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Just in case other folks miss it like me, these are SAS drives, not SATA. OP, you might want to add SAS and refurbished to the title. It's a good deal, imo, if you're ok with refurbs. I have a 4 yr old 6TB HGST SATA refurb drive that's been going strong, but I guess it's luck of the draw.

Just to add my experience to this; I’m running an i5-12400 with an Asrock H670M Pro (DDR4 and 1Gbe Intel Ethernet). Everything seems to be working great on 6.10rc2, including networking and iGPU passthru to dockers. Plex is able to do hw transcoding except HDR tone mapping does not work, which appears to be a bug that’s still present since Rocket Lake days. Jellyfin is able to do hw transcoding just fine with HDR tone mapping enabled. Overall, I’m happy with this setup which was a fairly inexpensive upgrade these days from my i7-3770 system. ($170 CPU, $140 MB, $90 32GB) and idles ~ 40W at the wall with 8 HDD, 2 SSD, and one LSI 9211-8i, which is about 10w lower than my old system. MB also has a PCI gen4x16 for a GPU in addition to the gen3x16 HBA slot, 6 fan headers, and 2 Gen4 NVME slots.

Hi all, Just thought I'd share a few scripts I wrote and packaged up as a docker for auto sleeping/waking up a Plex server. This docker, called WakerUp works in the following scenario: You have a stand-alone Plex server running on Linux (preferably Ubuntu). You have a firewall/router capable of logging firewall accesses to a file or syslog server. Your Plex server can be remotely woken up via a Wake-On-Lan magic packet. You can ssh into your Plex server. If so, then WakerUp will run on your Unraid system as a docker container, and it will remotely monitor your Plex server for activity via the Plex API. If it detects inactivity, it will sleep the Plex server via ssh after a suitable interval. Once the server is asleep, WakerUp will continue monitoring the log, looking for accesses in the firewall log for things like port 32400 (the Plex network port), although the exact search string is configurable, and will send the sleeping Plex a WOL packet to wake it up, and then repeat the whole sleep/wakeup process indefinitely. Since my Plex server also serves files over NFS, I needed a way to trigger scans on my library for new items every now and then (since the auto-detect of file system changes doesn't work over NFS), so WakerUp will also trigger library scans at regular, user-configurable intervals when the server is awake. Everything is open-source: You can find the documentation and source here: https://github.com/virantha/wakerup To install, you just add https://github.com/virantha/docker-containers into your Docker templates repository list: And then add a new Docker container called 'wakerup': The settings are explained in the README in the source repository, but should be fairly straightforward. You shouldn't have to do any configuration on your Plex server, as WakerUp will take care of setting up ssh keys, and installing pm-utils on the server. Once installed, check your docker log to make sure it looks something like the following: Let me know if anyone finds this useful or if you have any questions!

It is, in fact, stealing (return fraud - price arbitrage) and is prosecuted, for example, as petty theft/shoplifting in CA. https://www.shouselaw.com/is-return-fraud-a-crime-in-california, so please don't do it.

$160 now at bestbuy.com https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-10tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/6278208.p?skuId=6278208

Curious what your idle power is showing at the wall (with hard drives in standby and no high-cpu processes running like transcode)?

Do you know what the idle power of this board is?

Their infamous 3TB drives really drove me crazy. One actually failed in such a way that it would overload the rails on power-up causing my server to power-cycle continuously. I don't know if it was related, but my motherboard never posted properly after that (intermittent power-up) and had to be replaced; expensive avoton board too! Haven't had any issues so far (knock on wood) with two 4TB Seagates and a 5TB SMR in the last year.

Heads up that the new 8TB Helium drives from WD appear to be shipping and can be had for $250 at either Amazon.com or wdc.com for the External version. This appears to be a discount over the $300 list price right now. Model number is WDBFJK0080HBK-NESN

Great deal. Also a $20 rebate, so net $270, right?

Since these are 7200RPM, are these much noisier than the WD Reds while spinning and seeking?

Does anyone know what's the drive inside here and if it's easy to harvest? Don't see any reviews or posts from a quick web search on using this as an internal drive because it seems to be a pretty new product.

Well, I said they were quick :) ... but you might want to think twice about whether you want to "... dig up an old flash drive." A nice new one is likely to be more reliable and will likely have more space. The man has his wife demanding Plex!!! I think he just wants to get out of the dog house, I'm sure he'll be able to upgrade it to a nice shiny new one when he gets a minute either through the gui or by emailing Tom.. An upset wife is something I'd rather avoid and I suspect it's something we've all experienced and just about lived to regret... Just reverting to Beta 14b should resolve that until he gets a new flash drive. Ah, good call, I'm going to do that as a temporary measure; in my panic, I'd forgotten about the auto-backup. Thanks for the reminder! And thanks everyone else also for the help; I reconsidered that old drive and just ordered a new one Finally an excuse to try out that 2-hour free amazon delivery....

Ah, but presumably, they blacklist when someone tries to register an already registered GUID (in this case, mine). Why can't they send an email to the person who registered the GUID first, since they have the email of the person that purchased the key? No worries, Tom already replied to my email; now I just have to dig up an old flash drive.

Gdammit, if you're going to blacklist already purchased GUIDs/Keys, can they not have the courtesy to send out an email to currently licensed folks warning them to change their usb drives before we find out inadvertently with an update? Sorry to rant, wife is complaining about her Plex being down

What kind of flash device is it? Some don't have unique GUIDs. You might get quicker response if PM or email limetech directly. It's a Kingston MobileLite G4 Reader. I don't understand why it would just stop working after an update.

I just upgraded from beta14b and now it won't mount my array, saying my flash device is blacklisted. WTH??? I have a pro license.

Rebate (new one) is back again today and tomorrow, if you feel like ordering a second and have another coupon :-)

Just got mine, popped it open, and yes, it's the WD Red WD50EFRX drive inside. Good deal, methinks, even without the warranty :-)

http://www.frys.com/product/8310177

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Might be a dumb question, but can I take my unRAID created cache pool (RAID1) and run the following command on it to convert the data portion to RAID0? btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid0 /mnt/cache Actually, I might just shutdown the array first and mount the cache at a temp directory before I do this. But assuming I convert to raid0 (and it seems like from reading some docs on btrfs, this would work), would Unraid still be ok with the cache pool? I've seen Unraid running btrfs commands when bringing up the array, and what worries me is, does it make any assumptions about the pool type in the cache and potentially screw up the configuration?

Just be aware that this was $269 minus $30 rebate back in early February (plus another $25 off if you had Amex) from Newegg too. Almost bought it then, but then factored in HP's support policy (i.e no bios updates unless you pay for their "service" contract) and that crappy case with no drive cage Didn't think about pulling the motherboard into another case! (is it a standard mATX or ITX?)

So I did have issues running preclear where it would fail around the 70% mark during the clear (drive would just drop out of linux). I suspect this has something to do with the fact that this is a shingled (SMR) drive and there's some interaction with the way the script does the clear (maybe it's doing random sectors, or interspersed reads?) and the persistence cache inside this drive. Regardless, I had no issues doing a regular badblocks test, and right now it's running happily in my array as a parity drive with no issues or parity sync errors.