MrCrispy

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  1. Where is the original screenshot from, is that some plugin?
  2. Just my luck. Months of reading up, I finally find an older pc and set up unRaid, had just got done with the array, configuring apps when I hear a loud bang/flash and it dies! I have no idea what happened, maybe a short, maybe the PSU. I have 29 days left in the trial. I'm not going to spend any money fixing this as I am slowly putting together my real server which will take some time. - the drives and unraid install should transfer just fine to the new hw as I understand with no changes? - is there any way to suspend my trial and resume when I get the new server up?
  3. These are drives I've used for a while, they have been tested earlier with other tools. I will also not be using a parity drive (most of the data on these is backed up, this is a new unRaid system I'm building, parity will be added later). I think unRaid at a minimum wants to write a 0 to every sector? I don't want or need a stress test. What's the fastest way to do this? Is the 'clear' in unRaid UI faster than the pre-clear script?
  4. I just used this calculator, its still useful because of the stupid way HDD sizes are labeled! One tiny request - make the default unit 1TB, I think 250/500GB drives are pretty rare now and they can be added as 0.5 etc. Should be a simple change.
  5. The SQ PSU is also more efficient. With the normal PSU's these come with, the fan is always on, but not with the SQ. The power draw at idle is also less.
  6. I guess I should start a new thread for SC846 owners? I have the original motherboard X8DTE-F and an LSI flashed to 9211 IT mode. Does everything in unRaid work out of the box - spindown, s3 sleep, IPMI etc? Do you guys use the server layout plugin?
  7. Do you have the original fans or did you replace them?
  8. I also have a bunch of older drives, most of them are <2TB, and a few newer ones (mostly 3-4TB externals) that I purchased as I see good deals and run out of space. I went the 'big server' way and got a SC846 off ebay. It is still the best value for money IMO for what you get, e.g. compared to a Norco, but bjp999 is right, you have to balance the need for expansion with the cost. A few years ago people had a bunch of 250-500GB drives and a 10-20TB server was a big deal. You can do that today trivially. Buying newer hdd's doesn't mean the old ones go to waste. They can still be used for backups. Which everyone should have, regardless of parity. And keeping backups on drives that are offline is really the best way.
  9. I already replaced the PSU with that model !! The original one (IR suffix) is a screamer for sure. But the fans are still very loud. I live in an apartment so there's really no place to hide it or isolate the noise.
  10. I'd never heard of Unison till now, thanks. You said its more dependable than syncthing, can you elaborate? I see some dockers like https://github.com/onnimonni/docker-unison, https://hub.docker.com/r/clesch/ssh-unison/, you could ask Squid to add them to CA, or make a template, maybe there's a guide somewhere?
  11. I bought a used SC846. As those of you familiar with this know, it has 5 80mm fans in fan cages which are extremely loud. I'd like suggestions for 80mm PWM fans which are quiet but have enough static pressure/airflow to cool the drives. I bought Arctic F8 pwm fans after doing a lot of research and it was a lot of trouble to get them in the cages because of their weird connector, and then I realized because of this they wont work with included control. So now I'm looking for other suggestions since I know many others here have this case. I don't want to replace the fan wall and get 120mm fans which is another suggestion for these.
  12. Is the SuperMicro X8DTE-F supported?
  13. But docker-compose is not in unraid. There are already old threads asking for this
  14. IMO Docker/VMs were added to unRaid because things like downloading/torrents/Plex are what most people want to run on their NAS, it isn't just meant to be a storage appliance. You can see this in commercial NAS boxes like Qnap/Synology too, they all had their own version of these things to run as plugins, and they've all moved to Docker as well since its easier and far less effort to maintain. VMs are a more nice case, I bet only advanced users use them.
  15. FireTV doesn't support HD audio as that needs at a minimum Android N I believe. Nvidia Shield does support HD audio.
  16. I've seen a few plugins/scripts (like cache_dirs) that do parts but I don't know of anything that integrates everything. This would be builtin feature of plugin with a GUI that - - automatically catalogs all file names and attributes, with their disk locations, in real time - keep history so you could view the evolution of your storage, do comparisons etc. - provide useful stats - maintain a full index with incremental search as you type - provide hooks to enable other parts of the system and other plugins to use this data I think for a NAS this would be quite useful and will have a number of uses. I also don't think it should be that hard since all writes have to go thru a single API which determines the actual disk/location and this could be used to update this database. Same for Mover, cache pool etc.
  17. It seems it's only going to be supported on their newer motherboards, X10 and newer. http://www.supermicro.com/solutions/Redfish.cfm
  18. It is a sticky thread in the 'User Customizations' forum. I'm just saying maybe that forum should be separated into v5/6 or make it clear? Also Squid didn't mean to imply that was in CA.
  19. I know about that of course. But e.g. unMenu is still listed but it won't be obvious that it doesnt work in v6, even though some of its features like MyMain have no equivalent. There are other plugins etc like that too. For a new user its still extremely confusing to figure out what to use.
  20. That'd only give remote access to the VM and not the unRaid box, right?
  21. I have 2 90GB ssd's. Since they are so small, I don't really want to use them as a cache pool since that is RAID 1 and will use 1/2 the space for redundancy. I will take manual backups of the imp stuff anyway. What is the best way to use these? 1. add one as cache, 2nd one as 'unassigned device'. Can either one of them be used as target for docker/vm? 2. RaId 0 with both drives - is this possible? I don't feel this is going to be as safe as #1 as any problem means losing both drives.
  22. From what I read, things like unMenu, Dynamix etc are now integrated in v6 but they are still the top threads. There's the old and newer preclear script. There used to be a thread about a new modern web UI but I can't find it anymore. What is the current best set of addons with a fresh install of latest unRaid?
  23. I think this should at least be added as a cron job in some user script. And I want to see docker compose in the next version as well.
  24. Proxmox is a hypervisor, similar to ESXi, Hyper-V, KVM etc, and it allows you to create and manage VMs as well as containers. Its an enterprise grade solution. unRAID is primarily meant to provide a safe, expandable NAS storage solution for home users, and as the 'un' suggests, it provides data safety in case of disk failure without the pitfalls and complexity of solutions like RAID (which don't allow expansion, keep data in non-native format, keep disks spinning etc etc). As a home server, unRAID allowed adding scripts/plugins for various additional functionality. With v6, its feature set was expanded dramatically and it can now run VMs using the full power of KVM and has an easier interface to manage things like virtualization and Docker. Since you are a pretty advanced user, esp since you said "My needs lean more toward virtualization than data storage" I believe any of these will serve you well. With unRAID you can get most of the features but it won't be as powerful/configurable as a full blown Hypervisor/Docker manager since one of the main goals is ease of use for the non-technical user. e.g. if you want to use things like Chef/Puppet/Ansible to automate your processes, use Docker compose, scripts etc, then this wouldn't be ideal as you are not the target audience. If however you want to have expandable storage as the main goal and also run other services via VM/containers without wanting to manage them yourself (e.g when I come home I want something simpler than my day job) then it works great. TLDR - if your storage needs are minimal, esp if you don't want to expand/protect drives, and your main goal is virtualization, monitoring, dashboards etc, then this may not be the best fit. Hope it helped.
  25. I am this guy. Always built my own pc's after tons of research, hand picking components, being obsessive about the build etc. Its a fun hobby. Then about 1.5 years ago I bought a Dell in one of their sales for about 60% of what it'd cost just for the components. I can't overclock it and it has less expansion bays, the bios isn't fancy UEFI GUI, but other than that its just as good, smaller, silent and I've been very happy.I realized if you keep your pc for even 2-3 years, things change enough that its just not worth it to keep old components around (except case and PSU). The fact that Synlogy/Qnap etc can sell tells me there is a market and its a matter of branding. But the marketing/support costs are probably very high in such a business.