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I followed your contributions to unRaid over the years and have probably every one of your add-ons. You will be missed But every once in a while we will still spot your name in the code there somewhere. RIP

I joined when current version was 4 something. 5.X wasn't even being discussed yet. I migrated from an external RAID box running RAID5 (5 discs?) connected directly to my HTPC running MyMovies on Windows, Always on. Always spinning. Regular space heater. I did not realize at the time what it was costing me on the electric bill (more on that). I was looking at the Drobo line, mostly because it supported different disk sizes in the raid pool but passed on it as too expensive (thank deity as they've gone out of business). I stumbled across unRAID and decided to give it a try (I hadn't used Linux since college, strictly Windows). Started with a cheap tower with inexpensive AMD and a handful of 2TB & 4TB discs. It took me a week or more (I tend to block out traumatic memories lol) to transfer all the DVD & BRD rips to the new system. unRAID worked as advertised and I dove in headfirst in setting up Plex and other useful stuff. This was the time of plug-ins and avoiding incompatibilities. Almost immediately I noticed my electric bill dropping by HALF! Spinning down disks and only spinning up what was needed for playback was a revolution in cost savings! Fast forward to today and I am still loving unRAID! My server has changed drastically (see sig) but even with the fire breathing hardware I enjoy now, power costs are still reasonable. Docker changed the whole landscape for me. I don't run any VMs as my application requirements have changed now that I'm retired. No need for additional servers and such. Recently converted all my ReiserFS disks to XFS (beat the deadline - trauma lol). When I first set some of those up (before the eventual size upgrades over the years), it was the only choice for file system IIRC. Anyway it doesn't seem like its been 15+ years as this project is still fresh and exciting. New stuff coming along all the time. Its been a pleasure to be involved and to watch it grow from a one man shop to the vibrant enterprise it is now. Congratulations on 20 years! the OG system The current rig

Looks like you need a minimum of 850W to have a bit of headroom.

This might help you answer that question: https://www.newegg.com/tools/power-supply-calculator

Oh snap just realized there is already custom for header text. Sorry for the bother.

I use a custom banner which is black (See pic) and Black scheme sets that text as black. I reset banner to default and can now see that that section of text is indeed Black when set to Black scheme. Looks great for default banner. Is there a workaround (class?) to change just that section of text?

When color scheme is set to Black in Display Settings, the font color in the header is set to Black when it needs to be White (or at least lighter) to be visible on black background. Verified by switching to White or Azure color scheme the font colors are appropriate for the background and visible. Images attached for clarificatrion.

Correct me if I am wrong but the act of zeroing the drive will eliminate all folders (overwrite w/zeros) anyway. Same with converting and formatting.

Update: finally converted 11 ReiserFS disks to XFS. Been putting that off for years unRaid 7.x Pro 2x 22TB parity 290TB data array SanDisk 64GB Cruzer Fit USB Flash Drive (SDCZ33) StarTech.com 12U Adjustable Depth Open Frame 4 Post Server Rack 2x StarTech 1U Adjustable Mounting Depth Vented Rack Mount Shelf CyberPower OR1500LCDRM1U 1U Rackmount UPS System NORCO 4U Rack Mount 24 x Bays Server Rack mount RPC-4224 EVGA Supernova 850 G3, 80 Plus Gold 850W Modular Power Supply Gigabyte W480 VISION W Motherboard Intel® Core™ i9-10850K 10-Core Comet Lake 3.6GHz LGA-1200 CPU (passmark 23344) Noctua NH-L9x65, Premium Low-Profile CPU Cooler (65mm, Brown) 4x 16GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB Memory Module DDR4 4000 MHz (64GB) 4x Samsung 970 EVO 1TB - NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 SSD (MZ-V7E1T0BW) (2 mobo, 2 PCI-E slots) RAID1 2TB total 2x QNINE M.2 NVME SSD to PCIe adapter 2x M.2 Heatsink NVME Cooler w/active fans LSI Logic LSI00244 SAS 9201-16i 16-Port 6Gb/s SAS/SATA Controller Card 4x 10Gtek Internal Mini SAS SFF-8087 Cable, 0.5 Meter 1x NORCO Computer Parallel (reverse breakout) Cable (C-SFF8087-4S) 2x Gigabit network adapters bonded to a single interface

This plug-in is a life saver. I am on the last 12TB disk of the original 11 ReiserFS formatted drives (18 total). Been thinking about updating for years but always put it off as a massive hassle I would rather avoid. Finally jumped in when I read that 2025 is the year ReiserFS is being dropped from the kernel. Took me a minute (close to 2.5 days per drive) to get it done but now its almost over and I am ready to put this behind me. If you haven't already, send Juan a donation to acknowledge how useful his add-ons are especially this one at this time ;). Happy holidays Juan!

I am unable to stop the transfer process using 2024.12.23a. The red Stop button fades but the process continues. PS: Okay I refreshed the unbalance page and tried again and this time it stopped as should.

Came to report same error

Sounds like you just need a new drive to replace the fail drive. It's not a matter of sacrificing any data as it is emulated and slapping a new drive in and allowing it to rebuild the drive will bring everything back to normal. The new drive can't be smaller than the one you're replacing or larger than your parity.

Any way to fix the insecure connection error when I launch WebUI? Its using the myunraid.net hashed URL so it should just be able to take the HTTPS prefix right? I tried to do it manually and it just redirected back to the error message. PS latest Chrome browser

Excellent. Thanks!

New user. Quick question I wasn't able to find an answer with a quick browse of the topic... do I have to leave the browser window open that unBalance is running in? I'm assuming so? Anyone know of a workaround? I am in the process of moving multi terabytes in the quest to get all my reiserfs converted to xfs. First victim is 16TB disk 2 and UB sez 44 hours to move it all to new 20TB disk 1 !!

Yep. As I applied the change to each share it dropped off the list in the logs. Just need to remember to set it back once the drives are ready. I should have guessed this earlier since when the spamming stopped before was after I removed the drives and they no longer existed to be members of any shares. Once I added the new ones back in they appeared on the list of available drives but were not ready yet (clearing and not formatted yet) to be scanned.

This is new since then. I'm about to try something that came to me as an epiphany. All my shares are set to use "all drives". I wonder if I exclude 1 & 8 until they are done clearing and get added to the array as proper members.

I am in the process of replacing two drives (1 & 8 are clearing as New). Long story how we got to the point of dropping two drives of Plex content and adding new disks to replace them. If you want all the bone-headed backstory see here. I thought I had fixed the errors previously by letting Plex scan all its shares and "emptying the trash" to rid of the now missing titles. Once I found that the errors had returned tonight, I rescanned the TV share and found some more missing. I'm guessing Plex just isn't being thorough in marking the missing stuff? Can someone steer me in the right direction so I can get this back under control? tower-diagnostics-20241210-1833.zip

This is fixed by the remove 2 disks and rebuild parity. Self-inflicted data loss.

End result was deciding to sacrifice the contents of drive 1 & 8 (just plex stuff). Currently doing a "new config" parity rebuild without the two drives. Once done I will format the now "new" drives as XFS and put them back into the array. Then I can get going on converting the remaining 9 reiserfs disks.

Current status is I've unassigned disk one and disc eight. (The ones complaining about being smaller). That way I can at least have Plex running. No redundancy so hoping everything goes well until I can get back into stable condition. Tell me if this is valid option . Remove disc one and disc 8. Try to move the data off either one or eight to other drives with space available. Once it's empty, install one of the 20 TB new drives format as xfs and then repeat the procedure with the remaining disabled disc. EDIT: I am assuming I can move data from a drive that is being emulated. Is this true or am I deluded?

I have run into a snag. I put the 2x 12TB back in but it won't let me start the array once I have assigned them to their slots. Stopped. Replacement disk is too small. The replacement disk must be as big or bigger than the original. tower-diagnostics-20241208-0841.zip

Thanks Jorge. That explains a lot. Have stopped the rebuild and will put D1 & D8 originals back in and go from there. The purpose of the new drives was to make space to start the conversion process for the 11 reiserfs drives I have (ugh). I was able to upgrade D18 to 20TB as it was already XFS. That will have to be enough to get started.

SABnzbd reports 0 B Free Space (Temp Folder) when I try and download nzb files. That led to opening the syslog and its completely full of repeating errors of not finding any of the folders emhttpd: error: get_fs_sizes, 7834: No such file or directory (2): statfs: /mnt/user/SABNZB_downloads Likely related to the data rebuild that is running. I need some help. tower-diagnostics-20241208-0012.zip