dchamb

It is significant but the tech I have is 10 years old now and I can't update unRaid to any version after 6.8.3. I had to turn off hardware transcoding because it made my system unstable. There are times when 4 cores is not enough.

Thank you for the reply. I will move forward with my plan to upgrade my current system with an Alder Lake cpu and a NVIDIA graphics card.

Judging from the silence I'm guessing no one has success with unRaid and Alder Lake

Could an Alder Lake chip with a NVIDIA GPU work?

Any Alder Lake unRaid success stories?

My current configuration is using an ASUS P8Z77-V LK motherboard with an Ivybridge i5-3570 CPU with 4 cores. No NVIDIA graphics card as yet. Running unRAID version 6.8.3. Haven't been able to update unRAID beyond 6.8.3 due to crashing. Looking to upgrade the motherboard to an ASUS Z690-P Prime with an Alder Lake i5-12600K or i7-12700K CPU and a NVIDIA graphics card. My objective is to enable hardware transcoding for Plex using the NVIDIA card and update unRAID to the latest version. I am a PlexPass member and I realize the K CPUs do not support iGPU. Question: after seeing so many issues with unRAID Kernal and Alder Lake CPUs, will I have a problem with crashing? Should I put the graphics card in my old system first and enable hardware transcoding under 6.8.3 before I install the new motherboard/CPU? (If the former, upgrade unRAID to 6.10.3 or wait until I have the new motherboard/CPU in place?) Or go down a different path? Dale

Which version of unRAID? I haven't been able to get it to work on anything after 6.9.2

Since I am reading several issues with 6.10.2 my assumption is the i915 GPU problem is likely not resolved. I am sticking with 6.8.3 as the last stable release of unRAID.

Does 6.10.0 fix the iGPU issue? I'm still on 6.8.3 because of it.

Rolling back was easy. 6.8.3 has been the last rock solid release for me. My only complaint is the Dockers don't show if a new release is available but I am able to force update.

From what others have posted it looks like even the 6.10.0 rc4 has not fixed the i915 issue. If anyone has information to the contrary I'd be interested.

Looks like I'll be staying on 6.8.3 for a while. I thought about upgrading my processor and motherboard to an 11th or 12th generation Intel but it sounds like even that won't guarantee a solution.

Has there been a fix identified for the i915 driver problem in 6.9.2?

Do you think an HBA board is more/less/same performance as on board Sata ports? And can you comment on the existing problems with i915 drivers crashing unRaid 6.9.2?

I currently have an 3rd gen Intel based system with 4 cores and no hyperthreading. Running Plex along with a couple of other Docker apps with >50TB of data using 2 parity drives. Transcoding is the greatest need. So I am looking for an 8 core CPU with 32GB RAM, and a motherboard to support 8 SATA III drives. Also looking to use a 2TB M.2 NVMe for cache. Questions: which CPU brand is better for the application Intel or AMD? Any motherboard recommendations (I've always been an Asus fan but willing to consider others)? Also I want to be able to use unRaid version 6.9.2. I've been stuck on 6.8.3 because I cannot run 6.9.2 on my current configuration. Thanks! Dale

When I tried to move from 6.8.3 to 6.9.2 the server would lock up with no system log. Just could not get it to run more than a few hours before the webgui would freeze and I could not do a clean shutdown. Rolling back to 6.8.3 solved the problem. Several others experienced the same problem. If I understood the problem it had to do with the kernel having compatibility issues with the chipset in the system.

I have an unRaid system running on a Asus P8Z77-V LK with an Intel Core i5-3570 CPU and 32GB RAM with 1TB SSD drive for cache. It's been running fine since 2014 with 4 data disks and 2 parity drives. I am running version 6.8.3 because it has been so solidly reliable and version 6.9.2 would crash with my configuration. Since my hardware is getting long in the tooth, and it could definitely benefit from better CPU performance, I've been considering an upgrade to a newer CPU and motherboard. But it scares me to do so with unRaid since I've never done it before and I have a very large array size (around 48TB). My questions are: 1. What do I need to do to prepare for a transition to a new system? I.e. will the current flash drive containing the unRaid server software need to be changed? Anything I need to do when reconnecting the array drives? 2. Should a new CPU and motherboard eliminate the problems with going to version 6.9.2 or is there a CPU/Motherboard combination I should steer clear of? Thank you for any good advice you could provide. Dale

Not that I've heard. Even when 6.10 comes out I'm waiting to see what others find. I don't have a system to experiment with.

I rolled back to unRaid 6.8.3 and kept my Plex at 125.0.5282-2edd3c44d. Everything is running fine. So if it is something in that version of Plex, it is being triggered by 6.9.2.

Thanks for your thoughts. It helps to have a someone else's perspective. I have a tendency to go overboard lol!

Do you feel a daily backup is unnecessary?

Thanks but I am not finessed enough in Cron to know how to say "run every day at 3am except on the last day of month"

Any thoughts on preventing the backup from starting if a parity check is running?

It's safe. I had to do the same thing since 6.9.2 crashes regularly. 6.8.3 has been rock steady.

Still on 6.8.3 running fine. I invoked the correcting parity check which is now 76.7% complete and has corrected 14637 sync errors. Two CA appdata backup runs have taken place since the parity check started. It looks like both finished successfully. Plex docker is still running. All seems well but I have attached a diagnostic so someone more knowledgeable than me can verify this. I am a bit uneasy about having the CA backup run while a parity check is running, mostly because they are competing for resources. If there is a way to prevent it from running during a parity check, please let me know. I have scheduled a correcting parity check once a month on the last day of the month, and have CA backups run every morning at 3AM. As always I appreciate any input. One other question: is there anything in the diagnostics that could explain why 6.9.2 will not work for my system? Thanks Dale tower-diagnostics-20211202-1009.zip