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Thanks all, I managed to wipe it and now it's all working as expected

I think something is still not quite right on that drive, as I get this warning when running gdisk: Warning! Secondary partition table overlaps the last partition by 33 blocks! You will need to delete this partition or resize it in another utility. I really don't care what old data is in the disk and this can be safely deleted. What's the best way to just completely wipe this disk so it has no partitions and unraid can start using it fully?

Hi, thanks for the reply, It did indeed have a 500MB partition, a GPT one. I have since then deleted all partitions but Unraid insists in giving it 537MB instread of 500GB. Here's the fdisk command after I deleted all partitions using gdisk: root@Tower:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 465.76 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Disk model: Samsung SSD 840 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdb1 2048 976773167 976771120 465.8G 83 Linux Any more ideas?

Hi, I have just installed unraid on a new machine. The hard drives I used are a mixture of new drives and drives I pulled from other systems: - 1x 8TB drive currently set as parity (new drive) - 1x 4TB drive currently set as a data drive (this was a drive pulled from an old synology) - 1x 500GB SSD (new) - 1x 500GB SSD (pulled from an old server, with files in it from then, basically it had an Ubuntu server installed) I set the 2 SSD as two different caches. One I want to use for downloads, and the other for everything else (docker appdata, VMs etc). At the beginning I though all was working fine until one of my dockers started complaining about not having enough disk space, that's when I realised that Unraid thinks my old SSD drive has only 500MB of space left instead of 500GB. I have reformatted the drive to no avail. When it was brtfs I tried a rebalance and it didn't change the disk space left. I stopped the array, changed that drive file system to xfs, reformatted, and it still reports 500MB. At this point I don't know what else to try. Any ideas? tower-diagnostics-20220515-0218.zip

Actually I've just realised the i3-9100 only supports 2400 RAM. Will a stick of 2666 work underclocked or should I get a 2400 one just in case? For some reason they are harder to find and more expensive

Hi, could you pass through the iGPU using this motherboard for Plex transcoding? I am considering buying the C264M WS or C264 WS but I am not sure without a dedicated video card I will be able to transcode. I plan to run it with an i3-9100 as well. Any other features apart from the form factor that I should consider when choosing between those 2?

Hi! bumping an old thread, but I was wondering what motherboard do you have the i3-9100 in? How does iGPU pass-through work if you do not have a dedicated video card? Any issues? I am looking at building a server with just an i3-9100 (no dedicated video card) but I want to make sure I will be able to pass it through to the docker container with no issues.

Hi all, I wanted to ask for advice on a new setup I am planning on building. My plan A was to reuse an old PC with an HBA PCI controller but the one I ordered on eBay fried my motherboard (some lessons learned there), now the PC motherboard won't even boot. Tried everything but can't make it even power on So back to plan B which is to unfortunately build a new setup from scratch, since the old parts are over 10 years old so not really feasible to replace only some bits of it. I am planning on having 2 SSD drives as caches and then 5 HDD drives (western digital red plus). I plan to use my server mainly for Plex and then some other dockers/vms but not too intensive stuff (roon server for music, adguard for DNS, stuff like this). Could someone let me know if they think the following components will have any issues with what I have planned? - Motherboard: AsRock C246 WS. Should give me 8 SATA ports via the C246 chipset which is supported by Unraid - CPU: Intel i3-9100. Not going with a Xeon because I won't be doing CPU intensive stuff and because I want the iGPU for Plex. Can someone confirm if this motherboard will let me do passthrough for Plex transcoding? - Memory: 2x 8gb kingston ECC memory: KVR26N19S8/8 (listed on the mobo compatibility list, going for only 16gb as I can add another 16 later of if I need them) Motherboard question: Asrock has a similar model: C246M WS. Smaller form factor, would that work with iGPU passthrough? Why should I get the ATX one instead of this, which is slightly cheaper? Planning to put all this on a Fractal Design Define 7 which I already have. It all adds up to roughly 600EUR which I'd rather not have spent right now (thanks old mobo for dying now), but hoping this will last me a few years... and to be fair the old motherboard and CPU lasted more than 10 years. Anyone here running a similar setup can share how well it's doing for them? Or any issues I should have thought about with incompatibility or Unraid support? Many thanks!

Thanks. I'll bear that in mind. The Gigabyte specs mention they support ECC unbuffered memory, as opposed to registered ECC. Would a module from Kingston like this one be OK? https://www.kingston.com/dataSheets/KSM26ED8_16HD.pdf

Hello unraid community, I have been lurking on this forum for a few days and I'd finally like to ask for some advice on a new build I'm planning. Some context First of all, a little bit of context of where I am at the moment and why I want to upgrade. I currently have 2 machines in my attic: a Synology DS418j with 4x4TB WD Red drives (they are WD40EFRX model so actually CMR, 5400RPM). This is currently set up as SHR2 (2 drive fault tolerance). It's probably the most entry level NAS Synology offers, and was bought like 4 years ago when I just wanted storage and the box had to be in the living room (so had to be small and quiet). Alongside the NAS I repurposed what used to be my main computer into a server that has a few apps on it: Plex, Sonarr/Radarr, Transmission, NZBHydra/SABnzbd for all my media needs, and finally Roon Server for straming music. This computer is an i7-2600k, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SATA SSD drive, a Geforce 1070 GPU (I used to to PC gaming), on an Asus Sabertooth P67 motherboard. I have at the moment 2 problems with this setup: - I am running out of space on the NAS. - The PC I use as a server, while working fine, is quite power hungry for what it currently does which is very little (a bit of network downloading, some transcoding when needed but rarely since most of my Plex clients can direct play). It draws about 65W on idle, going all the way up to 90W when doing some mild workloads, to 130W when doing some software transcoding). Now because I bought a 4 bay NAS, my storage upgrade options are very limited. I can either replace all 4 drives and get 4 new 8TB WD Red Plus drives, or I can get a new 8 bay Synology and keep adding more 4TB drives to it. If I replace all drives I'm gonna end up with 4 drives I have no use for. If I buy an 8 drive Synology that's 1000 EUR, so I thought instead to consider an alternative: buy a new computer to set up unraid on it, and consolidate the NAS and the server into a single machine. Proposed build Having had a look around, I think I could build something based on this: - Gigabyte C246M-WU4 (has 8 SATA ports, 2 NVM ports) - Fractal Design Node 804 case - Intel i3-9100 (I can use iGPU for transcoding Plex when needed, and for the rest of the workload that CPU should be more than enough, but also I keep my upgrade options open for something more powerful in the future like a Xeon if I want ECC or an i5/i7 if not) - 32 GB of RAM (I was thinking I don't need ECC to be honest) - 2 NVM drives to use as cache drives or as application drives With a setup like this, I could start off by adding the 4 existing drives, set 2 of them as parity and 2 of them as data. This would get me the same storage I currently have but all in a single server. After that, I was looking at the following upgrade path for storage: - I can keep adding 4TB drives (up to in total as my storage needs grow, and keep 2 drives for parity. - Alternatively I can start looking at bigger hard drives (to be used as parity first) and do the same. So I have a few questions regarding this setup: - First of all, does it sound like a sensible plan? - With the current specs and maxed out hard drives (8) and given the case and MoBo chosen,what PSU would you recommend me getting (both in terms of Watts and type/size? - Thoughts on the i3-9100? I'm quite confident it should be able to handle it all, but any inputs would be appreciated. Is the stock cooler good enough for it? - Should I really bother with ECC? Feels like there's no need for it really, if I stay away from ZFS? - Any recommendations on what memory and what nvm drive(s) to get that are good value for money? - Am I missing something important? I don't have any specific budget in mind but I think it'd make sense to keep the cost below what a new 8 bay synology would cost me (currently I see them for about 1000€) One last thing: my current Asus Sabertooth P67 has 6 SATA ports from an Intel P67 chipset (2xsata 6gbps and 4x sata 3gbps) and from a Marvell controller (2xsata 6gbps), and I have a Corsair Carbide 300R case which has space for 4 interal bays and 3 external bays (which I could use with a adaptor as internal). I was also wondering if it'd make sense to maybe build the unraid server in my current system, see how I like it overall, and then maybe move it to the new hardware later? How hard is it to move an unraid setup to a new hardware? It might not be worth the trouble. And in case I wanted to explore this option, what considerations should I give to what SATA ports to use to connect my HDDs and my SATA SSD? Thanks for reading!