Bladefire999

I have just lost half my data. TLDR; The power went off, I have a UPS and I had it set to turn off as soon as the power is lost, but as it turns out the setting had reverted to the shutdown with 10 min remaining and it must have cut. When it started up some disks didn't mount properly?? I have 7 with 5 and 2 parity. 3 drives were not mounting, i managed to get 5 mounted 3 disks and the 2 parity and did a parity check and it passed. I thought cool my data is good, however I couldn't access 2 of the emulated drives which was a bit odd but i thought that must be how it is as it was a while ago that i tested a failure out. I then re added the 2 disks in expecting it to come up as rebuild, it came up with check parity but it had write to parity checked. In my memory I thought it was supposed to say rebuild disks or something to that extent but I assumed i was mis-remembering it and it would just rebuild the disks from parity. anyway after i did it all the disks were active so i thought it was working but after it finished there was still no file system and I couldn't access the data on the drives. So I'm not sure what happened but 2 of my disks that were full are gone and i'm not sure what unraid was doing. I think it could have not started the array if disks were missing initially. It could have been more clear about exactly what it was doing when it was resetting my parity, i didnt want that i didnt want it to touch parity. maybe even have options to write lock drives in fail modes or the user can lock them. that way i know if i try something my data is safe. All my super blocks were gone. Was that the power failure or was that unraid when it started up? Seems like I would have been better off with ZFS because this is the exact scenario that I picked unraid for and it didn't work. Any advice as to what happened? So I can avoid it in the future.

I'm trying to change a port on my homarr docker. I want a custom ip and port 80 so i can DNS name it so my wife can remember. If i change to a custom network it wont let me change the port, any ideas?

You could get a gen 3 m.2 for half that price and likely not notice a difference. intel stock fans are fine for that cpu if it has one. probably dont need the noctua. usually you can get ddr4 3200 or 3600 for nearly the same price as 2666. if you drop the ssd and noctua you might be able to get a i5 13400 for a similar total.

Neat little build. Bit of thought gone into making it compact.

I had an 8700k and now have an 13600k and the difference is huge. the single core performance was struggling in the 8700k. the 13600k can overclock the p cores to 13700k levels quite easy. you could keep the 9700 as the unraid and have a dedicated pc.

Do you want new? I'm not much of an expert but: -the i5 13600/13400 is a beast and has a heap of cores for vms and good for plex- if you want ZFS maybe the 7700 amd because of error correcting ram. -get 32gig of ram probably min for vms -a motherboard with expansion slots -18tb is kinda overkill, 8tb seems to be the sweet spot at the moment. depending on how much parity you want and the size, a big drive can be very expensive. in your case use the 12 as parity as its the biggest and you end up with 6gb(2x 3tb drives) of space. then you can get 1 8tb drives for an extra 8 then add it when you need. In my opinion this can be safer as if the drive is failing you don't have to empty 18tb and you only need to buy 8 as you need. 300w is probably ok but borderline if you do something intense in a vm. im fairly new to this tho so with a grain of salt. Edit: something else to think of you can buy old servers off ebay that have everything and a rack mount case for that price, eventually you might want to rack mount your home lab if your like me. they are cheap can have 24 cores and 128gb ram with 10 hot swap hdd bays, but they can be noisy/use power and are a few years old.

I use my server as a backup to light room. I import all my files directly to my share that's mapped. The catalog references the share drive. The catalog is local and I just backup each time I exit. This way its very fast as its not using the files much.