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  1. I've read this a few times but am not quite following... I don't have any fruit settings currently, but you're saying you have to enable it and use a specific file they reccomend? ...or just downgrade to 6.9.2?
  2. I moved on and put most of my files on my primary windows workstation and shared it out, and that made a huge difference for my network clients. My throughput soared for the things that were lagging prior, and I started to notice other things were a lot better. For example, just opening up directories of photos now populate the thumbnails almost instantly, instead of me sitting there waiting for them to slowly pop up one by one. When you have a few hundred photos in each folder and you're trying to find something in a hurry, it's a lot easier now. I still use unraid for some movie archives, since my client is also linux so they can chat back and forth via NFS and the access time isn't really an issue. I also use it for backups, since I can kick off a manual or automatically scheduled sync and don't really care when it finishes. However, I've had recurring issues with a drive just dropping from the array (red x) when the array goes to shutdown...it doesn't matter what card I have it on, what channel of the card, I've swapped drives, I've swapped bays, it just seems to always pop up someplace on the array. This may have to do with the Marvell chipset, but I don't want to keep dumping money into hardware and hoping it fixes things. Ultimately I'll probably wait until drive prices come down and keep it online and expand my cloud backup solution. But I agree, ultimately without some idea of whether this is a solveable issue or nonsolvable, and if solveable, when.... that doesn't sit real well . I've got my money's worth with the product, so I'm not in quite the same position, but after wrestling with it for a while, I started to realize I didn't want to be spending my non-work hours figuring this out nonstop.. Pete
  3. Hi all..I've been using unraid forever as a HTPC target, Music/Video source, various unstructured data, etc. It's always worked well for me, but lately I've been driven crazy trying to sort out slowness issues with my windows client machines hanging and doing all sorts of funny things. I've been forced into spending hours trying to get apps to work differently so they won't try a lot of 'small file/quick access' tasks like reading cover art and whatever else, and I really have reached that point where I need to find another win-based solution for file access. I ran across some other folks with similar issues that spent even more time that I have, and besides playing around with RSS (which i've done) and chasing things with hardware, it seems like unraid has some smb access issues, or perhaps it's samba...regardless, it's 2023 and I don't feel like messing around with samba problems. I'll probably keep unraid running as a backup target, but don't need any docker tricks and just need something for my primary access that will be quick with small files like jpg cover art files, music, and music video collections. Has anyone been down this path recently? With large drives being so cheap, my thought was to keep my primary data online with a windows box, backing up to unraid and also leaving unraid for very large video files like movie files, etc...which have always worked well...and obviously some of these are accessed via NFS and bypass the issues I see with my other clients. I want to be clear...I've been nothing but satisfied with Unraid over the years..but I get this feeling that there's some underlying issues that aren't being addressed, and I'm not quite sure why. I do know that when I'm spending hours packet capturing and trying to get my apps to do things differently to stay afloat, that it's not something I want to be doing! Any thoughts are appreciated. Pete
  4. Thank you so much! That did the trick for me as well... I abandoned VLC for that one thing and it was good to finally get this sorted and not have to limp along with my other player!
  5. Ok, adding to the fun... If I put the file in a different folder by itself, it opens up immediately. It seems like it's slower based on whether it sits in a folder with a lot of other files. In this case, 2800 items.
  6. I seem to just get this repeated for 25 seconds or so...
  7. I'm testing this with the drive already spun up. It's basically repeatable, indefinitely.
  8. I've had this issue for a long time but never seem to quite tackle it: I'm trying to open a music video file (mp4) off of an unraid share on my lan. If I have the file copied to my local system drives, it opens up right away in VLC media player. If I put it on my unraid share, it takes about 25-30 seconds for VLC to actually start playing the video. In my tests, I'm trying a 58mb Mp4. Size doesn't seem to influence the delay...the cpu is 95% idle, network isn't doing anything. Unraid has 4 drives with a single parity, not seeing any errors on the drives or logs during access time, my share data is only coming from one drive (share not split to multiple drives). Everything xfs running Unraid 6.8.3 I used to think this condition would only crop up when trying to access drives that were nearly full. Now that i've simplified my system with fewer drives of larger size, i'm pulling this data from a drive with 79% utilization, so I wouldn't expect there to be a slowdown. Thus why this time is a bit of a new take on an old problem. Has anyone run into this condition? My next steps are to perhaps dig into a packet capture or monkey around with some antivirus exceptions. Thanks, Pete
  9. Thanks for your help, that got me back on track...
  10. Hmm... No new data should be on the two shares that are tied to the 3 drives in question.... so does that sounds like the best path is a new config route, or should I try to reboot this and rerun another parity check...or is that now out of the question...?
  11. Had a question - had a power outage this week and the system started back up and ran a parity check. However, I went back to check the server,and it looks like the parity check ran up a bunch of errors on a few drives, a drive got disabled by unraid, the drive was part of a share with three other drives, and no files that appear for that share. I didn't dig much further into things..but as I saw errors on other drives that different fail (and I"ve been look at '0' errors for years now), that was concerning....any suggestions on where to step into this? I uploaded the diag file, but don't want to start getting too creative with reseating drives or restarting parity checks, etc and cause more problems...or see if I should be searching logs for 'corrupt' or 'rescued' files at this point... Any suggestions are appreciated...greatly appreciated... Pete server-diagnostics-20180622-0909.zip
  12. Disregard - solved my own issue... it was holding onto an old automatic DNS ip address from dhcp... for some reason it's not swapping over to what the new dns should be, but I'll do some more digging. I manually set the dns server setting for the time being, and it picked right back up with the latest updates... Thanks Pete
  13. Question.. I typically use the built in GUI update process...which has worked great, until I hit 6.3.3....and now it doesn't seem to see any new updates. I downloaded 6.3.5, manually copied it to the flash...and rebooted to 6.3.5. Tried again: no go. I then went to 6.4.0 manually, tried the new Update OS feature - and it said there were no new updates. ...does something need to be reset or cleared out to get this back on track? Thanks Pete
  14. Ok...I finally got this figured out. It may be a combination of reading old posts and too many directions. Anyways, straight from the crashplan site... https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Backup/Backing_Up_A_Windows_Network_Drive If you have Windows 10, you have to install Crashplan on the windows host as a user...not under the 'All Users' option, if you're running Crashplan v4.3 or later. After I uninstalled Crashplan, made sure the program directories were all gone, reinstalled as a specific user...I then logged into my account settings to 'adopt' the old backup settings, and it kicked right in and was able to see the mapped drives. I didn't have to monkey around with the login script mapping these in the background ... so we'll see how long this holds up. But at least it's back on track now and not showing 'Missing' for the mapped drives Pete
  15. Thanks - I'm contemplating that solution at the moment as well... just a bit hesitant to go that route, since I'm backing up data on my desktop, a couple 'off-NAS' drives that need fast access time, etc. I feel like there has to be a solution or way to test what's happening a bit better, as I really don't want to invite additional OS's and processing onto the unraid box. Won't the docker basically make the nas drive the '1 computer' in the crashplan subscription?