ashman70

I started the array in maintenance mode and its doing a parity check now.

No I have disconnected the SSD, I did have it connected to an onboard SATA port but its unplugged now, the array wont mount, it says its mounting all disks but just sits there and eventually locks up. I have attached a diagnostics file that I ran before trying to mount the array. backup_tower-diagnostics-20160113-2217.zip

Seems my 8 port supermicro sata controller did not like having an SSD plugged into it, that what was causing all that nonsense.

I just swapped CPU's in my second UnRaid server switching from an intel i7 3770k to a i7 3770, now when I boot up I get the following errors, not sure why. Do I have to modify something on my boot flash drive? Does it look like a loose cable? I checked the cables they look fine. It finally just booted into UnRaid itself although I cant seem to get to the gui, a bunch of new text just showed up on the screen, I have taken a second pic showing it.

I have used both reds and greens and really have seen no difference, in my NAS (not unraid server) I have it full of reds but have had a few fail on me and have replaced them under warranty. The reds offer an extra year of warranty, 3 versus 2 and the red pro's offer 5 but are much more expensive than the regular reds. The blues used to be their entry level drive and used to not be available beyond 1TB but that does seem to be changing and I too have heard rumours that the blue line will be replacing the green.

UnRaid can use any of the following file systems for its array: BTRFS XFS ReiserFS

I'll give this a shot: 1.Yes the licenses limit the amount of drives you can attach to your system within your raid array. 2.I imagine they should work fine, but not very well for any transcoding Plex might do, that would be out of the question. 3.There is no RAID 5, UnRaid does not stripe parity across all disks, it has one disk dedicated to parity. The ability to add a second parity disk is coming 'soon' in the next release 6.2 4.No, not unless you put them in a RAID 1 array outside of UnRaid. 5.Yes there are articles on how to replace the parity drive when you want to upgrade it or if it fails. There are some users on here who have moved away from FreeNAS and Snapraid, perhaps they can chip in and help you out. AM

ZFS has to use ECC, but UnRaid does not, so again, in my opinion ECC is nice to have but not a need to have. Remember, you should have more then one backup location for your data, your UnRaid server should not be the only place your data resides, you should have a secondary backup to either an external hard drive, a second UnRaid server or the cloud. You shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket so that if your UnRaid server blows up you lose everything.

Can I ask why ECC is so important to you? Are you doing mission critical stuff that cannot possibly afford any memory problems? In all the years I've had clients with servers with ECC, I've never seen a memory issue or problem that made having ECC worthwhile? Is it a nice to have or need to have? Do those drive bays take 3.5' drives or 2.5' drive? They look like 2.5' drives to me and those are quite expensive in the capacities you are talking about.

So thunderbolt was created by Intel and initially only available on Mac's its sort of the next step beyond USB. The initial thunderbolt release was capable of 10GB/s of transfer and it can support monitors as well, you can daisy chain peripherals although only storage devices, not storage devices with monitors. Since its initial release there has been a second one, thunderbolt 2 if you will, which has essentially doubled the transfer speed to 20GB/s. It is no longer exclusive to Macs and is available as an add on card for some motherboards and some come with it built in. I believe its supported by Windows 10 but not 100% sure.

Looks good as long as shipping is not too bad or you can pick it up. Again keep in mind that only half the outlets on the back are battery backup protected, the other half are not and only surge protected. AM

I am soon going to be attempting an OSX VM using a Gigabyte motherboard that has Thunderbolt, do you think I might be able to pass that through to the OSX VM?

That rack mount system is going to limit your upgrade options. First, the listing states you will need a raid controller, second you'll need drives and they aren't cheap or large in capacity either and there is only room for four of them so you are looking at spending at least double or triple your budget to get this server going, not a good deal. I think you may want to save a little more $$ and get a motherboard, i5 cpu some ram, a case and power supply and some hard drives, essentially build your own system rather then buy a brand name server like this.

What Jon is saying is that you are assigning the same vcpu's in each VM: This is the same in each XML <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='4'/> <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='5'/> <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='6'/> <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='7'/> So you are using VCPU 0-3 and cpuset 4-7 in both vm's, Jon is saying it needs to be different for each VM.

My assumption is they would have to be the same size or larger, so if your existing parity drive is a 5TB drive, perhaps your second parity drive could be a 6TB or 8TB?

Personally I wouldn't be too concerned about that, its a nice to have not a need to have IMO, years ago when I was with Shaw then Rogers, I never had any power issues that affected my modem and if you did I am sure they would replace it unless you own it if you did have any issue. If you are in Markham you might as well save the $20 and drive over and pick it up, don't expect to much from their office its more like a small warehouse then a retail store.

Yep thats good bang for the buck, how much will shipping add?

Not my first rodeo either, but appreciate the concern.

I like the Smart UPS series over the Back UPS as the Smart UPS has all of their outlets dedicated to backup, whereas the Back UPS line tends to dedicate half to battery backup and the other half to surge protection only. Any of the Smart UPS line will work, 750, 1000, 1500.

I have always used APC units and have had very good luck with them. For our Canadian users (like me) I have used an outfit called UPS For Less (http://www.upsforless.ca) they sell new and refurbished UPS's at great prices. Every few years I drive out to their office to replace the failed batteries in my units.

Great pics! Danioj, don't be sad about upgrading to ASUS, they make the best wifi routers for the past two to three years, but the new routers do look tempting.

I would volunteer too to test a beta, if I was found worthy

Does anyone know if UnRaid 6.x would run fully supported on an Apple Mac Pro from 2006 onward to say 2010 model?

I just installed this plugin and on my 27" iMac I am not seeing any changes, my resolution is 2560x1440, I have gone through all the posts, how do I turn it on?

I am familiar with the setup you are endeavouring to replicate and you may want to scale it back to two gaming systems to begin with as doing any more then that might really 'do your head in'. Onboard SATA ports should work and might be more suitable if a NAS is not the primary use for your UnRaid server. Good luck and I hope you achieve your goal without too many bumps in the road or headaches.