Shahmatt

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

I have this problem where my BIOS time sets to GMT + 0 from the correct GMT + 8 whenever my UNRAID OS enters sleep mode. The date in BIOS is correct and it's not a motherboard or battery issue because 1. I've changed the battery and 2. The date does not reset. I have set up my server to Sleep at night and use a BIOS setting to wake it up in the morning. However because of the time change to minus 8 hours it doesn't wake. Fixing the time in BIOS doesn't help as after Sleep BIOS goes back to GMT + 0. Could UNRAID be fixing my BIOS time? If so what should I do? I found a setting called NPT in the date/ time menu and set that to off. Will test it overnight. Would this make a difference?

Thanks for the comment. Will look at 6th gen options.

I am only trying to optimize the hardware I already have. I think for additional redundancy and power savings I could look at lower Watt PSUs (which will have higher efficiency within the range). Also will try to source a passive heatsink.

Ignore my question on the cache drive as some reading provided the answer. I've set syncthing share to disk1 and cache to Yes. So any syncing will only activate the SSD and the HDD will spin up only with Mover once a day. I've disabled the case fan and changed the CPU fan governor again to let the system and CPU run a bit hotter. I now seem to be idling at 27 to 30 Watts. I guess this is alright for now. As a last step I will look into undervolting this CPU when I have time. Thanks for the help.

Thanks for your reply. I forgot to mention I do have a cache drive. It is a 64GB Crucial M4 SSD. I have moved appdata and system files to it. Since I am only using the Syncthing docker container I believe this should be efficient. I have adjusted the CPU fan governor. It now runs on lowest speed and temperature is less than 50C. Power consumption still remains in the late 30s. I have setup S3 sleep mode and enabled a scheduled wake event. When in S3 the power drops to about 1.5W. On a previous instance I had BIOS set to S1 sleep and the power dropped from 40 to 20 Watts. So from this I guess the drives 3 HDDs + 1 SSD consume 40 - 20 Watts = 20 Watts of power. Since Syncthing is my only running docker I set it to run a syncronize event every 3 hours. I have also now set the disks to spin down after 15 mins of inactivity. As I am posting I am waiting for the disks to spin down. I am also measuring total cumulative power in kWh. I will do this for a day to estimate my annual bills. Question: I have syncthing running from a cache drive but the share folder used for file sync is on disk1 HDD. Should I set this share folder to Prefer Cache instead? Is the job of mover to update the contents of cache to disk1 according to a schedule?

My recently built UNRAID server has the following hardware: 1. Intel i3-2100 on Biostar TZ68a+ board 2. 4GB DDR2 RAM 3. 1x4TB Toshiba S300 HDWT740 + 2x1TB WD Red WD10EFRX 4. FSP Aurum 400W Gold PSU 5. I run one case fan and one CPU fan With the exception of the Toshiba drive, all other hardware are at least 7 years old. On first setup the idle power drain was around 45 to 50 Watts. I've managed to whittle that down to around 35 to 40 Watts after using Powertop, activating ASPM in BIOS and enabling all C states, and disabling Audio according to this thread: One thing that did not work was the i-gpu driver from CA. The Intel-iGPU-TOP plugin installed (and power draw dropped by about 4 Watts) but I lost my display as a result. I'm guessing the drop in power was simply due to an iGPU no longer operating. I also tried changing CPU governor to powersave but that didn't seem to make a perceptible difference. As a next step I'm thinking about going with a passive heatsink for the CPU. That might save between 1 and 4 Watts, but it's not much of a dent really. Is there anything else I could try doing? 35 to 40 Watts is really too much and could add quite a bit to the power bills.