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Hi @JorgeB, Is there any particular risk in updating also the UEFI like this (without erasing anything) from a Windows machine? I feel more confident in flashing those cards from a Windows environment and later to move the card to the Unraid server sas3flash.exe -o -f SAS9300-16i_IT.bin -b mptsas3.rom -b mpt3x64.rom Thank you!

have you already tried to reboot the server after installing the plugin? Initially it wasn't working on my server too, but after a reboot the plugin started working fine and since then I had no issue!

what do you mean exactly? I cannot understand... This plugin just adds the possibility to spin down SAS drives too, because Unraid natively supports spin down only for SATA drives... But the spinning down mechanism once you've installed this plugin is the same...

imho that's what spin down mechanism is meant to be and to do... it's a stort of "standby" and then when you access those drives they spin up again until when due to inactivity (aka "Default spin down delay" setting in Settings > disk settings) occurs again they spin down again and so on!

any idea @JorgeB? Thanks for your help!

Hello, since a couple of days, I started noticing a couple of issues on my server: when I edit a share, it takes a long time to restart services and so on Cannot do a graceful shutdown, even if I increased the timeout from 90s to 300s Plex stopped transcoding correctly. Instead of using GPU, it freezes or uses CPU, but keeping GPU used as well Also terminal windows doesn't show up correctly anymore and I have to refresh the page to get it working Thanks for your kind help! Here are attached my diagnostic report and Plex configuration as well. Terminal endys-diagnostics-20230310-0254.zip

I've installed SAS spindown on my Unraid 6.11.5 and it works fine. I just have to say initially it wasn't working at all then I just reinstalled the plugin and rebooted the server and since then it started working perfectly... I'd just suggest to reinstall and reboot the server, then try to spin down a SAS drive while the syslog is open and you should see something as follows. Btw, the log you've to check is this one. PS I don't know for other users if it's the same, but some drives' models require more time to spin down, but it's not a problem for sure... Here I tried to spin up and then spin down all the drives, you can test if everything works doing the same. I'm really thankful to the creator of this plugin, I have 8 SAS drives in my build and I'm constantly saving 80w!

try disabling other dockers, sut down VMs, ensure mover is not running and make sure you're not accessing the drives from elsewhere during the benchmark... This is the main reason why speed gap detection occurs. By the way, I still get that alert but with that box flagged, the test continues anyway.

I got that alert too, I just disabled flagging the correct box and no other issue appeared after...

Guys for anyone having the issue of some HDD models recognized as SSD, I found a temporary fix: rollback to version 2.10. How to do that? Just edit the docker settings and set this field as follows: if the issue still persists, just remove the docker, delete the following folder "/mnt/user/appdata/DiskSpeed/" or wherever you've saved the app data of this docker, then when you reinstall the docker, set the repository field as "jbartlett777/diskspeed:2.10". In the future, when the bug will be fixed you'll just have to edit the docker again and set the repository to pull the latest version as follows: "jbartlett777/diskspeed". Hope this will help!

Unfortunately, it seems recently some HDD models get recognized as SSD and I'm unable to bench them...

just to be sure 100% have you configured as follows? Mount script example (to be scheduled when array starts): mkdir -p /mnt/disks/google rclone mount --max-read-ahead 1024k --allow-other google: /mnt/disks/google & Unmount script (to be scheduled when the array stops): fusermount -u /mnt/disks/google and to sync Google to your share (i.e. "Google_local"). This can be scheduled every 24h or whenever you wanna sync google data with your local data. rsync -a -v -P /mnt/disks/google/* /mnt/user/Google_local/

nice, I'll try that solution too! I tested mine one at the moment in the meanwhile with another account where there's no important data and it seems it works without any issue!

thank you, that's a very nice and super safe idea! 🙌

Hello everyone, my intention is to use a share of Unraid that I called "Dropbox_local" to make a local copy of the whole content of my dropbox account (1.2 TB). I've installed Rclone plugin and created the "dropbox" connection, then I've authorized it and I can successfully read the content. Now, I want to schedule a job, using "User Scripts" every 2h and I want to be sure there 100% of probability it won't delete ANY file on my Dropbox account. would this do the job? rclone sync dropbox: /mnt/user/Dropbox_local Thank you everyone!🙌 P.S. I'm sorry if I can seem to be a bit paranoic, but in Dropbox there's my whole life, so it's extremely important to be sure 100% not to delete any file! 😅

Hi everyone! I've just completed again a parity check, but it seems the report is wrong, as it says the size was 30.2 Mb... I checked from time to time while it was working live and it completed all 4TB of sectors' check... Also notification that comes out is wrong as it hasn't been cancelled, but it completed without any issue! Thank you all for the help! endys-diagnostics-20221130-1517.zip

any idea? @JorgeB Thank you!

Hello everyone, I got 4 new drives for my Unraid server, then I decided to move all the data from a drive to another one to avoid defragmentation operation, but it seems the new drive has already a very high fragmentation... How is that possible? I just finished moving data from the old drive few hours ago and I did nothing else in the new drive! To move the files I used Dynamix File Manager, I don't know if it matters, but I think it was worth mentioning. Btw, you can see some parts are already defragmented just beacuse I've initially aborted doing Ctrl+C after few mins and started again... How much time is required in your opinion to defrag 3.8 TB of data on a 4 TB drive (Seagate Constellation ES.3 ST4000NM0023 attached to LSI SAS 9211-8i)? Thank you!

I installed the plugin 2 days ago (Unraid 6.11.5) and it wasn't working at all, then I just rebooted the server and magically it started working without any issue. Thank you so much for your work, really appreciate it! 🙌 Btw, I'm using a mix of SAS and SATA drive, SAS drives spin down perfectly like SATA ones, both for inactivity (set at 15 mins) and when asked manually too, no issue at all! SAS drives are recognized as NETAPP X477_SMEGX04TA07 in Unraid, but in reality they are Seagate Constellation ES.3 ST4000NM0023 (most probably they've been rebranded by Netapp).

@ConnerVT thank you for that! Unfortunately I don't have any M2 slot on the mobo, and my pci-e slots are full so I can't put any M2 drive in my build... I had 3 pci-e slot on my Supermicro X10SLL-F: 1x pci 8x in a 16x slot where I put my Nvidia Quadro P620 for Plex 1x pci slot 8x in 8x slot where I put LSI SAS 9211-8i 1x pcie 4x in a 8x slot where I put my Mellanox 10 gbe eth card... So the only solution for me was to use sata ssd and now I set the cache pool as raid-0 to enhance the performances...

@JorgeB it seems the problem was due to the Kingston SA400 SSD, with Samsung SSDs speed is fine... Now I've just another problem: SSD temperature... It seems they get hot while transferring files... What's a good threshold value? Thank you!

Ok thank you so much, I'll probably try also configuring the cache pool as RAID-0 instead of RAID-1 then, so that the backup time of my PC will decrease a lot...

@JorgeB does the fact SSDs are in a pool of 2 identical drives affect the speed? If there would be only 1 of them would it go faster? Thank you

@JorgeB any advice for a better SSD? I'm looking for Crucial MX 500 or BX 500 or Samsung 870 Evo, but at this point I wanna be sure I'll get a decent drive before getting something not good again... Thank you!