Bradyy

Thank you! This is all extremely helpful feedback. Those IOMMU groups looks much better than my current Supermicro board. Also good to hear about the iGPU/BMC. I'm not too concerned about losing the video output as I'll have a GPU passthrough mostly hooked up to the a monitor. I did originally bounce between the E-2288G and E-2278G. I was leaning toward the 2288G simply because it was _slighty_ easier to find. A lot the current Xeon chips are hard to track down right now... I do agree if I had my choice, I'd go for the E-2278G.

I'm reviving an older thread here... but just curious how the two of you are enjoying your builds currently? I'm currently considering either an E-2288G or E2246G with an ASRock Rack E3C246D4U. Any issues this motherboard and challenges around the IOMMU groups and VM PCI passthrough? Also, are there any issues with having both IPMI (ASPEED BMC) and iGPU enabled at the same time? I'm coming from an E3-1245v5 (with iGPU) on a Supermicro board that I researched poorly (does not support iGPU at all... d'oh). I've also faced significant issues with IOMMU groups being ugly and not great for VFIO. I keep toying with going over to Ryzen as you get a lot more bang for your buck right now... I'm currently leaning staying with Xeon for now as I really need this just to be rock solid system and I like the iGPU getting me out from buying something like a P2000. I really don't think any of the CPU benchmarks really factor in that iGPU. Any post-purchase thoughts would help me feel better out my potential purchase 🙂 Thanks!

Moving my Unraid server on to a UPS has been on my to do list for well over a year... We tend to get one short power outage a month (lots of trees nearby) and I've been extremely fortunate enough to not suffer any data loss due the dirty shutdowns (I guess... at least as far as I can tell). Finally got around to doing something about it at just the right time. A new line of APC UPS's are hitting the market right now and the previous models are getting marked down. I picked up this unit for $125: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/apc-back-ups-xs-1300va-tower-ups-black/9307797.p?skuId=9307797 In store it is $150, but they price matched the website. MSRP is $180, Amazon has it for $150, Best Buy has it for $124. There are several other units on clearance at Best Buy as well, this is just the one I landed on. I've got Unraid set to power down after 2 minutes but the UPS will keep our internet/wifi online for about 90 minutes.

Following a read error on a disk in a Synology, I took the opportunity to upgrade my home NAS (Hello, Unraid!). Ordered some hardware, moved all the data safely over to Unraid and now I've got this extra disk.... I was trying to repair the disk while in the Synology, but wasn't having luck. Out of curiosity I tossed the disk in to my new Unraid box and cleared/formatted the disk then kicked off an extended SMART self test. Here are the results... Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 18475 - # 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 18341 101520764 # 3 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 18323 101520763 # 4 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 18316 101520763 # 5 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 18316 101520762 # 6 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 18313 101520761 # 7 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 18303 101520760 # 8 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 18295 101520760 # 9 Short offline Completed without error 00% 18211 - #10 Short offline Completed without error 00% 17492 - #11 Short offline Completed without error 00% 16748 - #12 Short offline Completed without error 00% 16029 - #13 Short offline Completed without error 00% 15286 - #14 Short offline Completed without error 00% 14622 - #15 Short offline Completed without error 00% 13208 - #16 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12491 - #17 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11748 - #18 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11028 - #19 Short offline Completed without error 00% 10285 - 7 of 7 failed self-tests are outdated by newer successful extended offline self-test # 1 As you can see... there was a read failure then I ran the test a few more times while I was trying to mess with the sector on the command line. Final run is immediately after clearing the drive with Unraid. Now it looks like a clean drive.... should I trust it? or should I just consider it trash?

I'm looking at using HashBackup to backup some critical data from my Unraid server... I'm just kind of curious where this $250 potential license fee came from. Two observations that I've made: 1. HashBackup has been in 'beta' since 2009, while it could switch to commercial licensing tomorrow... not sure how close that really is. Definitely something to consider. 2. The HashBackup website clearly states that the license cost will be based on the volume of data being backed up. Large corporations would pay a lot more than me with my simple 5TB home server (only about 500GB that I want to backup with HashBackup). The website does not mention any suggested price ranges at all & it even calls out that there will be a free version for small volume users. It does not specify what the cutover will be from free to paid. With these considerations, I am still thinking I will move forward with HashBackup. Even when the license goes paid, I can't imagine the license would cost more than something like CrashPlan since HashBackup doesn't host any of the data... This is a pretty old thread... but thought I'd give my 2 cents for anybody else that comes searching (as I have).