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In case someone runs into this, this was not NIC related. In another thread, I saw someone having similar issues and reporting that copying files directly to hard drives or the cache drive did not cause the issues. I did a test by copying the same large file to every disk share and found that in about half the cases I'd get perfect file transfer jobs that start right away and stay at 113Mbps and then drop to 69Mbps once RAM is space is filled up, and in the other half of the cases file transfers to the server would have delayed starts and once they start, you get wild speed swings all the way to zero. Interestingly, these wild transfer speeds happened on every drive that was formatted to reiserfs. None of the XFS formatted drives had this issue. There's got to be a solution to this as my other server has a mix of reiserfs and xfs formatted drives but doesn't have the same issues when copying files to the share spanning all disks, but I don't know what it is. My solution is to reformat all the remaining drives on the server with the issues to xfs.

Yes, I tried another NIC. Pulled a working one Intel Gigabit CT from my workstation. Works fine with that motherboard when booting into windows 10 but not recognized by Unraid for some reason.

Anyone?

I upgraded my very old Unraid servers to X11SCA-F and X12SCA-5F boards. The X11SCA-F server is great, but the X12SCA-5F is giving me issues and I am having a hard time understanding whether those are driver or hardware related, so need your help guys. Deciding whether I should exchange the board (not easy with me being in Canada and the board came from the US) while I still a have a few days to do so. The X12SCA-5F has three NICs - an IPMI NIC and Intel's i225LM and PHY I219LM NICs, both should be supported by Unraid. The issue is that Unraid doesn't recognize the I219LM NIC (tested with 6.9.2 and next RC1). The i225LM is recognized and works but file transfers to the Unraid server are erratic, starting at around 113MB/s, going down to 40-50, up to 80-90, then to zero, back to 40-50, up to 113, then 10-20, etc. From the server to Windows it's a perfect ~113 MB/s line. Why could this be happening? On the other server it's a perfect 113MB/s line for a while then drop to ~69MB/s and it stays there until the file transfer is done. Any thoughts? Deffective board or driver issue? P.S. Installed windows on this machine too, updated drivers to the latest. The i225LM NIC works fine, wither transmitting or receiving traffic. The I219LM gets speeds of 300 Kbps for a minute than errors out. Accessing the internet is fine though, getting max speeds with speedtest.net.

I upgraded my very old Unraid servers to X11SCA-F and X12SCA-5F boards. The X11SCA-F server is great, but the X12SCA-5F is giving me issues and I am having a hard time understanding whether those are driver or hardware related, so need your help guys. Deciding whether I should exchange the board (not easy with me being in Canada and the board came from the US) while I still a have a few days to do so. The X12SCA-5F has three NICs - an IPMI NIC and Intel's i225LM and PHY I219LM NICs, both should be supported by Unraid. The issue is that Unraid doesn't recognize the I219LM NIC (tested with 6.9.2 and next RC1). The i225LM is recognized and works but file transfers to the Unraid server are erratic, starting at around 113MB/s, going down to 40-50, up to 80-90, then to zero, back to 40-50, up to 113, then 10-20, etc. From the server to Windows it's a perfect ~113 MB/s line. Why could this be happening? On the other server it's a perfect 113MB/s line for a while then drop to ~69MB/s and it stays there until the file transfer is done. Any thoughts? P.S. Installed windows on this machine too, updated drivers to the latest. The i225LM NIC works fine, wither transmitting or receiving traffic. The I219LM gets speeds of 300 Kbps for a minute than errors out. Accessing the internet is fine though, getting max speeds with speedtest.net.

Thanks. Much appreciated.

Can someone help me understand, how do I connect the LSI SAS9305-24I to SAS3 Backplane? The backplane, 24-port BPN-SAS3-846EL1, has 2 Primary SAS ports and 2 Secondary SAS ports. The HBA has 6 ports The cables recommended by Supermicro and Broadcom are 1 SFF-8643 connector on one end and 1 SFF-8643 on the other. There are no 1 to 6 breakout cables. Am I to understand that I can plug the cable into one of the primary ports on the backplane and into any one port on the HBA to get 24 drives connected? Broadcom cable reference for this card - https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/12354774 Supermicro backplane connectivity reference - https://www.supermicro.com/manuals/other/BPN-SAS3-846EL.pdf Thanks.

All good here. Have been running two LSI SAS 9207-8i cards for over week now and no issues. Very happy with the speeds I am getting.

Looking for a 9305-24i myself and wondering the same thing. I am leaning toward buying from Alibaba though as I've had very good experience with various sellers there lately. Let me know if you decide to buy off eBay and how it goes.

Anyone experienced a problem running two LSI SAS cards in X11SCA-F? Thinking of getting this motherboard but need to make sure that two LSI cards can run simultaneously in it. Someone in another thread mentioned that he had a problem with running an LSI card in the slot nearest the CPU but it could have just been a temporary glitch.

A bit off topic but the best thing I did for myself a few years back was to ditch BI in favor of Milestone xProtect.

I have two Unraid servers that were upgraded exactly 7 years ago. Both run on Supermicro X8SIL-F motherboards and Xeon processors. There only things that were upgraded are fans, PSUs and drives. Both are running fine and I am thinking why change anything if it ain't broke, or am I missing something?

Thank you guys. I've been doing some investigating on my end, looks like it's the sickbeard that caused that. The mover ran pretty much when the errors began. I recall this happened to me a few years back. In both cases I was running parity check. I now disable Sabnzbd and Sickbeard when I run checks, but forgot to do that this time. Anyway, all drives are fine, I ran SMART checks and all passed. Performing restore procedure now.

Ahhh... another problem. After I fixed the new 6TB drive size issue with a reboot, I decided to do a parity check before upgrading to v6. That did not go too well, I am seeing a multitude of errors, on parity drive and other drives. Disk 17 is redballed. I am quite unsure what I need to do at this point. I could replace drive 17, which was totally fine until now, but I am concerned about about errors on the parity drive. Any help would be much appreciated. By the way, the reboot did not go too well. The server did not come back up. I had to shut it down via telnet (saw some kind of error message there, forget what it said exactly) and start again. Thanks very much in advance.

Thank you Rob. Rebooted and all is fine now. I've been hotplugging my drives for a long time now, never an issue. However, I will stop doing that. Thank you for your help.