teknomedic

Thank you for the information and help. :)

New to UnRaid and I hope this isn't a silly question. Tried searching, but didn't see this particular question answered. I've Installed a sata HDD into the server with data I want to copy to the array. I also installed the "Unassigned devices" app and am now using it to copy all the files over. I logged into the server via chrome on Windows 10 to start this process. If I close the browser window that's showing my unraid and the file copy progress or the PC restarts or shuts down, will that stop the file copying task? Or will that continue on the server, even with no one logged in and active? Second question, When I started this I didn't see an option to "copy to array", only individual disks. I'm guess this isn't a big deal, but for future reference, how do I select the entire array so that the data is spread correctly? thank you.

I think it's resolved. To answer your question, it was following the ports, not the cables. I just tried going nuclear and re-flashed the latest BIOS available and after clearing CMOS it seems things are working as expected. I did have to replace the PSU so makes me wonder if something got corrupted due to faulty power delivery while using the previous PSU.

Thank you in advance... New to all this, but I've included the diagnostics zip and hoping an expert can assist. This motherboard has 10 SATA ports built in. 6 are through the Intel Chipset and 4 are through an ASM1061 chipset(s). I've finally solved a ghost I was chasing (needed a new PSU) and as you can see the 6 drives attached to the Intel SATA ports are being found. The two I've attached to the ASM1061 ports are not. During boot, I think I saw the Western Digital (DC HC550) HDDs show up, but then give errors?? I'm not sure. I've ensured that the ASM1061 ports are enabled in the BIOS, but the HDDs don't list there either. Although, If I'm understanding correctly, they won't show up up in the BIOS until booted into OS (Windows previously). I've also disabled the 3.3v just to be safe. PSU is a SeaSonic Vertex GX-1200 (overkill I know, but was the only one available locally today with the required SATA ports). I appreciate any info or insights that can be provided. pluribus1-diagnostics-20260331-0422.zip

March 2026 and I guess it's my turn to say THANK YOU!!! I was chasing this boot up ghost for an hour before finding this thread. A little electrical tape later and I can finally boot and I've now flashed my H310 into IT mode. This was on an Asus Maximus VI Formula running Intel 4th gen and the electrical tape was absolutely necessary to get this thing booting with the H310. THANK YOU!!

I seem to have gotten a little lucky, both Kingston 480GB SSDs report the following: Controller : SM2259XA (SM2259XT2) bufferless FlashID: 0x2c,0xc3,0x8,0x32,0xea,0x30,0x0,0x0 - Micron 176L(B47R) TLC 512Gb/CE 512Gb/die Took me a little bit to find a program that would read them fully. Couldn't get this off CrystalDiskInfo for some reason or HardwareInfo either. Took a little program called "SMI Flash ID". Again, I appreciate the heads up on the potential issues with the controllers in these SSDs.

Alternatively, My next best option for redundancy would be two 256GB SandDisk X400 SATA SSDs.

haha, of course I'd pick up something like that on sale. Certainly my kind of luck. I'll be sure to run them through crystal disk and get these ID'd soon. Worst case I'l re-purpose a 1TB 870 Evo and just not have redundancy for the Cache in the short term. Thank you a ton on catching that quirk of my potential setup. Probably saved me a lot of potential future headaches.

Thank you again, after looking into the TPM support, this motherboard only supports TPM 1.2 modules, though I might have an avenue to get a modified BIOS that would enable 2.0 support. At this time that's too much work and I've settled on going the USB boot route. Your clarification helped me find a suitable USB stick to use. Digging through the box, I found 2x Kingston A400 SATA SSDs (3D NAND / TLC) at 480GB each. The rest I have are smaller or have far less TBW. I'll probably avoid activating them until I'm done migrating my 30TB of data though. I assume I can install the 480GB SSDs and then just not assign them to anything until I'm ready?? I appreciate the help and information!

Thank you for confirming the TPM issue. I did notice that mentioned in the video. My motherboard does have open TPM module pins so I think I could install a TPM 2.0 module, but haven't look into it. Does UnRaid support pre 2.0 TPMs if for some reason a 2.0 doesn't work on this motherboard? Since the TPM might be an issue I am probably just going to do a USB boot to make things easier. Do dockers and app install on the USB? Just don't want to undersize it and regret it later. I appreciated the information on SSDs in this scenario too, I hadn't really thought much about the NAND type being a concern, but what you say makes sense. I don't recall all the models or sizes just yet, I bought them a few years ago on sale and then tossed them into a box "for later" and I haven't dug out the box yet, lol.

Thank you again! I appreciate your last thought too. I hadn't considered just expanding as needed even though that seems obvious. Still unlearning some old habits from more rigid software.

I appreciate that video, thank you. That helped a lot. One thing I'm still not clear on though. If I go the internal boot direction. Is there any reason I should not use the remaining space on the SSD as a cache pool?

A few questions and thank you in advance.... First ever Unraid build and I am just about to install some HDDs into the case before first boot. In my mind the hardware map goes like this.... Unraid and all dockers/apps installed to a single SSD for booting up and loading into RAM, then the OS loads up the two parity HDDs and the two cache pool SSDs... after that the main array is accessed and ready for usage. I'm guessing this "map" in my mind is not correct though. I understand a recent(ish) update now allows Unraid to be "installed" to an HDD/SSD vs using a USB stick. Is this correct? Do I need to boot to Unraid from USB first and then "copy" the OS to the HDD of choice? Does that HDD become useless for anything else? I'm sorry if the terms aren't fully correct as it's been several months since I dug into Unraid while I obtained the hardware I needed. I'll be using two mechanical 28TB SATA HDDs as parity drives and of course the remaining spinning disks (mix of 26TB down to 12TB drives) for the main array. That said, I'd like to install Unraid to an SSD. I have a 1TB SATA SSD that I suspect will be wasteful to use for my Unraid OS and dockers. I have several older SATA SSDs to choose from for this from 64GB up to the 1TB option. I was planning on using 2 matched SSDs as a multi-device cache pool for redundancy. I also have a couple of NVME drives around, but since my motherboard is 4th Gen Haswell I'd have to add a PCI-E Gen 3 adapter to use them. Finally, I'd like to add one drive at at time to the main array to ensure stability....or would it be best to just load up the case and go from there?? Once again, thank you for any advice or information.

I'm a noob when it comes to NAS, but gotta start somewhere and I could use a little help or direction. The more I dig and learn the more I'm just confusing myself as to what direction will be best. Here was my original plan... I have an old ASUS Maximus VI Formula with an Intel 4770k and 32GB DDR3 RAM https://pcper.com/2014/02/asus-maximus-vi-formula-motherboard-review/ From what I can see the board and chip have a total of 16 PCIe lanes available.... With... 10 SATA ports on board as well as... 3 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16( x16 or dual x8 or x8/x4/x4) 1 x mini-PCIe 2.0 x1 3 x PCIe 2.0 x1 I have 4 (four) Dell R1DNH PERC H310 cards available (still need to flash them for IT mode). I'll be using an old graphics card in the system as well since I have a few laying around anyways. Probably be something like a GTX 980ti or similar gen GTX Titan card. As for HDDs... I'll be running a 2 parity setup with two 18TB drives. 4x 8TB 6x 12TB 6x 14TB I also have a couple small 64GB SATA SSDs (if I remember correctly), but I haven't found the box they're in yet, lol. Was thinking of using those for cache drives. With that, I'm also leaning towards running a basic RAID10 in my current desktop with 4 of the above drives for a second back up. DATA will be a large video (TV/Movies) collection. game installers, pictures, music, and backup images of mine and friend/family PCs. At most 4 simultaneous users streaming video over home network with the potential for 1 additional user over the net. Transcoding isn't needed and I have no plans for Plex, but that could change if I see value in it.... But doubt it for my use cases. I have no plans to run games or video edit or anything like that over my network or for this system (I have a way better local build for that stuff). Beyond the watching of random 1080p videos the rest is basically just rarely accessed backup data. So... That all said.... Is this hardware reasonable for my use case? Will performance be okay if all 5 people are trying to stream 1080p content? ... Or... Must I start considering a new CPU/Mobo combo like a used 2nd gen Threadripper or Epyc setup? Alternatively on the "worse/older" side, I have a couple Core 2 Duo systems sitting around, but feel that's getting a bit too old for my needs even as just a NAS. I'm trying to be as cheap as possible for my first forray into this world, but also don't want a new system every two years because the hardware is too old to keep up. I really appreciate any help and thank you for taking the time to read and assist. Edit - oh and in terms of getting data on/off the UnRaid. Some smaller stuff will probably be sent over the network, but I'm usually just pluging in a USB drive to copy data back/forth as needed so pretty sure my 1gb eithernet should work well enough.