Shahmatt

I want to install pfsense VM on a motherboard which has two LAN ports. Is this sufficient, or would I need to buy a PCI card with more LAN ports?

I am very much a noob to the technical nuances of UNRAID, VMs and hardware requirements. So I would greatly appreciate some help. My old headless UNRAID NAS is showing signs of hardware failure. So I want to prepare for the worst by building a new system. The current functions provided by UNRAID are as follows: Immich Docker Syncthing Docker SMB shares I run no VMs. In this system I have 5 drives connected to SATA ports (Four 3.5" HDDs and one 2.5" SSD Cache). For the new system, I wish to combine the functions of UNRAID with my regular use Windows PC (i.e. run it as a VM). I would also like to try pfsense to improve the network capability of my home. So the new machine must be able to house 5 SATA drives (from the original UNRAID system) plus two drives from my Windows PC (one m.2 drive and one SATA drive). Therefore the number of storage drives increases from 5 to 7. For the motherboard I was considering some models from China, such as the Topton Mini ITX SOC motherboard with the capability of connecting 9 drives in the link below: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007081838288.html A couple of questions about this motherboard. Will I be able to use the iGPU for a Windows VM, or will I need to buy a seperate dGPU The Audio port just says 2 in 1 Audio interface. Does this mean there is no audio hardware. Would a dGPU have onboard audio which I could use for my Windows VM? Will I be able to make use of the NICs for a pfsense VM? (would UNRAID commandeer all four NIC ports?) Also, would it be preferred to setup this system as Windows in an UNRAID VM container? Or would there be an alternative better method to set this system up? Any help is much appreciated.

I am also thinking about a new build a long these lines. But these CPUs have no iGPU. Do you need a GPU for the initial setup? If using a VM wouldn't you also need a discrete GPU?

I currently run UNRAID on a very old (13 years) i3-2100 Sandy bridge CPU. I only run Syncthing on it as a Docker, and this seems to do a good enough job for me. I also have a, now old, 2200G CPU built in a SFF box. The ITX board only has 8GB of Ram in two slots. At one time this was enough, but of late it does seem as though the system is RAM starved. Since the CPU grunt power is more than enough for my needs (spreadsheets, browsing, playing media), I was considering: 1. Retiring the Sandy Bridge system since board failure is just a matter of time 2. Buying a B450 board for the 2200G with 4 Ram slots. Increasing RAM. 3. Moving UNRAID To the "new" system. 4. Creating a Windows VM, consolidating two systems into one, and save electricity. Perhaps add immich as a new Docker. I was also considering building a router, but that's a separate issue. My question is, is the 2200G going to be good enough for this purpose? It's just a quad core CPU, so would core allocation for VM be a problem? Is APU passthrough to the VM possible, or would I need a discrete GPU?

This worked. Thanks.

unRAID detected a drive problem. SMART could not even read the drive to produce a report. So I removed it from the server. I installed it in my Windows PC. I found that the whole drive was an unallocated partition. I ran checkdisk, and It produced no errors. I reinstalled the drive in the server. unRAID sees the drive. I have run the SMART extended test and it shows no errors. But I can find no option to rebuild the array with this drive. The drive still remains emulated from parity. Is there anything I'm missing here? It seems unRAID wants me to use a new drive. Any advice is appreciated.

I want to use my server to compress images and video into a small size so that I can have it on my phone. I've found jlesage's Handbrake which watches a folder, compresses the video files within automatically, and exports to a designated folder. It works very well. I was wondering if there was an image processing equivalent. Appreciate any help. Thanks.

Thank you kindly. Sounds like what I need.

Thanks very much.

I want to check the maximum reached temperature over a period of time, sort of like what the HWmonitor app shows on Windows. I have the Dynamix plugin but that only shows real-time temps. Is there plugin out there that has the historical maximum feature?

Could it be that the GUI is showing something different from what is in the command line? How would I check this if so?

I am new to UNRAID and paid for my license about 2 or 3 weeks ago. The forums have been helpful. The resources available online are generally very good and relevant.

It's a Biostar TZ68A+. Yes I've now done exactly what you've said. I am waiting to see if it will boot on schedule. But this would be a somewhat inelegant solution after all.

Yes. it is set to GMT + 8.

Switching off NPT did not fix the problem sadly