theothermatt_b

I've been banging my head against this for what feels like hours, and am stuck. I followed this tutorial and it looks like every app that is pointing to the vpn has the VPN's external address. Whee! But, I can't get to any of their WebUI's. When I click the WebUI link in unraid, nothing happens, no new tab or anything. When I manually type in the address (192.168.1.xxx:8080 for qbittorrent for example) it just times out. I also tried the "internal" IP with the port: 172.18.0.2:8080 and nothing there either. I feel like i'm SO CLOSE to having this figured out. I definitely did the port forwarding thing in OpenVPN-Client Happy to provide any information you may need! EDIT: I have absolutely no idea why, but after leaving the box on all night, the next morning the WebUI's were all working fine. Still not working via the links in unraid, but I know that wasn't going to work anyway. I even rebooted to make sure, and after a minute or two, they were all back up and working fine.

OH, so the "cache" is much less the "stuff stored in memory" like I was picturing and much more like "the local hard drive of the computer" I was picturing something a lot more volatile and short-term. That one drive (or pool of drives) function as temp storage for writing to the actual array as well as all the stuff you said above: docker configs, system shares, etc. Anyway, if I'm just doing plex, the *arrs, and associated programs like that, along with a relatively small (for this forum lol) amount of storage in the array, like a few TBs, does it seem like 1tb cache would be enough? wild overkill? I just have no sense of what's needed for this part.

Okay here's a really basic couple of questions that I can't quite find a direct answer for: 1) I know the parity drive should be the largest drive in the array (or at least, as big as the biggest drives), but what about the cache? I know more than one cache ssd is recommended, but what are the size details? How big should it be? Is 1tb enough? Can you get started without one and then add it later? 2) I saw someone mention that they also had storage (small-ish, like 256gb) for all their docker containers. That doesn't appear on the requirements page, but is that something I should consider as well? If I don't have one, where do the docker containers live?

I was actually looking pretty hard at the Node 804, thanks! And i'll check out that thread. I looked at it a while ago, but I know a lot more now, so maybe it'll make more sense lol

Thanks for the reply! I'm extremely comfortable with building computers (been building them since my teens, in the Win2000 days), I'm just trying to spend as little money as I can without knee-capping myself in the future. The build I'm currently looking at is over $500 and that's before adding any storage. I was really hoping to get out of this under $300. Granted this is before looking for used stuff or really shopping around. EDIT: I got it down to ~$450 at pcpartpicker: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/rWvsJy Question: I read somewhere that you need a display (or fake display) physically plugged into the computer for QuickSync to work? Is that true? Can you speak more on this? What motherboard features would I be looking for?

Hi all, I'm just getting into all of this stuff, after running Plex on a Pi with 1tb external storage for a while. As you might imagine, I'm starting to want an upgrade. I still don't need it to do very much. One or two 720p or 1080p streams, limited transcoding. No 4k. I keep seeing these builds where people are getting idle power usage of like 15-20w, but of course since they're a few years old, all the links are dead, or the parts aren't sold anymore, etc. Then I started eyeballing the HP S01, which you can snag off ebay for like $150-$200. But I don't think you can cram much storage in there, and I don't think I want to go the eSATA route. So then I started wondering if I should build my own. Unfortunately that looks like it's putting me more in the $500 range, for basically "exactly the HP S01 but with a bigger case," which is stupid that it costs like double for that. But anyway. My main question is: With these specs, is it possible to get idle power usage down to 15-20w? Is there some trick to getting that low usage? Special parts required? a new-ish intel i3 motherboard with 4x to 6x SATA ports 300w power supply (higher? lower?) 8gb ram (should this be 16?) Seconday question: Is it possible to get a prebuilt small form factor (like the HP S01) and still have enough drives on it for unraid to be useful? I've done several days worth of reading and searching, so if i missed stuff, it wasn't for lack of trying. Thanks!