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Mode 0 - balance-rr says it needs a "properly set up swtich" in the unRAID drop down. I assume this is where you are saying "trunking / port grouping". Since this is all new territory for me, is it usually in most "smart switches" or does it require a "managed switch?" Here is the one that's coming for me tomorrow: http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/cat-41_TL-SG108E.html Thanks again all. The switch came in yesterday and setting up a trunk to two ports was pretty simple in the setup so that's done and I'm now in Mode 0 - balance rr. However, I dont see much of any difference in transfer speeds off of a Windows 10 machine. Most often there is a burst at the beginning where I will get 9X MB/Sec, but then shortly it drops usually sustaining about 47/48 MB/sec and will occasionally fall off that as well. I don't think you can write higher than 50 unless you have a cache drive, but I would have thought reading would sustain higher numbers. Is there any way to see that this is functioning correctly?

Goto settings, nerdpack and install perl there.. AHHH got it, thanks!

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I installed the Nerdpack to get PERL so I could use Dynamix System Temp. I rebooted, but it still grays out the "detect" button uner the System Temp screen and says "Perl must be installed to do automated driver detection" I noted PERL is in the list at the begining of the sticky for Nerdpack. However it doesn't appear in the list under "Nerdpack" on the plugins tab. See attached images and diagnostics file (just in case). My configuration below is current. todd-svr-diagnostics-20160916-1622.zip

Mode 0 - balance-rr says it needs a "properly set up swtich" in the unRAID drop down. I assume this is where you are saying "trunking / port grouping". Since this is all new territory for me, is it usually in most "smart switches" or does it require a "managed switch?" Here is the one that's coming for me tomorrow: http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/cat-41_TL-SG108E.html Thanks again all.

Shameless bump for a little more assistance. Thanks all.

So what, if any, of these are supported on Windows 10? What about streaming to 3 or 4 different places at once and to differnt hardware? Would any of this help if you were writing to and reading from the server at the same time (provided they are not on the same physical disk)? Thanks again.

Question for anyone who knows: Can Mode 0, 2, or 3 be done with a "Smart Switch" or do they need to be managed switches and manually programed?

Thanks that was very helpful. It says the first 4 options are the most used. Is there a down side to balance tlb / alb? If i'm reading correctly the difference between those two is tlb only balances outgoing traffic while alb balances incoming as well. It seems like alb would put more overhead on the system to tag outgoing traffic correctly? Is there a downside to either of those options? It didn't seem to say so in the article. Are they less stable for any reason?

So I just got my 1st motherboard with two onboard NIC's. As I dont have a managed switch, I think my setting options are: Active Backup - I assume this just means if one goes down the 2nd takes over. balance tlb balance alb I'm also assuming these two settings balance the network load between two connections. Can you tell me what the difference between tlb and alb is? I tried tlb, and after hitting apply, I had to reboot the box before I could see it, but it did come up fine, in balance tlb mode. I think i'd go with a balanced setting but want to know the differences between them. thanks.

Thanks Joe, and for the explanation.

I just realized I may have caused this problem. I have a new SSD, that I installed in unRAID without preclearing (per advice on this forum). I just noticed that my default format is 4K aligned, but the SSD has 512b sector size. See below: HDparm report from unmenu: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: Patriot Torqx 2 32GB SSD Serial Number: BA140721090800019963 Firmware Revision: S5FAM014 Transport: Serial, ATA8-AST, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5, SATA Rev 2.6 Standards: Supported: 8 7 6 5 Likely used: 8 Configuration: Logical max current cylinders 16383 16383 heads 16 16 sectors/track 63 63 -- CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064 LBA user addressable sectors: 62533296 LBA48 user addressable sectors: 62533296 Logical Sector size: 512 bytes Physical Sector size: 512 bytes Logical Sector-0 offset: 0 bytes device size with M = 1024*1024: 30533 MBytes device size with M = 1000*1000: 32017 MBytes (32 GB) cache/buffer size = unknown Form Factor: 2.5 inch Nominal Media Rotation Rate: Solid State Device So the question is, have a caused a problem? I have a separate topic about this drive being seen by unmenu as possibly having HPA. I dont think these two could be connected but thought I would mention it in case I'm missing something. Does this drive need to be reformatted as a normal 512b size? If so what command can I use to do that? I'm thinking of using this drive outside the array anyway.