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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.

I just installed the binhex docker and got it working. It has a lot more config options that you have to play with to get it working when you start - like turning off OVPN, for example, and giving passwords. I never used passwords with the linuxserver docker but I only used it locally or after making a separate OVPN connection with the OVPN docker.

To answer my own question, it looks like the changes have to be made in the rtorrent.rc file to change settling like bandwidth on a permanent basis. I don't understand why changes made in the rutorrent don't "stick" with docker restarts. Is that a feature or bug?

How do you change settings, like the Bandwidth limits, so that they are persistent when the docker is restarted. Is this done in one of the ini files in appdata?

Has any consideration been given to change the name of this plugin? Isn't DVB a European digital video broadcasting standard? That is one of the uses of this plugin, but I believe it is also used in other parts of the world for ATSC tuners, and encoders that capture HDMI or Component video. I use it with the Hauppauge HD-PVR to capture the output of Cable TV boxes in Canada. When I first started using unRAID and I was told that I needed this plugin I was confused as I don't use DVB. Wouldn't something like Media Server Plugin or Media Capture or Video Capture plugin be more accurate?

Thanks PeteAsking!