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I considered doing this as well to replace an existing NAS that I had maxed out, but in the end decided to go with a DIY build using the Silverstone DS380 case simply because it can hold 8 drives and I needed the drive density.

I just completed a DS380 build and I am currently transferring data to it. I replaced all three of the original Silverstone fans with two Corsair SP 120 fans on the side, they run at 2350 RPM and one Corsair AF 120 that runs at 1350 RPM at the back of the case. During the array sync my HD temps creeped up to about 41 degrees Celsius and at that point I removed the side of the case and opened the front door on the case and the temps dropped. Right now with the door open and side of the case off the temps are 32, 34, 33, 32, 32 I have only five drive in the case at the moment. I'll report back in a few days when the data copy is done and I put the side back on, we'll see what the temps are like then.

True, I opened the side of the case and the front door of the case as the last three drive bays are empty with no sleds in them, that has helped drop the temps down to 33, 36, 34, 35, and 34 so that is better. Once the parity sync has stopped, I'll close it up and monitor the drive temps.

Yes, its currently doing a parity sync, and one drive just hit 40 degrees, not happy.

Drive temps have increased and now seem to be holding at 36, 39, 38, 39, 39 degrees celsius. I will really be disappointed if they hit 40 or higher. Not sure what else I can do to increase cooling in this case, I am already using the piece of card board 'trick'.

Thanks, I was able to use three of the 6" cables and then had to use two longer ones. I decided to stat out with five drives for now giving me 19TB to work with. I replaced all three 120mm fans in the case with Corsair fans, two SP 120mm and one Corsair AF 120mm. So far UnRaid reports the drive temps at 35, 36, 36, 36, and 37 celsius, I am hoping they stay there and no increase. Hopefully on idle they should drop by as much as 10 degrees, I guess one can be hopeful.

I bought a bunch of 8" cables at my local store today, turns out I can use almost half of them, I can return the ones I didn't open. 10" or 12" would probably be fine for the rest of the ports, but the next size up my store sells is 18" so I am thinking about folding them and tie wrapping them.

I am actually doing a test run on my new DS380 build, I managed to snag the case used (but in fantastic condition) for $100. I have put in the piece of cardboard but with the case closed up the HD temps were creeping up to 40 and 42 degrees C, so I have ordered two Corsair 120mm fans to replace the Silverstone ones, these corsair fans run at 1500RPM which should be fast enough. Also, to reduce cable clutter I am thinking of ordering 8" SATA cables, does anyone thing those should be long enough to go from the mother board to the backplane? I am using the Asrock H97M-ITX/ac motherboard and the way its oriented in the case the SATA ports are just to the right of the backplane.

Yes, while most of the drives on my raid controller are WD, I have one Toshiba which is fine

Nothing else going on with the array, I mean SabNZB is downloading the odd show, but otherwise, nothing really. The average reported speed is still 20.4MB/sec currently sitting at 4 days, 8hrs and 28minutes.

So I have sucessfully added an 8TB drive as a parity drive, I am now adding a second one as a data drive and wow, I knew the writes to these drives were slow, but its saying my parity rebuild will be done in over four days, did it take as long for you guys? I do have a lot of drives and my array is pretty big, which doesn't help with the rebuild time, but wow, four days...lol.

I just pre cleared two drives, here are the results: ================================================================== 1.15b = unRAID server Pre-Clear disk /dev/sdaa = cycle 1 of 1, partition start on sector 1 = Disk Pre-Clear-Read completed DONE = Step 1 of 10 - Copying zeros to first 2048k bytes DONE = Step 2 of 10 - Copying zeros to remainder of disk to clear it DONE = Step 3 of 10 - Disk is now cleared from MBR onward. DONE = Step 4 of 10 - Clearing MBR bytes for partition 2,3 & 4 DONE = Step 5 of 10 - Clearing MBR code area DONE = Step 6 of 10 - Setting MBR signature bytes DONE = Step 7 of 10 - Setting partition 1 to precleared state DONE = Step 8 of 10 - Notifying kernel we changed the partitioning DONE = Step 9 of 10 - Creating the /dev/disk/by* entries DONE = Step 10 of 10 - Verifying if the MBR is cleared. DONE = Disk Post-Clear-Read completed DONE Disk Temperature: 37C, Elapsed Time: 70:03:12 ========================================================================1.15b == ST8000AS0002-1NA17Z Z840F1Q2 == Disk /dev/sdaa has been successfully precleared == with a starting sector of 1 ============================================================================ ** Changed attributes in files: /tmp/smart_start_sdaa /tmp/smart_finish_sdaa ATTRIBUTE NEW_VAL OLD_VAL FAILURE_THRESHOLD STATUS RAW_VALUE Raw_Read_Error_Rate = 117 115 6 ok 126589016 Seek_Error_Rate = 75 70 30 ok 31967094 Spin_Retry_Count = 100 100 97 near_thresh 0 End-to-End_Error = 100 100 99 near_thresh 0 Airflow_Temperature_Cel = 63 65 45 near_thresh 37 Temperature_Celsius = 37 35 0 ok 37 Hardware_ECC_Recovered = 117 115 0 ok 126589016 No SMART attributes are FAILING_NOW 0 sectors were pending re-allocation before the start of the preclear. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after pre-read in cycle 1 of 1. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after zero of disk in cycle 1 of 1. 0 sectors are pending re-allocation at the end of the preclear, the number of sectors pending re-allocation did not change. 0 sectors had been re-allocated before the start of the preclear. 0 sectors are re-allocated at the end of the preclear, the number of sectors re-allocated did not change. root@Tower:/usr/local/emhttp# ================================================================== 1.15b = unRAID server Pre-Clear disk /dev/sdi = cycle 1 of 1, partition start on sector 1 = Disk Pre-Clear-Read completed DONE = Step 1 of 10 - Copying zeros to first 2048k bytes DONE = Step 2 of 10 - Copying zeros to remainder of disk to clear it DONE = Step 3 of 10 - Disk is now cleared from MBR onward. DONE = Step 4 of 10 - Clearing MBR bytes for partition 2,3 & 4 DONE = Step 5 of 10 - Clearing MBR code area DONE = Step 6 of 10 - Setting MBR signature bytes DONE = Step 7 of 10 - Setting partition 1 to precleared state DONE = Step 8 of 10 - Notifying kernel we changed the partitioning DONE = Step 9 of 10 - Creating the /dev/disk/by* entries DONE = Step 10 of 10 - Verifying if the MBR is cleared. DONE = Disk Post-Clear-Read completed DONE Disk Temperature: 32C, Elapsed Time: 69:17:06 ========================================================================1.15b == ST8000AS0002-1NA17Z Z840F0J5 == Disk /dev/sdi has been successfully precleared == with a starting sector of 1 ============================================================================ ** Changed attributes in files: /tmp/smart_start_sdi /tmp/smart_finish_sdi ATTRIBUTE NEW_VAL OLD_VAL FAILURE_THRESHOLD STATUS RAW_VALUE Raw_Read_Error_Rate = 114 100 6 ok 61048640 Seek_Error_Rate = 72 100 30 ok 20723482 Spin_Retry_Count = 100 100 97 near_thresh 0 End-to-End_Error = 100 100 99 near_thresh 0 Airflow_Temperature_Cel = 68 70 45 near_thresh 32 Temperature_Celsius = 32 30 0 ok 32 Hardware_ECC_Recovered = 114 100 0 ok 61048640 No SMART attributes are FAILING_NOW 0 sectors were pending re-allocation before the start of the preclear. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after pre-read in cycle 1 of 1. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after zero of disk in cycle 1 of 1. 0 sectors are pending re-allocation at the end of the preclear, the number of sectors pending re-allocation did not change. 0 sectors had been re-allocated before the start of the preclear. 0 sectors are re-allocated at the end of the preclear, the number of sectors re-allocated did not change. root@Backup:/usr/local/emhttp#

I agree its not easy to set it up, I raised that with one of the mods as I was having trouble with it as well. I think they are going to tidy up the thread and make it easier for people to set it up. I would disagree with your conclusion that its a waste of time, its a very good idea to pre clear a drive before putting in your array, otherwise you are dealing with more problems if you don't and the drive fails, but really that's up to you. Personally I'd rather know before hand if a drive is bad and send it back before spending hours dealing with it failing in my array and all that that entails.

Can someone help me add my ebook collection to Calibre? I just installed the docker and have no clue how to add my ebook share. I added the container volume /library and pointed it to my ebook share /mnt/user/Ebooks/ but that doest seem to be working. Thanks

I assume you guys are you using the demo for this since its not free, I can't seem to download the demo for free. Gridrunner, are those the specs of your actual VM or the server hosting your VM?

An external drive will be added as an unassigned device, will not be part of the array so will not count on your license. UnRaid counts, drives in the array, and cache drives as well as your parity drive towards the license.

Hosting your email can he a chore, not only to setup but to maintain, also your ISP might block port 25 which is the default port for SMTP used in email. You are likely better off just going with a gmail address, that way its accessible anywhere on any device and you don't have to worry about maintaining it.

I'm getting really frustrated with a certain feature in Emby and not sure if I should go to the Emby forums for this. When I go to look at my TV Shows and its set to display as a poster, it shows some with posters and others with banners. I've changed the banners to posters five or six times now but they always seem to revert back to banners. Similarly with my movies, I've got them set to display as posters and I'll go in and change the poster to one I like, but they always seem to revert. I am doing this as the default user appuser with full permissions. Any idea whats going on and why my changed aren't being saved? I've even gone into metadata manager, made the change and saved it thinking that would help, nope.

Yup that worked, thanks Squid and CHBMB!! AM

I can't seem to get it to work, I can add the path to the docker but when I add it to Emby it doesn't scan it, although it doesn't complain about being able to access, it doesn't seem to be able to. AM

I am trying to add my media libraries on my second UnRaid server as network shares but I am unable to do it for some reason. I am adding \\IP address\share name but it keeps kicking it back to me, these are not open shares and perhaps that is the problem, they require a user name and password usually. I have added them as remote shares using the unassigned devices plugin, even copying and pasting the mount point into Emby, it takes it but cant access it. Is there a way to do what I am trying to do?

OK thanks, I have installed it, its just indexing my media which seems will take forever ;-) AM

Is anyone running Emby and Plex on the same server? Do they play well together, any issues?

Is Emby like Kodi? I have visited the Emby site but still can't quite figure out if its exactly like Kodi or something else?

Installing office from floppy was worse, it was 50 floppies, nothing beats getting to floppy #48 and it can't read, nice....... Ah, Windows 95, I remember the 20+ floppy disks. Nothing beats getting to floppy 18 and being told it can't be read.