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Not a question but I wanted to share my experience of building a custom NAS (first time) for my home. Setup - Fractual Terra case - x2 4TB NVMe PCI SSDs - Crucial P3 4TB M.2 PCIe Gen3 - x1 8TB SSD 2.5in - - Intel Core i5 36000k (using its onboard GPU, I like AMD but transcoding, Intel) - MSI mITX B760I EDGE wifi motherboard - SFX-L PSU by BeQuiet 500W - 32GB RAM Kingstn FURY Beast DDR5 32GB - Acidalie M.2 SSD Cooler for 2nd array NVMe disk - Noctua NH-L9i-17xx chromax.black CPU cooler - Noctua NA-FD1, Fan Duct Kit for NH-L9i and NH-L9a Series CPU Coolers - Great BUT NOT IN THIS CASE Running the NVMEs as my Array (massive overkill). The 2.5in 8TB SSD runs as the parity disk (originally cache), and wanted to fit a 500GB 2.5 SSD as a cache. That will have to wait until I sort out a new PSU that gives me more space. Positives - Runs uber cool when streaming 4k HDR video's (even if encoding is needed), temps - CPU 38c, NVME 30-38c and whole machine is cool (case helps) - Runs Plex like a dream - Runs VMs and Containers like a dream even under load - Case rocks, its not a case to be hidden, its not really a NAS box, but I wanted the case to look good as well as function - Noctua CPU cooler is silent... BUT... (see bad choice) - Choose unraid over TrueNAS :). TrueNAS is great but limitations around drives killed it and ZFR file format Not so great - NMVe on the back of the motherboard was getting hot under load, so had to fit a custom cooler, which has reduced load temps between 8c (idle) and 15c (under load). So the temp is now 30c idle and 50c under load. - mITX B760I EDGE is overkill for a NAS motherboard, but really wanted 2.5GBe or ideally 10GBe (see bad) - Its not going to be a 'low' power system. Bad choice - SFX-L PSU... stick to the smaller form factor SFX PSU's, its meant I cant use another 2.5 SSD drive beneath the PSU and its super tight on the floor now with the modular cables. - Trade-off - awesome custom NVMe cooler on the NVME on the back of the motherboard or keep riser PCI-e cable and fit a 10GBe card... 10GBe card lost out - Noctua NA-FD1, Fan Duct Kit for NH-L9i and NH-L9a Series CPU Coolers, a foam like kit that directs air flow for air coolers. Great idea, but increased the temp of my CPU by 5-7c. Not a design fault, but the case, Fractual Terra doesn't have air flow problems (arguably too much space for dust), in another case I suspect this would rock. Conculsion I'm very happy moving from my Synology 218+ setup to this setup as it handles transcoding a lot better and runs more heavy weight VMs (Magento is on one of them), so chuffed. Is it ideal? Nope, it consumes more power than I could achieve, but I wanted top transcoding, loads of RAM for VMs, so I'm happy. And lastly, Unraid, amazing. Loads better than my old Synology NAS, and love how easy it was to pick up. Well worth the license cost.

Switching from Synology I'm loving Unraid. I've just added a second 4TB NMVe drive (so 8TB in total) into my Disk Array. I went to one of my shares and added in the new disk (so disk 1 and disk 2), all good so far. Then when checking some individual files I could see the original ones went wrote to disk 1 and now all the others are writing to disk 2... how can I assign a specific file to a specific disk in the disk array? I've seen a post about setting the split to manual, but that I believe is only for new files, I have a file that is already assigned to disk 1 and I want to move it to disk 2.

Thanks itimpi, it was the Ethernet lead I was using. Was a flat Cat 7, but was 10m in length and I'm not convinced by it. Swapped it out for a 2m Cat 8 lead and its now hitting 1000Mbps, makes all the difference to not just copy jobs but streaming large media files.

Fixed it... disabled fast boot in the BIOS

I have an MSI motherboard, I have setup and configured unraid, all is working great except one thing. If I shut down unraid (we do get power cuts), and then repower up the NAS, it just gives me a blank screen. If I then reboot it, go into the BIOS, and then restart from there, the UEFI boot is picked up and all loads correctly. The challenge I have is I don't want to have to rig up a monitor each time I need to reboot the NAS. Anyone else experienced this and know of a fix?

I have a Synology NAS, I've just built a Unraid NAS and I'm now trying to copy my folders from my Synology to my Unraid server but I'm only getting 10MBs transfer speeds. Both my Sysnology and Unraid NAS are connected to the back of my Netgear Obi, each is a 1GBs per port, but yet the transfer rate is so low (large media files). What can I do to improve the transfer speed? I was hoping for closer to 100MBs. I'm using a CFIS transfer protocol, and I've thought about switching to NFS but I'm unsure that will make a significant difference. I also have a spare 1GBs switch (the Synology is limited to 1GBs where as my Unraid NAS is 2.5Gbe)

I'm building a new home NAS (moving away from my trusted home Synology) for Plex, music and some docker containers to run local dev build stuff (nothing too taxing). My setup is: - Core i5 13600k (using for transcoding) - x2 4TB NVMe PCIe SSDs - x1 8TB Sata SSD (limited by 2 NVMe slots on my mITX) - 32GB DDR5 I'm new to unraid (I was going to use TrueNas but reading up on ZFS needing ECC memory, I switched to unraid instead), and any tips would be great (its a fresh machine I'm about to build today) and my questions are: Which file format is best for media on Unraid? I had intended on using the NVMe as the fast memory for everything, and the 8TB sata ssd as a in system backup device. I've deliberately not spoken about RAID as I suspect I'd then peg the performance of my NVMe devices by the sata SSD speeds. Does Unraid out the box support backing up drives or do you have any recommended apps / approaches. I've got 6TB of data on my current Synology; I could create a drive mount between this and my new NAS. My first thought is mount the drives, and then from the Synology device copy / paste across the network (cuts out the need for a middle machine, which slows everything down). Any tips on this would be appreciated (trying to go as fast as possible with minimal write errors as I'm not running ECC ram). Is there a way to run some kind of checksum on my copied files to check if any have corrupted during the transfer? Plex, Ive got a plex pass and I've been reading about separating out the plex cache from the content by drives (i.e. put the plex cache onto another drive from the content), should I do this or can I just put everything onto one of the 2 NVMe's or am I better to put the plex cache data onto the SATA SSD and leave the content on the NVMe drives? Thanks in advance for any tips or advice.