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Add another one to the not working list. I'm on unraid 7.0.1 and had a recent brown-out that power cycled my unraid server. Similar to others above, all I get now is: I've restarted the plugin & the server a few times and it still won't work.

Thanks for the suggestions. For me, kind of on the fence between the reliability of the supermicro enterprise board vs some of the Asus boards below, mainly the ProArt board because of the dual 2.5Gb & 10Gb lan ports built in. In case anyone finds this via Google or other means, was able to find more motherboards that can do x8/x8 PCIe once I dialed in my search terms: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/c9z790-cg (Difference here is the Z790 chipset vs the W680 suggested above.) https://www.asus.com/us/motherboards-components/motherboards/proart/proart-z790-creator-wifi/techspec/ ATX https://rog.asus.com/us/motherboards/rog-maximus/rog-maximus-z790-hero-model/spec/ ATX https://rog.asus.com/us/motherboards/rog-maximus/rog-maximus-z790-apex-model/spec/ ATX https://rog.asus.com/us/motherboards/rog-maximus/rog-maximus-z790-formula/spec/ ATX https://rog.asus.com/us/motherboards/rog-maximus/rog-maximus-z790-extreme-model/spec/ E-ATX https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z790 Taichi/#Specification E-ATX https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/IMB-X1714 ATX https://www.gigabyte.com/Enterprise/Server-Motherboard/MW34-SP0-rev-11#Specifications ATX Make sure to measure if you try and use the E-ATX boards, server chassis usually won't be able to hold them. All of the above are around the same price range as of now.

Background: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/x11spl-f Page 8-10 of the manual has the PCIe layout. I am currently using slot 4 & 6 which says they are both PCIe 3.0 x8 (in x16). Both of these slots are being used by two LSI 9305-16i cards. CPU: Xeon Silver 4210 RAM: 64GB DDR4 ECC Chassis can hold 30 drives. I currently have 22 drives, 2 of those are parity. Disks are XFS, no ZFS is being used or being considered in the future. Have had this setup for about 3 years and it’s worked well for just me on my local network for Plex direct play (my server serves no other purpose beyond Plex) of 1080p & 4K content. However, I’m about to add family members for remote access, and likely to run into transcoding. I’d like to move to a newer Intel CPU that has iGPU for HW transcoding (as well as lower the power consumption a bit), thinking about i5-14600k. My main question is about the HBA cards. As stated above, they’re using PCIe 3.0 x8 (in x16) on the supermicro. However, with the LGA1700 socket for the i5 CPU, I can’t find any motherboards that have two PCIe slots that operate at or even near that level (I’m thinking about getting the msi pro z790-p or msi b760 gaming). From what I can find on pcpartpicker, it’s usually 1 full x16 slot (for graphics cards), 1 x4 slot, and then either a bunch of x1 slots or a bunch of x16 slots that only operate at x1 speeds. Are there really no consumer motherboards that have at least two PCIe slots that operate at x8 lane speeds in the LGA1700 socket? TL;DR - Am I worrying to much about PCIe lane speeds for my purposes?

I don't use those utilities, only Windows explorer. I set it to "Split any directory as required" and it's now using the other drives. It would be helpful though if in the Unraid UI when you click on the split level to bring up the blue info section, it would say right in there that the split level takes precedence over both the minimum free space & the allocation method and also gave the same link itimpi gave.

How would that be possible though with multiple files of different sizes? Say I have 10 movies I'm copying over, all 10 are different sizes. Splitting at the top level (just the folder they are in, nothing else is inside the folder except the MKV file), why wouldn't it stop when a single file goes over the limit? Moreover, why is splitting at the top level even an option if we can't use it like this? I shouldn't be forced to use "Split at any level" as my only choice for multiple drives in a share.

See attached for settings. Have a new basic install of Unraid (up to date) and a basic user share for Media. Problem 1: It's not respecting the "Minimum free space" allocation. It fills the entire first drive up. Problem 2: When copying a list of files via Windows explorer (I have the share mapped to a network drive), it gives the error not enough space and it won't write to any of the other drives that are a part of the share. I've repeatedly deleted the extra files filling up the space and tried altering the free space followed by a server reboot but it never respects the setting and still won't write to the other drives like it should be. media1-diagnostics-20221002-0915.zip