burtjr

I can't think of a time these were at this price point, and I was very tempted by to pull the string, but would end up having a drive laying around the house for some time as I won't need another for some time.

Like saarg stated it's more of a safety item. almost no filtering qualities at all, but will collect dust and will need to be cleaned periodically.

I can't answer your actual question as I haven't used a laptop for Unraid, but my server beeps on shutdown or restart and is the internal speaker. You probably would need to disable the sound in the laptops bios.

It sounds like you will want to run a windows VM, doing a quick internet search the processor doesn't support VT-d. You can make sure here https://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/UnRAID_Manual_6#Virtualization_Host_2 If I was wrong and you system can support VM's, you will want to start your search here, there's a large amount of video's that will walk you through the process. Gridrunner has put a huge amount of work into these and have help many new Unraiders' through the process. As long as your hardware is up to par, and you virtualize you should be able to have everything you want.

I use this, and I like it. Currently I have 7 drives, I currently have 2 of these https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16816215343 I can fit a total of 4 3x5 cages for a total of 20 hot swap drives. I haven't taken the time to look inside the case, but with the drive sizes increasing I have little need for 20 drives these days.

I would also look at this thread as I see your using the new AMD Ryzen. Paul and everyone else have been doing extensive testing with freezing issues and have made some headway with the problem.

I'm in agreement with tdallen that you may not be happy with performance. Can I ask why you want to dump your cache? Are you running out of drive space? If so it may be a better option to increase drive size as needed.

The only thing that I saw is that your getting the "webGui/include/Notify.php: missing csrf_token" about every 1.5 minutes. I'm not sure if that will impact parity check performance. This means you have a page from some device (phone, other computer)open to unraid and not refreshed.

Here you go ash http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Console#To_cleanly_Stop_the_array_from_the_command_line

Putty works with Win10

If the GUI isn't available you can type diagnostic after you log into Unraid at the command prompt as post the diagnostic zip file.

Have you tried accessing through different browsers and see if the problem follows? Post your diagnostics zip file tools diagnostics.

Welcome to Unraid Slin. I'm not sure what your asking, but will take a stab that your posting what you have and wondering if it should work. Based on the limited information it should work fine for file server, but you'll probably limited on the VM side. I would imagine that your recycling your sever? If your drives have been around for a while I would run a smart check on the drives at a minimum before loading your critical data on them. If you can provide more detail on your hardware, and any questions you have you should get plenty of help. -Burt

As long as your pointing plex to the user shares in /mnt/user should be no issues.

I don't know how to fix the error, but looking through your system logs, there were spammed by USB errors like this and others "Tower kernel: usb 5-1: device not accepting address 100, error". Looks like on more than one device. I'm sure one our experts will chime in and get you on the right path for correction.

Normally it's not a pain, but some boards are extremely picky. it is usually a good practice to buy matching sets. If you don't need it now I would recommend buying what you need and upgrade later.

The below thread seems to answer your problem moving your trial to a new thumb drive. https://forums.lime-technology.com/topic/56354-migrate-trial-to-new-usb-key/

I use Kodi on my Nvidia Shield and love it. I too spin my drives down so there's a delay, but I can change that if I wish.

Google the below, there are a few threads that should walk you through the problem /dev/md1 on /mnt/disk1 failed: Structure needs cleaning unraid

I would add to Squids post that it depends on what format you have your media saved on your server. I burn all my movies to the disc format (VOB) and would have to convert them to another format like MKV for Plex to see them. I currently just use Kodi and stream from there. Plex is a good solution if you already burn to a compatible format.

What motherboard do you have? From the research I've done it could be how you have it set to boot in the bios. Are you sure the bios is setup to boot from the USB thumb drive first?

Not sure if this would cause what you seeing, but you have numerous of the below type in your syslog "Mar 29 20:32:12 Small shfs/user: err: shfs_mkdir: mkdir: /mnt/disk2/Private/Shlomi/Pictures (1)/Archive/Aviva/2016-07-01 (28) No space left on device" On a side note, looking at your smart report at some time in the past some of your drives were operating in the 50C range. If recent you might want to look at improving airflow.

I could not get consistent transfer speed with balance-rr. From what I have read all equipment needs to be compatible. Play around with the others and see which gives you the best throughput. I ended up using balance-alb as it provided the most consistent throughput for me with bonding. I haven't done any testing to see if the bonding is providing any benefit over a single nic.

it would help for the recommendation if we knew what version of the gen 8 you have as it will help with the recommendation, but in general with the limited needs you have currently and not needing to upgrade anytime soon, I would think the exact opposite, with ZFS being a memory hog, and if I remember right you need 2 of your 4 disks to mirror your zpool, although not sure on that one as it's been awhile since I played with ZFS. I do know some single core processors struggle with version 6 of Unraid, but you shouldn't have that problem. I would recommend looking through the forums as there are many with microservers using Unraid and that could help in your decision process. ~Burt

There are various reasons some are using them. They are used if the Ethernet dies on your motherboard, and they don't want to swap out the whole motherboard, or you have a Ethernet connection that is flaky or straight up has issues with Unraid. There has been reported problems with some Realtech chips. Some are trying out the new 10G Ethernet. Hopefully that is what your looking for.