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I don't get all excited about jazzy eye candy, except the movie content itself. I'm 52 years old. I've had every media player and iteration there ever was. The processing power in those little boxes always have been behind. NOW, today, I can finally say I can play all Lord of the Rings movies using their intended rate. Achieavble only using my Dune player because of the onboard processing power. My Roku, and Apple TV wouldn't be able to do it, nor even start the beginning of the movie. That's why I'm having this little test, having another user try out one of the movies I have that can only be played with my Dune via file manager type access. If you read above you'll see that I only use Dune as a file manager type player and that's it. Scroll to the content I want to watch and press enter.

I have the TURBO WRITE plugin installed and right now turned on. I also have my disk settings on RECONSTRUCT WRITE. Are they conflicting each other? My server is up 24/7. Is it a good or bad idea to have both these options on?

Awesome, I'd love to play around since there was always that %0.00001 that it was my entire network. If you can play the file I'm compressing for you over your network, awesome! Since it is in a file form, how would you play it with your Apple TV? Do they even have the capability to play media files with a file manager type interface?

By the way, have you seen the latest Dune firmware? They have incorporated APPS like Netflix, HBOMAX, DISNEY, PLEX, and a nice new way to present it. Looks like they took a visual copy off of the Nvidia shield. The shield is my next best player. It usually can play high bitrate content via Plex with no pausing or artifacts. You just can't bog it down with APPS and games. I had to factory reset mine a few times, wanted to see what it would take to just make it not work. After a few crappy APPS it got slower and slower. But I do have to say Nvidia is $200 or more, so players in that price range are the only ones going to be able to do anything. An $80 Roku just isn't going to cut it. I think while this movie is compressing I'll plug in one of my Apple TV's'. Maybe a nice new firmware.

That's why I indicated the only thing the Dune is good for is just to play individual high bitrate files. I've went your route. Ordered 2 of the newer versions of the Apple TV 4k models. I was really hoping I was going to be set. Unfortunately there was no way for me to access my media on my server as like with a file manager so I can just pick and choose what I wanted to play. When trying to play with Plex, it would once again, only play low bitrate files. Plus it also didn't have several audio profiles that we all love. DTS! If I increase the rate to over 20, forget it. The Apple TV would mostly pause and force me to power cycle it. I'll tell you what, let me squeeze one of my movies and put it in my OneDrive share. I'll give you access to grab it. I'll record myself playing that file with my Dune player. Just for testing purposes I want to see if you are able to play this same file with your Apple TV 4K. Heck, maybe all this time I'm doing something wrong or missing something. I kind of would love to be proved wrong so maybe I can start using other media player I spent all this money on. I'll come back with the link for you. I've tried to do this with about 15 people and for some odd reason everyone tells me they are too busy or just don't want to. Anyway, I do hope you have the time.

I definitively recommend using a server type chassis with a backplane. DO NOT try to string along many drives using individual SATA data cables to a motherboard. I've had my Norcotek RPC-24 bay server chassis for about 8 years or so. Just last week one individual port doesn't light up a drive. Not the worst situation since I only use 16 drives, so I have some room to spare. It is also MUCH easier to work on a server chassis that's sitting on a table. I was going to install mine in my data closet in it's own small rack but then I told myself the first time I ever had trouble and needed to work on it I would go crazy. So I just bought one of those indestructible poly tables and put the server right on that. It came with it's own fans, which were adequate enough, may I say too adequate. I replaced all the internal fans with Noctua Industrial models and I can barely hear the server at all. I would NEVER want to go back to a standard/regular computer case if I was building a system with a lot of drives. Never, ever. To spruce things up and time for a change I was just looking to replace my server chassis with another model. They are all from China unfortunately and since everything is going smaller, faster, it gets harder and harder to obtain server chassis. I suspect eventually as a few years go by they will be even harder to get. My first unraid box used the istarUSA 5bay boxes that slid into a large tower. I had to deal with all the power lines and SATA cables. It was a nightmare. When you use a server chassis each entire backplane ( 5 drives ) uses one molex power line, you do not need to power each drive individually. Anyway if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. I've been using unraid since it first came out and had about 10 iterations of servers. I do lots of ripping and also converting, downloading, you name it. I try to get the highest bitrate content I can because when I sit down after work to relax it looks amazing on my new OLED TV. I use the newer Roku 4800r model which does Dolby Vision, but the Roku's do not have enough power to play high bitrate files. The highest I can go with it, is about 12Mbps. To resolve that issue I grabbed a couple of the new Dune 4k media players. Their android apps area, specialized programs are all crap but their boxes have perfected one thing. They can play a 100Mbps bitrate movie in pure color delight. As I type this I wanted to grab the link and noticed they dropped $20 on the players I got. Damn. I paid $200 for each player, but as I said, the only thing that can play a very high bitrate media file are the Dune's. I'm getting close to modifying my newer Shield media player as well. Anything with a 1Gbit port "should" be able to handle it. What all these other crap media players out there lack the onboard processing power. That's where the Dune players stand out. They have all the onboard processing power to handle whatever you throw out at. Try playing a ripped UHD version ISO of a movie with a Roku. You won't even be able to start it. The Dune players can play full BD menu's. Anyway, I always have to throw my props in there about the Dune player's since most people out there are missing out on some eye candy these lighter media players can't do. In case you were interested. Sorry for the rant. I get excited sometimes. I also captured some menu items from my Dune player so you can see how in-depth the settings are. My Dune Player RTD1619DR media processor The newest RTD1619DR media processor is the most advanced and the most powerful media processor from Realtek with Dolby Vision support. Dolby Vision and HDR10+ The media player supports not only HDR technology (supported by the previous generation of media players), but also the most latest and advanced Dolby Vision and HDR10+ technologies. In conventional HDR technology, the brightness range is set at the beginning of the film and does not change during the film, so completely dark and completely bright scenes may have insufficient detail. In the latest Dolby Vision and HDR10+ technologies, the brightness range can vary from frame to frame, so the maximum picture detail is provided even in scenes that contain only dark or only light elements. Dolby Vision VS10 video processor The advanced Dolby Vision VS10 video processing engine ensures maximum image quality when playing any type of content (SDR, HDR, Dolby Vision) with any type of video output signal (SDR, HDR, Dolby Vision), improves the SDR/HDR/Dolby Vision conversion quality, minimizes the effect of "posterization" ("banding") due to more advanced 12-bit video processing. This gives benefits even when using the media player with older TVs that do not support Dolby Vision. Playback of Dolby Vision ISO/folder structures The media player supports direct playback of movie ISO/folder structures in Dolby Vision format (MEL and FEL). The extended Dolby Vision information is used and transmitted to the TV to improve the picture quality. This is possible due to the unique video playback and output engine created by Dune HD. Other RTD1619DR-based media players do not support this. Dune HD media players are the only hybrid network media players in the world that combine this functionality with support for Internet video services and Android applications in one device. Widest support for Dolby Vision file formats Dolby Vision is supported for all popular file formats (MKV, MP4, TS, M2TS, ISO, movie folder structure). All popular Dolby Vision profiles (P4, P5, P7 MEL and FEL, P8) are supported. The media player supports the largest number of variations of Dolby Vision file formats of any other media player. Dune HD Dolby Vision Purifier This technology, unique to Dune HD media players, optimizes Dolby Vision files on the fly for maximum compatibility with the Realtek RTD1619DR media processor. This helps to ensure the most stable playback, including incorrectly encoded files (which often cause freezes, stuttering, sound out of sync on other media players). VP9 profile 2 and YouTube 4K HDR support The media player supports not only the old VP9 video codec (which does not support HDR), but also the newest VP9 profile 2, which supports HDR and which is used in YouTube for 4K HDR content. +77% faster CPU The media player has a 6-core ARM A55 CPU – which is +77% faster than 4-core ARM A53 used in the previous generation media players. +50% faster GPU The media player has the new GPU Mali-G51 – which is +50% faster than Mali T-820 used in the previous generation media players. Android 9 For Android applications, the media player uses a modern Android version 9.0. This provides improved support for the newest Android apps. Bluetooth 5.0 The media player uses the new Bluetooth version 5.0 (the previous generation media players were using version 4.x). IR input port and IR extender The IR input port allows connecting an IR extender, which improves player installation flexibility. IR extender is included. Other key advantages over competitors Best-in-class movie ISO/folder structure playback Realtek-based Dune HD media players have the best-in-class support for playback of movie ISO/folder structures, including full support for 4K, 3D, HD audio. Movie ISO/folder structures can be played from any source - local drive (USB, SATA) or network drive (SMB, NFS). A special engine helps to ensure smooth playback of the entire movie w/o any audio/video interruptions even when playing movies with complicated structure. Flicker-free framerate/resolution switching Dune HD media players implement its own advanced flicker-free approach for automatic framerate and resolution switching, which performs video mode switching before the start of file playback (rather than after). Most other Realtek-based media players perform video mode switching after the start of file playback, which causes unpleasant flickering. Auto framerate/resolution switching for Android applications Dune HD media players are the only media players based on Realtek media processor which implement automatic framerate and resolution switching not only for file playback, but also for Android applications. With proper support for all framerates, including 23.976 and 24.0. Professional-grade controls for video output parameters Advanced setup controls allow professional users and installers to fine tune the video output parameters in the best way for a particular setup. In particular, it is possible to configure what chroma subsampling modes should be used for each individual HDMI video mode. The majority of competing media player models do not have such controls. Widevine L1 and premium video services Support for Widevine Level 1 DRM (the most advanced DRM level) makes it possible to watch premium online video services with HD and Ultra HD video quality. Media players w/o Widevine Level 1 support can only output Standard Definition video in such services. Stereo and multichannel SACD playback You can play top quality Super Audio CD (DSD) music files in all any popular formats (ISO, DFF, DSF), including both stereo and multichannel files, including files which use DST compression. Multichannel DSD files can be output to HDMI as high quality multichannel PCM (up to 176.4 KHz). Stereo DSD files can be output to HDMI and S/PDIF as high quality stereo PCM (up to 176.4 KHz). Linux-based Dune HD OS The media player runs a unique hybrid OS which consists of a Linux-based Dune HD OS (to ensure stable operation and smooth media playback) and Android OS (to support Android applications), which run simultaneously. Dune HD Android Playback Accelerator technology This unique technology intellectually manages the resources of Android OS to minimize the influence of Android OS on the media playback engine and ensure smooth and high-quality video and audio playback. Dune HD ecosystem Based on open Dune HD SDK and APIs, various TV-optimized applications, plugins, extensions, GUI skins, collection management solutions, integrations with home automation systems are available via official Dune Store, 3-party vendors, and from the huge user's community. Dune HD UI The famous Dune HD UI, developed and polished during more than 12 years, specially optimized for the use on TV screens and operation via a standard remote control, tuned for the best possible usability, makes it easy and convenient to use the media player. Dune HD movies organizer and movies encyclopedia “My Collection” function organizes a user's movies collection into a nice looking catalog. A comprehensive movies encyclopedia provides the information about hundreds of thousands of movies with detailed descriptions, posters, cross-links between movies and persons, trailers, direct links to online video services, etc. Advanced file browser automatically recognizes movies. Dune HD mobile app The unique Dune HD mobile app (Dune Control) for iOS and Android mobiles devices provides full access to all functions of Dune HD media player in a very convenient and powerful way. It fully replaces the standard IR remote control, allows browsing and choosing the media content directly on your mobile device (the menu shown on the mobile device mirrors the menu shown on the TV screen), and includes Now Playing section for convenient media playback control. Smart home The media player provides the powerful IP Control interface and has a lot of options for integration into Smart Home and Home Automation systems, such as Control4 and Crestron. Proven history of software updates during a very long period Dune HD is known for its reputation to listen to user's feedback and provide software updates for many years. For example, for some old models, software updates with additional functions are provided for more than 10 years already. This is possible due to the unique "single code base" approach, which means that firmware for all Dune HD models is based on the same software (continuously developed and improved according to user's feedback). Other key features HD audio support The media player can output HD audio to the A/V receiver. Full 3D support Support for Side-by-side, Top-to-bottom and MVC formats ensures perfect playback of Full HD video in 3D. Optical disc drive support (USB) You can connect an external USB optical disc drive to play media files from optical discs (not encrypted only). Dual-band 802.11ac 2T2R Wi-Fi and 1Gbit Ethernet The media player is equipped with dual-band Wi-Fi supporting 802.11b/g/n/ac (2.4 GHz + 5.0 GHz), with 2T2R support (double performance) and two external Wi-Fi antennas, which allows you to play a high-bitrate content through the air. The 1Gbit Ethernet port allows you to get maximum performance with a wired connection. Built-in Bluetooth The built-in Bluetooth interface allows you to easily connect various remote controls, wireless keyboards, mice, joysticks, audio speakers, headphones, headsets and other devices. Bluetooth remote with IR learning and microphone (new batches: + AirMouse) An additional Bluetooth remote controls the set-top box via a radio channel, provides the Microphone function for Voice Search in applications which support it, and has IR learning function that allows you to configure the remote control to control not only a media player, but also a TV or other equipment. Old batches include the old remote model "R1" (Microphone + IR Learning), the new batches include the new remote model "R3" (AirMouse + Microphone + IR Learning). The AirMouse function allows convenient control of Android applications not optimised for controlling via a conventional remote.

Thank you! I moved the script to the array. Not knowing if that would skew the results or not. I doubt it. Thanks again.

I downloaded a small program from the web. Threw it in a folder on my boot stick and tried to change the rights to it, but oddly even when signed in as root will not change. Here is a little screen shot of the command line showing this.

Would you trust this card from an Ebay seller? You pretty much have to work hard to get %99 positive feedback with almost 100000 reviews, right? Check this card out from an EBAYER On the box it says AS3416 PCIe x8 12Gb HBA, which is basically what I want. Maybe someone bought it already and found it working with unraid. I don't think they are counterfeit cards, just not labeled with BROADCOM or with a large company's name on it to so they can double the price. The seller said he would take %100 refund, but told me I would need to pay for shipping back to China.

Maybe install a drive outside the array and use it with unassigned devices. You will be able to access that drive from within the docker or out.

Maybe the unraid leadership can give us some transparency? I remember a few years ago the devs here were more motivated and seemed excited to implement new features and options. I remember reading their timeline schedule which was posted online for everyone to see and it had some features on there that seemed to be amazing. Too bad it's been so long ago I cannot remember what any of them were. As I have stated before I've been here since V3 and seen the good, bad and ugly. There are so many dockers and plugins all the devs here is have to keep unraid stable and secure really. Then the userbase pretty much adds their own changes through dockers, plugins, VM's, etc....

I have a few smartplugs throughout my house. I just say, "computer lights off kitchen". You can easily plug your array into a smartplug, assign a nice short word for it and then your phone will always be able to power off/on your array through the Alexa or Google app. Could be, "computer power off unraid". And then when your BIOS detects power again, "computer power on unraid" it will power your rig up.

Slapping in a 12Gbps won’t increase the performance of anyone’s rig, right? Even if all drives are 12Gbps.

I know exactly what you mean, and that is why I don't even use mover or ever spin the drives down. I just removed a drive that had 9years on it and it was working great, just small and sluggish. Companies have been making hard drives for such a long time now they pretty much capped out that type of technology, unless the sectors on the platters get smaller and smaller to the microscopic level but I doubt that will happen at all. When you think about it, we have to wait a very long time before we can even afford 100TB SSD drives. $40,000 right now. So in 20 years I'll be dead or could care less about computers at that age. Would be nice though. Running unraid with just 2 single SSD drives. All the trim issues resolved, heating issues resolved, all the issues resolved and you have a 10 year warranty 100TBSSD. Beautiful. I'm actually getting a big HD deposit tomorrow. My 18TB, my 10TB parity that had a piece of paper stuck to the pin is %20 done on a pre-clear, and then Amazon somehow sending me another 10TB because I complained the way it was packed.

How are you achieving 260MB/sec? Not using Gold as a parity drive, correct?

You had some bad experiences with the WD Helium drives? This will be the third I own. I think my first one is in it's 4th year. The year I think they came out. You would think that those type drives are much more better sealed and would have fewer problems, but just about anything can happen during transit. Here is a WD ad for their Helium drives. All marketing! Just like I have helium in my tires to make my car lighter! Western Digital Helios Drives Another rant that makes me feel fuzzy inside I grabbed the Helium model -vs- WD RED

Yes, this is exactly what I'm in the process but a couple unexpected things happened that could have been catastrophic and lost my 80TB array. Back on track now. Doing a pre-clear on that new 10TB while I wait for that 20TB tomorrow. And I don't know what Amazon did but they are sending me another 10TB Elements External ( which I shuck - they are 6Gbps 7200rpm ) for free because I complained there was no packaging. They just threw it in a plastic bag, no padding.

I was able to work through all my issues. The only bit I was very worried about if is using NEW CONFIG would it inherit an older drive even when just previously a parity was canceled. It was a hit or miss situation. So I chose no parity drive. Put back my old 4TB drive which was emulating. As stated, NEW CONFIG does not rebuild, but since that disk 4 was old news I was hoping unraid being smart enough to bring that 4TB drive back into the fold with no losing anything. All started from a tiny piece of paper stuck on one of the pins of my parity drive which destroyed the data on it. I'm just glad I did not erase my old 4TB, if I did that then with parity out and a drive I would have lost the array. I can grasp the concepts, been using unraid since 3.0, but I usually come here and ask questions for support and more motivational purposes than anything. Using since version V3 and haven't lost a file. Not bad. So I took Michael's advice (I think that's what his name was) and bought a 20TB Ultrastar Western Digital. It has 2.5mtbf and a 5 year warranty to be my final parity drive. Once that part is over, I can start removing these 4TB drives and bring the array down to a better manageable size and not 16 drives spinning up all the time. Oddly one of the SATA connections on one of the backplanes is dead. Won't start the drive, nothing. I removed all the drives, re-seated all the backplanes, SAS connections, cards and power lines, but it does seem one SATA connection is dead on the third backplane. I was checking out some NAS boxes online and for the price I found one that I may invest in. It uses a backplane, so I have all the hardware here already. It would take 2 weeks to arrive and is a lot smaller than the case I have now. Going from a 24bay to a 16bay. Check it out. 16HD bay with included backplane. Backplane is one piece.

From another thread, related to UD

Ok, will do.

I did not add the 10TB parity drive in there because I purchased an 18TB Ultrastar WesternDigital to be my primary tomorrow. Since I have a couplw 2tb and a couple 4tb drives I want to just knock them all out by getting just one more 18TB drive. I've ALWAYS had good luck with HGST, Western Digital Black, Ultrastar. This model also has 5year warranty a 2.5mtbf failure. And it will be spinning 24/7. So I'm pretty picky with what kind of drives I get for my array. It's also pumped with and sealed with Helium, but that of course can be a marketing tactic. I'm just happy I have the array up, with a 10TB ready for use and I install the 18TB parity drive. These 4TB size drives are slow. Using DISKSPEED docker, I can see they are slowing down the system, while the 8 and 10TB drives are keeping up. Western Digital Data Center Drive - for use 24/7

Well, I ran the NEW CONFIG without adding the new 10TB parity drive and unraid was smart enough to see all parity was good. Got all drives back, just not using parity now. I did not want to make myself get into the 18TB realm of drives, but as you suggest I may look into getting one for partity and another one to kick out a couple smaller 2TB drives Id o not need anymore. I see lots of Seagate IronWolf Drives. I know I will not break speed records, but would like to do what you mentioned. Get a fast 18TB model. Are Seagate drives ok to buy these days? Growing up, working in the IT LAND we have piles 6 to 10 feet high of consumer Seagate drives. Western Digitals were among the most reliable. And thank you.

It does not say what will happen if no parity drive is present, and I'm just trying to activate disk4 ( not rebuild it ) from the previous screw up that killed my original parity drive. I'm not looking for bootup utilities that will boot from USB flash drive and be able to read XFS file systems and have the ability to access my network so I can make sure I do not lose any data. Similar to what HIRENS BOOT CD but for Linux though. Anyone know of a HIRENS BOOT CD but for Linux so I can read the XFS file system on each unraid disk. If I had the money I'd love to get 20TB disks, but that kind of cash is out of the question right now. Thanks! ADD: I did find LINUX MINT, which is an ISO that has all the support to read XFS and network capabilities. I just can't try the NEW CONFIG option since there really isn't a hard explanation what will happen to the array if that option is selected with no parity drive but a disk that unraid "thinks" needs a rebuild but really does not. Is unraid smart enough to realize that when NEW CONFIG is processed? Argghhh.

Thanks. I just went ahead and deleted my entire signature. It was outdated and didn't even realize I had that data there.

If someone can give me a good solution without me spending 2k on new drives I'll pick your name out of a hat and donate some funds to your best charity, even if it's your own. UPDATE: Ok, I reinstalled the 4TB drive back and unraid sees it. It unfortunately doesn't see it as from the original configuration because when the parity automatically started to build on the new 10TB drive it was getting hundreds of errors on parity drive that died. That 4tb drive hasn't been written to or anything, I just want to set all the drives the way they are now without a parity disk. Then after all the disks are set I can add the new 10TB parity drive and start that re-build. Looks like I'm back to if I should hit NEW CONFIG in the tools section. My start array button is grayed out and tells me too many wrong disks, but I just need to reset the array the way it exactly is now. Is hitting the NEW CONFIG button my solution. I have captured a screen shot of what the array looks like. When I hover over the old 4TB drive a pop-up tells me DEVICE CONTENTS EMULATED, so I think I'm in a good spot but just need reassurance that the NEW CONFIG button is the correct option. I also want to maybe move my drives around so I can fill up that slot 11, which along the line dropped a disk and something happened and it was never replaced but a new parity was built without it so I never bothered it. Or, I can be in a complete jam and screwed and have no way out of this situation. If I'm completely screwed here the ONLY solution I can see is I would need to remove all the drives. Buy enough drives to cover all the space I'm using with the old drives and manually copy each individual drive back onto the "new" array using another desktop loaded with Ubuntu or something, which hopefully can read each single drive. This would be VERY expensive. I would need approx 80TB of brand new drives. It would be wonderful having 20TB drives, since I would only need to have 4 drives and wouldn't need a huge 24bay Norco. Approx cost: 16TB drives: $1500 18TB drives: $1595 20TB drives: $2000 I'd love to get 20TB drives, but jesus, I can build a complete high end system for 2k. Or I can be an ass and buy like a premade synology/nas system from Amazon, use it for copying, then return it before the return period ends. This is really getting crazy and I'd hate to lose data that I've had for about 20+ years. Do I need all that data? Probably not, but I have media, pictures and movies from years and years ago. It seems my parity drive died. What happened was when sliding another drive into the bay it was a very tight fit, so the metal edge of the bay scraped a little piece of the label off the drive and that piece somehow dropped right onto one of the pins on my parity drive. Not knowing this I kept trying to get my server running but eventually the parity drive doesn't even show up. I want to temporarily run the array without the parity drive to get some files I need and take the chance leaving it like that for a couple of days. My START array button is greyed out. So I'm guessing I need to go into the tools section and click NEW CONFIG? There is one caveat. I was in the middle of replacing a bad drive, so the new drive which is a larger drive has no data on it and can't be re-built until another drive comes. Any suggestions on what to do in this odd situation. The older 4TB drive I removed actually still works, so I can install that back in and then use the replacement which is a 10TB to replace my parity. Then at least the system will re-build my parity and I can worry about that 4TB that's going bad after the re-build. Does that sound like a good plan? The last thing I want to do is click a button and have my entire array go pooof. Thanks!