SteamedLobster

Great thanks - yes using the default /mnt/user - appreciate the confirmation!!

Thanks, does that keep all my docker configs on the SSD drive and they'll still boot and run etc? I don't want to do that and find I then have to set up all the dockers and make all my unRAID configs and remote SMB shares all over again....

I originally set up a mini pc as a test with just its built in 500GB SSD. I've got a lot configured on it now (/appdata for lots of dockers etc). I've recently added some spinning disks that I could now form a real array with. Is it possible to move the SSD drive out of being the only drive in the array I begun with, make it a cache drive (+appdata permanently there?) and create the array with the spinning disks?

This is all very werid - I upgraded the firmware of the dock (jmicron 758/9 controller) to a custom firmware created to pass through all serial numbers etc... First I backed up the original firmware.... Used instructions here and here for anyone else going down this path: https://ralimtek.com/posts/2021/jms578/ (flash instructions) https://zibri.github.io/JMS579/ (Creates a custom firmware with options you want) Now I can add 4 disks and all four get detected in unRAID.... EDIT: Note you also need to Flash the controller for EACH for the 4 HDD's. So using the tool flash drive 1 controller, power cycle, wait, then flash drive 2 controller... etc. You need a drive in the bay to do this - i loaded the dock with 4 drives and went through and flashed each one. However I have ONE of the original 2GB Hitachi drives that no matter what is not detected by unRAID. It appears in the drive list under Tools/System Devices but won't appear in unassigned drives no matter what. As far as I can tell it has a different serial number. If I remove that drive and replace it with another 2GB drive (Seagate) that drive is found and added to unassigned drives. Just leaving this all here for anyone else searching in the future on Jmicron 758 or 759 USB dock issues.

I installed unRAID initially as a test on a small N100 mini PC. This device had a single SSD and that became the "array" after the initial install. I didn't set it to that. If at some point I add some spinning disks how do I make that become the "cache" drive (keep the app data on it for my dockers etc) and then the new spinning disks become the array without breaking the whole set up that was based on the single SSD being the array? This is just a test install for me right now so ultimately if come unRAID 7 this becomes a lot more flexible I can also wait and follow advice then....

Thanks thats really weird as smartctl --all /dev/sd"X"/ -d sat was reporting different serials. I've the dock plugged into Synology right now but I'll swap it back later and check... The drvies definitely has unique serial numbers as outside of the drives even list it and I've used that in the prior Windows Sever MegaRAID controller set up I had them in to identify them.... Have you seen docks based on Jmicron 758 incorrectly report serial numbers? But then smartctl would show same issue I would think....

I just moved a 4 disk USB HDD dock (uses jmicron 758 controller) over from Windows (deleted all volumes on the disks in windows diskmanager first) and in unassigned devices only 2 of them show up. When I go to "Tools, System Devices" I do see all 4 disks but only 2 appear in unassigned devices. Any ideas? From system devices: [0:0:0:0]disk Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 PMAP /dev/sda 124GB [1:0:0:0]disk Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632 0409 /dev/sdb 2.00TB [2:0:0:0]disk WDC WD20 EARS-00MVWB0 0409 /dev/sdc 2.00TB [3:0:0:0]disk Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632 0409 /dev/sdd 2.00TB [4:0:0:0]disk Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632 0409 /dev/sde 2.00TB [6:0:0:0]disk ATA N900-512 5A0 /dev/sdf 512GB When I check SMARTCTL all the drives have unique serial numbers. If I plug the HDD Dock into my Synology all disks and devices are found correctly and can be used as external devices. Likewise if I plug into a Windows 11 PC all disks are found and ready to use... From unassigned devices: tower-diagnostics-20240406-1634.zip

From the bug forum (and my experience) there seems to be a major SMB regression with this release.

I've followed this guide and I believe I have h/w acceleration working in Jellyfin from GPU statistics on an N100 INTEL IGP but initially when I set it up I saw both "3D render load" and "video load" using GPU about 30% and 80% respectively. Now I seem to only get "Video load" using 100% GPU and 0% on "3d render load" CPU with one stream of 1080p content to 720p 6mps is at 35% avg. is this expected? any ideas why?