Felixen

I recently built my first unraid server and I bought this card from amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Original-9211-8i-FreeNAS-unRAID-6Gbps/dp/B082HKNCVD/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=LSI+SAS+9211-8i&qid=1643110828&sr=8-4 Together with these forward breakout cables: https://www.amazon.com/OIKWAN-SFF-8087-High-Speed-Interconnects-Server/dp/B088GX3H87/ref=rvi_3/138-4887940-8524609?pd_rd_w=Dta6x&pf_rd_p=f5690a4d-f2bb-45d9-9d1b-736fee412437&pf_rd_r=GKEN843CXZVDQMGV1FT4&pd_rd_r=a3af2d0a-4f6d-4e53-af0a-75687cfc2782&pd_rd_wg=mxPmi&pd_rd_i=B088GX3H87&psc=1 For me it worked fine right out of the box. HBA-card needs to be in IT mode and cables needs to be forward breakout. The one i linked came in IT mode out of the box, as stated. Just my 5 cents.

The Fractal Design Define 7XL seems to be popular and versatile for mounting a lot of drives. https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/define/define-7-xl/black/

You can always try it out before you decide if you have the hardware available. I spent a week trying out everything i wanted to be able to do with a trial-license before I made my decision. With the Alder-Lake cpu there is some success using the igpu for transcoding but I haven't researched igpu passthrough. As I understand the kernel needs to get to 5.15 or above to fully support 12th gen intel. The successful tests were made with 6.10-rc2. I went with an 11th gen and in my case everything works fine. Just my 5 cents

Thanks for your reply. I went with the LSI card. Placed orders during the weekend so all my parts should show up during this week.

Hi, New to unraid but have browsed hardware quite a bit. Some motherboards makes one onboard SATA-port unavailable when you use specific m2-slots on the motherboard. Don't know if this can be your case?

Hello, New here and new to unraid and is planning to do a build that will replace my QNAP-nas. I read the thread about recommended controllers and I have found these two: https://www.amazon.com/Original-9211-8i-FreeNAS-unRAID-6Gbps/dp/B082HKNCVD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=YLO48H0LQCM2&keywords=Original+LSI+9211-8i+P20+IT+Mode+for+ZFS+FreeNAS+unRAID+6Gbps+SAS+HBA&qid=1643356638&sprefix=original+lsi+9211-8i+p20+it+mode+for+zfs+freenas+unraid+6gbps+sas+hba%2Caps%2C257&sr=8-1#customerReviews https://www.amazon.com/FebSmart-Expansion-System-ASMedia-Controller-FS-S6-Pro/dp/B097LRH36J/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3V587X3CJP9SE&keywords=asmedia%2Basm1166&qid=1643357212&sprefix=asmedia%2Caps%2C146&sr=8-3&th=1 From what I can tell the chipset on these two devices are in the good to go list but would love to hear input about these two and any other recommendation. For MB I have landed on ASUS PRIME Z590M-PLUS where I plan to add two m2-sticks for cache and vm/docker. CPU will most likely be a Intel Core i7 11700K 3.6 GHz,16MB. Thnx in advance! // F

If it's just now and then try to copy paste the character you want to use. Have worked for me in various console / serial terminals. Of course not for the long haul but as a quick-fix it should do the trick.

Hi, Just a basic check since you have changed router in one place. The new router will probably assign different internal ip's from your old router and if you have really bad luck this can cause ip conflicts with your docker network. Do you have any static configured of IP's or routes in your setup? That could also cause network problems if you change ip's internally. Just my two cents Good luck! // Felix

Thank you for your reply! I'm leaning on sticking with the 12th gen cpu as you suggest. Since I have a GTX 1660 card on the shelf it would do my hw-transcode with no problem from what I can read. Since MB and CPU will be new parts I kind of like to go for as new as possible. Btw do you know any issues with 12th gen intel and docker or virtual servers? The VM's won't be for gaming or anything, just a win srv for mixed stuff and a win 10 which is my 'jump host' where I offload apps that I need now and again but don't want on my regular computer So low resource no fancy stuff.

Greetings, New member here and I have been browsing the forums and done a fair bit of google searches but I still have so many questions but I'll start with a few basic ones. Having two old Qnap NAS looking for replacement I got a tip about unraid and this seems to fit my need perfectly. My usecase will be file, a few VM's (win srv 2016, win7?!, and win10), docker and mediaserver (plex server). My first main question is about MB/CPU combos and hw trascoding in Plex with igpu or gfx-card. So first I was looking at: ASUS PRIME B660M-A D4 Intel Core i7 12700K 3.6 GHz 25MB My initial thought was trying out embedded igpu for transcoding but now I understand this is not fully supported yet by kernel. What if I throw in a ASUS GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB DUAL EVO OC gfx-card to use for transcoding would my choice of cpu work for my other needs or should I back my cpu to a Intel Core i7 11700KF 3.6 GHz,16MB? Or do I need to go further back to 10th gen? From what I read I understand that with the 11th gen I can try out igpu hw-transcode first and add gfx-card later if cpu is not enough? If I want to stay on the stable path of releases which gen of cpu would you go with? I have no probs throwing in a gfx-card for transcoding if it means a newer gen cpu is possible. Still in planning mode so nothing is decided yet and most options are open Thnx in advance! // Felix