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There is a bios update. However, it only says added more CPU support. So not sure if it is worth flashing.

Roger. Thank you.

My unraid box has been getting "Call Trace" errors. Could someone please let me know the specific cause? storagearray-diagnostics-20180118-0921.zip

I pulled the flash drive and repair errors using windows 10. Put drive back in and now I can change configuration settings.

I have attached the diagnostics zip. storagearray-diagnostics-20180107-1540.zip

I cannot update plugins.. I cannot install new plugins..

I cannot get VM manager to stop. I have tried turning to off, stopping array and turning to off. Killing the PID multiple times so I can make changes to other things like network config. On top of these issues It has cause something weird with my shares. Flash is no longer visible shared. Some shares I always had access to now keep asking for passwords even though I am supplying them. Transfer speeds seem to be VERY slow. Please can anyone assist me?

I care. Could you provide steps? Also how minimal did you get the ubuntu server? I only have 4GB of ram on my Unraid box so I don't want to run VM's but looks like I have to for this to work out.

Just wanted to jump in and add another + for iSCSI. Regarding windows servers, if you are running Hyper-V, you have to have an iscsi target to store VM's on network storage.(apparently you can do this with SMB3.0+ but I have not been able to make it work..) My physical HV server does not have large drives. I would like to store my non-resource hungry VM's on my unraid server. Connected via 10GBe should have no issues with speed.

But at the same time.. Single SSD already out preforms the HDD. So Raid 0 would just continue the bottle neck..

Didnt think about cache needing redundancy.. Very well. I will leave it this way. Not like it matters.. I dont download 120GB a night.. usually 30 40 GB

Interesting.. Would I not gain anything with 240GB raid 0 cache vs a mirrored 120GB cache?

Well cache was a bad idea.. It fills up to quick. I have disabled parity and cache until I complete the move from my Raid 5 to the server.

I found that Cache was not enabled for the share I am transfering to. After enabling cache I am seeing transfers from 40MB/s to 130MB/s However it is only using 1 SSD cache. I have 2 SSD's on cache. I am thinking of setting the 2 ssds in raid 0 and making a single cache drive.

I canceled all transfers and let Parity build. It averaged about 120MB/s After parity I started transfering files. The Raid 5 is 4x 7200RPM nas drives in a USB3 Mediasonic Pro Raid box. This is connected to the unraid server by a PCIe1x USB3 card Edit: Also its currently transfering large video files. anything from 2GB to 30GB.

-avh --progress are the flags used on Rsync.

I canceled the transfer and allowed parity to finish. Using rsync to copy data from /mnt/disks/usb3raid5array to /mnt/user/Media I am seeing about 10-15MB/s This seems slow? Or is this where it should be? Specs: Xeon L5630 @ 2.13GHz 4GB DDR3 Ram Dell H310 Perc controller 6GB/s 8x 4TB 7200RPM Sata drives (on H310 controller) 2x 120GB SSD's cache (on motherboard sata) CX750 PSU 4U Server case 10GB SFP Nic (for VM's on primary server) 1GB internal Nic (for accessing GUI)

Currently using Putty I am using cp -r * /mnt/user/Media while in the dir of /mnt/disks/(externaldiskname) Any faster way? The external drive is connected to a PCIe 1x USB 3 card. Also why is my parity drive "rebuilding" on a fresh array of brand new drives.

Also having issues finding if this card supports 4TB and up.

Anyone know if the Adaptec RAID 51245 2268100-R SATA/SAS 16-port is compatible? I am building my first unraid server and I am looking for controllers. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816103213 ty.

I am looking at unraid as a means of affordable storage system without losing to much space (like raid 5 and 6 or 10) All HDD's will be 128+ cache 7200RPM drives.

My primary server is handling all of the VM's and Transcoding. (dual ht/hexacore Xeons with 80GB ram) Unraid will only be for data storage and retrieval. So I need to know what is the minimal acceptable hardware requirement to host about 8 HDD's and some SSD's for cache with the ability to expand to 15 or so drives in the future. The motherboard will need a minimal of 2 8X pcie slots for the 10Gbps card and the raid card. Maybe even 3 8X slots for future expand-ability.

The 10Gbps connection is cheap (about 60.00) and I just want to make sure my VM's on my primary server do not have the connection between the storage and server be the weak link. I currently run a server 2016 hyper-v server with several Ubuntu VM's running things like Plex, Owncloud, Sonarr, Radarr, Nzbget, and Jackett. Also some windows VM's for server 2016 RDS server, 2016 Domain controller, 2016 with misc services. All of my data is currently on an external USB3 Raid 5 of 4x 4TB HDD in a Mediasonic Proraid. This array is full as is my external 4TB I used to offload non-media files from the array. Plex has anywhere from 2 to 3 users on it at any time, owncloud is syncing multiple computers through out the day and of course the downloader VM's are always doing something. If unraid cannot handle this does anyone have another recommendation? I would go with another larger raid 5 or 6 but I am worried about the drive size and the chance of rebuilds failing. (also the disk space loss)

What type of hardware requirements will I be looking at for a total of 16 drives? Wanting something that will only need to run Unraid. This box will be directly connected to my main server via SFP+ 10gbps connection. That connection will then be added to the hyper-v virtual switch with all of my servers to allow them the fastest connection to the DAS/NAS If it was not for the USB requirement I would of just used an expander and ran unraid as a VM.