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I do have array status notifications setup weekly - but they work. Something else is trying to send me a daily email and it's not working... strange .

I'm getting a nightly error in my logs: Jan 6 04:40:07 Tower sSMTP[14213]: Creating SSL connection to host Jan 6 04:40:07 Tower sSMTP[14213]: SSL connection using DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 Jan 6 04:40:08 Tower sSMTP[14213]: 550 5.1.0 Not our Customer I'm guessing it's the CA Auto-update, and it's not successful sending out an email. Thing is, I'm configured properly for notifications and getting regular unRAID emails. Any thoughts?

How do you lose 2 drives if one fails? Can I buy just one big parity drive 6 or 8 tb to cover the whole system? For future upgrades You might want to read this: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/UnRAID_6/Overview#Parity-Protected_Array A single parity drive can protect any number of data drives, up to the 28 drive limit of a Pro license (mind you, I'd have added the 2nd parity drive long before then ). The parity drive doesn't need to get bigger as you add more drives - it just needs to be as big as your biggest data drive. If you'd like to add 6TB or 8TB data drives in the future then by all means, invest in a 6TB or 8TB parity drive now.

If you buy an Intel Retail CPU kit that includes a CPU fan it will be more than sufficient to do the job. I used a Noctua NH-L9i in my last Lian Li build because I wanted something very low profile, but note that they've updated the description on this cooler to say that it's most appropriate for CPUs less than 65w TDP.

Well, the point at which buyer's regret kicks in is different for everyone. If it were me, the things I'd be looking for are: Enough SATA ports to handle 5 array drives plus a cache drive. So 6 is the minimum and more is great. Enough CPU to handle transcoding 2 1080p streams plus basic unRAID functions. So a minimum of 5,000 Passmarks and more is great. You could run it with 4GB of RAM, but it's so cheap - I'd start with 8GB. This would fit the bill: An ASRock C236 WSI with a Core i3 6100 and appropriate RAM from the ASRock compatibility list. There used to be more Haswell options but they're drying up and starting to cost more than the new Skylake parts... Other things you can do: ASRock and Gigabyte have slightly less expensive motherboard options with their gaming boards. I wouldn't go much lower with the CPU, but you can certainly go lots higher - i3, i5, i7 and Xeon. That motherboard gives you the option of ECC RAM which is always a great idea but does cost a little more. By the way, I think your case choice and power supply choice are good ones. You definitely want an SFF power supply in the PC-Q25b. Hopefully that gets you started.

Who knew lol .

6 to 7 hours isn't going to happen, for a 4TB parity drive that exceeds 180 MB/s. The best consumer class hard drives available today max out in the 120 MB/s - 160 MB/s range. You might be able to get close to that goal with enterprise class drives but that costs $$$$.

Same, average as reported at the end. As I have mixed disk sizes, 5 minutes in would represent the slowest sustained speed.

My guess is no, you wouldn't see an immediate increase. If you want faster speeds I think you *would* have to upgrade the drives, and you *might* have to upgrade the card. I'm not a fan of running 4 drives on an x1 card, but truthfully if you are running PCIe 2.0 or higher it should only be an issue with really fast hard drives or SSDs.

I get 110 MB/s with a mix of newish 3TB and 6TB drives. I'd call your speed decent, and within the expected range, but probably a little slower than full potential due to the older 1 and 2TB drives. You're also close to maxing out the throughput of a PCIe 2.0 x1 card with 4 drives. In theory that one lane card has 500 MB/s throughput but in practice you could be hitting limitations due to it as well. Still, overall I'd say that you are within the expected range.

Hi - The WD Red drives are great for unRAID. I haven't worked with the Z440, but I think the so called sSata ports are just the ones which support hardware raid. Since you are using unRaid there's generally no need for hardware raid so you'll just be using all ports as standard SATA ports. Dual parity with only 2 data drives seems like overkill, but only you can decide how important that is. I think you are going to need the extra graphics adaptor.

I wonder if there is just a single activity "stuck" in Sonarr because you started off with different mappings, got a download, and then changed the mappings? If you do a new search and cause Sab to do a new download, does the problem still occur? I realize that's a painful experiment given your bandwidth.

Is it correct to assume that you have a file sitting in /mnt/user/appdata/SABnzbd/complete/TV , placed there by SAB? Are you getting anything useful in your Sonarr logs? System -> Logs (tab) -> Files (left hand table of contents) The Linuxserver.io Sonarr Docker shouldn't be looking for downloads in /config, it should be looking for them in /downloads. I'm afraid you may have to delete and reinstall the container .

Thanks, Squid and Ionix. It seems like they broke some things over at OZnzb, so I'll wait for them to fix it before I go any further and won't worry about /dev/rtc. By the way, I get the following message at times: Warning: mkdir(): File exists in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix.docker.manager/include/CreateDocker.php on line 23 I got this when adding the container for the first time and sometimes after performing an edit to the container. It appears at the top of the page under Update Container prior to any "Pulling image" messages. I saw an earlier discussion in this thread on the issue, just wanted to report that it's still there.

Further questions on /dev/rtc ... What does this map, and what is the intended use? I'm trying to setup Sonarr for the first time and I'm not successfully connecting to my search provider, not sure if this could be an issue.

So long as you are careful it should be fine. Some things I've done that created issues were coping directories from one disk to another, using Midnight commander improperly (easy to do), or undoing previously created global user shares. Just be careful with operations that could inadvertently create root level directories on a disk.

I noticed in another thread that you also have Plex on your system? Plex is known for continually accessing the drive it is hosted on, typically the cache drive.

I didn't see the comments about the script failing with 6.1+, and got the /root/mdcmd: No such file or directory failures so I ^C'd out of the script. Does anyone know if I need to restore any configuration values due to prematurely exiting out of the script? Thx