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it gets to that point and will not power down or reboot. just sits there.......for hours if i let it.

Title says it all. I try to shutdown or reboot and the system end up hanging with that as the last line. What is causing this and how can I remedy it?

Also, thanks for the wsus tip. I've been in the Mac world for the past few years and had never heard of wsus......of coarse I've never had updating issues either. Anyhow, I'll definitely be using that and creating a update share on the nas. ?????? Thanks again

Wow. I let it run 8 hours or so and it never even listed any available updates.

I can't figure out why my Windows 7 VM will not get updates. It has internet connectivity and my windows 10 VM gets updates with zero issues. I've done fresh installs of Windows 7 twice now and neither time will it update. It just sits there looking for updates and never moves any further. Any ideas?

Unless I'm mistaken JBOD will add X number of disk with no performance or redundancy advantages. It's simply multiple disks added together to create a "single disk" with the capacity being the sum of the drives in the array. The only options I'd seen were raid 0 or 1 which affects the total sum of the two disks I currently have which are a 30gb ssd and a 500gb hdd. I don't want to lose all that space. You can use the single profile, BTRFS equivalent of JBOD, useful when using different size cache devices. So it will just add the disks together, no striping or mirroring taking place? I doubt I'll do this with the current drives I have at hand, but I still want to understand my options.

Thanks again. Will a ssd make a big difference vs a traditional hdd for a cache disk? If not, I have a 500gb hdd I can make use of. Is their no JBOD setting for the cache pool, only raid 0 or 1?

much obliged!

So I've decided to ditch my windows 10 server in favor of unraid. Hardware consists of a old optiplex 790 w/ a i7 2600 and 8gb of non-ecc ram. I'm migrating the hardware to a new case that will allow enough hard drives for my future plans which won't consist of more than 6 hdds for my mild needs. I'm currently testing out unraid to see how blue iris performs on the Windows 10 VM I have running (necessary evil ?). On to the first question.... -I have a small (30gb) sandisk ready cache that I've formatted and made a normal ssd. I would like to designate it as a cache drive. However, I fear that at times this may be too small for my needs. I know that two drives can be assigned as cache drives but can one be selected as a "primary" of sorts, with the second as a overflow in the event the first one fills up? -How are files handled with Sabnzbd? For instance if I have Sab living on my "overflow", non-ssd cache drive how does it download a file? Will all the partial files populate on that cache drive? Could I select to have them written to the array then erased (I'm sure that's not a good solution)? Once a file is completed and post processed to go to say a "Movie" folder that lives on the array does that file sit on the cache drive where Sab is living or would it be moved to the "primary" cache drive (provided I can do as I asked in previous question) or would it be moved to the "Movie" folder immediately so that my media server could see it? -How do files which have the final destination of the array, but are still located on the cache drive, appear to a connected computer or if you are browsing via the unraid webgui? Does that file show that it's located in its destined directory? I'm assuming that it would. -My motherboard only has 3 sata connections. What are some compatible, reliable sata pcie cards so I can add 3 or 4 more sata connections? I'm sure other questions will arise, these are just some that I was wondering about for now. Thanks