Packalacky

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  1. It's 2021. An OS that doesn't have native support for WIFI is ridiculous.
  2. This seems to be sorted now with Beta7. Loads just fine with or without Xen. Simply copied the update files over as per the README.txt instructions and restarted the server, nothing else changed. Never managed to get it to work with Beta6.
  3. Haven't seen anyone mention this on the thread so here goes. Updating from Beta4. 1. Copied the 4 files as mention on the readme.txt file (bzimage, bzroot, xen, readme.txt) 2. Start Unraid + Xen, everything works fine, no issues whatsoever, everything as expected including an ArchVM 3. Reboot 4. Start Unraid alone (no Xen) 5. Get error messages upon starting and then system reboots/shutdown. Here are a few pictures of where it hangs up/shutsdown/reboots. These are the most common errors but sometimes it just reboots at random or hangs at a certain line, it's not always the same: On these 2 errors, it simply hangs: On this one it reboots: After getting these errors, I got a different USB stick and used it to test a clean install of UnraidBeta6 and got exactly the same results. Unraid+Xen works perfectly fine, but Unraid by itself doesn't. Everything worked fine under the Unraid beta 4, including Unraid by itself. There were no hardware changes between the 2 betas.
  4. Not really going to add anything useful to the thread except to say that this is fucking amazing.
  5. I got this current motherboard/soc and case. It's more than enough for it's intended job, running parity checks at around 130-140MB/s. Currently also have an Arch VM running form a physical SSD to run Plex, nzbget and deluge. It transcodes plex 1080p without problems and it's silent, low power and does the job perfectly. By the time I get to add 6 drives total I might upgrade, but that's a long way away.
  6. Right, due to newborn arriving, I haven't really been able to get this going until today. I put the system together with the following hardware: Case: Node 304 Mobo/CPU: J800N-D2H (J1800 dual core Bay Trail processor running at 2.8Ghz) Memory: 4GB 1333Mhz (1.35V SO-DIMM, will upgrade to 8GB if needed for Arch VM) SATA controller: 4xSATA KALEA-INFORMATIQUE PCIE 1x HDDs: 2 x 3TB Toshiba HDD (5900rpm drives, the Toshiba 7200rpm drives offer better performance and are 5 euros cheaper, but consume more power and are louder) SSD: 120GB Crucial M500 (not in the array, will run Arch from it) First off, the most important thing for me when putting this together is that (in order) it runs silent, consumes very little power and that has decent performance. The case looks fantastic with a brushed metal finish. It's also quite small so it sits under the TV. It has space for 6 3.5" drives and it comes with 3 fans. As the system is so power efficient, I only connected the 140mm fan and it's inaudible from 0.5m away. The mobo/cpu offers impressive performance for the price, and as it's passively cooled, so there's no extra noise. As you can see from the picture below, at the moment it's doing a parity check at 135MB/s, so it's no slouch. It also has decent integrated graphics and video/compressing extensions, together with VT-x, so it basically offers a lot in a small package. And ofcourse, it has a TDP of 10W for the full mobo/cpu, so it's very power efficient. I can't tell you exactly how efficient it is as my kill-a-watt meter decided to die recently, but I'll get another one soon and post some results. One thing about this mobo, it comes with BIOS version F2, which does not support Unraid or pretty much any other linux distrubition (or Windows 7), so to get it to work, you need to upgrade the bios to version F3 as detailed here. Once that is done, Unraid works very well. As for the HDDs/controller, the mobo only supports PCIE 1x (2.0) which gives a total bus speed of 500MB/s, which together with the 2 Sata ports on the mobo is enough for me as the case only supports 6 HDDs in total. I'm starting with 2 Toshiba 3TB HDDs (although weirdly, on the GUI it shows as 1 being a Hitachi for some reason...). I chose them because they were on discount, 90 euros each (which is around $125). They have good reviews in terms of reliability, noise and power efficiency and are much cheaper than the 3TB WD Red drives. I will be getting a 3TB WD Red to run as the parity drive soon. I plan on getting more drives as needed together with the Unraid license. In addition, I also have an SSD which I will be running an Arch VM from. It will not be part of the array as I don't want it to keep the disks spinning unnecessarily. Here it is formatting and running a parity check on the drives: Will update when I get the kill-a-watt meter.
  7. There are a few problems with the older Atoms when it comes it ubber low power usage at idle. The first one is the chipset most of the time draws more power than the chip its self. This was solved in 2012 with the system on chip (SoC) series CLover Trail. The 2nd problem is unless you have a power supply that is 4th gen Haswell ready, It will not be very power efficient below 40 watts power draw. I have no doubt that you could have a system idle at 5-10 watts with the new baytrail chips and just the onboard sata controler and a newish power supply. THis is spot on. Getting an efficient power supply below 20w is extremely difficult. When I have some spare money I'm getting a picopsu since that has around 80% efficiency around the 20w mark, while normal ATX struggle to break past 50-60% efficiency. Also, the new atoms support VT-x, and are much faster per w (over 100% faster in some benchmarks) than the previous series.
  8. I bought the Gigabyt J1800N-D2H, it should arrive within a week. Pairing it with a controller and 4xWD Green 3 GB drives. Will give feedback when I put everything together.
  9. Hello ironicbadger, first off amazing work you do here. First time poster here. At the moment I'm trying to decide on which NAS OS to go with and Unraid is very appealing, especially the separation of the main OS with all the backups and media files and a VM OS which can run on top of it to run applications on. I followed your guide on youtube/this page but I ran into a bootloader issue. I tried with both the Unraid/Xen and Unraid/Xen in safe mode and received the exact same result for both. It's a test setup, with no cache drive (using disk1), but if this works well then I'll likely get the full version of Unraid. Below is the error message I get: And the log file it refers to: And here is the file i think it's referring to: Any help would be greatly appreciated.