HellDiverUK

Helmonder, how are those inert gas CPUs holding up? No issues with the gas escaping?

I'm running it at the moment, evacuating a 3TB Red that's sounding very ill. I'll let you know the results.

I picked up 3x Supermicro SAS2LP-MV8 cards for US$200 off eBay. I see no difference in performance compared to my LSI card, and the Supermicros use less power.

Shouldn't have to. How many people will replace drives because they've seen this error coming up, and not come on to the forums and found this thread? This needs fixed ASAP.

Give it time. Took two days for one of mine to throw the errors. The other did it immediately.

There is an issue. UnRAID is suddenly reporting errors. If the error is meaningless, then UnRAID should not be reporting it, plain and simple. UnRAID is spreading FUD with this sudden change of reporting.

It means 6.1.14 has issues with Seagate drives. I have two Seagates throwing command timeouts, and the 5 WDs on the same controller are fine.

I wonder could this be done with the faster QNAP machines, like the TVS-663? They have a quad-core AMD chip in them which is quite quick. Considering you can run Debian on those, I suppose UnRAID would work OK too.

+2 Running ZFS on OpenMediaVault and it's fantastic. Shame OMV's base OS is a little long in the tooth (Debian Wheezy). I also see FreeNAS is moving to version 10 with a total re-write, and moving to a sort of "AppCafe" system using iocage. It's in early alpha - I've had a quick play and it looks very, very nice for a home media server. The system requirements are harsh, though - 8GB RAM minimum.

Obviously garycase doesn't like Corsair PSUs. I, on the other hand think they're great. I have: CX450 - 24/7 use in my mother's PC, just under 4 years. CS450M - 24/7 use in my server CX750 - 24/7 for 3 years at 90% load running a number of bitcoin miners RM750 - 4/7 for about a year in my severely overclocked gaming rig. It rarely spins it's fan, and it gets a hammering from the 4.5GHz i5, and two GTX780s. I've had zero issues with any of them, and the modular PSUs all use the same cables, so I've no fuss figuring out which cables belong to which PSU. Then again, I also really like Corsair RAM, my AIO water cooler is Corsair, and I have a few Corsair cases.

HGST are still selling 5TB 7200rpm Deskstar NAS drives. Possibly 6TB as well? WD have a 6TB Enterprise drive now as well (AE maybe, I don't remember?)

As others have said, I voted no, because I didn't realise it would solve the issue I have with Plex pausing at change of media when the new media is on a spun down drive. The spinup groups would solve this issue and improve WAF.

Might be to you, but I use them quite a bit. So, not useless. Perhaps you can explain how you are using them, it would be beneficial to have an understanding. Spin down if I know I'm finished using the shares, so the drives don't have to run needlessly for 30 mins or more. Spin up to save time when shutting the server down, or if I'm going to be using Plex, so there's no delay when starting a movie or show. I basically have Dashboard open all the time, and preempt the server spinning up or down the drives. Spinup groups? Don't use them now, but I can see merit in them, so I say keep them.

Might be to you, but I use them quite a bit. So, not useless.

Not supported at this time My subtle way of requesting it to be supported.

OK, so my cache drive runs pretty warm, because it's rammed up against the CPU heatsink. It's running around 40C normally, but when Plex is transcoding it'll head well up past 55C. It's well within it's operating temp (0-70C), but UnRAID's temp warning keeps going off. I want the temp warning for the HDDs to be around 50C, but the SSD to be 65C. So, how do I change the warning temp for one particular drive? Or is this not supported?

I made my Docker image 20GB, I found 10GB is a little tight.

I'm very happy with my pair of ST8000AS0002 too - I've had no issues at all either in over 2 months at time of writing, apart from a SMART issue which I believe to be a wonky cable.

All I have to say is I'm green/blue colour-blind, so I really can't see the difference between the two. Not everyone has the same colourblindness.

All the vital cooling in my house is running with Gentle Typhoons. My gaming rig's H100i has a pair of 120mm Gentle Typhoons (the 1250rpm version), and my server's main cooling is a 1500rpm Gentle Typhoon. The air flow from those things is immense, and they don't need any rubber mounting or such-like as they run so smooth. I like seeing a fan take 15-20 secs to stop spinning from ~1000rpm after powered off. Big heavy motor and beautifully made bearings.

I've got an old APC SmartUPS 750 and a newer Cyberpower ValueUPS LCD 600 and they both work fine with UnRAID.

Absolutely it's more than good enough for v6. Only thing I'd be wanting to do is a bigger cache device, but even that is likely to be unnecessary. Definitely move to Dockers, they really are the way forward. Even MS is working with Docker for Windows 10, so Dockers are going to become very, very popular which is nothing but a good thing.

It's a huge shame the Q25 is more or less end of line. They're nearly impossible to get now in EU, and they're expensive if they are in stock. I've had two of them in the past, and sold them both. I still sort of regret that. In fact, my old unRAID 5 box was in a PC-Q25B with an Asus P8-H61I Plus and a Pentium G620. It was a solid little machine.

Very strange. Have you plugged/unplugged your disks a lot? Hot-swap backplanes are generally designed for ~ 50 cycles (plug/unplug). If you've done a lot more than that, then it's understandable why they'd start breaking. It's the other side of the backplane, where the SATA cables plug in. The SATA power connections are particularly bad, they're nearly unusable now, so I have to use the molexes. I was just looking, and this case is about 3 years old, and it's been in constant use, with about 6 different machines in it over that time. The rest of the case is obviously fine, it'd just need a new backplane PCB. I'm quite pleased with the new case I'm using, considering the price (£33 delivered), it's nicely built, and take 6 HDDs and has two 5.25" bays. I'm running a 120mm Silent Typhoon in the front as the only cooling, and the HDDs are running less than 8C above ambient with the fan running at 500rpm off the Asus' Q-Fan system. The only other cooling is the PSU fan (seriously over-specced 600W OCZ 80Plus Silver unit, but it's the only PSU I have with enough SATA cables that'll reach.

Well, my PC-Q25B is old. The connectors on the backplane are all breaking up. Would I buy another? Probably. I've had 3 years of good service from the case, but with the breaking up backplane, it's time it went out to pasture. My new unRAID box is in a cheap Coolermaster uATX case, with a few bits and bobs, and it's running very well.