Endy

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  1. Endy

    CSE-846 and Cooling

    The only thing I can think of is that because the space is so limited, it's increasing air pressure. I had read somewhere that Tctl was useful for fan control and that's why I was thinking I should use it, but now that I am thinking about it, Unraid isn't controlling the cpu fan, so if I just want to see the cpu temp I should probably be using Tdie. Chalk this one up to me overthinking things. Thank you. Except for the temperature issues, it's been turning out better than I expected.
  2. This is going to be a bit of a lengthy setup with questions at the end. I ran out of room in my old case and went with a Supermicro 846 with the BPN-SAS2-846EL1. I had also been planning an upgrade for awhile and did that at the same time. I went with a Ryzen 7 3800X on the AsRock Taichi x570. My house does not have a great place to keep servers and networking equipment so for now I am making use of a small hallway closet. Eventually I need to add some type of venting but I have made no decisions on that as of yet. Keeping the door cracked open is working just fine. The 846 just barely fits inside this closet. I ended up making a little cart and I have the server sitting on it's side. The old server sat directly on the floor (tile) underneath the bottom shelf and it seemed to trap a lot of heat. The new server actually sits at the front of the closet before where the shelf starts and the whole closet actually seems to be cooler. Noise was a bit of an issue so I have taken steps to quiet the server down. I took out the power supplies that came with it and replaced them with one of the SQ power supplies. I replaced the 2 80mm fans at the back of the case with 2 Noctua NF-R8 redux-1800 PWM. Because the Noctua are thinner than the fans they replaced there were some large gaps so I 3D printed some spacers to make sure the air flow was exhausting out the back. This picture shows 1 fan with the gap and the other with the spacer. I also took out the fan wall with the 3 80mm fans and 3D printed a new fan wall for 3 120mm fans and I used Arctic P12 PWM PST. (I had to make it in 3 pieces because of the size of my working 3D printer.) As I've seen suggested elsewhere, I also sealed up the vent holes on the sides of the case so that air will be pulled through the front across the hard drives. I also taped over the inside vent holes of the drive trays that do not currently have hard drives mounted. All of this has quieted the server down. In fact, I think it's quieter than my old server. However, I am now worried about temps. Initially I noticed my hard drive temps getting close to dangerous levels. This was during my initial testing when I was leaving the lid off the case. That meant the air wasn't getting pulled from the front of the case but rather from the huge gap that was now open between the backplane and the fan wall. Put the lid back on and temps were a little bit better, but still not great. At this point I turned the fan wall fans and the 2 rear exhaust fans to run at max speed in the bios and again, temps got a little bit better. Funny thing is, the hard drive temps dropped even lower once I put the server in the closet. Currently they mostly stay in the 20's and 30's which is good, but a few of them do seem to go over 40 degrees at times. I also have an M.2 NVME drive and 2 SSD's. The NVME drive is mounted in a slot between the CPU socket and the first PCI-E slot. For the SSD's I ended up making a mounting bracket that uses the mounting points of the case as seen here: All 3 of these drives see temperature spikes. The NVME can get up around 50 degrees and the 2 SSD's can see around 46 degrees. I have only just figured out how to get the cpu and mb temps to show up in Unraid. Looks like the cpu idles around 60 degrees. (Technically 8% load, but I do not see the Ryzen drop below that even though the Intel I7 7700 I had in my last server would.) Currently using the stock AMD heatsink and fan. Here's a picture that shows the overall layout as it is right now: One thing that I am wondering about is if I should switch to a heatsink and fan for the cpu that moves air in the same direction as the other fans? I'm thinking that maybe the current heatsink and fan are impeding the flow a bit. Maybe creating a bit of a whirlwind and keeping hot air inside the case and keeping the cpu temp a little hotter than it could be? Maybe also blowing hot air across the NVME which is why it gets so hot? Because the case sits on it's side, the 2 SSD's are at the top of the case and so maybe they are getting hot because heat rises and there's not enough airflow exiting the case pulling hot air away from them? I have thought that I could make a new mounting bracket that rotates them 90 degrees and make it possible to hold 4 SSD's and have something like a 50mm fan that blows air across them. Should I also be adding fans to the front of the case as others have done to force more air inside across the hard drives? Bonus questions... in the System Temp plugin I'm using k10Temp - Tctl for CPU temp and nct6798 - SYSTIN for motherboard temp. Are these the correct sensors for those? I am also trying to figure out which sensor to use for the Fan Auto Control plugin. There's nct6798 pwm1-7. I am assuming that I would want to find the one that controls the fans on the fan wall, but not sure which sensor goes to which motherboard pwm fan header.
  3. IOMMU group 1: [8086:1901] 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 05) [10de:1b81] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] (rev a1) [10de:10f0] 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1) This is what mine looks like on a Gigabyte Z170. I have had no problems passing through my graphics card without the need for the ACS override.
  4. I could use a little help. I've got the LetsEncrypt docker setup and it's working for things like Emby no problem. No I am trying to setup some websites for testing. I managed to get a wordpress site working with .conf file in the site-confs folder so that it uses a subdomain of my domain. So that much works. I've also tried setting up a phpBB forum on it's own subdomain, but that isn't working. I add the .conf file for nginx that comes with phpBB to the site-confs folder (modified with my domain details) and I just get an error that it can't connect the default site and the wordpress site stop working as well. I've tried searching but have not come across anything that has worked so far. Any one who has successfully gotten phpBB to work with this docker have any ideas?
  5. Now they are down to $159 for the 10TB and $129 for the 8TB.
  6. Looks like they are on sale for $179 again.
  7. I was sure this wasn't the issue, but then I remembered that I made some hardware changes to my server a few months ago and could no longer use the internal usb port I was using before. None of the usb ports on the back of the case are usb 2.0 and that was where I moved the flash drive to. For the moment I can only try putting the flash drive in one of the front usb ports (that are 2.0) and see what happens. However, it is still a bit weird because I am sure that I must have rebooted the server at least once or twice between when I did the hardware changes and when I recently started having problems.
  8. Just wondering if this is a sign that the usb flash drive I'm using for Unraid is dying. I've been using it for as long as I've had Unraid which is about 3 and a half years and I've had no problems until recently. It seems that whenever I reboot my server the flash drive disappears from the bios and because of that Unraid fails to boot. At that point if I move the flash drive to another usb port the bios picks it up again and boots just fine once it is selected as the boot device again.
  9. You may not need a Nvidia graphics card to play pc games on the Shield anymore. There's now a Steam Link app (like an actual app, not using gamestream to stream Steam) that works pretty good. I don't have a non Nvidia card to test with it though.
  10. So an 80+ Gold 750w power supply would be a good plan then? (That's what I was leaning towards.)
  11. Server specs in my signature. There is also another Crucial ssd and it has an added usb card and a Perc H310. I could very well be adding more hard drives in the future as well. I haven't noticed any problems with my current 550w power supply, but I did just add another 2 hard drives (and accidentally killed another one at the same time) and with more possible in the future I am thinking it might just not be enough. I think looking at the calculators it came out to be that I was currently using right around 550w. I think I've read that it's good to have a little bit more overhead, but I'm not sure. So 650w or 750w? Currently I've been looking at Seasonic and Evga. Is it the CX line to stay away from for Corsair?
  12. I believe both the HGST and the Toshiba are 7200 rpm drives if that matters to you at all. I would go for the HGST because they seem to be a pretty solid drive. Toshiba would be my 2nd choice. All of my current disks are 6TB HGST's and the have been flawless so far. I had one 6TB X300 and it was doing just as well, maybe just a tad bit hotter than the HGST's. It died a premature death a couple of days ago while I was doing some upgrades to my server, but the fault was totally my own and nothing to do with the quality of the drive itself.
  13. Newegg has the HGST 6TB NAS drives on sale today only for $154.99 (Nov 12th) with a coupon code (EMCEEER23). https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=22-146-118
  14. To use your Flash series as an example, you would create a Flash (2014) folder, the year in the folder name is only needed to differentiate from Flash (1990), where your Emby tv library is pointing to. Inside that folder (this part may no longer be needed but I still do it), you would create at least one season folder, ie Season 1. When Auto Organize sees a new file in the watch folder, it will try to parse the name and see if it matches with an existing series in Emby. If it matches, it renames and moves the file to the correct location for that series. There are rare times where this doesn't work because it can't figure out what series a file belongs to (and Auot Organize only works with series, not movies). In that case, click on the folder icon next to the listed file. Here you can specify which series, season, and episode number the file is. If you click on "remember this correction" it will add it to the list of smart matches and should take care of it properly next time.
  15. An easy way is probably to use Emby's Auto Organize plugin.
  16. There's an idea. Maybe one of these days when I am feeling ambitious I'll open it up and see. Could definitely be a capacitor. I've actually been looking at those to be the replacement if(when) my RT-N16 completely dies on me.
  17. I've had an Asus RT-N16 running Shibby Tomato for years. Tried replacing it last year with a decently powerful TP-Link router last year, but didn't like that so I gave that to my parents who need the better wifi in the house they just moved to. I also ran pfSense in a VM on my unraid server for awhile, but I didn't like that anytime the array was down, the router would be down. Unfortunately, the Asus has been showing signs that it may not last much longer. (Not sure if it's just randomly dropping the WAN connection or rebooting.) Recently picked up a Qotom Q355-G4, which is probably way overkill for me, and installed pfSense on it. That ticked the boxes of being decently powerful and relatively low power consumption. So far it's working great. Still using the Asus for wifi until it completely craps out. But wifi is pretty much only for my phone at this point. Everything else is wired.
  18. Binary file (standard input) matches Model Number: HGST HDN726060ALE610 Model Number: HGST HDN726060ALE610 Model Number: HGST HDN726060ALE614 Model Number: TOSHIBA HDWE160 Model Number: HGST HDN726060ALE614 Model Number: HGST HDN726060ALE614 Model Number: Crucial_CT512MX100SSD1 Model Number: Crucial_CT500MX200SSD1 2 Crucial SSD's. Hope that helps.
  19. I think I understand now. Would it be possible to use Unassigned Devices to add a remote share with the proper credentials and then have the script point to that?
  20. I'm not following this. Maybe explain step by step or else maybe someone else understands. (I am by no means an expert.)
  21. I would try the User Scripts plugin.
  22. Just updated to the latest Unraid RC and I haven't checked the Seagate drive yet, but I was able to run a smart test on the ssd now so it looks like it's working. Thank you both @dlandon and @bonienl for looking into this.
  23. Still not working. Neither an SSD connected to the motherboard nor the Seagate backup drive connected by usb.
  24. The unraid user and password that you used for the secure and private shares need to be set as the same username and password that you log into Windows with. (It also wouldn't hurt to double check that you gave that user read or read/write access to the share in unraid... I ran into that issue recently myself.)
  25. All I did was go into Programs and Features and then into Turn Windows features on or off and made sure that SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support was enabled. (It was not, I had to enable it.) I also added the entry in my hosts file for the server name and IP address. I have done nothing else and it seems to be working just fine now. My shares are set to secure and using an Unraid user with the same name and password as my Windows 10 login.