Starrus

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  1. Hi,

     

    I recently upgraded my CPU (got my hands on a 5700G so I could spare my 1050Ti for something else) on my Unraid server and took the opportunity to replace a Sandisk Fit that stopped being able for read/write. It was preventing apps from being updated. Replaced it with an old 8GB Sandisk Cruzer, and upgraded my Unraid to 6.10rc4.


    Unfortunately, while reinstalling the server (in a heavy 4U chasis), I accidentally broke the Cruzer while trying to remount it onto the rack. Bought a new thumbdrive (a metal-encased Kioxia USB 2.0 stick) but this time around, the "replace thumbdrive" option on My Server has been greyed out. I tried downloading the pro.key from my Unraid account but this is not working either.

     

    To make matters worse, for some reason, after a boot or two, I can no longer get local host running and while the server can be pinged, the GUI is not reachable on my network either. From what I gathered, this could also be because of a bad "key".

    Any ideas on what I can do next. My diagnostics file is attached. scarif-diagnostics-20220404-0118.zipThanks.

  2. Thanks @JorgeB! Just to close the loop, it was my 8-port Asmedia 1166 card that was bottlenecking read/write speeds. I managed to get my hands on an old HP H240 HBA and performance has gone up significantly! Its more what I expect from these enterprise-grade drives. 

     

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    @Frank1940It was a good thing that the person I got the HBA card from was reliable. So far so good. The card runs hot but that's a known issue. Only issue was with one of the 8087 cables that he passed to me, where one channel was faulty. He told me about it and I took them as they were what was available on hand. Will be ordering new ones soon (and add back my 10th data drive).   

     

    Once again, thanks everyone. 

     

     

  3. I thought that was the problem, after all the troubleshooting that I did. One of which was a Diskspeed benchmark, that shows higher burst speeds for drives connected to the motherboard. Those on the ASmedia were at 100+ mb/s sustained, that that was only benchmarked one drive at a time. 

     

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    I'm going to order a used LSI HBA and see how that improves the speeds. Thanks again.

  4. Hi,

     

    Sorry, new to Unraid. I've searched the forums for solutions, tried a few things here and there but remain troubled by slow read/write speeds (25mb/s each way) to my array. Parity build is also limited to 25mb/s. Basically I can't get more than around 25mb/s read/write speeds total. A file copy to the array will basically halve the write speed (at the time of this screenshot, a file is being copied to the Unraid array). Reads don't seem to be affected.  I'm running 6.10.rc, with Twonkyserver (as a music server) and one Win10 VM active (as a Chia node). 

     

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    This wasn't the case when my array was first put together, consisting of 1 parity and 3 data 10TB drives driven all by my motherboard's SATA ports. I was getting between 100-200mb/s read and writes to and from the array (its much faster on the Cache drive, up to 900mb/s on my 10g network) then. However, when I added 8 more drives (1 added parity drive and 7 data drives, all 10TB too) from my old QNAP NAS and expanded my array, I started to get the slow speeds. The 8 added drives run off a 12-port Asmedia SATA expander card.  

     

    Right now, I'm beginning to think that there is something wrong on the hardware side but I was wondering if I missed anything in the configuration of my array. My diagnostics file is attached. Any advice is appreciated!  

    scarif-diagnostics-20211012-2306.zip