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@Dyon Yahhhhh, we have success. So easy through windscibe compared to PIA....... Im now running Emby through the passthroughvpn app and can access it through the LAN and WAN The only small issue I seem to have (although it maybe nothing), In the logs it shows the following warnings: Sun Jun 6 11:04:22 2021 WARNING: 'link-mtu' is used inconsistently, local='link-mtu 1602', remote='link-mtu 1550' Sun Jun 6 11:04:22 2021 WARNING: 'cipher' is used inconsistently, local='cipher AES-256-CBC', remote='cipher AES-256-GCM' Sun Jun 6 11:04:22 2021 WARNING: 'auth' is used inconsistently, local='auth SHA512', remote='auth [null-digest]' Are these anything to worry about? I checked the Windscribe-StaticIP.ovpn file and it shows the following settings: auth SHA512 cipher AES-256-CBC So why does the server differ??? Next, to get delugeVPN to work with windscribe

Well, I haven't been too impressed with PIA lately, so maybe its time to change anyway. I have just read a few documents on Windscribe, and it appears I can do exactly what I want to do quite easily, with most of the settings in my account Happy Days........

Or I suppose I could just sign up to Windscribe and follow your tutorial, lol! That maybe the easy option, assuming doing this will work as I intend?

Ahhh, ok. Wasn't sure which was going to cause the bottleneck. So its the HP 24 Bay SAS Expander Card that I need to upgrade....... Any suggestions to a worthwhile upgrade? Just found this on ebay HPE DL380 Gen9 12Gb SAS Expander Card Will this be a worthwhile upgrade do you think....... Would it even work in unraid????

@JorgeB Just revisiting this....... Have a question about the M1015 and the expansion card that I am currently using (mentioned in the previous posts). I am now up to 16 disks all running through the M1015 and expansion card. I cant help wonder if now will be the time to think about upgrading the M1015 to something that will handle the 16 disks currently and more to be added in future. What would be a good upgrade in terms of speed. I fear I may approaching the limit of the M1015 card as my disk speeds appear to have dropped since installing the last 3 drives using the Startech 1U Rackmount 4 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure, although it could just be me.

@Dyon I have installed the passthroughvpn app, and have it connecting to PIA. Through the app I am running Emby, however, I am unable to access Emby from outside the network. The reason for using your passthroughvpn app is that I use a 4G Router for my internet connection, and of course, they use CGNAT so anything that I want to access outside my network doesn't work through the internet connection, in this example, I want to connect to Emby from outside my LAN. As I say, I have a OPENVPN connection using your app, and it appears to be runnning, and Emby is now pointing at the passthroughvpn app. I can access and use Emby within my LAN, but I believe I need to do a PIA portforward to open Emby up to the internet. Your instructions mention using a Windscribe Static IP, but I assume I can do the same with port forwarding through the PIA OPENVPN Connection? I have read through the PIA Portforwarding posts on the PIA forum, and they suggest using the following script: PIA Portforward How would I insert/use this script to enable the Portforward using your app??? Anyone else tried doing this?? Any suggestions?? Cheers

I too would like my VM to access the Internet through my OVPN-Client Container. Unfortunatley @tinyaim your solution deals with Dockers being routed through another Docker, what we are talking about is ensuring our VM uses the OVPN-Client Container to access the internet.

Sorry, you are quite correct, should have posted this in the plugin support thread. However, I figured it out after reading through as you mentioned and found I had turned the pass-thru switch on which then stops you accessing the drive. Note to oneself, don't be so lazy in future and read the bleeding manual

Hi, Anyone know why I am unable to mount/format a drive under unassigned devices? This drive has been residing under unassigned devices for a couple of years, and was used to record footage from a CCTV camera. I am no longer using the CCTV camera and would like to format the drive so that I can use it to store other data on it. I tried this morning to format it, but all I have achieved is that the mount button is now greyed out and nothing I do will get it back up. I have both the unassigned and addon plugins installed, I have turned destructive mode on, yet I am unable to do anything with the drive. I have attached a screenshot of the GUI and the log. Unraid_Unassigned Devices.txt

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I have a spare IBM M1015 which has been flashed to IT mode which also comes with 2 x short (approx 50cms) mini SAS to right angled mini SAS Cables, 1 x long (approx 1m) mini SAS to mini SAS Cable, and 1 mini SAS to SATA cable. Also as a bonus comes with the optional raid key (although not relevant after being flashed to IT mode, but you might be able to sell the key and recoup some of your money?) and a right angled PCI-e adapter. Both a short and long length bracket is included. I was going to install 2 x M1015 in my unraid server, but decided to go with 1 M1015 and a SAS expander. This item was recently purchased from eBay and the listing said this item was 'NEW OLD STOCK' so will presume it is brand new although remember I had to remove it from its packaging to flash the firmware ? Looking for £40 including delivery and payment can be made via PayPal. Item is located in the UK, so I would prefer to send to a UK address (or can be collected from the Spalding area).

Ahh right. That makes sense then seeing as I have a 6TB Parity drive and I added a 3TB Drive, so double the speed as they are double the size of each other, but its just a placebo effect and actually, it was running the Parity check at the normal average of 113mb/s. Answers that one then, lol!

Can someone explain why my Parity Check has halved in time? It used to take the best part of 14hrs, so I only did it at the end of the month. However, now I have access to all the bays in the case since adding the Expander, I decided to add another 3TB drive to the array. Unraid went through its thing, cleared the disk then formatted it and added it to the array. It then proceeded to do a Parity check, and all of a sudden the time has halved and its averaging 226mb/s instead of 113mb/s previously. I thought the upper limit of a Hard drive was around 135 - 150mb/s, but to get 226mb/s, I don't get? However I'm not complaining, just curious as to why its now able to do a parity check at far higher speeds than previously after adding a M1015 and the Expander card. Was the Marvell controller really slowing things down that much? As I mentioned in my previous post, i have also noticed that Emby is a lot smoother now, and Movies start up so much quicker so installing the M1015 and Expander card has been the best investment by far in my Unraid server setup, lol.

Great, then the job is done. Just out of interest, where did you see that info in the diagnostics? Now have all 16 bays at my disposal and an External Mini SAS connector for when I purchase the external back up unit. I have to say, it could just be me, but the whole system appears to be running a little faster now I have moved away from the Marvell ports. Emby, which is the main use for my server, the movies are loading quicker than they have done before, so that's a bonus. Thanks for all your help guys.

Sorry its taken a while, but I had to rebuild the server to accomodate the M1015 and SAS Expander. All sorted now, the M1015 has been flashed and both cables are running to the SAS Expander, then 3 Mini SAS cables run from the Expander to the backplane connectors. All up and running, and unraid has even sorted out all the hard drives even though they are now on a different controller and had been moved around in the bays. I have also disabled the Marvell controller. I checked the SMART diagnostics, and the 2 SSD's are now running on the Intel SATA 3 ports and they are being reported to be running at 6GB's on both. The Parity drive is running on one of the Intel SATA 2 Ports and is being reported to be running at 3GB's so they are fine and I now have the option to add a 2nd Parity drive running on the other Intel SATA2 port sometime in the future. The other 3 rows are running on the Expander ports, and all the occupied bays are all reporting to be running at 3GB's so it looks like its up and running and I may not need to update the Firmware on the Expander card (fingers crossed). tower-diagnostics-20180623-1635.zip

@johnnie.black How do I see what FW version is running on the Expander? Just trying to see if it needs updating or not. Can you remind the version I should be looking at to get this working nicely with the M1015.

Ahhh, found it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/IBM-ServeRAID-M1015-Upgrade-Key/dp/B0034DMSOG Says its an upgrade key, I assume to get all the raid features of the card. Bit of a bonus, but totally useless for my intended purposes, lol!

Hmmm, I take it i should probably use the card without the daughter board then, lol!

Ok, just ordered the brackets. The eBay seller has promised to have them delivered tomorrow, so thats good news. Just come across an oddity though. I have 2 x IBM M1015 cards, although my intention is to only use one with the SAS Expander. However, I've just noticed one of the cards has a small daughter board attached whereas the other doesn't? What is this daughter board and is it needed:

Hi Johnnie, So are you saying ditch the adapter and not worry about the bracket and just let the card sit in the socket, which is my thought after I posted the above, or should I really look at getting a bracket to fit? Using the adapter or not, the card isn't going to be physically held to anything anyway. The SAS Expander does have a bracket which of course is essential as it has an external SAS port.

Hi Guys, I'm back once again with a question regarding the M1015. I'm just preparing to install this along with the SAS Expander this weekend, and have just taken the M1015 out of the packaging. I hadn't realised until removing from the packaging that the board comes with a PCI-E FRU43V7067 expansion adapter and not a bracket. This isn't a problem as I can accomodate this, but the question is to do with what looks like a USB port on the expansion adapter. Anyone know why this is there as I thought the card would get its power through the pci-e slot? Do I need to connect a usb cable to this port?

@johnnie.black Can I just check, before I go and brick this new card, but is this the recommended update for the card: https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=7477381&swItemId=MTX_07e17cded9e8409ea4b9d7ea74&swEnvOid=4184 Or should I go for a slightly older version?

Great. All sorted now guys. Thanks for your help

Yep, I realised my mistake after making that post. The 2 SSD's on the 2 Intel SATA3 ports, use the 4 SCU SATA2 ports for the 2 Parity drives and 2 unassigned drives. Then use the 4 Intel ports for 4 of the drives for the unraid array, then use 8 ports of the expander for the 8 drives in the unraid array and the external port for the Startech external backup. I think I have finally got there Just curious again, but I read somewhere that the M1015 can utilise up to 16 HDD's, so does this mean that when I use the expander I shouldn't go above the 16 drive limit seeing as the xpander can handle 24 HDD's?

Yep, I agree, some oddities on this board, lol! At least I managed to work out the IPMI port, eventually. So, I should probably move the 4 Marvell Sata connections to the SCU ports instead? I believe they are SATA3 so will accommodate 2 x Cache SSD's (SAMSUNG EVO 500gb) and 2 x Parity HDD's (WD-Red Pro), then use ports 22 & 23 for the unassigned drives (these could either be HDD or SSD) and ports 24 - 28 as part of the unraid array (mixture of different size WD-Reds)?? Then when the expander arrives, I sha'll use the IBM M1015 along with the expander for the external backup solution, then use another 8 ports from the expander for the remaining 8 disks in the unraid array (again a mixture of different size WD-Reds) as I have a 16 bay server case. Or would you do it a different way?