and needing a 8th for 72TB usable and just hope it happens after HDD prices come back down to reality since these babies aren't cheap! Tried to do my best at cable management without going extreme with custom cables or loads of zip ties - just stuck to what they included as part of the case for straps. Just wish the HBA card was black too vs that green. Sorry in advance for picture quality/glare - think my phone's camera lens just recently cracked or was scratched. And for the record these Ironwolf Pro HDDs are super quiet! Has high entry price for these drives but well worth price for the warranty and data recovery should I need it. Plex for those interested is currently filled with about the following: ~12 4K TV Series ~38 4K Movie Remuxes ~57 720p/1080p TV Series ~288 4K Movies ~1,760 720p/1080p movies BTW - anyone know if the RTX 3060 XC 12GB can be unlocked for unlimited transcoding sessions? Tried in past unsuccessfully and wasn't sure if things had changed since earlier in the year. Have an extra one again.