tr0910

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  1. Have used unRaid since 2010 using 1gb RAM servers on 4.47 with 1tb drives. Currently have 6 Pro licenses. But each Pro license can do so much more these days that some of the licenses are sitting quietly as spares for future use. The last few years has seen some real moves forward with the capabilities. VM's and dockers are awesome. And the fact that unRaid can support multi-CPU server hardware with 512gb or more RAM makes each PRO license go a long ways. unRaid, you're all grown up now...
  2. Awesome Sent from my chisel, carved into granite
  3. 1-3 covered by UnRaid with Dockers and plugins and VMs. Remote access is also possible however secure solutions to 100% access require research and care. There is no single switch to turn this on. Parity will protect you from drive failure, but not from user error, theft, fire or water damage. Backups are still required for important data. UnRaid is a data downloaders dream and media consumption tool. Sent from my chisel, carved into granite
  4. You may have been fooled by caching. My dual Xeon 2670 with 96gb ram will show wildly different write speeds depending on ram available. The first 50-75gb is being written to the ram cache and happens at a much faster speed. Also a write to a non array drive will happen significantly faster than an array drive where parity needs to be calculated. Overall I can't say I notice my encrypted drives being any slower to write than my non encrypted drives. There must be some slow down but on my system it isn't noticed. Sent from my chisel, carved into granite
  5. Yes Enterprise equipment is best. Buying last generation castoffs is highly recommended. Buying new today without the benefit of Dell like buying power is going to cost more than most will want to spend. Finding the right castoffs is the challenge. Servethehome forums are a good place to find the details on the hardware hitting the market Sent from my chisel, carved into granite
  6. You are on the right track. Most of this old server stuff is solid as a rock, and most will work fine. I would go one gen newer though with Intel 2670 gen E5 cpu. The power usage will be less than half and the cost will still be reasonable. Ask about the disk controllers as you won't want ones limited to 2tb. Oh and yes they will be noisy, so knowing your options ahead of the game is recommended. Some can be easily fixed some can't. Sent from my chisel, carved into granite
  7. You definitely can exclude a drive from parity by making it cache as already mentioned, or if you already have a cache disk, by managing it with the unassigned devices plugin. Either way you will be doing the new config process and needing to do a fresh parity calculation process. It is recommended that you use an SSD for your VMS. They will perform better that way. Sent from my chisel, carved into granite
  8. Re: 80% improvement in context switching. I run win10 vm's on my Intel 2670 dual cpu server and they seem more laggy recently. Am I one who will really notice the benefits of this plugin? Sent from my chisel, carved into granite
  9. Hey, great going. I used to do this when I got a few new 4tb drives and my servers were all 3tb or 2tb. My Areca cards would create this kind of virtual parity with a bunch of spare 2tb drives. Worked great for me. You just have to manage your risk and for me, I went dual parity at the same time, so the risk was minimal. I quit using it as the Areca 1280 cards are getting long in the tooth and I got a bunch of 8tb drives all at once for the next upgrade.. But for the initial switch to larger drives it is perfectly fine especially when you will have a boatload of smaller drives sitting there doing nothing. Is this 48 bays in a 4U chassis ala the backblaze design??
  10. Can this be accomplished without a Sophos or Snort internet connection. What about those who have brain dead Comcast, Roadrunner, Verizon etc routers and can't or don't want to replace them. Can this be accomplished completely in unRaid iptables after opening up a bunch of ports on the router?
  11. Thanks for the tips. I wasn't expecting help from the expert, but only if others had tips. It seems that most have continued to use it as you recommended. I will use a VPN to get access securely for now. If the need escalates, I will revisit, thanks.
  12. Seems no one else is wondering about secure ftp??
  13. I have just updated to 6.7 and the latest proFTPd and am wondering about secure ftp configuration. Does anyone have this working? Up until now, only local access was required, there was no need to provide internet access, but now I might need to forward port 21 on my router and I am worried that this isn't secure with the default settings.
  14. Unraid counts attached drives during boot. It doesn't count network ports. Having USB drives attached during boot will cause this. Solution, unplug them at boot time. Sent from my chisel, carved into granite
  15. You mean Open-WRT? What are you trying to do? Sent from my chisel, carved into granite
  16. Note when you list the SAS address, it will be formatted with dashes for easy reading. Do not enter the dashes. Enter it as follows "sas2flash.efi -o -sasadd 5001E67C1B8A0000" Adapter Selected is a LSI SAS: SAS2308_2(D1) Controller Number : 0 Controller : SAS2308_2(D1) PCI Address : 00:05:00:00 SAS Address : 5001E67-C-1B8A-0000 NVDATA Version (Default) : 11.00.00.05 NVDATA Version (Persistent) : 11.00.00.05 Firmware Product ID : 0x2714 (IR) Firmware Version : 17.00.01.00 NVDATA Vendor : LSI NVDATA Product ID : RMS25KB080. BIOS Version : 07.33.00.00 UEFI BSD Version : N/A FCODE Version : N/A Board Name : RMS25KB080. Board Assembly : N/A Board Tracer Number : N/A Finished Processing Commands Successfully. Exiting SAS2Flash.
  17. I always get a full compare both sides but it takes only seconds for 70,000 files between USA and China. How many files are you rsyncing in one go? My experience with rclone is similar if a bit faster since it is USA to Google drive. No China delays. That a look at your rsync command. Do a smaller group of files to test. It may just be a typo... Sent from my chisel, carved into granite
  18. Yes it is script related and yes it will move files reliably internationally, but rsync is more like backup or copy than sync. You can copy both ways and remove deleted files, but you are not likely to be happy with the result. Now if you can live with a static file structure with no file deletes renames or file moves, you might be satisfied. If all file creation and file modification happens at one Central location, even better. But Dropbox is much better at true bidirectional syncing. Also check out rclone with Google drive or Amazon cloud storage. Sent from my chisel, carved into granite
  19. I have never had this issue as defined by @strike as I do most of my backups by disk. rsync mainserver.mnt/disk1 -> backupserver.mnt/disk1 If you can do it this way, you won't have the problems he listed. However if you want to backup mnt/user/everything -> mnt/user/everything and expect rsync to manage everything for you, it won't be so easy.
  20. OK, attempting to flash. Downloaded 9207_8i_Package_P20_IR_IT_FW_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows From @marsh at serve the home FYI , cross flash to LSI IT firmware Intel server F6 boot boot to UEFI shell fs0: dir sas2flash.efi -list > sas.txt ( capture SAS address ) sas2flash.efi -o -e 7 ( work ok with -e 7 , erasing flash ) or -e 6 sas2flash.efi -f 9207-8.bin ( no rom ) sas2flash.efi -o -sasadd SAS address
  21. Nothing wrong with shucking drives, actually even companies like backblaze do it to save money. I'd rather be able to afford a spare drive because I saved money by shucking external usb drives.
  22. Most if not all Areca success was with 1280 generation of adapters. I don't know what the status with the 1880 generation might be. I am running those older generation cards without issue on one server still today. @bonienl did the last Areca integration work. Check with him on the 1880. Sent from my chisel, carved into granite
  23. PSU failure can drive you nuts. It would be so convenient if there was a red light that would tell us it was the PSU. But no, we have to figure it out in the strangest ways. Sent from my chisel, carved into granite
  24. Sounds like I should order one and test. I have several s2600 motherboards with 1 or 2 cpus. Thanks...
  25. The sweet spot right now is the 8tb drives. Very affordable, and stable. I really wouldn't recommend buying smaller drives today. The WD and the Seagates both are working well. Note that the Seagates 8tb Archives are SMR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording) and the WD are PMR (non shingled). Exhaustive research here on the forum proved that SMR drives work good with unRaid. Many are using them. However if this worries you, grab the WD drives. The best price is found in external USB drives that need to be shucked from their plastic cases to install bare metal into unRaid servers. Note USB drives can be used with unRaid, as non-array storage, but the USB interface is not supported for array drives. Shucking is required and for that you save $50 - $100 per drive. These newer 8tb drives are about twice as fast as the 3tb Hitachi's. There are faster drives if you don't mind jumping to the 10tb, 12tb and 14tb size, but the increased speed is less than 20%. You will however be paying at least double the price for a small increase in capacity and speed for the newest and largest drives.