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I have all parts gathered and I was ready to build. Someone made a comment to me that my CPU is overkill (power hog and slower than modern CPU's). They recommended I get a 12th or 13th gen CPU and a new board to match. My current part list is as follows: CPU: Intel Core i9-9900k Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro Wifi CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 Memory: 64GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2400mhz PSU: Corsair RM850X Hard Drives: 2 WD Red 14 TB's, 2 WD Red 8 TB's, 2 WD Red 4 TB's and a 250gb Samsung 960 EVO SSD for cache Case: Fractal Design Define R5 CPU is brand new, in sealed box. MB was only used for a couple months in my personal computer setup. I see that CPU is selling for quite a bit of money recently and by selling it I could probably upgrade for no money out of pocket. My server needs would be as a Plex Media Server, File storage (photo's and backup's) and a Windows 10 and MAC VM's CPU I was told, " Grab a Gaming X Z690 board with a i3 13100. Less energy usage, more compute power, not a dead end move, much better expansion capabilities, MUCH better transcode performance." Cache drive I was told, "The EVO is overkill (if you move to a board with Gen4 on it). A WD SN770 will give you better performance for less money. You should be running NVME in RAID1 pools. A pair of 500gb SN770's will run you $100. 250gb imo is too small Am I wasting time and potential money building with my current parts? Should I look into a 13th gen build?

All my parts are here for the build except ram. I know this board accepts up to 2666 without OC, as that's what the limit is on the i9-9900k anyways, unless you overclock. I was looking at the Corsair Vengeance LPX 32gb 3200mhz kit. I found it for a decent price, but I won't get the full speed unless I enable XMP profile on my board. Wouldn't this cause the system to be less stable in the long run being that its on all the time as a server? Do I just go with the 3200mhz memory and not enable XMP or try to find some 2666 ram for cheaper?

Unless I actually enable OC it doesn't appear to be turned on by default. I'm just unsure how stable it is. Very entry level board from what I am hearing? Also if the VRM's only have issues when overclocking I don't see that being a problem. I don't tend to overclock at all.

Looking to upgrade my current unraid server. Its a Dell PowerEdge T30 with an Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1225 v5 and 8gb of ECC Ram. I have a brand new i9-9900k sitting in the box and a used Asus prime z390-a board that I picked up used from Ebay. Hoping to use them in my new build. I read the Asus board is terrible for VRM's but that should only correlate to overclocking? I don't plan to overclock anything, just looking for a stable build. Keep the i9 and find a better motherboard? Use the Asus anyways? I could sell the intel and go with an AMD setup? Main use for the server is Plex streaming, Windows 10VM, Mac VM and photo/file storage.

I found this combo for $199. Is that a good deal? I'm currently running a Dell PowerEdge T30 with the maximum amount of drives I can run. Looking to expand. Mainly use server for storage and Plex Media Server. I might look into running Windows 10 on a VM though as well.

Is 6.7.2 a Beta version still? Loving your theme as well! 56% i assume is your storage use?

I will post my diagnostics as well. Maybe somebody will see something I am missing. pomznas-diagnostics-20190830-1703.zip

I did check and I still had an empty appdata folder on disk1. I have my app data settings as set to cache only. So I had the folder I actually used under the cache drive and disk 1. I removed the empty folder from disk1 as it was empty anyways. I then changed my allocations to /mnt/cache/appdata instead of /mnt/user/appdata. Then I caught a couple of empty path's that were being added to plex and fixed that. It looked like the docker was trying to force/auto update all my apps in the docker. Plex would stop, remove itself and then try to reinstall with the newest version. I seen in the log it would fail at the /music volume. I double checked the settings on it and it had the movies, tv and music box's added 2 twice to input volumes on. I edited this and fixed it. I then click check for updates on all containers and then when it stated update ready, I then updated all containers. Everything went though and Plex stayed up to do and working, without becoming an Orphan Image. I'm hoping this fixed my issue. I will look into my mover settings. Thanks Harro.

Yes I have a samsung SSD m.2 for my cache drive. I believe I have the cache drive set up correctly. I also have my appdata mapped to /mnt/user/appdata/PlexMediaServer. From watching previous versions of plex installs with Unraid (SpaceInvader videos on youtube), this was the correct patch to use when using a cache drive. I only use Daapd for my itunes music and such. My docker is showing the correct allocations and I'm pointing them to the correct patch on the plex end of my appdata. Unless I am missing something?

I recently updated, about 2 months ago, my Unraid server from Version 6.3 to 6.5. Back when I ran version 6.3 and limetech's Plex docker app I never ever had any problems with anything not working correctly. I recently seen that limetech's plex version was no longer supported and they recommended installing linuxserver's plex docker. I copied all my settings and parameters from the limetech install, removed it from my system, installed linuxserver's Plex docker with the same settings. It kept my library and video files but at first it wouldn't play any of my material at all, come to find out I didn't input anything into the transcode line (I used /tmp) and after that they started to play like normal. Unsure of why that's needed as my shieldTV direct play's anything you throw at it. Since switching though, I've been seeing that my plex docker container is constantly becoming an orphan image everyday. I always have to go back and reinstall it each day. This makes it very hard for my wife and kids to watch plex in the other room when the server isn't working correctly. I have also noticed that everyday I'm having to reinstall the updated community users plugin's app. I'll updated it and when plex has this issue, its telling me I need to reupdate plugin again. Is my server going back in time and undoing my work? It's very frustrating since I never had any of these issues before I updated to the newest version of Unraid and switch to LinuxServer's.IO of Plex. Am I doing something wrong? Am I inputting some wrong parameters or directories? I'll attach screen shots and a system log to this post. pomznas-syslog-20190830-1359.zip

How do I fix that? I was getting really great transfer speed. I'm trying now to transfer over a few movies to my movies folder and the same thing, crawling speeds. I will try to look at my NIC settings.

Done. I downloaded it while trying to copy over the file to my iso's folder. Hopefully I did this correctly. Also If I try cancelling transfer from being too slow, it lags my whole computer and will sometimes take a few minutes to cancel/close and other times will crash explorer.exe altogether.

pomznas-diagnostics-20171029-1636 (1).zip

How do I do that?

I'm trying to transfer over some .iso files I downloaded and they are copying very slow. I've downloaded them to my PC and then I try copying them over to my iso folder on my unraid server. The file is 300 mb and its taking me about 2 hours to transfer it. I'm getting about 20 kb/sec transfer speed. I've already transferred over all my movies, music and data and it was blazing fast. The only thing I changed was the location of my server, moved it to my IT closet and plugged it back in. Would a network cable be to blame? Any thoughts?

Awesome, thanks Squid! Your help is greatly appreciated. I will read through that thread and see what I can figure out.

This is where I get stuck when trying to add the Plex Docker to my server. I'm unsure of what to put for each path configuration. I have Movies, TV Shows and music. I mainly use it for movies and tv shows though. Would like to try adding music to it at some point. I've attached a picture to possibly help explain what I'm talking about. I did try searching here, on the plex forums and google but didn't find a whole lot. I did stumble across this thread, but not too sure of what information to put and the settings seem a bit different now. Adding Plex to UnRaid

I've already setup unraid 6 and have my array running. I have recently installed a m.2 sata drive I want to use for my cache. It's a 250gb Samsung evo 960. Unraid see's it and identifies it. I now have a 8tb Parity Drive, along with 3 other WD reds for 16tb of storage total. I would like to know the best way to setup my new cache drive. I would also like to load plex onto it and use that instead of having to leave my main computer on, as that's how I've been running plex over the years. I know to install the docker, I'm just unsure of how to set it up now that I added a cache drive after the fact and how to setup my folder structures. Thanks.

Newbie here, Just finished setting up my Power Edge T30 and have unraid installed. I have all my disks installed ( 2x8Tb WD Red and 2x4Tb WD Red) Parity is already synced Array is started I have no Cache drive installed as I was unsure If I needed it, plus all my sata ports are full on MB. I'm stuck at creating my shares and what the best settings would be. Each share would have subfolders, such as, Media would have a Movies and TV shows folder. Then each of those would have another sub folder such as movie name and TV show name. Then TV show name would have another folder for season X, etc. Music would have folder for artist, then another folder for the album it is. Pictures would be be month and year Backup would be for Iphone backups, computer backups, server backups etc. Data would be programs, downloads etc. Do I just create my folders (Media, Pictures, Music, Back Up, Time Machine, Data, etc folders) needed and leave all settings at defaults? Such as High water and auto split any directory? What about free space? I've read a few pages and did some searching of how to setup plex as well, but still a bit confused. I know to use the dock app and not a plugin. Confused about how to set it up and how to point it to see my shares. Thanks for any help. I hoped I explained clearly enough.

Living Room - PS4 Bedroom - Amazon Fire TV I don't believe any of my devices require transcoding that I'm aware of. I was thinking along the lines of using a server motherboard with a Xeon e3 v1220 and 8GB of ECC ram. Would I need an SSD for the cache drive, does it make that much of a difference? I know my Parity drive needs to be the largest drive in the system as well. I would add hard drives to it as I went along, instead of all at once to save some money up front.

I do plan to consolidate that data and slowly transfer everything over to reuse the hard drives that I have. Although the process might take me awhile, it will allow me to save my data along with reusing my current drives. If budget allows I will buy a few more WD Red 4 TB's. I will have to look into a decent backup solution, thanks for the tip.

I'm looking to build my first unraid server. Primary use will be file storage backup (documents, photos, music, miscellaneous items) along with my media backup. I would like to store all of my movies and music collection on it and use Plex to pipe it to my media machines throughout the house. The most I would ever have playing at one time is 2 streams. I already have a brand new Antec 300 case sitting in my basement that I haven't touched yet. Looking to do a semi-budget friendly build. Looking to spend around 500 or so max. I have 5 hard drives in current PC that I would like to transfer over. Most of them are WD Green's 2TB and 4TB. Looking to build one here shorty as I currently have everything stored on main PC with no backup on anything! Any good recommendations/advice? Thanks

Do I need to go full ECC? Error correcting and checking is a huge plus but I won't be running the server very hard, basically file storage, backups and media streaming. Does that make a difference. I'm sure price goes up quite a bit for ECC hardware

Just the case is all I have. I use to have a few spare computers laying around, I would have to check. Leaning towards buying all new though. I would like it to be somewhat future proof. I'm looking towards having about 12tb of storage to start with. I would like to add more space as it fills up. So being able to had more drives is a big want. If I use the antec 300 case I have, it should be able to fit 10 drives in it. Max is 15 I believe if I add 3 of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816133030&cm_re=Hot_swap_rack_module-_-16-133-030-_-Product Obviously would need sata card I assume I don't care about noise as it will be either in media closet or in my basement. I would like it to be as power efficient as possible as it will be running 24/7. I was leaning towards a lower end i3. Better to have a little extra cpu power for the future, then to need it and not have it. My first thought was the G3258. So undecided on the cpu. Better to stick to Intel?

I'm looking to build my first unRAID server, but I have no idea where to begin, their are so many options. I currently use my main desktop computer for all my storage, so it's on all the time. I would like a better solution, where I could have something run 24/7 behind closed doors I don't need to worry about and can possibly downsize on my main desktop computer to only running my SSD I'm currently running I believe 5 HDD's. They are near full and its began to start making some loud, strange noises. I believe a hard drive might be to blame. I would like to get a server built and running before I lose any of my data. I have numerous Blu-Rays and TV shows ripped, along with music, that I don't want to lose. I'm afraid that strange noise I'm hearing is a hard drive going bad and I'm not sure which one it is. I currently run: 2 2TB WD Green drives Seagate Barracuda 1TB Samsung 1TB WD caviar 250gb Intel SSD I would like to get some more uniformity and either run WD red's or green's, preferably all the same size, or close to it. Primary Uses: Media server Possibly VM, will need to look more into this but it does look intriguing Utorrent, if possible SabNZB, Sickbeard, couch potato (Still unsure on this, haven't used them in quite awhile but could be an option) I would just like to run either apple tv's, roku's, chromebox or some other type of streaming device and have one central location for it all. I've done plenty of reading but hardware changes so fast/often it's hard to keep up, plus now unRAID 6 is out and I heard its suppose to be that much better. I currently have a brand new Antec 300 case sitting in my basement. Is this still a good case to use? or do I need something bigger? Help on hardware options would be awesome, I'll still continue to read all I can. I hope I covered enough in this post, otherwise if I missed any,please ask.