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Up! Can we get at least an idea of whether the support for NFSv4 is being considered and/or actively worked on? Or do I need to start looking for another storage solution to provide that feature for me? Thanks!

I have also run the normal and Extended test of the "Fix Common Problems" plugin but it didn't find anything: Errors Found Suggested Fix No errors found Warnings Found Suggested Fix No Warnings found The following user shares will be excluded from the permissions tests:/mnt/user/appdataProcessing /mnt/user/xxxxProcessing /mnt/user/xxxxProcessing /mnt/user/xxxxProcessing /mnt/user/xxxxProcessing /mnt/user/xxxxProcessing /mnt/user/xxxxProcessing /mnt/user/xxxxProcessing /mnt/user/xxxxProcessing /mnt/user/xxxxProcessing /mnt/user/xxxxProcessing /mnt/user/xxxxProcessing /mnt/user/xxxxProcessing /mnt/user/xxxxProcessing /mnt/user/xxxxProcessing /mnt/user/xxxxProcessing /mnt/user/xxxxNo problems found

Hi guys, I'm having an issue with my UnRAID after I upgraded to v6.3.5 I hadn't noticed this problem before, so I guess it appeared in the latest release. When SMB is enabled (Settings => Network setting => SMB) and the default options chosen (Enable Yes (Workgroup), Hide No, Wokgroup WORKGROUP, Local master Yes), the CPU loads goes up to 100% in the dashboard and I see the "smbd" process hogging 50% of the CPU in command line (top). And that's without any access to the drives, without the array being down. Do you have any idea what could be causing that? I have had to disable SMB for the time being but that means I can't access my files anymore from Windows. I have attached the diagnotics extract for your reference. Thanks in advance for your help and let me know if you need more information. pinky-diagnostics-20170615-2033.zip

I'm seeing the same problem under unRAID 6.2 on a Debian VM newly created. I doubt we all have a hardware problem. After a reboot and cleaning-up the syslog: pinky-diagnostics-20161024-2147.zip

I tried to install the plugin on unRAID 6.2.1 but when I try to start it, I get a "Cannot start ProFTPd -- /etc/proftpd.conf missing" error. Is that normal? I expect the plugin to come with a barebone config file.

Hi everyone, I'm new to unRAID and just started using it a few days ago. As I was configuring my install, I came accross some sections of the configuration tutorial that raised some questions. I'll start with the "simple" one of the 2: Question 1: "How do I manage user permissions based on users and shares/folders?" For instance, user Bob has RW access to 'Videos' and 'Music' but RO access to Pictures and no access to 'Documents' While user Anna has RW access to almost everything but only RO access to 'Documents'. Ideally I would want to even manage that by groups. Group 'Users' contains Jack and Marina and they can only RO on Videos. Group 'Admin' contains Asktoomuch and has RW access to everything. Is there a simple way to manage that by folders or shares like there is on DSM on my Synology? Ideally it could be managed from the Web UI Now, onto the more complicated matter. I have read the wiki on the subject of "Split levels" and I'm utterly confused about their use. I understand that the whole point is to limit fragmentation so that a movie file and its associated subtitle file don't end-up on different disks, but to be honnest, I fail to see the benefit. What I see however is that if you don't have a very well thought-out folder structure, you can easilly end-up in situations where you can't add up any more files because the folder level you are at will not split on multiple drives and the drive it resides on is full, even if you have more than enough space left on other drives. I decided to go for unRAID because it was in my opinion the best "hands-off" solution for presenting a bunch of mismatched disks as a single drive to the final user, with little management required from an admin point of view. To be fair, I don't care if my files are spread all over the place. I even see it as a benefit as I wouldn't be losing entire parts of my folder structure if a catastrophic failure happened and killed 2 drives at the same time and my backups. It's almost as if I'd be spreading the risk by not putting all my eggs in the same basket - or files on the same drive in this instance. Hence: Question 2: "Is there a setting I can toggle to ensure that a file can always be written to the array as long as there's space on one of the disks, no matter the file's level in the folder structure?" Obviously I do not care where the file ends up being written as long as they are written given that the array has space for them Thank you!

Just a small update. I received all the parts yesterday and assembled the machine. The case is amazing at this price point and works really well with a micro-ATX motherboard (I wouldn't recommend it for a full ATX one). It can support up to 9 drives with 3 of them in the 5.25" bays, though my motherboard only has SATA ports for 8 drives. With minimal cable management, I was able to organize all of it pretty neatly for such a small form-factor. The default CPU heatsink fan AMD provides is a bit noisy and so is the 120mm one at the front of the case, but I'm planning to switch the latter with a Noctua I have lying around. Installing unRAID 6.2 was a piece of cake. So much that at some point I got confused because I was sure I was going to have to login on the server and set some things up but there was nothing about it in the docs. I slotted 4 drives, two 2TB drives, one 1TB and one 500GB. I set one of the 2TB ones as my parity drive, created a 4TB array with the remaining 3 and "voila", I had my 4TB share readilly available. I left the machine run during the night to complete the parity rebuild and I'll start testing with data tonight and later I'll add more drives. If all goes well, I'll purchase my Plus license soon, but so far I'm very impressed by unRAID I still need to buy a kill-a-watt to check my power consumption but I'm fairly confident it fits below 50W when everything is idle.

Quick update, I just ordered the parts yesterday. I consolidated it all to only order from 2 local resellers (so some prices were a bit inflated and I had to change the USB drive) and bumped the memory to 8GB. Here's the final list and associated costs: CPU: AMD A6 7400k - 60.65 Motherboard: ASRock FM2A88M PRO3+ - 79.95 RAM: Kingston 8GB DDR3-1333 - 41.95 OS drive: SandDisk Ultra Fit 16GB - 10.20 PSU: Corsair VS350 - 41.95 Case: Cooler Master Elite 342 - 44.4 Cables: SATA cables x5 - 2.25 Cables: MOLEX-SATA adapters x3 - 3.45 Total: CHF 284.8 / $288.36

2. Actually, you make a good point about the TDP. If it's indeed only a cap on the upper-bound of the CPU and it doesn't change anything at idle or low-load, then there's really no point for me to lower it. I don't mind the occasional spike when doing some heavy processing. 3. Believe me, I know that you should never skimp on a power-supply and that's why I went for a Corsair one instead of a lower-price no-name one (LC-Power, Xilence, Eurocase, FSP Group ...) I'd like to discuss the total power enveloppe a bit more. I'm sure you're talking from experience when you say it won't fit under 50W at idle but my maths don't add up. Motherboard + CPU + RAM: ~29W according to http://www.pcper.com/news/Editorial/AMD-AM1-Retested-60-Watt-Power-Supply 3.5" drive on standby: between 0.38W and 1.5W Let's take the worst case scenario and round up the MOBO to 30, the drives to 16 (8 * 2W) and add a few of watts for case fans (3 fans at 2W each). That way we get 30 + 16 + 6 = 52W Granted, I have breached the 50W ceiling but I have also done my calculation using the highest values I found online for each individual component. In the end it will be hard to tell without actually measuring it (I plan to buy a kill-a-watt and post the results online when I have completed the build), but I do have hopes for being able to idle between 40 to 50W with all the drives loaded in. If you think otherwise and have good reasons for that, I'd be happy to hear them as I might reconsider this build if the power enveloppe is going to be way higher than that A cheap dual core is what I am aiming for with the A6-7400K Do you have any idea where to find used hardware at a decent price in Switzerland that would also not explode my power budget? I found this equation very hard to solve here. As I just moved to this country, I don't know people yet so I can't really ask around if anyone has a machine they could give/sell me. I have a very old P4 Prescott at my parent's place but it's in another country and the machine is so power hungry and loud anyway that it wouldn't make any sense to use it. Companies here don't hand out end-of-life hardware. Anything and everything is recycled and accounted for and go through official channels for decommissioning. I have looked at classifieds but people sell very old hardware for a higher price than what you can get new at similar performance levels. I considered looking online at websites like eBay, but on anything coming from outside of the country, you get killed on VAT/"import and processing" fees that all the major shipping companies (including the regular Post) automatically apply on overseas parcels (think 8% + a flat fee of $20-25 per package + shipping), so it's really not worth it either. Also, let's say I find a good deal locally and get a power-efficient machine that is not too old (because of PSU and case compatibility issues + the need for SATA 3) for lower than $50 (I doubt it, this is the kind of offers we have here: $100 for a Q6600 http://www.anibis.ch/de/computer-~-b%C3%BCrotechnik-computer,-pc-~-mac-computer--1939/dell-xps-420-geh%C3%A4use--16692268.aspx?loc=z%C3%BCrich&sdc=20&fcid=1939). Even in that case, I would still probably need to buy a new case for it to host 6+ drives and make sure it's compatible. I'm not saying it's impossible, just that I haven't been able to find a good way to make this work so far. We currently stream to PCs (plain VLC from files on the Synology) but have never transcoded so far. I guess with Plex, that being so easy, it might become something we start doing when we have the hardware and software for it. With this CPU, I should be able to transcode one 1080p stream according to Plex's website, as it requires ~2000 of passmark score and the A6-7400K hovers around 2800. If it ever becomes a need to be able to transcode multiple streams at the same time (friends accessing my media library from the WAN for instance), I would shift Plex to the other machine hosting my VMs. But at that point, the network and single-drive performance of Plex might become the bottleneck ^^' We'll see anyway. For now, the requirements are "cheap, lot of storage, low key and low power".

Hi everyone, I'm new here, first post ever I have recently moved country and my new home as the benefit of having access to symetrical 1Gb/s fiber (for real) and legal downloading written in the law. Let's just say I have found paradise and my old Synology DS111 with it's 2TB drive its downfall. It was already pretty full by the time I left my previous country, but it's just not viable going forward. I have been pondering bigger NASes and similar solutions for the past few weeks and here I am, settled on giving unRAID a try after reading a lot of good things about both the platform and its community. Ok, that's it about the story of my life and the philosophical discussion about why I'm here. From here on, we're only discussing hardware, I promise ^^ I was unsure for the longest time of whether to combine my future VM host and the unRAID machine (running unRAID as a guest OS on ESXi for instance) but I ended up deciding against. As such, I will need 2 machines and the unRAID one will only be running unRAID. I mention that because it's important to understand that it's driving 2 main considerations about this build: to be dirt cheap and designed with only unRAID in mind. Anything and everything else will run somewhere else. Here were my design constraints: As cheap as possible (we're talking below $300 for everything except the disks) Low power consumption when idle (< 50W is a must, < 40W would be great) Small footprint (size and noise) because it has to live in my living room Enough room to have 6+ 3.5" drives, the more the better (8 drives in this configuration) I started designing with PCPartPicker and picking up the cheapest part that went together while still fitting my criterias above and then I changed some of them depending on what is available locally and the local differences in prices (Switzerland). This is the finalized list of parts. I haven't ordered anything yet but unless you tell me something is really wrong with it, I will pull the trigger in the coming days. And here are my questions: [*]Is this build sensible to run unRAID baremetal with 8 disks? By that, I mean powerful enough to run it and saturate the gigabit interface when reading data. [*]I will set the TDP of the CPU to 45W in the bios. Will I meet my < 40W idle target for the system? (drives would be spinned-down by unRAID) I did a PSU calculation, which you will find below, but that doesn't tell me how much the system will draw when only the CPU and motherboard are active. This is my biggest uncertainty so far and I would really like to keep the power bill low as power can get quite expensive here. [*]Is the PSU beefy enough to run the machine with 8 drives running at the same time? (parity check for instance). It should be according to the simulation, but I prefer double-checking. [*]Is the Cooler Master Elite 342 a good enough case for hosting up to 8 drives (5 inside, 3 in the two 5.25 bays) without becoming a spaghetti monster that would be impossible to keep cool? Is there anything else I missed? Thanks in advance for your help with the design of this build. Don't hesitate to ask questions, I'll gladly reply and provide more details Annex 1: PSU calculation using OuterVision PSU Calculator: