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I've always been bi-curious, that's why i have two parities.... Thanks for all the help peeps.

Ah gotcha. So everything important on my system is already protected? So I don't have to use "move" or anything else?

Ok thanks. Don't I want to move appdata and system off the cache if I'm just going to leave it?

Ah ok thanks. When I first installed and setup the cache I asked about it here and one person said something like since I have appdata and system on the cache it's not being protected. I'd rather remove it completely and the docker and reinstall at a later time if I decide to go that route.

Still over my head, sorry. I have no idea what docker is or does. I just use this as a file server for my home theater.

I appreciate you trying to help, but you're talking over my head. I'd rather just remove the cache as I never had a problem with the system before. Thanks.

LOL that's why I wanted to just remove the cache, I literally have no idea of what I'm doing. I didn't really have problems before just thought since I was building a new server that I add that in. I'd rather just remove it.

Great, thanks. For Docker, I went to settings, docker and then changed it to Enable Docker "No" and hit apply. Here's the file. Thanks for the help. tower-diagnostics-20251228-1648.zip

As requested. tower-diagnostics-20251228-1535.zip

I don't think I setup and use my cache the right way. How do I remove it? Idiot version please. Right now I have appdata and system on the cache, not sure why, and under the storage heading on the shares page it says "secondary storage to primary storage" and there's the cache symbol with an arrow pointing to it then the array symbol.

Great. Thanks.

A bit of a revisit on this. Server is working flawlessly and many thanks for the help. My power bill has been abnormally high so started tracking down what the problem is. Came across my 10G TP Link Switch and it's so hot you can't touch it for more than a second. Turns out this is kind of common, but all that heat comes from power consumption. So I'm looking at going to fiber as suggested. Could use a crash course in it and maybe a card recommendation that will work with unraid and my Supermicro X11SPI-TF MOBO and a switch.

Cool Thanks.

Gotcha. Thanks, again. I was reading that newer versions of Unraid, I'm using 7.0.1, with a cache using BTRFS automatically TRIMs. If that's not true how often to have it TRIM? it gives me, hourly, daily, weekly and monthly.

@Wody, question for you. You mentioned in a previous post that one of the mobo's I was talking about's PCIE slots were only for video cards. How can I tell what the PCIE slots are for, what am I looking out for? On my new Mobo the Supermicro, on the board itself it says CPU next to the PCIE slots, now I'm sure that's not what I think it is, but was wondering if you can point me to some where to educate myself to know what to look for in Mobo and what PCIE slots are designated for. Thanks. By the way I put that SAS LSI card in slot 3. Hope that's the right one as I think slot 1 is for graphics.

Ok i guess I never noticed. I guess the numbers aren't cumulative. They only change when something is happening.

Ok good to know. Thanks. Now that the array is up and running shouldn't there be numbers in the read/write columns of each hard drive? They are all zeros.

Ok transfer over went perfect. I started it up and it booted and everything was good. I didn't touch the BIOS or anything at all. Just left it as is. So i added a cache drive. Put a NVME on the board, booted it up, watched a video on how to setup a cache, added a pool called cache and asigned the NVME 1tb as the cache drive and formatted it. Over in shares there is a new icon next to Appdata and System. If you hover over it, it says, "Secondary Storage to Primary Storage". Then after watching the video I pressed the move button. Now there's an orange warning sign in shares next to appdata and system. It says, Some or all files are unprotected. So what did do wrong?

Excellent. Thanks. I'll keep you updated. Should have everything by Monday. Everything is new except the CPU which is renewed.

That was a lot to dig through. Thanks a bunch. I really appreciate it. Here's what I ended up ordering. Supermicro X11SPI-TF Server Motherboard - Intel Chipset - Socket P LGA-3647-1 Intel SR37J Xeon Platinum 8168 2.7GHz 24-Core Processor (Renewed) 5x 0GTEK SFF-8643 to SFF-8087 Mini SAS HD Cable Dynatron B11 3U Active Narrow Type CPU Cooler for Intel FCLGA3647 LSI LOGIC CONTROLLER CARD 05-25699-00 9305-24I 24-PORT SAS 12GB/S PCI-EXPRESS 3 2x Supermicro Certified MEM-DR432L-HL01-ER26 Hynix 32GB DDR4-2666 ECC REG DIMM So I went with two sticks of 32gb RAM, it was cheap enough. Anything I need to know about setting it up? Mess with or update the BIOS? I guess other than that just move my drives and Flash drive over and bob's your uncle? Right, Unraid will figure it out. Nothing to install or update?

Thanks a bunch. I appreciate it. This is a lot to unpack. Again a bit technical for me, but I'll see if I understand. So I'll go with the SI LOGIC CONTROLLER CARD 05-25699-00 9305-24I 24-PORT SAS 12GB/S PCI-EXPRESS 3. My backplane is mini SAS, so I'm assuming I can just buy a regular SAS to Mini SAS cable? Does it have to be reverse or anything special? Here's my buy list: Supermicro X11SPI-TF Server Motherboard - Intel Chipset - Socket P LGA-3647-1 Intel Xeon Gold 6138 20 Cores 2GHz 27.5MB 10.4 GT/s 125W LGA 3647 CPU SR3B5 (Renewed) SI LOGIC CONTROLLER CARD 05-25699-00 9305-24I 24-PORT SAS 12GB/S PCI-EXPRESS 3 5x 10GTEK SFF-8643 to SFF-8087 Mini SAS HD Cable, SAS 3.0 to 2.0, Compatible with RAID Controllers, Servers, Backplanes and Hosts, 100-Ohm EMIX RAM 64GB (2X32GB) DDR4 2933MHZ PC4-23400 2Rx4 1.2V CL21 288-PIN ECC RDIMM Registered Server Memory KIT Dynatron B11 3U Active Narrow Type CPU Cooler for Intel FCLGA3647 I'll obviously use my existing Norco 4220 and power supply. Anything else I'm missing?

Ok I hate to ask but can you recommend a system. No shorthand if you please as I don't get some of it. I have a Norco 4220 case with 5 Mini SAS on the backplane. I can use either a mini sas to mini sas (or something else I don't know about) or mini sas to sata reverse cable. I have 20 HDD, 19 regular and an SSD 1tb I want to add as cache. Motherboard, CPU (with onboard video), I'll go with 32gb of RAM, TP Link 10gbe, Cards or combo of onboard controllers for the 20 HDD. Amazon links if you want. THANKS!!

EEK, this all a bit over my head, but not by much, I catch both of you's drift. A lot to comprehend here. I decided not to go with my old system as it has no onboard video and I don't want a video card in there. Trying to make it as streamline and less things to go bad as possible.

Ooooo fiber. Interesting. I have no concept of that stuff. I'll do some research. So I'll just go with the X99 computer as is and just add my 20 Port Sata Card that I just got and the 10gbe card. I'll also add an SSD 1 TB (not nvme) as a cache. Should I have more than 16gb of RAM? Here's the Sata Card I just got. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZJKYH11?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

Ok thanks. Yeah it's just a regular array with shares. No pools.