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Hello, guys, I have a strange behavior with my 2 servers. First of all, the HW-specs. Media server (aka Server A): Asus P8Z77 WS, Intel Xeon E3-1230v2, RAM 32GB, array consisting of 7 mixed hard disks plus SSD (Sandisk Plus 480GB) as cache, OS unRAID PLus 6.4. Backup server (aka Server B): Asus A88XM-A, AMD A8-7600, RAM 8GB, array consisting of 5x4TB Toshiba plus SSD (Samsung 850 Evo 120GB) as cache, OS unRAID Trial 6.4. Gaming rig: Asrock Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming K6+, Intel i7-6700K, RAM 16GB, 3 SSDs for system and data, OS Windows 10 Pro. Switch: 8-port GBit (TP-Link or Trendnet) Copy data (size 2MB-40GB) from the gaming rig to server A or B on the shares with ~110 MB/second. Copy data (size of 2MB-40GB) from Server A to Server B using Krusader (Docker with SMB network connection) at ~45 MB/sec. Copy data (size of 2MB-40GB) from server B to server A using Krusader (Docker with SMB network connection) at ~45 MB/sec. It doesn't matter if I copy a single small file (20MB), a single large file (35GB) or several files with a total of 100 or 200GB. The speed remains at ~45 MB/s. If I connect the shares of servers A and B to my gaming rig and then copy them from server A to B, the speed increases to ~110 MB/s. Before I switched server B to unRAID 6.4 I had tried Openmediavault 3.0.96 and 4.0.14 on this server. It was the same result, direct writing with docker from server A to server B with only ~45 MB/second. The settings are the same on both servers, Fix Common Problems does not report any warnings or errors. BR Peter

What about this one? http://www.delock.de/produkte/G_89394/merkmale.html?setLanguage=en

That´s strange, will check this. Dammit, it works. Wonder why this setting wasn´t overtaken while upgrading 6.4.0-rc7a. Thanks mate, you made my night. Peter

Hi guys, during trial period with 6.3.5 mover was running fine. After purchase of unRAID Server Plus and upgrading to 6.4.0-rc7a mover is not running anymore. Any help is apprecheated. Here are 2 diagnostic-files, 1st one drives were in sleep, started mover, nothing happens. 2nd one I woke up the disks and started mover again, nothing happens. Greetings from Germany Peter tower-diagnostics-20170831-2051.zip tower-diagnostics-20170831-2051.zip

I just wanted to describe the situation correctly. But I am sure that the newer disks will be faster than these old ones with 1 TB. And this will have a positive effect on a parity check.

Hi folks, as a newbie I would like to report my experience with unRAID (6.3.5 trial). I also would kindly request to @tomo to start new from scratch and to follow the guides and tips and tricks from the members of this forum. Thanks to all of them. I was inspired by the videos from @gridrunner, they are really impressive. Okay, let´s begin: My planned setup is listed below, currently I just have 2 old 1 TB 3,5"-HDD´s and the small 500 GB 2,5"-HDD inside for data and the 4 TB 3,5"-HDD for parity. I also bought a new 480 GB SSD (Sandisk Plus) used as a cachedrive. So the pool/array is 2,5 TB at the moment. I also followed the guide to preclear each disk before adding it to the array. Yes, this took a long time, Oh, and I really use one of the USB 3.0-ports at the backpanel of the mobo without any problems for the OS. The system is running really smooth, writespeed on 1 GBit network was around 95 MB/s (around 25 GB music, only MP3-files around 10 MB each). Writespeed for movies from 1 GB to 40 GB rockstable around 115 MB/s. There is only one brake, the SSD will overheat after a while and begins to throttle. But this is not an issue of unRAID, it´s the hardware. And the whole stuff isn´t right assembled and installed right now, the SSD is laying beside the chassis and gets the wohle sunshine through the window. When everything is completely assembled, the planned data drives will be in the LIAN-LI-cage and also the cachedrive and the small 2,5"-HDD. The cage is equipped with a 120 mm fan, which will be connected to the mobo. So, what I´m doing right now is to copy the data from the former system (openmediavault), disk by disk. These 4 disks are 2 TB each. When the first disk is copied, it will replace the first old 1 TB in the pool/array. After copying the second disk, this one will replace the second old 1 TB. So this will be a good lesson to learn something about the behaviour of the system. Writing to the pool/array was done via network from my gaming rig and I also used krusader via docker, which is really a nice tool. I used my USB dual docking station from Aukey with one HDD equipped only. Next try will be to test with 2 disks inside and also I will try the integrated docking station of my chassis. So in summary, I am really satisfied so far. A parity check (pool/array filled with around 600 GB) I started yesterday was about 12 hours, maybe it will be faster with the other disks. And I also had some tiny problems, but with patience and good will (go to forum and search for problems) I solved these ones by myself. I don´t expect any big problems and think that I will buy a key. If you don´t want to spent your time with unRAID or any other solution (open source or not), go and by a turn key product like Syonology, Qnap, Asustor or something like this. These products are also very good, but they will limit you in the use of hardware. So have a nice day.

Okay guys, understood. I just had a look on a tutorial from Spaceinvader One and saw that the parity drive is not shown any type of file system in the GUI. And maybe there is a missunderstanding. I didn´t mean that there are any data files like movies or music stored on the parity disk. I´m sure to go in the right direction with unRAID. Yes, I have to spend money for a licence, but the system seems very good. And yes, maybe there are other systems free of charge like openmediavault, nas4free or freenas. But I had some strange errors in the past with openmediavault after upgrading the system. I think, I won´t have any of these problems with unRAID. But I learned a lot of Linux using openmediavault. So have a nice week out there wherever you are. It´s a sunny day here with around 27°C, so around 81°F where you prefer Fahrenheit.

Hi guys, thanks for your answers. I didn´t want to make a big confusion. And maybe my post was a little bit missunderstood. Right now I´m busy with my backup, checking if I really have everything secured. When this is done I will do a complete change to unRAID. Latest release is still downloaded and installed on a new USB stick (32 GB). HW is already installed in chassis. I was not asking for data migration, just maybe another way to replace a smaller disk with a bigger one. In the past I was able to do this very easy using the described method. Here is just a small description: 1) System is down, remove small disk 2) 1:1 copy with the 2-bay-chassis without any PC running (maybe over night) 3) Resize cloned bigger disk 4) Install cloned and prepared disk to the system and start up 5) No need for a parity scan or something like this, system is ready If this procedure won´t work with unRAID, that´s okay. I was just interested if this would work. The biggest advantage of this method is avoiding to much stress on the disks. In the past I had to replace a disk in my Synology DS212+. I decided to replace the faulty one (2TB WD) with a bigger one (4TB Toshiba). And also replace the second small one (2 TB WD) with another 4 TB Toshiba. In the DS212+ I used the recommended method of SHR (Synology Hybrid Raid) for data protection. 1) Remove faulty 2 TB disk 2) Replace with new 4 TB disk 3) System will repair the volume (a few hours) 4) Replace 2 TB with 4 TB 5) System will repair the volume (a few hours) 6) System will ask you to expand the volume (another few hours) This method is really stressful for the disks I think that´s not really correct. In which way the OS will be able to write data on a drive without any file system? There must be a file system. So, anyway I´m looking forward in the use of unRAID. I was really impressed by the videos of "Spaceinvader One" on youtube. I think he is also in this forum with another nickname. It seems that the system is really stable and is also easy to maintain.

Hi folks, here´s a newbie from Germany. Have my stuff already prepared, but didn´t start with the installation. Just want to get important informations in this forum. In the past I used Openmediavault, but now I´ll give unRAID a try. So in Openmediavault you can use Snapraid for parity and mergerfs for pooling, something similar or the same thing in unRAID. I followed the instruction of a member in the official forum of openmediavault to replace the parity drive really easy. I have an external USB-Chassis with 2 slots, capable to copy one disk to another completely without a PC running. The chassis will make a 1:1 copy. After this it is easy to boot up GParted in a live system to adapt the partition on the new disk, for example resize from 2 TB to 4 TB. The whole process (copy and resize) is really quick. Would this be an option on unRAID? Have a nice weekend.

Thanks for your reply, Squid. Sorry for late response, was very busy with work.

Hi guys, I´m new in this forum. Spend a lot of time messing around with Openmediavault using SnapRaid and MergerFS. After watching the videos from "Spaceinvader One" on YT I was really impressed about unRAID. As you can see in my sig I have a lot of HDD´s and just 1 small 120 GB-SSD. I want to keep the library from Plex on the SSD and use the small 500 GB 2,5"-HDD as a cache drive. I think, this should be possible using the unassigned disk plugin, right? The small 500 GB 2,5"-HDD should be used as a cache drive to copy the files from the backup to the array. Last topic is the hot swap docking station on top of the chassis for backups. Is it possible to use the unassigned plugin for this docking station? Because I have different HDD´s for backup. So, is the unassigned plugin dedicated to the disk or the SATA-port? Thanks in advance for your comments.