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Current Setup: Super micro server 10th Gen mobo and CPU for quicksync 1 NVME for cache 1 NVME for app/vm drive 1 Network card - 1gig (have 1 gig switches and main pc has one too). 1 connector card for supermicro backplanes. Desire: I dont game. I dont do Vms other than once in a while to test something. No regular use. 99.9 percent of the usage is Media server or data storage/backup. I rip my blurays to my media server. As such move 100s of gigs at a time to the server regularly. But even good NVME drives caches fill up fast and their performance tanks. As such to maintain transfer speed, I got my hands on 2x Oracle F80 WarpDrive 800GB (4x 200GB ) SSD Flash Accelerator PCIe 1 x Intel DC P4600 2TB PCIe3.0 NVMe HHHL SSD Intent is to switch to a Supermicro X10SRL-F Intel LGA2011 or a Asus X99-E WS. Both LGA 2011 with 6+ Pcie ports. (cost reasons for going the older route). So the plan was the 2x Oracles to be my cache drive with redundancy. And the Intel to be my Vm/App drive. and a Nvidia single slot GPU for transcoding since I'd loose Quicksync with older CPU Id have to get. So there is the 6 cards for 6 pci slots. Anyone have any concerns with the above? With 6 cards being in use? More importantly, the loss of overall CPU power by going with a LGA 2011 I5/I7/Xeon (E something)? Again, this will be just for Media server usage and some data back up storage. And of the two Mobos, which would you got with. Prices are close enough.

So I have a weird situation. I have a 16 drive Share. Its a general storage share I use for games, music, programs, data, etc... When ever I try to run programs directly frodm it, they crash. Not Unraid, the program itself. A good example is things like games. Or emulators. Launch box, Citra, RCPS3 etc... Or music apps like Winamp etc... Or even if I have games installed there directly like from Gog. Main PC is a Windows 11 machine. The share is mapped as a drive. I can access the share fine. Write fine. Read files fine. Plex works fine in reading media. And my connection is a 10gig connection between the server and the PC. Been racking my brain. I dont know if its some kind of latency or lag. I have different programs on different drives so it doesnt appear to be a failing drive issue. If I copy the directory of the installed program to a local actual drive on my PC from the share, then try and run it, it works fine. Any ideas would be appreciated.

I ended up with 2 3700s in low profile PCIE for Raid 0 cache and a 4600 low profile for docker container due to its great random read/write

Hi all, So I find that I write and delete and write to the my Array...ALOT. And the endurance level of consumer SSDs TBW limits are too low for my comfort. After research I have decided among the below. Looking to get Three. Two to Raid 0 for Cache (I have a 10g connection between server and main PC so I have the bandwidth, primary concern is write speed). And one for my Docker drive (mainly Plex/Emby, so primary concern would be random read write latency I would imagine). Optane 900p nvme or Pci-e DC P3700 low profile PCI-E variant DC P4600 They are all in my price range used from ebay (yes I know I am playing the already written endurance lottery) Anyone used any of the above or have in depth knowledge on which ones would be a good fit for each purpose stated above? I have no interest in staying with consumer level SSDs so please don't reply with a comment stating so. Thanks all!

I have a situation that's weird. I have 12 disks. If I access any file on 11 of them on windows via share, it instantly opens. And of it's a video, scrolls fast fast forwarding or rewinding. But if I specifically chose and open a file on that 12th drive, it takes a long time to open. Video is slow to scroll. Sometimes it hangs for a good long bit before being resposive again. As a test if I move a file from that disk to another via krusader, it works instantly again so I know it's not corruption. Smart short and long checks have shown good with no errors. Is this behavior a precursor to failure?

Trying to use the above tool after accidentally deleting wrong Share. Latest 6.12. I managed to install XFS_undelete from https://github.com/ianka/xfs_undelete and the tcl and tcllib (I believe correctly). I am a windows user so I am going through a crash course of learning lol I mounted an unassigned HD as the restore to location hopefully. The disk I need to restore FROM is sdc. The unassigned drive shows up as sdt So I use the command ./xfs_undelete -t 2023-08-07 -o /dev/sdt /dev/sdc I get "Cannot create output directory. can't create directory "/dev/sdt": file already exists" I try other combinations for the write to location (not a linux expert) and I either get that error or "This isn't an XFS filesystem or filesystem image." Can use some friendly help please.

Hi all, I recently built an Unraid server using a Supermicro enclosure with a consumer mobo w/intel 10 series. I created my initial array with empty disks. I am now putting in hard drives with media on it that I am mounting as Unassigned Drives. Created a Docker of Krusader and am Copying the contents from the Unassigned drive to the Array. No cache or Parity assigned yet as it will slow things down and I wont be doing that until all my media is first on the array. The speed of the copy though seems ...low. It goes anywhere from around 100 to 250MiBs. Its disk to disk in the same machine...no network...no parity....just seems a little slow. Is that speed what you would expect?

I hope this is the right subforum for this. I apologize if not... I just built an Unraid server. for the first time. I will be installing and spinning up Unraid this weekend. Looking forward to it!!!! I also have a main PC with windows. My understanding is that you do NOT want to use local metadata that is IN the media folders for unraid. So if you have local posters and trailers and such that is in the same movie folder as the movie itself, you do not want to use that option for Unraid. The reason being that as you are browsing the library in Emby app, it then has to spin up and down all the drives as it needs to be pull those posters and meta data as your scrolling and browsing. Which causes slow down and drive wear. Is that accurate? If so and if that is not way it should be handled, then can I have two instances of Emby? On different ports? One to be the main actual server that plays the media and the metadata and posters and such are stored locally with that server in a traditionalsense. I can make that a docker for instance. Or a dedicates small windows VM. Id like to also have a second install of Emby that still downloads and stores metadata and media like posters and trailers and such in the folder with the video itself. The reason being if you ever have to start from scratch or rebuild emby, it makes scrapping way less time consuming since its all there already and I am very 'having backup' kind of person. This version will basically do what my current server does. When I added new videos, it auto downloads the trailers and posters and such. But in the new instance, I would not be using this one for media consumption. It would only spin up drives for initial download of meta for new shows/movies. Is that doable?