Barnoe

I've been running a HP proliant G7 DL165 server for many years mostly with Unrain on it and although it's been used for my things its main day to day use has been as a Plex server for friends and family. Its common that i get 3 or 4 people streaming at a time and truth be told the server has been struggling for some time. Years back films would be small files and as quality got better the files are bigger and a few people log in using Playstations with cause the server to transcode the video most of the time the fans spin up and it sounds like an helicopter is in the house (some on here will relate lol) So my question is what do i replace it with. I was looking at the Synology stuff but that would mean moving away from Unraid and re formatting the 4HDD i have in my current setup. I'm a little out of touch with how NAS servers have progressed, what are peoples recommendations these days for a 4-6 bay NAS with good Unraid performance.

@WN1X thanks to you i looked at the download history in Chrome. I could see this.... I clicked the 3 dots Download insecure file.... BOOM its in downloads completed 👍 Hope this helps someone else at a later date.

Hi everyone, I've not been able to upgrade the Unraid OS for a while, the flash USB is too small. The USB i stupidly used was a 2GB stick, and ive got away with until recently. I've just ordered a 32GB USB3 sandisk stick to replace it with. So before Amazon deliver that tomorrow i thought id grab a backup of the current one ready. i click on the backup button and it says backing up, after a few minutes it stops... in my download folder i have a Unconfirmed 835970.crdownload file i've tried several times now its always the same? Like i say i will be using this to restore to the new stick tomorrow, and then i can upgrade my OS

Update: I noticed there was a new unraid OS to upgrade too, since i did this 2 weeks ago all has been fine? so it was either a bug with the last OS or a coincidence and by upgrading its overwritten some bad data. Fingers crossed its been running great since.

in the last 2 weeks i've been woken twice to my server (HP Proliant) fans screaming away. i opened my laptop to login to the GUI and cannot login in... its like Unraid is offline. with no other option i've had to pull the plug on the server. After reboot it gives the unclean shutdown as you would expect and starts a parity check. no new software has been installed in this time and i am at a loss to what causes this? After the first time i put it down to computers misbehaving as they sometimes do, but a second time has me worried, anyone got an idea or something i can check?

So all was working well. and i decided to add a cach drive, so bought a SSD for this purpose. All worked fine for a while... about 6 months When i log in now i regularly see these sector errors, it started with 1 or 2 but its getting more, its now 13 (unlucky for some) i have my appdata primary storage as the cache same with downloads then moved to array after download and unpacking etc whats my options Do i change appdata and downloads back to array. unmount and format the cache drive and re mount or something else? obviously if it persists i will have to get a new SSD and bin this thing lol

I have installed Lidarr on my docker. to start with no problems. Then when i checked Appdata folder for Lidarr it has a folder called "MediaCover" with all the artwork for albums etc. i dont want this filling up my appdata i would prefer it on the array inside my music folder when i do this Lidarr breaks... losing all setting etc. Why the artwork isnt stored inside the folder for the album is beyond me? as it stands Data Dir: = /mnt/cache/appdata/lidarr Music: = /mnt/user/Music/ Downloads: = /mnt/user/Downloads/ is there a workaround?

This fixed the problem Many thanks JorgeB 👍

I have run NEW CONFIG and now waiting for the parity rebuild. Its gonna take a while I didnt check "parity is already valid" as i figured i need to do a parity run anyway, its been a month!

Upgraded to v6.11.5, still the same When i log in after boot i still see this.

diagnostics attached titan-diagnostics-20230501-1118.zip

My Server has been running without problem for over a year. a parity drive and 3 storage HDD I decided this week to add a cache drive and bought a 512gb SSD I installed it and formatted it, used MOVER and moved appdata and docker etc all went well. I shut the server down and re booted, normally after about 4-5mins the array is online. This wasn't working so i logged in and array was offline The cache drive tried to add itself as Disk 4 in the array? I clicked disk 4 and chose unassigned, then automatically the cache drive appear in Pool as cache again? Start the array manually all ok. Unless i reboot the server and then its offline again Anybody got an idea why it wont remember to just startup as a cache drive in pool?

My server is now on version 1.19.1 all those using PS4 can log in again, 1 person is on Xbox and cant. He says his client version on Xbox is 1.19.5 so wont let him join Any ideas?

Got Syncthing on both server, working well. just tried downloading a file and it instantly synced nice one 👍

Because the server that runs 24 hrs a day uses 10w the main server uses 500 to 600w The 10w server only has a single drive in it (4tb) but is perfect to leave running during the night and day when im at work downloading and giving me access to my local network remotely While the mains server running unraid has 16TB and is obviously more powerful for when im at home. Ive been using the sync tool on Krusader which works great but has to be manually set off. Thanks Aran i will try syncthing