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Unfortunately this did not make a difference for me. Once I started doing some hardware transcoding the server once again locked up after about 15 minutes.

Disabling the GPU on the SuperMicro board will break IPMI so that really isn’t a solution even if it fixes the problem. Also, I don’t know why it works for others but not those of us with this issue. But the fact that it works in other OS environments and not in the Unraid environment means it has to be something in the Unraid environment. What other conclusion could their be?

It’s certainly possible it’s related to IPMI. However, as I said, no issues occur in other OSes so it’s still some kind of issue in the Unraid environment. My server is located 4 hours away in a different state in a house that doesn’t always have people there so IPMI is not optional for me. I would be happy to try to troubleshoot this issue with the developers if they need any assistance.

This is not a hardware issue. Hardware transcoding works fine with other OSes. This issue only exists in Unraid. It is 100% a software issue of some kind in this environment.

The issue occurs independent of the application you’re using to transcode. It happens with me with Plex. It also happens to me with Handbrake.

I’m currently on 6.9.2 and I have an E3 1275v6 so that shouldn’t make a difference unfortunately. edit: current system specs:

Were you ever able to figure something out with your Intel GPU causing lock ups? I’ve been having the same issue.

Can you give us the ability in the settings to set all the flags on our own? The -X flag to copy extended attributes is causing a ReiserFS error and thus causing a move to fail. I tried using my own flags but realized, after it failed again and looking at the logs, that putting custom flags in the settings page just adds those flags in addition to your standard flags. Please give an option for us to use only our custom flags. It’s not a huge deal. I’m just running the rsync operation from the command line for now.

Seems to be working ok for me on 6.4.0. Thanks StevenD!

Will this install and run under unRAID 5.x? If so can you control it from the command line? I have an old tower with a 5 in 3 trayless cage that I use for preclears/wiping drives I'm selling. I use a version of 5 because I can preclear the drives without mounting them/adding them to the array and fire up screen in a remote terminal session and monitor them that way. It'd be nice if I can replace bjp999's script and use this since this is apparently faster.

Thanks, that looks like exactly what I was looking for! I'll give it a shot!

Yeah, I guess the point was I was trying to avoid having to do it disk by disk for each show and would like to be able to choose the top level directory for that show from the share and then choose the destination disk and that's it.

Sorry if this has already been answered/requested but would it be possible to add an option/feature so you you could do a move from a user share folder to a specific disk? For example say /TVShows/Game Of Thrones is split across disks 2,3,5,7,8,9. I'd like to consolidate Game of Thrones down to just disk 7. Years ago when I first set my server up I had split levels set up incorrectly so I've got a ton of TV shows split across multiple disks and I'd like to consolidate them. I can do it manually via midnight commander or the command line but it would be nice to have an easy GUI to do it with.

The BR10i supports a maximum disk size of 2TB. Don't use that card unless you don't plan on using disks larger than that.

Hello friend I know thread is bit old but were you able to build such an 24 drive system? It seems very exciting to me so can you provide some information? Waiting for reply thanks in advance:) Would it even matter? The hardware would be three years out of date. You're better off just creating a new thread and asking for advice on low power hardware.

1. Download and install the VMWare VDDK (Virtual Disk Development Kit) located here. You will need to provide your email and password you used to get your free ESXi license. https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?productId=285&downloadGroup=VSP510-VDDK-510 2. Once installed, from the command prompt, navigate to the path shown in the screen shot and enter the command in the screen shot to mount the older version of the vmdk. I used "J" for the drive letter but you can use any unused drive letter. You want to mount unRAID.vmdk, not unRAID-flat.vmdk which won't mount. 3. Replace the bzroot, bzimage and syslinux.cfg files in the drive you just mounted with the latest versions available. 4. Unmount the mounted vmdk drive using the following command. Replace "j:" with whatever drive letter you chose. 5. Shutdown your unraid VM. Browse your datastore that your unraid VM is stored on and browse to the unraid VM's directory. Upload both the unRAID.vmdk and unRAID-flat.vmdk like in the following screen shot. Choose yes when it asks if you want to replace the file. 6. Inflate the unRAID.vmdk like shown in the screen shot. That's it. Boot your unraid VM and you should now be running whatever version of unraid you upgraded your vmdk to. I would recommend you browsing to your flash drive once its booted and updating the unraid system files there as well in case you ever need to run unraid on bare metal for whatever reason.

That explanation above was way more complicated than it needed to be. This way can be done from a Windows VM or any Windows PC with the vSphere Client installed. Install the VMWare Virtual Disk Dev Kit, mount an older version of the vmdk with VMware-mount.exe, replace bzroot, bzimage and syslinux.cfg with the current version, unmount the vmdk, shutdown the unraid VM and upload the vmdk to the datastore via the vSphere client to replace your old vmdk, right click it and hit inflate, and then boot up your unraid VM. That's all you need to do. A lot simpler. As for updating the vmtools, there's no need to pull the flash drive for this. Just use wget while unraid is running to download the file to the corresponding directory in /boot/ and install it.

Or just not update the syslinux.cfg at all and leave the one from RC12a or RC13. That's what I did.

Updating the vmdk oneself is really not difficult.

This is what I do. I use SMB for now because of said NFS issues. With the vmxnet3 10Gb virtual NIC you're going to get reads and writes as fast as your unraid disks can perform. Performing iperf speed tests between the two VMs show me getting 10.8 gigabits per second so we've got plenty of headroom before even the fastest SSD makes the network connection between the two VMs a speed bottleneck.

Holy smokes! For a 100MB zip? It would take me less than 30 seconds to upload that, even on my LTE iPhone. Sounds like the NBN can't come soon enough for you guys out there in OZ.

An OVA would require you to reconfigure your entire unraid setup in vSphere though. With the vmdk you can just add a hard disk to your existing setup. And wouldn't an OVA require you to redo it every time there was a new release of unraid?

It has been a lot more than 4-5 hours patiently waiting.. Not quite sure I understand the need to for this when you can make a .vmdk file yourself and use a program like winimage to inject the new bzimage/bzroot. And besides rc13 uses a different kernel so you will likely need to wait for a new vmtools package. Edit: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=7914.0 I used the vmware-mount utility included in the VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit mount the vmdk and load the new bzimage/bzroot but same concept. Also, the RC-12a VMware tools are working fine for me.

Any chance of instead of the website being worked on to add slideshows we can get 5.0 finalized?

Unraid does support USB 3.0. It's supported it for about a year now actually. So if ESXi is passing it through properly it should work in theory.