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  1. That's sadly kinda unfortunate then. But, thank you very much for your quick reply! So, I guess if I ever want to make it more secure I would have to give the share access users names that are not easily guessable.
  2. Hey everyone, I encountered something strange with the username and password authentication of shares in Windows 11. I always set all my shares to private so you have to enter the username and password of the specific share access user. I set up my laptop with fresh Windows 11 installation and wanted to add all my shares as network drives and surprisingly didn't have to authenticate myself with username and password. Therefore I went to my Unraid webinterface and checked the settings to see if it was really set to private and only certain users could access the shares via smb. After a little test I found out that whenever the Windows userprofile had the same name as the share access user I don't have to authenticate myself, but when the name is different it asks me to enter a username and password. Did I miss a setting, is this normal or not supposed to happen? Because like this I would have to make sure, that the share access users have special names.
  3. Hey chsvfr, very interesting I think I saw it too once when I checked for all the compact low power boards with J processors, but always sticked with the ones that had 4 Sata connectors. I also saw some low power server boards but they were way to expensive. Yeah, all these boards you sadly can't upgrade, but I guess even when you get a normal mainboard and cpu you probably won't upgrade into the same gen usually, since you should already know beforehand how much performance you will need and stick with that until a new mainboard and cpu gen. I don't know if you saw it, but I already went with the J5040 in a Node 304 case a few days ago and spent the whole weekend setting up my first Unraid server. So far the J5040 seems perfect for what I want to do with the machine, it can run several dockers without no problem it seems, file transfers always hit gigabit speed, even without cache drive used and it is even good enough for running a Windows VM and Plex, while hopefully not using too much energy during idle. You are right about trying to use the least amount of drives as possible that is why I plan to get like 2x 4TB or 8TB drives as data drives. Right now I am running it with 2x2TB data drives 1x4TB parity drive 1x500GB SSD for cache and everything works fine, like dockers and vms are on the cache so the drives spindown when not being used and only the ssd has to run, protecting the hdds from mechanical wear over time. Therefore thank you very much again for your feedback and helping me out deciding for a build. --------------------- For others, who might be researching for low power builds too. My current Unraid build: Power Supply: Be quiet! Pure Power 11 FM 550 Watt 80+ Gold Modular BN317 Parity Drive: Seagate IronWolf 4TB HDD ST4000VNZ06 Data HDDs: 2TB WD Green (WD20EZRX) & 2TB WD Red (WD20EFRX) SSD Cache: 500GB Samsung 850 EVO RAM: Corsair Vengeance SODIMM 16GB (1x16GB) DDR4 2666MHz CL18 Case: Fractal Design Node 304 black CPU & Mainboard: ASRock J5040-ITX Mini-ITX Mainboard Intel Quad-Core J5040 Power consumption: Idle all drives, except cache spun down: ~12W Idle all drives, spun up: ~20W High usage (70%+ CPU usage): around ~30W Temperature: CPU Idle: ~35°C 100% CPU load: ~75°C HDDs: ~35°C
  4. Thank you very much for your reply and for sharing your experiences with the different builds! Out of all your examples the J5040 looks very promising power consumption wise, especially when the drives are not spinning, since that will have a big impact over time. All the other ones sadly look like they use way too much for my taste, which would be kinda expensive over a year to run 24/7. I also thought about my build again from time to time and I think my current plan would be to add 2x2TB drives (the ones I currently use) and 1x4TB parity (to be able to replace my 2TB with 4TB ones in the future) + cache drive of unknown size to use the least amout of drives to save more energy. I also had another thought for later to maybe try to reduce it even more to 1x8TB drive and 1xTB parity + cache to save even more energy, but not sure if that would be actually worth it, power consumption wise. But yeah I would probably take the J5040 with the 4 Sata ports, since I don't really plan to add any PCIE cards for now, since it would also be my first build. I would probably then also get a small real PSU with 350Watts or something small as possible but modular, so I don't have a huge cable mess. Do you or anyone else reading this know, if there are any modern versions of the J5040 already got released or will be released in the future? Because it is a bit old by now and I wonder if they maybe released new J CPUs and boards like that with better performance maybe.
  5. Hey everyone, I am new to Unraid and would like to build my first new little low power server to mainly use as a NAS. Currently I am just using a FritzNas, which is way too slow and can only handle like 1 or 2 drives, since it runs over a FritzBox router and was never really meant to be used as a NAS. That is why I was always planning to get a real one and came across Unraid years ago, which offers much more than a prebuild NAS like Synology, QNAP etc. My Budget would be around 450€ without Unraid included. My plan for now is to use: HDDs: 2x2TB WD Blue drives that I already have & use with a USB HDD docking station (and back up with another 2x2TB by using FreeFileSync) Parity: 1x 2TB or up to 6TB parity drive to be able to replace my old 2TB drives with bigger ones in the future, if needed. (Needs to be bought) Cache: 1x 500GB Samsung 850 Evo SSD I have laying around as cache drive But of course it should have room to maybe add a second parity and second cache drive for more protection + 1 or 2 more data drives if needed in the future. The system should mainly be used as a NAS and streaming videos to my TV. Besides that I plan to run a few dockers and one VM here and there, so it shouldn't be too slow for that, while consuming the lowest amount of energy that's possible to avoid high cost when running it 24/7 here in Germany. I was already researching builds myself and came across two potential builds: Build 1: CPU & Mainboard: ASRock J5040-ITX J5040 Gemini lake Refresh RAM: 32GB G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4-2666 CL18 SO-Dimm Case: Fractal Design Node 804 Power Supply: Pico Power Supply / Modular 400 Watt Be Quiet! System Power 9 CM Modular 80+ Bronze (Kinda scared to use a Pico PSU, that's why I would prefer a normal one, even though it uses a little more power) HDD: 2TB HDD Planned to be bought later: SSD: 500GB Samsung 870 Evo (As second cache drive) PCIe Expansion Card: PCIe to Sata Expansion Card (For more than 4 drives later on) Build 2: CPU: Intel Core i3 10100 Mainboard: ASRock B560M Pro4 RAM: 16GB G.Skill Aegis DDR4-2666 CL19 Case: Fractal Design Node 804 Power Supply: Modular 400 Watt Be Quiet! System Power 9 CM Modular 80+ Bronze HDD: 2TB HDD Planned to be bought later: SSD: 500GB Samsung 870 Evo (As second cache drive) RAM: Another 16GB (to complete 32GB) The price for both builds is around the same +- 10-20€ and lays within my budget of 450€. If you have any advice for alternative builds, please feel free to share them. My big question is if the J5040 build is enough and the only way to archieve low power usage or if the more powerful i3 10100 would also be possible with similar power usage, since I have seen people got it down to similar idle usage, when making use of the different c states. I hope people here on this forum with more experience about Unraid builds and low power consumption can help me out with finding a proper solution and I want to thank everyone who is helping out in advance for their advices and help.