FlyingTexan

I was having an issue with a drive that appeared to be bad. So I swapped out the old 8TB for a 14TB drive. I also swapped out the cables to the HBA card. Now when I boot I can't see any new drive. I've ordered several drives for a rebuild I'm doing later this week. Thinking the new drive I'd put in was faulty I swapped it with another new drive and still it doesn't see anything. Is it possible for a HBA card to have a bad slot on one of the cables? Like where it attaches to the card itself?

well kept googling and found a post on reddit showing https://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator. Says 656watts for me. How reliable does that feel?

I have a NZXT 750w gold that's great. But I'm stepping up my system going with two drive bays which would give me a total capacity of 24 drives. I'm wondering how many drives I can really run off my PSU in this system. Config: intel 11600k arc a380 (when supported) 4x 16GB DDR4 LSI 9300-16i If the new arrivals cure my potential power cable issues where I'm not having to throw away two drives, I'll be at 19 total drives. Is 750w enought?

I'm having an issue where today a drive shows a * for the temp and started showing a lot of errors. However the smart data is saying everything is ok. I also had a drive that says it's ok that was removed from the array. So I stopped the array, removed the "bad" drive, restarted the array, then stopped it again, then added the "bad" drive back, and started the array. I formatted the drive and it then started a rebuild. The rebuild (3rd screenshot) is showing the latest issue where it's saying it's done more rebuilding than what the drive is showing. There is also the issue with drive 8 having tons of errors even though it's not displaying any reading/writing. The errors keep going up. Is that because disk 10 is trying to take data from disk 8 and causing disk 8 to have errors? My drives are not making any weird noises so I'm unsure if there is perhaps a bad wire with one of them that is causing the other to show errors. I've just stopped the array, removed disk 10, and restarted the array. The results are now in the 4th screenshot. The temp for drive 8 is now showing and it appears to functioning as intended. tower-diagnostics-20230215-2347.zip

With one more what being downgraded? Will it work or not?

I have 11th gen 11600k and currently two HBA cards 2x9211. I don’t really know much about PCIE lanes. I want to upgrade one HBA from the 9211-8 to a LSI 9300 16i and keep one of the 9211 for a total of 24 drive capability. I’d also like to add the intel arc a380. I know everyone will ask why, because it’s great for me and I’ve had it for a while. I like the AV1 comparability and higher hw transcoding quality. I don’t know much about PCIe lanes but can an 11th gen lga 1200 board handle a LSI 9300-16i, LSI 9211, and ARC a380? (Also I currently have 3 ssd if it matters).

None of this is possible. As someone said there’s thousands of people who boot successfully. Every last one of you are at fault. /sarcasm im having the same issue on an asus tough motherboard 11600k setup

You mentioned enabling ASPM in the bios. Is that something all bios have? Have you measured what it changes? I'm seeing people mention that intel came out with a recent update to address this for windows but it wasn't exactly successful. People saying it's still pulling 20w at idle. Not that that's the biggest issue in the world.

I know system ram is slower than VRAM but the igpus are still able to encode many more streams at once so was under the assumption it’s still fast enough. What is your take on the a380? Are you glad you have it? The one thing you stated that really has me perked up is the hw transcode having the same quality as software. Does that translate to x264 for Plex or not really matter yet because it’s not using the appropriate libraries? I’m not a coder at all so it’s very over my head and thank you for engaging. Are you saying that Jellyfin supports HEVC->HEVC transcoding out of the box? I’ve personally never used jellyfin but was always told it was more difficult to setup for other users so stayed away for simplicity sake.

You created the topic so that’s the topic and why people are being active. They didn’t engage because they wanted to take part in the stupidity. The topic is still valid and someone many of us intend to discuss and be educated on. Instead of someone being free to leave I’d rather just be able to block/ignore people. My notifications settings don’t seem to allow for only useful and informative postings.

Really tired of getting emails of all this stupid BS. Some of us have an active interest in this topic. Maybe take this stupidness into your own thread

Are you not able to use the system memory as the /tmp for transcoding and use the card for the power? If I recall, plex defaulted to using the SSD for transcoding and I made it switch to using my system memory since I have 64GB of it. Can you not allocate that memory to still be used for the transcoding process? Isn't that was resizable BAR is for to share those resources? That's impressive for HEVC-HEVC. I wish plex would move past x264 for it's codec and start enabling this.

That has to be a driver limitation and things not working properly then. On my 11600k I can currently transcode 10 4k streams. I didn't test scrubbing a timeline with them but I had 10 running without issue and this was using a John Wick 2 that was close to 80mbit/s. The 11600k is the uhd 750 and the 13th gen is the uhd 770 which is already much better but then the upper skews have two gpus (I know it's not two gpus but i'm getting brain blocked). I watched a video where the uhd 770 can do 18 4k stream transcodes. So the ARC a380 had better be a whole lot better than the 13th gen or I might as well leave it in the drawer and just upgrade my server from the 11th to the 13th gen for more cores.

Anyone able to test with this? See how many 4k transcodes it can handle? Or use tdarr and see going from 4k HDR HEVC to 1080p x264 how many fps? Trying to gauge the strength of the ARC card vs 13th gen intel quicksync.

Ok. Does it get rid of the need

Is ZFS getting rid of the requirement for parity?

I believe flash to be the future but I’ve been told, No. also no point in having flash array with HDD parity. Parity still has to be written and you’re going to match it

Why two? Video work or massive transcoding?

I believe flash to be the future but I’ve been told, No. also no point in having flash array with HDD parity. Parity still has to be written and you’re going to match it

How did you check how fragmented your drives were? While they were defragging were you still able to use them? I was hoping to find a disk utility docker or plugin but no luck.

Excited for this. Have you done any testing with tdarr on how fast quicksync is with it for hevc? I'll be installing three additional HDD and my arc card on monday. I'm not tech enough to try what you're trying but at least it will be in there for when the update comes out. I really would like for plex to update their ffmpeg library to use it. Ultimately I want to be able to transcode faster to download to ipads, etc.

It's been soon for a while. Been holding off doing my upgrades to my server. Want to get my arc card going.

How far is a beta from a RC?

Use for Plex and future encoding/deciding. Use its AV1 support in the future for compression.

Smaller groups have already ported Linux over. Percentage of market share doesn’t matter when the market is 350+million a year