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This is the first time I think I've seen someone make an argument for not getting too much capacity. In this case, there was a big sale coupled with a paypal pay-in-4 incentive in November that wound up with me getting 3x 24TB red pros for $1400 total. Those drives are now selling for $1289 each, so yeah, I feel pretty good about that choice and I will definitely fill them. I think your point makes more sense when the prices of hard drives would come down over time, instead of inexplicable getting more and more expensive as they now seem to do - what stupid times we live in. I think I have my answer - I am going to change the parity to every 2 months instead of monthly. Thank you, all!

My parity is a 24tb WD Red Pro, WDC_WD241KFGX. I guess I keep getting bigger and bigger drives so it gave me the erroneous impression that the pool size was a factor. Thank you for the rapid response!

Hello all, I have 192tb in my array spread out across 15 disks. As the array has grown, parity checks obviously have started to take longer and longer - as of right now, a parity check takes just a hair under 48 hours even. I run a parity check as a scheduled check monthly, which is I believe the default expectation. My concern is - in a 720 hour month, I now have a parity check running basically 7% of the time. Is this dangerous to the longevity of my drives - and specifically to the parity drive, getting the shit hammered out of it for 7% of the time? Should I be doing parity checks less frequently (since 2011 I have literally never had a parity check fail). Not sure what the best practice is here, or if I am worrying about nothing. Unraid 7.2.3, all drives are XFS (if it matters). Thank you!

My server is a supermicro SV-6028R-E1CR24N so I think the motherboard is a X10DSC+. I have not accessed IPMI once so far, it doesn't seem to be accessible despite enabling it in the bios - it's just not reachable over the network. I will mess with it some more when I get off work. TLDR, all the IPMI settings are whatever it shipped with. I did remove the file integrity plugin just now - I never actually set it up - as I read that can cause it. Keeping an ear out for revving subsequent to that. edit: I just heard them spinup. I was already ssh'd in. I don't see anything odd in this htop.

Hello all, I have a semi-established server - it's been up roughly 2 months or so without issue after transferring my array from the old server. I do have one thing that is driving me nutty - starting about 2 weeks or so ago, the fans for the server randomly rev up to full speed for about 30 seconds. This is VERY LOUD and you can hear it all the way downstairs. I enabled IPMI but have not yet gotten it to connect network wise, so that is out. As soon as I get in via SSH and look at htop, I don't see any obvious cause for what is causing the revving. I don't see anything in syslog either. Whatever it is, it's either not getting logged, or I am just missing it when I ssh in. Can anyone suggest some sort of monitoring app I can install to log what is going on when this happens? Thank you!

Hello all, I got a new server pretty recently. It has 2x 3.5" ssd slots in the back, and I had 2x SSDs in my old server, so easy peasy, worked great. I am intrigued by the fact the new server also has 4x PCIe 3 NVME Oculink headers on it, expressly for adding 4x NVME drives. I didn't see any good backplanes for this functionality so I landed on this pretty sketch adapter: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQW3Z282 The reviews I've seen on these are pretty mixed. One review noted that the actual m2 slots ripped off with zero effort because of jank soldering, and other fun stuff like that. I wound up getting the best one I saw and hoping for the best. I also have new drives on the way to populate into said card. I am looking for suggestions of how I can absolutely pound the hell out of those drives once I install them assuming it all connects and no ports physically rip off? I am guessing I would add them as unassigned devices, validate them with some kind of punishing test, and then expand my cache pool onto it once done - it's that middle part I am looking for advice for, what kind of software or suchlike that will really hammer the drives and try to pop a fault before anything that matters is on them. Can I just repeatedly preclear them, or does that really only work with mechanical drives? Thanks for any advice you might have on this!

Thanks Jorge!

Hello all, It's been a hot minute since I have done this, but I have a 24tb WD Red arriving tomorrow. When I physically install it into the server (It's a 2U SuperMicro Superserver SV-6028R-E1CR24N), do I need to stop the array and shut down the server first, or do I just install the drive into the tray and then yeet it into the server hot? I've never done that before but it's been so long since I have installed a new drive I don't know what the current best practice is. Thank you!

I don't exactly understand what you mean by this. I see what you mean. Thank you, I don't think I'm going to chance that.

Can I ask you to expand on the latter part of that? I am not sure what you mean exactly. Sorry to be dense.

Hello all, I have at least 12 and maybe as many as 14 of the WD EasyStores (all some variation of WD180EDGZ, WDC_WD140EDFZ etc) from Best Buy, shucked. I have never had one fail and I really like and trust them. Unfortunately the pricing isn't as competitive as it has been - the biggest they have now is a 20tb and it's $17.50 per TB. They have a Seagate external on sale and it's a 28TB for $11.78 per TB. I don't know... I just don't trust Seagate as much. Am I right to be distrusting of them, or are they just as reliable and the performance just as good? It's a STKP28000400. Thanks for any opinions on this.

Hello all, I just got a notification in Discord that my Plex instance is down - Tautulli (sp?) monitors it. I probably just need to restart the docker container. I am at work, and I will be for many hours. Is there antything I can set up for when this happens every so often - what avenues do I have to remotely restart a container that don't involve opening up Unraid or Docker to the internet at large? I don't know enough about security to feel comfortable doing more than opening the one port you really need for the Plex server itself and am terrified of ransomsware or something like that hitting my server because I didn't know about some random linux vulnerability. I am hoping for something along the lines of : sending an SMS, sending an email, sending a message in a discord channel, or some other push/pull type situation that kicks off a script or whatever. Is this possible? Is there something easier and simpler than I have not thought of? Thank you!

I think I misunderstood how to get forge working - sorry, I haven't messed with this in 5 years and found it confusing. Yes, my existing config is vanilla (I am not 100% sure why it doesn't update but I am not worried about that). You did fix my problem, though - I have a new, fresh container running that I got the current version of everything working in correctly. Thank you very much for the advice!

Thank you so much for the help! Here are some screenshots of my config:

Hello all, I have the ich777 version of dockered Minecraft. it's running great, been using it for years, no issues. I would like to update it so I can use Naturalist (which also requires Forge). I got Forge running no problem, but Naturalist does not have a version old enough to run on my server - my server version is currently 1.16.1 (ie, 5 years out of date). I don't understand how to update the version of minecraft running in my docker container. I added an a variable to the container called GAME_V and set it to "latest", and restarted, but still 1.61.1. My docker container is " up-to-date". I kinda don't know what I am doing here - little help? Thanks!