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I have a friend who has asked me to help him build a new server. He'll mainly use it for plex, backup for pics and docs and wants it to be rack mount, with hotswap slots. His budget will be some where around 3k. Can you guys suggest a great build that would be within that price range? TIA!

bump Id really like to know this as well. My setup isnt nearly as complicated as yours yet but would like to encrypt a cloud backup to dropbox, gdrive, etc. There are some pretty outdated videos by spaceinvader ( who has been insanely valuable as help and guides to set it up) on youtube but would like to know the best way to do this too in 2022.

I recently setup my first unraid server. I have plex setup and was using the unassigned devices plug in to map the plex app data to. But after an update that immediately stopped working today. I stopped the array and added the SSD to a "pool" by itself. Then pointed to that, I think. The app data is showing in the shares but i am not at all sure i set this up correctly. What would be the best way to set this up? Ultimately i just want to have a dedicated SSD for just plex app data for good performance. Any suggestions on how to do this the best way? Thanks

Sweet, thanks! Ill have to try after these drives are done preclearing and added. Any ideas on the weird booting issue??

Hi everybody. Newbie here to Unraid and setup my first server in the last couple months. I have a couple issues that i need to ask for help with. 1. Whenever i boot/restart my server, it wont load from the usb boot stick. It just shows a black screen. If i unplug the usb boot stick, let the MB UEFI load, plug the usb boot stick back in, restart without making any changes in UEFI, it will boot to the Unraid boot options screen. I thought i found a solution to this on reddit but cannot find the dang post again. 2. My log will reach 100% after a couple days of uptime. When looking at the log it seems to be doing something over and over again til it fills up. Ill post a small section of it here and can post the whole log if needed. Jan 22 04:40:01 Tower kernel: usb 1-14: new full-speed USB device number 87 using xhci_hcd Jan 22 04:40:01 Tower kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Reading Intel version information failed (-22) Jan 22 04:40:01 Tower kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Intel Read version failed (-22) Jan 22 04:40:01 Tower kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Intel reset sent to retry FW download Jan 22 04:40:01 Tower kernel: usb 1-14: USB disconnect, device number 87 Jan 22 04:40:01 Tower kernel: usb 1-14: new full-speed USB device number 88 using xhci_hcd Jan 22 04:40:02 Tower kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Reading Intel version information failed (-22) Jan 22 04:40:02 Tower kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Intel Read version failed (-22) Jan 22 04:40:02 Tower kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Intel reset sent to retry FW download Jan 22 04:40:02 Tower kernel: usb 1-14: USB disconnect, device number 88 Jan 22 04:40:02 Tower kernel: usb 1-14: new full-speed USB device number 89 using xhci_hcd Jan 22 04:40:02 Tower kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Reading Intel version information failed (-22) Jan 22 04:40:02 Tower kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Intel Read version failed (-22) Jan 22 04:40:02 Tower kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Intel reset sent to retry FW download Any help you guys can provide would be awesome!!. Thanks in advance!