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So I am very new to unraid, but this is troubling. Should I keep my old Synology around to be able to timemachine backup to? And even after reading all of these threads, there are so many options...I don't know what to implement. I'm on Sonoma with an M3 mac. I use my NAS to archive all of my photos, so speed is obviously important. What changes above are the ones for my situation? Are intel and arm treated differently?

Thank you -- that was the ticket.

I put in a new (second) Nvme drive today and it shows up in my UX. I can format it, but after doing so, Mount is greyed out. Not sure how to move forward.

Yeah, I am seeing those...after a lot of dinking around last night, I finally saw this in the plex logs whenever I try to force a transcode. I am certain, at this point, that something inside the container is having issues getting to the drivers properly. I am, once again, going to try a fresh transfer and see what the problem is. Tdarr finds the iGPU just fine, so the problem isn't in unraid, it's in the plex container. [Req#6a7/Transcode] [FFMPEG] - Failed to initialise VAAPI connection: -1 (unknown libva error) Req#6a7/Transcode] [FFMPEG] - libva: /config/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Cache/va-dri-linux-x86_64/i965_drv_video.so init failed When I cleared the cache and rebooted the container, I just get the "Failed to initialise VAAPI..." message. I suspect when I copied over my Plex Media Server folder, as they instruct you to do on the plex site when moving between machines, something messed up the install. As I tried the same folder with both binhex and the "official" container, that has to the be issue. I just wanted to preserve my playlists and "watched/unwatched." Update: tonight I started over and rescanned everything instead of moving the Plex folder from my old install. That solved the problem. I followed the plex directions entirely and it completely didn't work. Weird. Thanks for the help everyone...live and learn every single day with this.

FWIW, I can get tdarr to use the iGPU, also via docker, by putting "device='/dev/dri'" just fine. It's plex, which is making me start to wonder if somehow my "plex pass" isn't granting the container the rights to use the hardware encoding. Not sure how to debug that. I moved my Plex folder over from my old install. Plex is supposed to look for your plex pass and grant the container permission...but how do you check it?

Thank you for responding. Here is my /dev/dri directory: I have tried both binhex-plexpass and Plex-Media-Server (official). Here is my setting for transcodes: All of this set, and when I play a file and downgrade it on purpose to transcode: Are there logs somewhere that would show me errors or what could possibly be going wrong? Everyone else seems to think this is solved by just doing --device='/dev/dri' yet that hasn't done anything for me. Again, thank you for the help.

Hi there -- I have a Beelink SEi12 with an i5 12450H in it. I installed the Plex-Media-Server container and moved my plex data over from my Synology. So far, so good. What isn't good is that nothing I do will make the container use the iGPU. It is always using the CPU to transcode. I have a plex pass. I am passing /dev/dri as a device. Nothing. I am at wits end and about to abandon this unraid adventure as it shouldn't take a day to make something work. I could use some advice/help on what I can look at. If I can't solve it this weekend, I'm going to just buy a bigger synology and move on with my life.

I was full of hope reading that...and sadly, it still didn't work. To review: - I've tried editing the Preferences.xml to have /dev/dri/renderD128 in it. No love. - I've installed the Intel TOP and GPU add in to see it on the dashboard - I've mapped everything in the container as per your description above, exactly as you have it When I run intel-gpu-top, this is what I get and it never moves, so it's not being used. I'm baffled. intel-gpu-top: Intel Alderlake_p (Gen12) @ /dev/dri/card0 - 0/ 0 MHz; 100% RC6; 0.00/ 8.55 W; 2 irqs/s ENGINES BUSY MI_SEMA MI_WAIT Render/3D 0.00% | | 0% 0% Blitter 0.00% | | 0% 0% Video 0.00% | | 0% 0% VideoEnhance 0.00% | | 0% 0%

I'm doing my unraid setup, and today was "get the plex working" day -- I have it all going using this container, but it refuses to use my iGPU (intel). I have it enabled in the plex settings. I have it selected just fine, and added a device /dev/dri to the configuration screen. So far, no love and no idea where to go from here. Also, I keep getting remote access disabling even though the router is port forwarding just fine to the unraid box on that port. I have to re-enable it and force it to try again.

Spoke too soon -- at 77% now, hours later, and we have dropped from my top speed of 170Mb/s to now clocking at around 50MB/s with 4 hours to go. This is crazy.khan-diagnostics-20240328-1343.zip

Weird -- I'm not a hardware guy so I trust when the motherboard says it's USB 3.1, I trust it. I just moved the OWC to use the front thunderbolt port and now I'm operating at 165Mb/s which is much much better. Not sure why the other ports are coming in at such a slow speed...drivers in unraid? The USB controller is Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH USB 3.2...color me puzzled. But, regardless, I'm running over thunderbolt now and it's much, much better. I'll be scoping out a decent case for a real server soon. Too many options and I'm not great at building PC's, so this will be an adventure. Thank you for the help.

First, yes, I know USB is not recommended. I'm just getting started with unraid and will be, over time, upgrading my system to an enclosed server with SATA, but right now, I'm in emergency mode as I am moving off of a Synology that is running out of space. I have a USB Enclosure (OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad) and it's hooked up to a Beelink SEi12 via USB. I have three drives currently in the enclosure. 2 are in an array (Seagate Ironwolf NAS 12TB), the third is the data I'm trying to copy from. I have also attempted to copy directly over the 1GB ethernet from the synology using rsync. I have no parity drive installed yet or setup. I was saving that for the end. The problem is that I am getting about 20-30MB/s transfer speed no matter what I do. From a USB drive dock, from putting the disk into the enclosure, and then rsync over ethernet. Sloooooooooow speeds, which means it has to be the write speed. I'm copying to /mnt/user/media which is where I want my media files to go. Enclosed is my log. I'm hopeful we can figure this out as waiting 44 hours to copy one single folder is a lot. Unconfirmed 10845.crdownload