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So with your desire to use a rack mount system I would say that you start with two things simultaneously... the size of your case, and then the CPU. But with that, CPU choice is simultaneously determined by the features you want on the motherboard. However, I probably make things more difficult than they need to be. So first -- choose a case. If you want a graphics card (at any point now or later) then you most likely should look at 4U cases. I believe there are ways to get a full size card into a 3U case by mounting it horizontally but I've never done it, never looked at what's needed, wouldn't want it for myself. You can also use a CPU with onboard graphics for any transcoding you might need, depending on what else you might have wanted a video card for. Next, CPU and Motherboard -- do you want server features like IPMI? That's headless remote management of the system, i.e. you can change BIOS settings remotely without needing a mouse/keyboard/monitor connected to the server, and other motherboard related settings... IPMI is mainly one of the only reasons to get a server grade board. If you don't care about IPMI then you have a whole world of options. If you want IPMI -- you basically have two choices. ASRock RACK and SuperMicro -- there are some others such as Gigabyte boards -- but these are the two main brands that everyone uses and could potentially help you with if you had any problems. ASRock boards will give you the option of a Ryzen platform whereas SuperMicro only has Intel options (with exception of the big $$$$ EPYC cpus). If you don't want IPMI then you can use any motherboard/CPU combination that you want. So once you figure out your server/consumer platform (IPMI/non-IPMI) then you can choose a CPU that fits either build. That's why I say it's sort of a cpu/motherboard simultaneous decision to make. You don't seem to need anything super-super powered for the CPU, but I wouldn't start out by limiting yourself to something low powered. Ryzen 5/7 offers a lot of performance for the price. So do some Intel cpus. I use https://www.cpubenchmark.net/ to compare rankings on various cpus.. if I've narrowed down a socket type for the motherboard I want I look at cpus for that socket and compare single threaded ratings and multi threaded ratings, as well as the number of cores/threads available. For example, part of my upgrade process was comparing my old Pentium CPU to my new Xeon CPU https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Pentium-G4560-vs-Intel-Xeon-E-2246G/2925vs3523 and while it's not a mind blowing upgrade, it was enough of an upgrade for what I needed/wanted.

The size of the case only depends on your hardware requirements really.. drive space, basically. You can see in my signature for my Ikea lack rack that I have a couple 4U cases, you may or may not want that size. I don't know how many drives you can fit into a 2U, so it depends on what you can find. As for Ryzen -- the only thing I know of is that there may be a command or two to add to your configuration files but other than that it runs pretty smooth. The choice of motherboard is the issue when comparing server hardware and consumer hardware. If you want a server board with server features there's not much to offer for Ryzen.

Interesting set of hardware --- where are you located? Never heard of that CPU/board/case/any of it really

Your only factor to consider is hard drive space, current and future expandability. You may find a particular 2U that offers enough drive capacity but I'm not sure what the maximum would be.. or plan for your maximum size by using larger capacity drives. 4x 10TB for example. Hardware wise you don't need anything too crazy. Compare what you're using now and how it performs to what you can get for current gen hardware. A Ryzen 5/7 offers a lot of performance for the money if that's the platform you're ok with using, but you would need either an ASRock Rack (server grade) motherboard or any other consumer motherboard for a Ryzen platform. SuperMicro has good (server) boards but somewhat limited Intel CPU compatibility.

Understand your point of view and frustration on it but you're assuming that LimeTech and this forum is full of staff that have detailed knowledge of every issue that might arise. Here's the "staff" ... https://unraid.net/about The forum is full of users and there may not be someone that can answer any random problem that comes up, especially if you are the only person that experiences the problem. This is not an official response, obviously, but you have to manage your expectations.. this is not Microsoft with world wide call centers and support staff (that all use copy & paste responses to every problem anyways).

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I'd only suggest -- don't spend $70 on the PDU.. that's too much. You should spend less than $50 on the PDU, and a brand name PDU at that.. BESTTEN? What is that supposed to be.... wouldn't even be on my radar. Although I'll add that of the two CyberPower PDU's I bought from Amazon, one was defective out of the box -- kept tripping my circuit breakers.. but still wouldn't trust some random brand with my equipment.

Yes your plan will work fine. Transfer from user share to user share or disk share to disk share, but not user to disk or vice versa. So yeah just go from the unassigned device to a user share of your choice. If you want to use 6.9, just start with 6.9. Doesn't really matter though. Cache drive is irrelevant to some degree because if cache is enabled for the share you are transferring data to it will quickly fill the cache drive and then write directly to the array anyways, and then will have to move off the cache drive later.. so you might as well just skip the cache drive. Good luck, have fun!

Yeah, that's kinda annoying/surprising.. do they think people don't have lots of passwords? lol.. I'm going to use the opportunity to painstakingly go to every site I have a password on and add it to Bitwarden instead of importing from LastPass... call me crazy. One thing I don't like about Bitwarden, compared to LastPass, is the poor folder/category structure. LastPass is years ahead on that front. Just saving a wi-fi password in Bitwarden has no customized location for it or a way that it makes sense that it's a wi-fi password and not a user/pass login. Also don't like how -everything- gets thrown into a "no folder" category by default, even credit cards in the credit card folder are listed in the general no folder category if you don't create a new folder for it...

Seems like a good link, file is good.

I've been a user of LastPass for many years after switching from Roboform. Even was a premium subscriber for a while but didn't really need the features that I was paying for so went back to the free version. LastPass just announced that starting in March all of us free users are going to be screwed. Basically pony up the cash for premium or you'll be limited to one type of device access; meaning that if you log in with a mobile device you will not longer be able to use LastPass on a desktop PC, or vice versa. I use LastPass on desktop and mobile. Is it worth just paying for premium and not have to switch? Probably.. but.... So for anyone using any of the other various password managers how do you feel about the one that you use? Do you use it because you like it or because it's more of a hassle to switch to another one? Do you use it on multiple devices? Were you a user of one product and then switched to another because you found it to be a better platform? For me the only other free manager I know of with universal accessibility (platform wise, desktop, mobile, etc) while also having a decent interface is Bitwarden. I've tried it a little bit in the past but did not really get into switching over to it from LastPass... at the time I wasn't really serious about using it so I didn't look too hard at it.. now might be the time. I believe KeePass is free, or has a free version, but as I remember it it's a terribly 90's feeling software suite and not comfortable to use. Not sure if it has any mobile apps. But, how long until Bitwarden does the same thing with a cost attached to using it? Even a self hosted database could potentially be required to have a subscription to the software. (edit -- meaning the current free user accounts, not the paid services). So, what are you using and where do you see the future going? Are you a (free) LastPass user now and what are your plans for this switch in service?

That would be fine. IF they are available in your location Bluewalker/Powerwalker UPSs have been used by some forum users with good results.. not sure how the price would compare to that APC.

Any brand name UPS should be compatible, and even some lessor name UPSs.. I've used APC and CyberPower UPSs, and other people have used different brands based on their regional availability. My best advice is to buy the largest capacity UPS that you can afford because more power is always better, and sometimes it doesn't change the price "all that much" to double the output.. i.e. 600VA to 900VA or 1500VA. It also gives you the ability to power more equipment at the same time down the road. However, you are (most likely) not going to get an hour of runtime if the power is out, on any kind of home user UPS. I've got a 1500VA UPS (900w) and my UPS load is ~300w with my Unraid server and PC, and some other stuff.. so it's a ~20 minute runtime for both.

Specifically, which network settings would you want to test? Unraid doesn't have a lot of network setting options that could break anything if they were set wrong.

I'm not sure on the Atom. I'm sure there are people that have used one for Unraid but it's a very low power processor (benchmark, not power consumption). I'm not sure how easy it would be to overload the CPU with tasks. And considering you want at least one VM I have a feeling that it would not be a good CPU for your usage.

Start here and go down the youtube yellow brick road https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unraid+gaming Look at the video for 2950X - Unraid Gaming VM Build.. doesn't get into the specifics of setting it up but gives you an example of what you might need for everything you want to do.

So you select the drive to format and install, right? That works? Then it installs a bunch of files... Then it goes to the blue installing screen starting with 39 minutes, so while it's on that screen .. does the progress bar at the bottom do anything/change wording as it installs? What XP ISO are you using? Is it at least an SP3 ISO? I just started installing another VM with 1 core, 2GB ram, default 15GB vdisk, all IDE and it's practically done installing in less than 10 minutes.

The W-1200 series of Xeon processors require a motherboard with the W480 chipset, will not work with Z490. You're mixing server/workstation cpu with consumer motherboard... you have to go one way or the other, all server grade hardware or all consumer grade hardware. For that motherboard you'd need a LGA1200 Core i5/i7/i9

Not exactly sure what you're referring to with the free size.. the devices list shows that you have 3.38TB free, and the shares list shows that you have 3.38TB free. If you're referring to the discrepancy of the system share that has 5.36TB that's because it's also using your cache drive as a storage location.. 3.38+1.98=5.36 appdata shows 1.98 because it's only using the cache drive So what are you expecting for free space? Your array drives have 3.38TB free, no more, no less.

Whats the model of your gigabyte motherboard?

So i've been looking into this again and I still get a lot of "Something went wrong, please check your settings", and the DuckDNS service (website) is up. If my duckdns address is testing123.duckdns.org and I only specify testing123 as the subdomain I get frequent something went wrong messages inbetween repeated "Your IP was updated at " messages ---- if the IP has not changed this should be a different message such as no change, nothing done. If I specify any/multiple subdomains, such as sonarr,radarr then I get constant something went wrong messages and no IP update messages. In any regard, is this DuckDNS docker still operating accurately?

Assuming that you are aware that the "PC" would be a VM on Unraid...... They would have whatever network IPs that you wanted because you would set a static ip on your router for each one. Yes as long as you set the correct network configuration type for the VM to access the host network. Same way you'd do it now.. SMB/ftp/whatever. Don't think so as it would technically still be transferring over the network.

So lots to do here.. I'll try to help where I can, or possibly make things more difficult Yes to both. They are both backed up once, in their current states. Libvirt has stuff related to the VMs, and is somewhat important to have in case of need to restore.. I can't go into more details than that because I honestly don't know everything it contains.. possibly some BIOS related stuff, network configurations, who knows... just stuff to run the VMs. If you wanted a backup routine for the flash drive that was more archival in nature with dates, there's a few custom user scripts available to do just that. A couple different ways that they've been implemented based on personal preference. The core logic behind them could easily be used to create backups of libvirt or anything else that you wanted. I use this one "VM Backup" from JTok's Repository and seems to work pretty good. Also does the XML for the VMs... I haven't tested it extensively and have not used it for multiple dated backups but those options are there. As far as VM snapshots.. I believe that the current situation is that there is no snapshot ability with Unraid. I think some things are being worked on but as I recall it also depends on the filesystem of Unraid, specifically btfrs (I believe) which is generally not suggested to use over xfs. Could be a lot I'm unaware of because I don't follow the snapshot development threads.

Docker containers are separate from the host OS meaning that a docker container has no knowledge of /mnt/cache/appdata -- it does not exist because it cannot access Unraid's filesystem.