dandirk

Location: Minneapolis, MN area United States Parts are certainly used for a number of years, but all from working system, noted issues. Cost: FREE (all or nothing) Mid-tower case with 9 external 5.25 bays: AZZA Helios 910 Black - Used, includes the bay covers, HDD cage + fan MISSING THE LARGE SIDE FAN. 2 Noctual fans (3 pin) 120 and 140 mounted in case. Already mounted. 1 iStar 4 drive 3 5.25" enclosure: FAN WILL NEED TO BE REPLACED! 80mm 3pin with tiny laptop connector, have leads or can solder (but not good at it). Corsair 650HX semi-modular PSU - bag and cables (well most, can't remember if all but can send deets if interested) Just send PM, can work out via text, images etc

Thank you for your work on this, will see if this fits my unraid fan needs. Currently it looks like even just being able to tweak static RPMs will be a bit helpful. I noticed on your project video, that you have other dockers setup to control your fans. Some sort of specific examples would be nice in your documentation. particularly around sensor usage. Still need to dig more but first problem for me is where do I start for dynamic based on sensor/temp data, even a simplified version of your setup would help jump start and get the ideas flowing. To be honest, I use Unraid specifically because I am lazy, I am fixing stuff for my day job . I am not opposed to writing simple scripts or config files, but I personally tend to have a complexity wall for my home server that I just do not pass without a benefit to that laziness. Example would let me see if for my use, if it would even be worth it. I realize this is your personal project, I don't want to sound demanding or ungrateful. Just one person's personal input. Again thank you for your work on this, very impressive!

So I actually have some old SanDisk Cruzer Fits... Saw the GUID reported by the creator tool doesn't have letters, only numbers. This seems odd doesn't it, though they all appear to be unique.

Everything when fairly smoothly, noticed situations where a file/dir picker is used, it will change the path to mnt/cache/ ... Will mull that one over... Appreciate it.

oh nice, I will read up! Thanks!

So, mainly for a sanity check... I setup a share for Appdata and use the /mnt/user/Appdata paths in my dockers for the various /config settings. Is it safe to assume (in general, and same files exist) that I can just change these to say /mnt/cache? I also created a share specifically for Plex, mostly due to backup/size. I assume I could move this data, change the docker paths and just restart the dockers? I am pretty sure this is the whole point of mount/relative paths but wanted to just make sure (well in general, I know each app is different).

lol... got me for about 10 seconds!... good one!

Oh completely missed that, just sort of assumed legacy would sort of convert to the new licenses, the upgrade option from Plus to Unleashed made me second guess. Assumed Pro licenses would at some point convert the Unleashed.

So I am somewhat confused... Am a Legacy Pro owner, never received and email and do not seem to have any license upgrade option. I assume since pro = unleashed it is more a waiting game for the new licenses? Or is there a version upgrade required, I wouldn't think so as they suggest to use connect to upgrade?

ah welcome! If you are looking for a rabbit hole, Unraid and media is a great one to fall into😀. In my opinion the 1TB nvme is going to be plenty for a cache drive as you get comfortable with Unraid. Unraid is pretty forgiving, hardware and setup is pretty easy. I haven't really had any serious software/config issues in years (well that wasn't my own fault). Installing and setting up plugins or apps (dockers) is about as easy as it gets. Plex is a pretty standard and simple docker to learn with (at least to get installed/running). Some personal tips: Use shares! Read up on share "split level" and "Allocation method" options on the shares. These determine where and how files fill the drives in your array. Do you spread files out, fill up one drive at a time? etc Think about your media/file organization and use multiple shares (lots of guides and discussions of different methods) Movies TV Appdata (for dockers) Files So get your server up and running, setup an array with a parity disk and your cache drive. Play around with copies of some of your media to see how things work and the way you like it. Test out the cache and mover features. Get the "file" stuff working, then move on to Docker and apps like Plex. Sonarr (TV) and Radarr (Movies) are part of a family of apps people refer to as starr apps or *arr apps. These are the apps people are talking about that watches your media collection. Like plex these are apps (dockers) that you install on unraid. Though I wuold suggest getting your collection and plex running first, those are a whole other rabbit hole

Short answer: Since you are starting with unraid, you will be fine with 1 cache @ 1TB. Longer answer: Loaded question, as you didn't give enough info to properly answer. How do you plan to use Unraid? Though I will try and give you my personal usage/thoughts and what I have seen others do in the forum. BIAS Warning: I am what I would consider a "power user", someone that knows/desires enough to do some limited tweaking and config with ease of use, simplicity as a priority. So this means limited to GUI configurations, using plugins and dockers available from the app store. Avoid manual cfg file editing etc... I would guess most people use 1 cache drive, I do. There are 2 major uses for the cache drive: Speed up, uploads to the server. The "Mover" then will copy them to the protected array at a time/interval you set. Store docker/VM files. Cache is faster at writes, so if you are running apps/VMs, you don't want them running directly on your protected shares. So cache is the perfect "home". Though I highly suggest backing up these files, CA appdata backup is a great plugin! Cache Size? Completely dependent on what and how you plan to use your cache. I use a few of the major starr app dockers (Sonarr, Radarr etc) and Plex Server, so I have my docker appdata and any "working"/temp download directories on my cache. It is common for me to get ~1TB of content a month. My cache usage fluctuates, right now it's ~50GB, but can get in the 100-200GB range. I have yet to turn on advanced Plex metadata, but plan to... this will use up more of my cache. The rest is purely for temporary storage of new files I have uploaded. I personally have my Mover running nightly, so really only need enough space for expected new content for 24 hours. So this completely depends on how much are you going to upload to unraid and how often you want the mover to run (even then Unraid has the option to go direct to protected if your cache gets full so it's not like things will fail, just slow down). Cache in Raid/Redundancy? Again, completely dependent on your usage/needs and desires. Cache content usually is fairly temporary, or small enough to easily backup. So, a Raid 1 setup is really dependent on how comfortable you are with failure risk. While Raid 1 will give you redundancy for your cache, do you really want/need it? AppData backup for your Dockers is most likely going to be enough. Though if you are running Windows VMs where backup/recovery will be more resource/time-consuming maybe Raid is for you. Not to mention you do risk any files on cache before mover runs. Raid 0: Valid option if you are running VMs or other disk performance apps or want to use 2 smaller nvme's. Number of Cache drives/configs? I would consider this advanced usage, not entirely required and if you are starting out probably not suggested until you know you need it. I have seen people use multiple cache drives and even the unassigned device plugin to segment and tweak usage. Some will have a dedicated cache for those uplaod files another for their dockers/appdata. Have seen some people use 3 disks keeping VMs on another drive entirely for performance.

So trying to learn the ins and outs of PCIe generations/lanes in regard to drive counts/bandwidth support. Sanity check please? If my research and understanding is correct? My drives are 7200rpm 3.5 drives rated ~270 MB/s (I am seeing this real-world on existing LSI 2308 HBA). So 8 drives would need: ~2160 MB/s... Does this mean that for Gen3 x8, the 2308 is complete overkill, since it supports upto 7880 MB/s? And even at Gen3 x4, 3940 MB/s would allow max drive throughput? Thanks for confirming (or correcting :)) what I assume is a simple question... Thinking of adding another 2308 but only have x4 left on my config.

Yeah both are on the same onboard controller (only 2 on the control). Not a big deal, the question was more general aka is this not surprising. I certainly need more confirmation, is it the port, cable, 4in3 dock etc. and at the end the day, it's only 4%... First world problems

So running pre-clear on 2 identical drives... 1 is running consistently 10MB/s slower than the others. Is this common or sign of an issue? I still have to test cables/connections etc...