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https://support.plex.tv/articles/201426506-why-are-iso-video-ts-and-other-disk-image-formats-not-supported/ Basically, no. Plex doesn't support those structures.

So, I figured out what is keeping my disks spun up... I have my Plex docker on a disk in my array. I don't remember what I did to put it there. How can I move it? I have a cache disk and so I have the configuration files there, but the docker.img file is still in my array. If anyone could point me to some instructions for moving, that would really help me out.

I have a disk (and the parity) that won't spin down. I try to spin it down and it starts back up. It just occurred to me that I have a Plex Docker on my system and the disk that won't spin down is the disk where I have the config data/etc. for Plex. Is Plex keeping this disk running?

I don't. I'm fine waiting for the Lime docker to get updated. I don't have any issues with my current installation and there isn't any functionality (that I know of) that I'm eager to start using. I'm happy with the current level of 'service', especially given that it was free to me. I guess I'm just curious to know if someone is maintaining the Lime version of the Docker? Eventually, there will be a security patch that I should have or something else equally important and I want to know if someone is, even if it is moving very slowly, maintaining the Docker. Thanks for your help!

I just logged in to the Plex Server interface and I see a message that there is an update to my version of Plex Media Server. I assume that I should ignore that and keep using the 'Check for Updates' button on the 'Docker' page of my Unraid server admin, correct?

@tdallen Thanks. Yes, NAS plus I'm going to start looking at setting up some Dockers. I'm probably overkill on RAM and CPU if I just decide to stick with using it as a NAS. As far as the hardware goes, I can afford to spend a few bucks on 'reliability'. I've got three little kids and just don't have the time to tinker, so I kinda want to just set this up and forget about it for the next 3-4 years.

So, I decided that in order to circumvent the expected massive failure of my hardware (my current build is about 10 years old), I'm just going to upgrade a bunch of stuff at once. I have the Cooler Master Centurion case and I'm going to re-use that. I'm replacing my CPU, Mobo, RAM and power supply. Also buying a HotSwap drive bay, as I don't want to mess with the hassle of taking everything apart in order to replace drives/etc. My array is currently 4 disks, 1 parity and 3 X 3TB drives and I don't foresee needing any more disks (I have about 5TB of stuff and I figure that drives are getting bigger faster than my need for storage) So, if anyone could let me know if they see a problem with any of my components, let me know... CPU Intel Core i3-7100 7th Gen Core Desktop Processor 3M Cache,3.90 GHz (BX80677I37100) $119 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NCESRJX/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER MOBO MSI Pro Series Intel B250 LGA 1151 DDR4 HDMI USB 3.1 ATX Motherboard (B250 PC MATE) $89.90 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N4LCX2D/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER RAM Ballistix Sport LT 8GB Kit (4GBx2) DDR4 2400 MT/s (PC4-19200) DIMM 288-Pin - BLS2K4G4D240FSE (Red) $60 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01F4Z4OPW/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER Power Supply EVGA 500 W1, 80+ WHITE 500W Power Supply( 100-W1-0500-KR) $40 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H33SFJU/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER Hot Swap Drive Bay ICY DOCK Black Vortex MB074SP-1B 4 Bay 3.5" SATA Hard Drive Backplane Cooler Cage with 120mm Front LED Fan in 3x 5.25" Bay $70 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LICRE8A/ref=ox_sc_act_title_5?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A1GQQIQD0YQTUY Thanks in advance for any help! Chris

@ashman70 thanks for the reply. Honestly, if I didn't have the three little ones who take up all my time, I would absolutely go for a used server. But, at least for this iteration of the server, I realize that I need to go with a 'low touch' solution. Heck, that is why I'm going for something with hot swap drives. Having to pull out the chasis (even for a tower), take it apart, etc. etc. even to do some little maintenance on a hard drive is more than I'm willing to commit to right now. I don't think I can sign up for knowing that the next few years will consist of failed fans, power supplies, indicators, etc.

I've decided to build myself a new server and looking to put this one in my rack. I was originally looking to buy something on ebay, but I realized that I was looking at machines with CPU's that were end of life in 2010. The reason I'm rebuilding is because I want to stay ahead of the anticipated failure of my current 8 year old machine. Getting something that is already older than that seems like asking for trouble... I've got a wall mounted rack that has about 18" of depth. I've found some racks that will fit, but they all tend to have a fatal flaw. For example, I found one chassis that had room for an optical drive. That meant that the HD in front of that didn't get much airflow... I think that if I have 4 hot swap drive bays, that should be enough. I currently have 3 3TB data disks at about 50% capacity. I figure that upgrading to larger drives will give me all the space I need (as opposed to needing to add drives) as I go forward. Anyway, I'd like to find a chassis that will fit in my 'short' rack. I could do a 2U or 3U (but for some reason, a 4U chassis just feels like it would be egregious). Again, I don't want to have to take the thing apart to work on the drives, so hot swap capability (even if I end up powering the whole thing down to swap out drives). The machine is in a closet in the basement, so I don't care about noise. I don't do anything with the machine, other than stream some media and backup some laptops and photos (no dockers or VM's or transcoding going on). Anyone have a good recommendation?

I've got an unraid server that I build around 8 years ago. Family is happily using it and so I don't want it to die and then have it be out of commission for a month while I get around to building another one. I've got 3 little kids and no time for 'fun'. So, if I could find a pre-built server to buy, I think it might be time for me to just upgrade to some new hardware so I can forget about it for another 8 years Anyone have experience buying one? Where did you buy it? I've got a rack, so I would be happy to move away from the tower that I originally build years ago, but I try to keep an open mind. Any thoughts/advice would be appreciated. FWIW, I went to the Vendor area of the forum and I get some permission errors saying that I don't have access to that content. Thanks, Chris

I need to replace my UPS. It is quite old and has just died... Anyway, I've been researching this and I'm getting confused on what I am reading. I've seen that some hardware requires a 'true' sine wave, as opposed to a 'stepped' approximation. My unraid hardware is probably 6-7 years old, so I'm not sure if I need to worry about this or not. I don't need anything fancy (really, I just want something that will keep the unraid box, plus another desktop (plus their monitors, too, I guess), running in case of a short power outage. If the outage is more than just a couple minutes, then just gracefully shut down the unraid machine. I'm willing to pay a few more bucks for something that will 'just work' and my time available for figuring out things that aren't working properly is minimal (thus, willing to spend a few bucks for something that will just work). I'm running v6.1.3, so I'm willing to upgrade my server first, if that would help. Thanks, Chris

I'm kinda new to this particular game and so I hope I'm not asking a silly question. I need to buy a UPS. The research I'm doing is a little inconsistent. Some things report that you need a UPS to provide a pure sine wave and other people say it isn't terribly important. Honestly, I'm willing to spend a few extra bucks to get a UPS that will 'just work' and not require much time playing with it. I really only need something that will allow me to set unraid (v6.1.3) to gracefully shut itself down if the power is out for more than a few minutes. This is a simple home application, so I don't need anything fancy. I just want to power the unraid box and maybe one other desktop machine running windows (plus monitors for both). Any reco's would be greatly appreciated. (and, should I bother upgrading unraid to 6.1.8 first) Thanks, Chris

gary and itimpi... Thanks for the advice. Now that I've blown the night I had set aside for this, I have to hope the wife and kids will give me an hour to take care of this tonigh... --Chris

So, take out d1 and d2 before I do anything else. Got it. But, I'm curious, how do I restart the server? Will it detect that d1 and d2 are missing and not start the array? Or is there something I need to do on startup to prevent the array from starting and getting all confused and stuff?

I hope I haven't screwed myself up, but I guess I know that all my data is still good on my disks. Anyway, here is the story... I had two older disks that were 750GB. I wanted to replace them with one single 3TB disk. Let's say that the old disk were d1 and d2 and the new disk is d3. The following were done with the array running and d3 added to the array 1) I created sub-folders on d3 called d1 and d2. 2) I copied the contents of d2 to the folder /d3/d2. 3) I copied the contents of d1 to the folder /d3/d1. 4) I used rsync to check the checksum of the files and made sure that everything copied over to the new disk correctly. Then, I stopped the array and did the following. 1) Mounted d3 to a point so I could access the content 2) Moved the content of subfolder /d3/d2 up to the root of the drive 3) Copied the content of subfolder /d3/d1 up to the root of the drive and used rsync to make sure that that copy went well At this point, I think I should have removed d2 and d1 from the array and restarted with a new config. My understanding is that parity would have been rebuilt and profit! What I did was, power down the server with the intention of removing d1 and d2 from the server (note, I did not remove anything from the server. I just powered down and then thought to myself "Hey, dummy, you should have restarted the array first and rebuilt parity"). So, now, I'm afraid to power the server back up. I don't know just how confused the array will be by the changes I made while the array was stopped. What should I do? I have unraid v6 installed on the server. Is it safe to power it back up? Will it recognize that the array is in a bad state and just do nothing? Will it try to 'fix' the data disks using the last good version of parity? (I guess that this wouldn't be the worst thing, since it would just put me back to the end of step 4) above, right before I stopped the array). What should I do? Thanks

I just upgraded to v6.1.3 I have two older disks in my array that I am going to replace with one larger one. Can someone confirm and just give me a little peace of mind that the process is the following: 1) Put the new disk in the machine and preclear it (I sorta expected this to be something I could do via the web gui by now). At 3TB, this will probably take a couple days or so. 2) Using a telnet session, copy data from each of the two older disks to the new one. 2a) Using rsync or some other tool, compare the data on the old disk with the new disk to make sure nothing was lost 3) Stop the array 4) Remove the two old disks from the array and then add the new one back in and restart the array 4a) This should trigger the system to re-calculate parity. Let it. 5) Profit Did I miss anything? I'm assuming that having the new drive be formatted as XFS while the older disks (This process will leave me with 2 older, 2TB disks, in the array along with the new 3TB disk) are still Reiserfs won't be a problem. I will eventually replace the 2TB disks with newer disks at some point, but that might be a year or more away. Any issues with having a 'mixed' array like this? Thanks, Chris Edit: FWIW, I did find the Preclear plugin. I don't get the new disk until tomorrow, but I'm looking forward to not having to telnet into my machine to do this!

I'm going to wait to hear back from support regarding 4.7. In the meantime, I'm not sure what would prevent me from just swapping out the parity disk. I have run parity recently with no errors. I also took a screen shot with the drive assignments, so I can easily replicate that if necessary. However, I don't anticipate any problems. I'm going to just plug in the 'cold' drive that is already mounted in the machine and then turn it back on and change the assignment of the parity disk. After rebuilding parity, I'll at least feel safe enough to leave the server on so I can start using it again and then upgrade as quickly as life allows. Agreed that a few hours of investment every few years is a small price to pay for what I get out of this thing.

RobJ thanks for the advice. I don't really know what I'm looking at when I read the SMART report, but I recognize the word "fail" when I see it. I'm pretty sure the upgrade to 5.X requires first moving to 4.7, which you have to request from Tom. I'll swap out the parity while waiting for my response from support and then do the upgrade once I get all the files I need. You are actually making me more paranoid than I was. The drive isn't making any noise that I can hear and like I mentioned, the last parity check was only a couple weeks or so ago and it reported no errors.

Last parity check was, worst case, Sept 1. I think it ran again after we lost power and my wife turned off the UPS because it was beeping (sigh). The quick SMART test on the other drives looked good. I'm not surprised the parity is dying, it is probably 4 or 5 years old. I know I need to upgrade, I just figured that the parity replace was a fairly quick and easy replace. Hadn't occurred to me to be worried about the state of parity, but since it was so recent and I know I haven't copied anything to the drive in some time.

Mind if I ask why you suggest that? I know I need to upgrade. But im not sure how long that will take and I know how long it will take to replace a drive. It seems counter intuitive to do something that might stress a drive that is reporting that it is failing. ..

FWIW, here is the report that is telling me that the drive is dying: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: SAMSUNG HD203WI Serial Number: S1UYJ1CZ101535 Firmware Version: 1AN10002 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: Not recognized. Minor revision code: 0x28 Local Time is: Sun Sep 14 18:05:29 2014 GMT+5 ==> WARNING: May need -F samsung or -F samsung2 enabled; see manual for details. SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED! Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA. See vendor-specific Attribute list for failed Attributes. General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. Self-test execution status: ( 137) The previous self-test completed having a test element that failed and the device is suspected of having handling damage. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (25140) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 255) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x003f) SCT Status supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 001 001 051 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 35728 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0026 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0023 061 060 025 Pre-fail Always - 11910 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 616 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 252 252 010 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 252 252 051 Old_age Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0024 252 252 015 Old_age Offline - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 4603 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 252 252 051 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 47 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0022 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0022 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 064 060 000 Old_age Always - 34 (Lifetime Min/Max 14/40) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 252 252 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0036 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x002a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 223 Load_Retry_Count 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 225 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 21111 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed: handling damage?? 90% 4603 - # 2 Short offline Completed: handling damage?? 90% 4599 - # 3 Short offline Completed: handling damage?? 90% 4598 - SMART Selective Self-Test Log Data Structure Revision Number (0) should be 1 SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0 Warning: ATA Specification requires selective self-test log data structure revision number = 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Completed_handling_damage?? [90% left] (0-65535) 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0):

A smart test is telling me that my parity disk is failing (I have unraid 4.5.4. Yeah, I know, I have been busy with life for a few years. Since this thing just tends to 'work', it doesn't get any sort of attention). It was pretty much luck that I even spotted this at all. Anyway, my drives (including parity) are all still showing green and no errors, so I'm not necessarily afraid of anything crashing today, but I'd like to fix this as soon as possible (luckily, I happen to have a spare drive, already cleared, just sitting in the case, ready to be plugged in). Anyway, I can't find anything that clearly shows the steps to replace the parity drive. I suspect that they are: 1) Document all drive assignments 2) Shutdown server 3) Connect parity replacement. 4) Restart server 5) Stop the array 6) Update configuration, changing the parity assignment from the old drive to the new drive. 7) Verify all other drive assignments to make sure user didn't do something stupid. Profit? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I know, once I get things back in order, I need to upgrade to a more recent version... Thanks in advance for any help. Chris

Just making sure I understand this... So, if I have fewer than 4 drives connected to one of these cards, it wouldn't make any difference if it was 4x or 16x, since I have fewer than 4 cards, I would use fewer than 4 lanes and there would be no bottleneck (well, there probably would, but it would just be somewhere else). Thanks, Chris

I'm having slimserver issues as well. I was running 4.4.2 with bubbaraid and slim ran without issues. I upgraded to 4.5.4 and am now using unmenu. I installed perl from the unmenu package manager and now trying to run slimserver gives this message: The following modules failed to load: GD To download and compile them, please run: /boot/apps/slimserver/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl GD So, I figure, what the heck, and try to execute that command. Well, I get this error: Can't locate File/Which.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/slimserver/CPAN /usr/share/squeezecenter/CPAN CPAN /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i486-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i486-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i486-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /boot/apps/slimserver/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl line 20. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /boot/apps/slimserver/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl line 20. Does this make sense to anyone? Obviously strange things are afoot in the land of perl, but what? Thanks in advance, Chris

fwiw, once I manually added that line to my 'go' script, it works like a champ. Thanks again for a great tool. Chris