Destynx

You are absolutely right! I did read that part but for some reason I thought that Parity could just be rebuild without that drive. Fixed it now, created a new array with 1 disk and am putting the data on as we speak. In two days we'll probably add another 2TB and just expand the array, hoping that drive won't fail as quickly. Thank you guys!

Ah I see, I thought I could save the data with this method but I was clearly wrong. What is this guide about then tho? Cause I presumed that the data could de kept in the array. https://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Shrink_array

Just build our new unraid server, we have 3*2tb for the array, for a total of 4tb + parity disk. A few days ago finished preclearing all the drives, created the array and did a parity sync. Everything seemed okay. I started moving data onto the array, when suddenly one of the 2tb drives failed, which resulted in the contents being emulated. Still have all the original data on seperate drives, but I'm trying to shrink the array to a 2tb + 2tb parity so I can continue moving data onto the array and not losing the old data that's already on there, so I can later expand it again when we get a replacement drive. Problem I'm having is that shrinking the array by this method didn't work: Stop the array. Run new confing under tools Select all, press apply and done Drives are now unassigned. Select the good 2tb drive as Disk 1 and the old parity disk as the parity disk. Started the array, and it says Parity-Sync/Data-Rebuild in progress. First thing is that it immediately shows the array having 22,6GB of storage used, all being one docker.img Had about 100GB on the array when it failed, after rebuilding/syncing everything still the only data on the array is that 22GB docker image. Rest of the data is all gone. Any idea what's going wrong? Is it not possible to shrink the array from 2 data drives to 1 data drive?

Thanks! The reason for asking is that we aren't sure either about overclocking. Not planning on doing it initially, but as performance needs increase having the possibility to easily increase performance by quit a bit without changing the hardware is always nice. Reliability is ofcourse the most important part. I have run a 2600k at 4,5-5Ghz for many years without a fault, so that's why I wasn't too concerned by the cpu failing. @Zonediver. you said the E5 2630 V4 has a passmark score of 21.000, but all I can find is http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5-2630+v4+%40+2.20GHz Because the E5 and i7 at stock perform almost the same (if the link above is correct) and the i7 is cheaper, we were thinking that was the right way to go. So Unraid has more use for more cores with lower overall scores then less cores with higher overall scores? @schamalamadindong, your first reply was in the same topic but I posted it double in another subforum, that's why it's not here. Any idea how much better ECC memory would be for these kind of tasks? 5 users will store pretty much all their important data on here as well, so if possible we would like the system to as reliable as possible.

Searching for a proper case right now. First decided on the Node 804, but considering it only supports m-itx and we probably want an atx mobo, that one didn't make it. Now looking at the Fractal Design Define R5. Looks like it supports up to 10 3,5" drives in total. Already throwing in 5x4Tb, 2x6TB, 1x8TB, so only 2 spaces left... Does someone have a better option? Preferably with support for a dual 120mm radiator, cause were going to use an H100i for the cpu cooling.

We are building a pretty high end server, with a budget of about 2000 euro's. Got a few questions though. At this moment were not sure which cpu to go for. Option one is a 10-core Xeon E5-2630 V4. This would do about 14000 in passmark. Option two is an i7 6800k 6-core. Already got the 5820k @4,5Ghz at home and that does a whopping 17500 in passmark. So the idea is to overclock the i7 to about 4,5 Ghz, with an H100i V2 on it. Only thing is, were running a plex server for about 7 people. Also there will be a VM with about 5 different user accounts running on it. A few dockers for couchpotato, sabnzbd, sonarr, and maybe some game servers. So the 6-core would perform better, but the 10-core would allow for more scalability for the different dockers and vm's were running. The 10-core would be combined with 32GB of 2400 mhz ECC memory (X99 raider mobo, with ECC support). The 6-core would be combined with 32GB of 3200 mhz Corsair vengeance memory. There will be some "normal" storage like photo's, documents etc. on the array, which consists of 3x4 TB with one 4TB as parity disk. The movies and series for plex will be stored outside the array using the unnassigned drives plugin with about 27TB's of HDD in there. A 960 Evo 500GB PCI-E flash will be used as a cache drive, mainly for the vm to run smoothly on. Main question is about the choice of cpu, but if anyone has any other tips or recommendations, please let us know!

Were building a pretty high end server, with a budget of about 2000 euro's. Got a few questions though. At this moment were not sure which cpu to go for. Option one is a 10-core Xeon E5-2630 V4. This would do about 14000 in passmark. Option two is an i7 6800k 6-core. Already got the 5820k @4,5Ghz at home and that does a whopping 17500 in passmark. So the idea is to overclock the i7 to about 4,5 Ghz, with an H100i V2 on it. Only thing is, were running a plex server for about 7 people. Also there will be a VM with about 5 different user accounts running on it. A few dockers for couchpotato, sabnzbd, sonarr, and maybe some game servers. So the 6-core would perform better, but the 10-core would allow for more scalability for the different dockers and vm's were running. The 10-core would be combined with 32GB of 2400 mhz ECC memory (X99 raider mobo, with ECC support). The 6-core would be combined with 32GB of 3200 mhz Corsair vengeance memory. There will be some "normal" storage like photo's, documents etc. on the array, which consists of 3x4 TB with one 4TB as parity disk. The movies and series for plex will be stored outside the array using the unnassigned drives plugin with about 27TB's of HDD in there. A 960 Evo 500GB PCI-E flash will be used as a cache drive, mainly for the vm to run smoothly on. Main question is about the choice of cpu, but if anyone has any other tips or recommendations, please let us know!

Trying to setup a working Windows 10 VM before building our server, but every time I install the Windows 10 VM, no network adapter is showing up in the VM. Therefor no access to anything and can't rdp to it either. Has anyone got any idea's? Bridging is enabled and using the right network interface (test mobo has 2x1Gb's connections). Update: NVM fixed it, forgot to update the driver software...