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I am still on linuxserver/unifi-controller:5.12.72-ls61. Any reason to upgrade to 5.14 from 5.12?

Isn't it obvious that a 120mm fan will outperform an 80mm fan given 2.25X larger surface area and fan blade? Are you sure about the 10X power figure? Fans shouldn't take much power at all and I can't imagine there would be a huge difference between power consumption. Again a 120mm would be better as you could run the fan at a lower speed which should use less power, and move just as much air.

I am not sure if I can go with 6.10 RC2 as I need the DVB plugin so that I can use TV capture devices and firewire, and I am not sure if this is available for 6.10 yet or just 6.9

I am looking to build a new server to replace my 5 year old unRAID server. I am starting to see hard drive failures in my older system and want to change this system to be my backup. My unRAID system primarily acts as a media server running Docker versions of SageTV, Plex (currently infrequently), a file server, and runs dockers such as Unifi Controller, piHole, OpenVPN server, Teslamate, and a few others. I have about 11TB of files and that is now growing fairly slowly as I don't store as much media locally due to streaming. I will run an Ubuntu VM on a regular basis and likely a Win 10/11 VM. I may occasionally want to play around with other VMs. For a new system I am looking at using an Asus B560-Plus mobo and an i5-11400 CPU. I will use at least one M.2 NVME drive as a cache. I don't think I will ever need more than 4 SATA hard drives, I will be using an 8TB parity and then use an 8TB and a spare 4TB for now. I will likely install 32TB of RAM initially. Any advice on this mobo/CPU combination? Is it worth paying up a bit to upgrade the CPU to an i5-11600? I want to use an 11th Gen to have the ability to use a Gen4 NVME drive.

Any idea what firewire chipset devices would be supported by this? I believe that the two main chipsets are Texas Instruments and Via. I believe that Texas Instruments cards are generally preferred, but I have an older unRAID server running 6.4.1 with the old LibreElec DVB kernel and in this server I have a card that reports as a VT6315 Firewire Contoller, which would mean it has a Via chipset, and it works fine.

If I can find a USB3.1 adapter will it be faster? The only ones I can find are these two: https://www.amazon.com/Duttek-Motherboard-Connector-Extension-Mainboard/dp/B07H4GGHVX/ https://www.amazon.com/Ports-Female-Motherboard-20pin-Header/dp/B00L2O0I5K/?th=1 And the first one may not work in all cases

Thanks Ford, that is very useful stuff. I owe you a pan galctic gargle blaster!

I would prefer having a header adapter so that my unRAID USB system drive is mounted inside the case. Is this adapter sufficient or should I have a USB 3.0 adapter? If not, can someone recommend a better unit? https://www.startech.com/en-ca/cables/usbmbadapt FYI, my flash drive is a Samsung Bar Plus USB 3.1 unit.

Thanks, it looks like the motherboards that I am looking at, like an Asus Prime B560-PLUS have one M.2 slot that is gen 4 and one that is gen 3. I would be looking to pair that with an 11th gen Intel CPU as I mmentioned in the original post, and that CPU does support gen 4. If I were to use the M.2 NVME drives in a dual cache framework would I get the advantage of the higher speed or does the RAID methodology, or whatever is used to give redundancy on a cache drive, mean that I am limited to the slower speed. But the bigger issue that you raised, which I had not considered, is that the bottleneck may be my network. Pulling UI elements from the appdata folder, which will be on the Cache drive(s), to my clients in something like SageTV or Plex will likely be bound by the network speed, although in the past when I went from mechanical hard drive to SSD there was a noticeable increase in speed. Is that the case? What about having VMs on the Gen 4 vs Gen 3. Would I have a noticeable increase in speed?

I am building a new server to act as a media server - mainly running SageTV and acting as a file server. Is it worth paying a bit of a premium to get the PCIe4 M.2 NVME drives vs the previous generation to act as cache drives? I am thinking that the speed is probably worth the premium, as it seems that these drives are at least 30% or so faster. I will likely have an Intel 11th Gen CPU like an i5-11400 and something like an Asus B560-PLUS mobo.

https://www.pc-canada.com/ I have never bought from them before but the experience was pretty good and the case showed up in a couple of days. I think shipping was about $15 - from Mississauga to my home in Scarborough. The 4U Chenbro cases start at about $200. I took the case out of the box and it seems quite well constructed.

Thanks, I ended up getting a Chenbro 4U case: as the availability was better. It looks like the supply chain issues have hit this part of the market as a lot of cases that I looked at were not in stock. http://www.chenbro.com/en-global/products/RackmountChassis/4U_Chassis/RM42300

Thanks - I just found a Space Invader video that does an excellent job explaining this. What size would be enough for 3-4 VMs and 20 or so dockers. Would 256GB be enough or would you want to go larger? (edit - I mean 256GB for each of the two M.2 NVME SSDs) And what is your opinion on having two disks serving as the cache to have redundancies.

I am looking at building a new unRAID server and I see that some new motherboards come with two M.2 slots. Would it make sense to get such a board and to use both slots as cache drives, giving redundancy for cache drives? I would think that using M.2 drives as a cache would give a faster system than using typical SATA SSDs as a cache drive, would it not? I store my appdata share on my Cache drive which presumably helps some of the dockers run faster, such as retrieving Fanart for SageTV.

Does that thread in this sub-forum still need to be stickied? The information is now 10 years old.

I want to build a new unRAID server in a rackmount case. It seems that you pay quite a premium for rackmount cases. I don't need room for a ton of drives - four drives is enough. Anyone suggest a case that doesn't cost an arm and a leg? I am in Canada but I can get stuff shipped to a US address as a friend is coming for Christmas in a few weeks. So far the best that I have found is a Rosewill case from Newegg: https://www.newegg.ca/rosewill-rsv-r4000u-black/p/N82E16811147326?Description=rackmount pc case&cm_re=rackmount_pc case-_-11-147-326-_-Product Or this unit at Newgg US made by iStar https://www.newegg.com/black-istarusa-d-314-matx/p/N82E16811165573?Description=rackmount pc case&cm_re=rackmount_pc case-_-11-165-573-_-Product&quicklink=true

Just to close the loop on this - I finally got around to re-enable my parity drive. Just as it says in the doc linked to above, I stopped the array, removed the drive. Restarted the array. The stopped the array again and reset that drive as the parity. Then it took about 12 hours to rebuild but now it is good.

Thanks, I will give that a try.

Thanks, I have spun up my parity drive, but it still has a red X beside it and is still disabled. How do I re-enable the parity drive?

Thanks Jorge. How do I re-sync the parity drive? I haven't touched the server in a while - do SATA cables just go bad or become unseated on their own?

For some reason my parity drive has disabled itself. Oct 17 - Parity check finished with 0 errors Oct 18 12:20am - Parity is OK according to array health report Oct 18 1:02am - Parity disk in error state (disk dsbl) Oct 19 - run extended SMART test on disk and it passes I am not sure what has happened. I have rebooted the system, with no change. I ran an extended SMART test and it passed. Attached is the SMART disk report and diagnostics file. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix? Is the parity drive toast? If so why is the SMART test ok? hoylake-smart-20211019-0950.zip hoylake-diagnostics-20211020-1426.zip

I am running an old version of unRAID, 6.4.1, and I can't upgrade right now as it has a major effect on my most important docker. Is there any way to fix this issue in 6.4.1? The fix posted at the beginning of this thread doesn't appear to work as the text isn't found in this version of the DockerClient.php file.

The python3 version that nerdpack shows is Python 3.6.2. How can I install a later version of python3 - like 3.9?

Why is it a /user-plugins folder rather than a plugins /folder? When I look up docs on rutorrent it talks about a plugins folder. I initially created a plugins folder and added tracklabels. That worked and I saw icons for stuff like movies, except the plugins folder got wiped when the docker restarted. Then I tried adding the tracklabels to the user-plugins folder and the icons disappeared. Weird.

I have installed it and it seems to me that the interface is the same. The binhex docker may even be marginally better as it shows the flags of connected peers and I don't think that the linuxserver docker did that - at least by default. Or maybe I was using an old version? I agree that there are a lot of setting that are superflouous if you don't use a VPN, etc but it looks like you can disable those. So this may be a decent path forward after all.