Morris0

Uneventful upgrade from 7.2.3 to 7.2.4.

You will have a decent number of spinning disks and screw them in. If you run into disk issues or choose to upgrade them, having to tear that ancient case apart each time will get old fast! Get a case with trays.

By default, network interfaces are bridged with outbound traffic going out the first interface. This is one of the oddities of UnRAID. You don't want them bridged, you want them separate and then normal linux networking will happen with traffic following routing. The way you are configured right now all traffic is exiting the first NIC and has a 2.5 GB limit somewhere in the path to the windows box.

Thank you Jorge, Happy Holidays, Morris

I come from TrueNAS and in that environment nothing is committed without first displacing what will happen. I find this approach rather risky, particularly for those that are not experienced. I looked over the documentation for ZFS: I did not see anything about a spare subpool. I just gave pool expansion quite a bit of thought and it gets quite interesting if one has a Raid Z1 of 3 drives and wants to add 3 drives to this pool. There are two possible configuration: 2 VDEV of 3 drives each or a single VDEV of 6 drives. If one increases the drive slots from 3 to 6 and then starts the aray, it will ask for the drives. Will it show the user that it's going to create a pool of 2 VDEV of 3 drives each? That's what I'd guess would be done as growing the VDEV has to be one drive at a time which was in the Read ME for the 7.x release yet is not in the documentation which is rather thin and that's what concerns me about the lack of a preview of what will happen. Furthermore, if you don't get the desired results, there is no way back, or at least I don't see a non destructive way of doing so.

I feel we should see the proposed change to the pool before starting the array. Starting the array inserts the drive into the pool. How do we know the system will do what we wish to the pool? For example, if one is adding a spare rather than expanding how would this work?

I just added a second disk to a single disk ZFS pool. I increased the slots to 2 and assigned the drive. There is no sign of the new configuration till the array is started. This is rather scary as one does not know what will happen. I request that the new proposed configuration be shown so we can have confidence in the change we are making. Thank you, Morris

Getting low disk space alert and discovered the threshold for space for the intimal pool changed during migration. The values should have come from the top level settings yet they changed on this pool. I've also seen the disk temperature thresholds change on some drives. I recommend everyone go over there disk and pool settings to avoid harm or false alerts.

Uneventful upgrade from 7.1.4 to 7.2.0. That's rather boring yet the type of boredom I like. Thank you for the great job

If you create a RAID Z1 with the three drives, your transfer speed should be about double of a single drive. One drive will be used for parity.

Unraid 7.1.4-rc.1 upgrade to Unraid 7.1.4 without issue. I'm one of the people that was affected by the Network issues. I'm happy to say that 7.1.4-rc.1 corrected my issues and I'm thrilled by the openness of the Unraid developers and there rapid responses to issues. I used to run TrueNAS and one is much more on their own when there is a bug and the community on the forums is always falting you rather than keeping an open mind to help identify issues and even when a bug is identified, it's a very long wait. For those that are concerned about stability and the possibility of stepping on a bug, then use the old tried and true method of waiting for months till upgrading when you have a stable system.

Look beyond your server. Network switches, routers and access points can consume a surprising amount of power. Managed devices tend to consume more power than unmanaged and might not be worth the extra cost of the device and/or operation if you have a simple network. Tri band access points consume more power than dual band. If the air where you live is not congested, you can get fine performance with dual band APs. Lots of empty ports use power, a smaller switch might be a better choice.

7.1.1 to 7.13 seems to have gone without issue. Thank you for the quality work

I have a backup running to the new pool. I've got a bunch of things to address yet this issue is resolved. Thank you Jorge, Morris

Correct, I forgot to erase the pool. I've done that and started the aray and so far things look good. The system is restarting now. This has been quite a learning experience and while frustrating it's good. I've got lots of experience including in TrueNAS. It's the differences that have been biting me. I would have never thought of a RAM issue, your help there has been critical.