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I just rebuilt my parity with two 8TB WD Reds (well, white-label WD80EZZX which is basically a Red), and I got: Parity is valid Last checked on Mon 26 Mar 2018 11:34:45 AM BST (today), finding 0 errors. Duration: 17 hours, 58 minutes, 58 seconds. Average speed: 123.6 MB/sec I wouldn't expect a 10TB to run much more than 20-22 hours, depending on the speed of your other drives. If you've an array full of old 2TB Greens, then expect things to be slower. My array is an elderly 4TB Seagate Desktop, 2x 8TB Seagate Archive v2, so none of the drives are quick units. The machine is a Ryzen R5-1600 running on a X370 board.

It's something to do with the Marvell drivers which are a binary blob. It's something Marvell would need to fix. Personally I've not had any problems with it.

The SAS2LP works great if you don't intend running VMs on your unRAID. When you enable VM support, the wheels fall off the Marvell controller driver, and you'll either get an unstable card, or it just won't work.

SSHDs are a bit crap. They only just about work for booting Windows. I don't think their algorithms would know what to do with an unRAID cache drive. They're cheap for a reason. Just go for a decent HDD like a WD Black or Gold, or any 7200rpm Seagate. I quite like using a 2.5" 7200rpm drive for a cache on my backup boxes, they use very little power and are quick enough. I tend to use HGST 2.5" drives, and had no issues with them.

Eh, I had a ST8000VN0022 fail too, died after 8 months. Replacement was a brand new drive (not a refurb), it's been OK so far, about 4 months in now.

The'yre good drives, very quiet and work great in unRAID. They're even fine as a parity drive.

I'm just about to go to an i7 in my unRAID box (i7-8700) - is this HT problem still a thing?

Hi. You don't need much of a machine to do what you want, really. Emby should be able to use a GPU for transcoding, which means you don't need a very fast CPU. Certainly Plex is easy to get working in unRAID with hardware transcoding - I've never done it with Emby though. It depends on how many drives you're likely to want, but my little rig does everything I want and more, and would fit your needs pretty well. I've put my basic system in the link below, though I have the now-discontinued Define Mini (the microATX version of the R5, which has 6 HDD bays). I also run an old Samsung NVMe drive for my cache, I've included a more modern one in that list. https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Fx3t6s

Huh, never knew the PIKE slot could be used as a normal PCI-E slot. I have a P9D-E/4L here in a box, with a PIKE 2008, and an E3-1271V3 in it. Worked great, but the PIKE runs super-hot in a low noise system I run. It will run again when I move house, in a rack case in the garage, though - need a beefy Windows system for running BlueIris.

Wifi, if you're using decent hardware at both ends, and have sufficient access points for the area and construction of your house, is perfectly fine. As good as ethernet. If you're expecting good performance from an elcheapo 2.4GHz 802.11n router, or a shitty USB wifi adapter, then you're going to be unsurprisingly annoyed by your experience. With a decent Asus router (RT-AC86U) and the Intel 8265 wifi chip in my laptop, I get great signal everywhere in my house, and where I mostly use the laptop I'm seeing 60-70MB (yes, megabytes) transfer speeds to my unRAID box while the laptop is doing it's backup using Veeam. I'd rank decent wifi more reliable than powerline. MoCA isn't really a thing in the UK as our houses don't generally have the coax in the walls, as few places have cable TV - only really some large cities, and even then very few houses are wired for cable.

My main use of a SSD cache on unRAID is for speedy Plex library browsing. If I weren't needing that, I'd likely just use a 2.5" 7200rpm HDD. I prefer having a cache drive because it means the main array drives can stay spun down for the longest time. For example, most days the main drives only spin for an hour while Mover clears the cache drive to the array drives.

Back to this again. For QuickSync you MUST use a CPU with the Intel GPU built in. That means Pentium, i3, i5, i7 and Xeon E3-12x5 on Socket 115x. E5 Xeons don't have a GPU, nor do the Socket 2011/2066 i7 and i9. The only thing they provide is serious CPU power, but even top-end ones will struggle transcoding 10-bit. An i3-8100 would be better for a Plex server than a Xeon E5, assuming you're doing 10-bit transcoding.

I have an Asus server board that has 14 SATA ports on it, though 8 of them are controlled by an add-in card (I use the PIKE 2008). https://www.asus.com/Commercial-Servers-Workstations/P9DC4L/ https://www.asus.com/uk/Commercial-Servers-Workstations/PIKE_2008/

Most 2.5" external drives aren't a SATA drive with a USB adaptor. They have the USB connection on the controller board, so are probably useless as a shuckable drive for use in unRAID.

I use Emby. Are doing this in a docker or VM? Docker. I use Plex, but I see no reason why Emby wouldn't work the same. See:

Emby and Plex can both do hardware transcoding now, using Intel Quicksync. Of course, your C-series doesn't have a GPU so no Quicksync, it's more geared towards network operations with it's QuickAssist technology. I use an Celeron N3160 which is a 4W chip, and using Quicksync I can get at least 4x 1080p transcodes going no problem.

Wow, thanks for stating the obvious 4 years after the previous post. Hint: check the date of posts before replying - if they're much more than a few weeks, no-one cares.

If you'd upgraded the firmware on your Drobo, you'd have a 64TB volume.

You're not going to get anywhere with a H110 board. They're designed for running Microsoft Outlook in an office PC, they're pretty much gimped for anything useful. H170 would be the lowest you should consider. However, if you want anything resembling decent gaming performance, then you need to be looking at with an i7-6850K on X99 or a i7-7800X on X299, or perhaps an AMD Threadripper. That way you get a board and CPU and has enough PCI-E lanes to feed 4 GPUs. Anything less than that, you're wasting your time and money.

QuickSync. Hardware transcoding is the way forward, making this whole 2000 CPUMarks per transcode a thing of the past. To answer the OP, yes it'll work fine. Just modprobe the Intel GPU drivers, and pass it though to the Plex Docker, job done.

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So many questions. It's almost like people never bother looking at any of the threads in the pre-release forum.

Well, if you'd like a suggestion, have a look at a Thecus NAS. You can get them running Windows Storage Server. The W4810 runs great, and has 4 bays ready to take drives. The OS runs off a 64GB SSD that's built in.

Yeah, I'm using Firefox on Android (Pixel 2). No problems, even Pixel Launcher can use Firefox as it's browser. Chrome never runs on my phone.

Sorry, also just noticed this again. For SSD I try and stick to drives with high endurance ratings, and MLC flash. Which would mean Samsung 850 Pro, Sandisk Extreme Pro, Corsair XT, and some of ADATA's SSDs (I'm saying these because they're the ones I have in use that I know are reliable MLC SSDs). I'm currently using an Intel Pro SSD 5400s which is a TLC SSD, but it came in an Optiplex I stripped for parts, so it was effectively free so I don't care if it burns up in a few months. So far it's been fine. I'm only using it because it was on the top of the pile, and new, when I was building my server. I believe it has an endurance rating of 288TBW which is pretty high for a TLC SSD.