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Just thrown it in and it fully recognises the disk (passes the serial). Any chance you might be able to point me in the right direction so i can learn about how to set this up please @itimpi?? Many thanks!

Because the drive i am using (and already have) is an internal drive, and I have free Caddy space in my server... Rather than purchasing an external enclosue

Hi all, Currently running an R730, 5x6tb disks set as zfs, and holding around 8tb of data currently. I'd like to be able to (if possible) insert another disk, take a backup (using a disk format readable by other machines), and then store remotely... Refreshing this backup every month or so. Is this possible? Any useful plugins to allow me to do this please? Just looking for options Thanks! Paul

I wish i had the capacity you do!!! Good luck!

And Voila - as simple as that... Set the drive timeout to an hour. Now it spins down regular and saves power! Checking in Idrac, looking a lot better now... Thank you!!

@doron So my devices hapilly spin down manually and stay down for a while before coming back up. However they never spin down automatically. If i manually spindown from the Main screen, i see this in the logs : Feb 29 00:48:38 Kermit emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdh Feb 29 00:48:38 Kermit emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdg Feb 29 00:48:38 Kermit emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdd Feb 29 00:48:38 Kermit emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sde Feb 29 00:48:38 Kermit emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdb Feb 29 00:48:38 Kermit emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdf Feb 29 00:48:38 Kermit emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdc Feb 29 00:48:38 Kermit SAS Assist v2024.02.18: Spinning down device /dev/sdd Feb 29 00:48:38 Kermit SAS Assist v2024.02.18: Spinning down device /dev/sde Feb 29 00:48:38 Kermit SAS Assist v2024.02.18: Spinning down device /dev/sdc Feb 29 00:48:38 Kermit SAS Assist v2024.02.18: Spinning down device /dev/sdf Feb 29 00:48:38 Kermit SAS Assist v2024.02.18: Spinning down device /dev/sdb However cannot see any attempts to automatically spin down - only when done manually. I am using ST6000NM0034 Drives on a Dell RX730. Bit of a newbie here - Any suggestions as to what I can try?? Many thanks!

Just to say - I have exactly the same base hardware (other than the controller) and issues as you @dunee and see the same results. SAS Spindown Utility (v20210201.01) ls: cannot access '/dev/disk/by-path/*-sas-*': No such file or directory Error: No SAS drives detected. ls /dev/disk/by-path/ pci-0000:00:1a.0-usb-0:1.2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0@ pci-0000:00:1a.0-usb-0:1.2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1@ pci-0000:02:00.0-scsi-0:0:0:0@ pci-0000:02:00.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1@ pci-0000:02:00.0-scsi-0:0:12:0@ pci-0000:02:00.0-scsi-0:0:13:0@ pci-0000:02:00.0-scsi-0:0:13:0-part1@ pci-0000:02:00.0-scsi-0:0:1:0@ pci-0000:02:00.0-scsi-0:0:1:0-part1@ pci-0000:02:00.0-scsi-0:0:2:0@ pci-0000:02:00.0-scsi-0:0:2:0-part1@ pci-0000:02:00.0-scsi-0:0:3:0@ pci-0000:02:00.0-scsi-0:0:3:0-part1@ pci-0000:02:00.0-scsi-0:0:4:0@ pci-0000:02:00.0-scsi-0:0:4:0-part1@ I'll do similar and see if i have any luck my end, and report back! All my drives are ST6000NM0034 drives... running on a Perc H730 Mini Raid controller (different controller). I didnt re-flash it purely because it worked as-was out of the box (rightly or wrongly!). I did go into the H730 config and mark each drive as non-raid though, so didnt do everything wrong. For info, see here : https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/poweredge-hddscsiraid/dell-r730xd-with-perc-h730-and-non-raidhba-mode/647f4c61f4ccf8a8de5076c2

After all the highly technical stuff above, I have what i hope is a simple question (part of the solution being qbittorrent-vpn) which is asked out of pure innocence having not long gotten into all this! 😀 I have Qbittorrent-vpn all configured and working as far as i am aware. I am using Sonarr and have nzbplanet set as an indexer and qbittorrent as the download "engine". However whilst Sonarr has the files i want listed and in the queue, it comes up with "Pending : Download Client is unavailable" - which initially i thought reffered to Would i be correct in saying that nzbplanet uses Usenet and qbittorrent uses torrents, and so therefore to allow me to use nzbplanet as an indexer i would have to use a usenet account with something like SABnzbd? Or alternatively (to flip it around!), I would need some kind of Torrent indexer to be able to use with qbittorrent??

Thank you @itimpi - Appreciated! Yes you are probably correct - i believe he just has the main array with a few xfs discs in there. Question - does that need to be a stand alone disk, or could it be a disk configured as a cache drive?? (Just thinking of ways that i may be able to utilise that disk!) Failing that, I'll just leave "as is" and use as ad-hoc storage when needed Cheers!

I have unraid running hapilly on a Dell RX730xd server, currently hiding in my Garage. Slowly trying to learn about unraid, since have had Zero experience in the past. Was chatting to my Lad over the weekend who also has an unraid box running plex to his home network. Question is - My array is setup as a ZFS2 array. However i also have the stand alone "disk 1" at the top which it seems every time I try to remove the whole thing comes to a standstill. My lad, on the other hand is running XFS, but doesnt have the stand alone disk. Is this something that is needed? Or just down to poor/bad configuration on my side when i set this up initially? Many thanks Paul