Connor19

Just done it, totally forgot about the ability to move secondary to primary, sorted now, thanks!

The intention was to store my VM data on cache drive, however itll work on my main array as it is a 500GB M.2 with the same drive as parity so Im assumg thatll still give me a big performance increase

Okay so mover is done and has moved from main to array but now when I try to set primary to array, I can not set secondary to cache, or anything for that matter

Ok I set it to 100GB and am running now and looks like its moving, thanks

hi, I hope I did this correctly nas-diagnostics-20240403-1649.zip

Also I just tried the mover, set primary storage to main on the domains share and secondary to array. Then set mover to do main - Array, and then ran the mover which ran for a few seconds but I am still seeing the vdisk1 listed as being on main

In the process of doing this now, thank you! Also I just looked at this and thought about using the cache to store new plex media and then have it move over to my main ZFS pool. Did I read correctly that the ability to move from cache to ZFS pool is coming in 6.13?

Still rather new to unraid so forgive me here. I am doing a backup of my main pc to my unraid server and whilst doing this I booted my VM which was very sluggish, I checked task manager and it said HDD 100% which was cause for concern, so I shut it down and checked my shares and when I go into my domains share it says vdisk1 is on "Main" which is my ZFS pool. As far as I am aware I dont think its possible to move from a zfs pool to a cache is it? If so how do I do this? I have attached some screenshots below to demonstrate what I mean All I want to do is have my VM run solely on my cache for performance if possible as I have set a 200GB size and will mainly use it for converting videos which will be moved straight over to my main pool.

I should have stated that I do use unraid connect to shut the server down and connect to it remotely, and the smart plug I use is an eve energy plug which can also monitor the power usage, and because I have a home hub I can monitor the power usage and turn it off and on remotely, so the plan would be when the server is off and I want to turn it on, I can simply go to my eve app, turn the smart plug off and then on again which theoretically should boot the system

Forgive me if this is not an appropriate question for this thread. I have recently started using unraid connect so I can remote control and power down my server when not in use. The next thing I want to be able to do is power on the server when I’m at work for example so I can start watching something on plex then power down again with unraid connect. I have an ASUS W680 board, and have looked at IPMI and wake on lan, and both seem a bit confusing and not the cheapest and from what I can gather not entirely safe utilising those over the internet. My Nas is plugged into a smart plug that I can power on and off remotely and I saw this reference in a Linus video, so it is safe for me to enable the setting in the bios that boots the pc after power loss and then when the server is off and I want to power it on remotely, turn the smart plug off and then on which would power the pc on. Of course I’ll always do the proper shutdown procedure, I’m just unsure if idea could damage or wear out any of my components? I’m not sure if you’re supposed to switch off the psu before cutting wall power? Any feedback would be appreciated!

I’ll do that, good suggestion, that all makes sense, thanks!

I decided to use ZFS for my main pool consisting of 3 16TB Ironwolf Pro in a raid Z1. I also have a 1TB NVME cache and then the main array is 1 500GB NVME with another one as parity. Being new to unraid I’m just wondering why I need to have those drives in the main array since I’m not using it and just put them there to allow me to get things up and running? Is there something I should be doing with those drives? And also right now I don’t think my cache is doing anything since when writing to my pool I just see the HDDs being written to and not the cache, is this normal or am I missing something?

Hi guys! I build myself a NAS in december for a few reasons which are: 1. To Store my backups of my main PC instead of using an external hard drive 2. General storage of large files (I digitise tapes so often deal with 50+GB video files) 3. Plex server with plenty of 4K large files 4. Virtual windows 11 machine for doing large video conversions that use a lot of CPU resources, allowing me to game and in the background convert large files with no performance hit on my PC. Originally I was all for going with Unraid but was then convinced that Truenas scale was the way to go and therefore build myself a NAS with these specs: Asus W680 Motherboard i7-14700K CPU 64GB DDR5 ECC memory Nvidia Quadro T400 GPU (for passthrough for the VM) 3x Seagate Ironwolf Pro 16TB (Currently in a RaidZ1 on Truenas scale) 1x Sabrent M.2 1TB (used for cache) 2x Sabrent M.2 500GB (used for mirror boot drives, I know these are probably going to be useless on Unraid and will happily sell these) Truenas scale has just given me issues, constant bugs and in 3 months I haven't been able to start a single VM due to all of the random bugs I have been encountering that aren't getting fixed, and looking at the complexity of it I don't think I need 99% of its features for my own home server. I am just wondering what filesystem is best for me to use on Unraid as I do want performance and reliability and don't want my plex performance to suffer. I like the ability to add drives in XFS but am willing to go without it if the performance benefits of ZFS will be worth my while with my hardware. One concern I had with XFS was file transfer speed when it came to moving multiple 50+GB files onto the NAS. I should also mention that I do have 10GB networking between my PC and NAS. Sorry if this sounds noobish, I am new to Nas/Home server setups so I am trying to learn as much as I can. Thanks guys