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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.

Sorry - just realized I pulled a different (older) diagnostics file from when I was trying to diagnose a flash device error and networking was working fine then. Mixed up the two. That is the file to look at though in the diags to see if shows link connected? I went ahead and ordered a different motherboard from Amazon Prime that should arrive Sunday. Sucks I'll have to rebuild but I guess it is what it is when dealing with defective motherboard if we think NIC is issue. Going to ship the old one back to Newegg this weekend and works out nicely they give you free return label for defective products.

I have tried multiple cables and different ports on switch (Orbi RBS850 satellite that was working fine). Does this mean anything that eth0 says Link detected: yes in the /system/ethtool.txt file? What file are you referencing so I can try and learn too. **Mistakenly pulled this from different diags file taken prior to issue developing** Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full 2500baseT/Full Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Supported FEC modes: Not reported Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full 2500baseT/Full Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised FEC modes: Not reported Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Auto-negotiation: on Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal MDI-X: off (auto) Supports Wake-on: pumbg Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x00000007 (7) drv probe link Link detected: yes

Does this mean the motherboard ethernet port has failed if neither are lighting up even? I can still try and return the motherboard as defective if that is the case.

Hi, Getting the error in subject line. Tried following steps I found in a few other posts on this matter (some not applicable to me since not using NIC card) and haven't had any luck yet. It started earlier today after I swapped out 2x1TB cache drives I had in pool for a single 2TB cache drive to get extra storage. Since the first time booting back up after that I can only boot into GUI with monitor directly connected to server but not into webGUI. Diagnostics file attached. What is really weirding me out is that nothing should've shorted (no power surges, etc.) between me properly stopping array shutting down, following these steps to swap the cache drives around and now I don't even get a light on my motherboard's ethernet port telling me any of the different cables I tried are even connected. Tried both ports on motherboard's I/O panel with same result and it was literally working fine until I swapped cache drives out and consolidated the two to the single drive. Running v6.9.2 - hardware specs in signature. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If not for fact I've spent last week just loading data onto this brand new server I would start over but really do not want to try and start from scratch losing that time. I also saw from other posts from people who tried this to fix problem and didn't work. Posts/Steps I've tried to date: Renaming /config/network.cfg on flash drive to different file name and booting back up server but this did not do anything that I could tell. Put original file back to /config/network.cfg since nothing happened and no other file was recreated as I thought might happen from previous step and using text editor on another computer I updated text in network.cfg file to say below. Now it shows 192.168.1.23 in the top right corner on direct GUI like it should but it is not actually connected. Seems like this fix only forced it to display what should be the right IP address for me. # Generated settings: IFNAME[0]="br0" DHCP_KEEPRESOLV="yes" DNS_SERVER1="192.168.1.1" DHCP6_KEEPRESOLV="no" BRNAME[0]="br0" BRNICS[0]="eth0" BRSTP[0]="no" BRFD[0]="0" PROTOCOL[0]="ipv4" USE_DHCP[0]="no" IPADDR[0]="192.168.1.23" NETMASK[0]="255.255.255.0" GATEWAY[0]="192.168.1.1" USE_DHCP6[0]="yes" SYSNICS="1" jeffunraid-diagnostics-20210422-2332.zip

I just wanted to update since my last post that I tried a different (new) USB 2.0 Cruzer Fit 16GB drive and still getting the errors. I made it about 25 hours on the first go around and currently around 15.5 hours uptime right now waiting to see how long I get. I would love to get 72 hours uptime in a row at this point since I've yet to have my new server up for over 1-2 days. I emailed UNRAID support which told me to post in this forum (which I did in separate thread as well) and follow up with them in 1-2 days if no one replied with solution.

Hi, New UNRAID user and coming up on end of first full week since first booting up into UNRAID. I started with a 32GB USB 2.0 SanDisk Cruzer Fit flash drive in the motherboard back I/O USB 2.0 port and after getting repeated flash device errors in UNRAID I bought a new 16GB version of the SanDisk Cruzer Fit (still USB 2.0 version) and after ~25 hours got another flash device error on the new flash drive. Attached is the diagnostic file for my build and hardware of the build is in my signature. I am really hoping someone can help me here as I am a new user and have been loving UNRAID for sheer storage space as this was to be my new 4K Plex Server (REMUX or bust haha) but need it to stay up for more than 24 hours at a time. My gut tells me I am doing something wrong at this point since I don't want to believe I got two bad flash drives in a row. But maybe I did just don't have 3rd drive to try at this time without ordering another. Only other planned hardware change I had in mind (if relevant for this flash device support) was that I also picked up a 2TB 970 EVO Plus m.2 drive to replace the 2x1TB 970 EVO m.2 cache drives since I didn't realize it would only net me 1TB usable space for cache/active downloads and I prefer capacity (again this could be due to user error). Docker and plugins screenshots attached along with main array screenshot. On the docker list the only ones I'm actually starting up are Krusader, binhex-delugevpn and Plex Media Server. The others I installed, tried to use, didn't get anywhere despite watching SpaceInvaderOne vids and they remain stopped until I have time to play with them more. Thanks! myunraid-diagnostics-20210421-1825.zip

I have been getting these same types of errors on my new server and driving me crazy. UNRAID 6.9.2 with a 32GB San Disk Cruzer Fit USB 2.0 drive in a USB 2.0 slot. I ordered a new 16GB Cruzer Fit USB 2.0 to see if that helps at all but doesn't arrive until Tuesday. Any solutions found for this?

So I just pulled the trigger Friday and ordered everything from Newegg and Amazon after getting some responses on Plex forum. GPUs are out of stock everywhere so I bought the cheapest EVGA card with 3 year warranty $40 to go through step up program (not in a rush so don't mind waiting) and at that time get either RTX 3060 XC 12GB (for additional VRAM) or something else if gaming becomes more priority. Will use integrated graphics until then. I would've been happy with 1650/1660 based on feedback I got but even those (used or new) are $400+ due to miners so prefer to spend that same money on much better card. Gotta say I was surprised how big the Noctua NH-D15S is in person - like WOW! Knew it wasn't small but geez. The Chromax version definitely is stunning to look at though! The rest of this stuff should arrive over the next week. I went with Meshify 2 XL vs Define 7 XL for increased airflow so HDDs stay nice and cool and will have to see how noise is if I want to swap out for a Define 7 XL instead which I've read is supposed to be quieter but still off all the 3.5" bays I'd want. CASE - Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL w/ Dark Tint Window (no solid side panel version available) + 7x Noctua NF-A14 PWM chromax.black.swap 140mm case fans PSU - Corsair HX850 850w Platinum Rated CPU - Intel 11600K 6-core + Noctua NH-D15S Chromax MOBO - ASUS ROG Strix Z590-E Gaming WiFi RAM - 64GB (4x16GB) Crucial Ballistix RGB CL16 DDR4 3600MHz (non-RGB version sold out) SSD - 2x 1TB Samsung 970 EVO m.2 (1TB Cache + 1TB Plex/Future VM) HDD - 5x 12TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro (will run as 3 data/2 parity to start) + LSI 9201-16i for future expansion OPTICAL - LG Blu-Ray Burner WH16NS40K in USB 3.2 OWC Mercury Pro Optical Drive Enclosure Can't wait for everything to get in so I can start building!

Hi All, So first time posting and getting ready to order components for my first UNRAID/Plex Media Server build. Below are the components I am leaning towards at the moment and also I've listed out main use cases for this build to help with recommendations. Sincerely appreciate any recommendations or tips folks have. Budget - Uses: 4K Streaming - I do share my Plex with friends and family but I cap all external streams to the 1080p library and have a separate 4K library only available on local devices which are all NVIDIA Shield TV Pros I already own. Currently have a single 14TB external drive most media is hosted on and want the security of Parity drives since I really don't want to download everything again (nothing irreplaceable). On the 14tb drive there are about 1,500 movies and 35 TV series all 720p/1080p/4K now plus I have another 4TB of 4K movies on other hard drives. I would like to start sharing the 4K files with friends as well for those with 4K TVs and my gigabit fiber internet I'd hope is enough just afraid to try with SHIELD TV. I keep both 1080p and 4K copies of all the 4K content so if not direct playing 4K it's starting with a 720p/1080p version that is easier to convert if needed. Mobile Plex Downloads - I do have Plex Pass so would like to be able to download movies from my library for on-the-go (iPhone/iPad) use which the Shield TV Pro 16GB I host my PMS on today can't do Windows 10 VM - no immediate plans to game, just be an extra computer and something I could potentially set to download torrents for transfer to main share. NAS - extra local storage for GF & myself to save files. Important stuff we backup on other external hard drives. Hardware: Case: Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL CPU: Intel 11600K - no OC, air cooling with Noctua Chromax NH-D15. Want faster base clocks vs 11600 non-K. MOBO: TBD - Leaning towards a Z590 board for no particular reason but it's the latest and enables PCI-e 4.0 with Intel. Priorities here are HDMI (may be using iGPU to start), 2.5GB/s LAN or more, 4 x m.2 slots, 1+ x USB 2.0 in Back I/O for UNRAID flash drive and either USB-C or Thunderbolt just so I do have newer generation connectivity possible without add-on card. RAM: 32GB G.Skill DDR4 3600MHz (16GBx2) CAS 16 SSD: TBD- For cache drives should it be one for read and a second for write in perfect world? The 3rd could be for Plex Metadata and 4th I could assign to be strictly for VM? Can Plex Metadata live on same m.2 drive as VM or should they be separate? I figured since most Z590 boards have 2 Gen 4 m.2 slots I could use the Gen 4 slots for Plex Metadata and a VM and the Gen 3 slots for cache. HDD: Starting with 6x16TB Seagate EXOS X16 with 2 in parity connected to LSI 9201-16i HBA card I am ordering to give me 64TB to start. I realize when active they will be loud but care more about them lasting in a 24/7 environment and it says when idle they are supposed to be quiet. Plan to add another 10 16TB drives over next 1-2 years to give me total of 192TB when all said and done Optical Drive: LG WH16NS60 flashed to older firmware to be UHD-friendly housed in external enclosure connected via USB 3.0 since I don't want to give up potential HDD slots in case for optical drive PSU: Corsair HX850 850W Platinum rated I would like the 1,000W version so even if I added a 3070/3080 later and got big into games I wouldn't have problem having 16 7200rpm SATA drives and everything else but good luck finding inventory here in USA without some ridiculous markup from reseller GPU: TBD - This is another area I'm really stuck which has me thinking I would try and start with just the iGPU on the new 11th gen chips. Current GPU supplies are awful and while I thought a P2200 would be perfect as main goal today is native unlocked Plex streams (not gaming) I am not sure if in 2021 that is still where I should be looking as they are still $400+. I read about abilities to unlock NVIDIA cards so would like something that can handle at least 2-3 simultaneous 4K streams and another 3-4 1080p streams which may involve some transcoding due to format incompatibilities. The odds are slim I would have 3 4K and 4 1080p streams going at the same time but only takes one time for me to be annoyed that even after spending all this money on other components I am trying to watch a movie and it keeps buffering. As you can probably tell I'm definitely not necessarily going for a budget build but rather since the last time I built a PC of any kind was 15 years ago and I don't plan to regularly update outside of adding hard drives I'm comfortable to spend a bit more than is probably necessary to get bare minimum requirements met. Always fun to geek out and splurge a little bit when it is something I know will be heavily used and that I can have a lot of fun putting together and setting up.