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    Home assistant

    in General Support

    Posted

    21 minutes ago, danioj said:

    Yes, I did (until recently) and it worked flawlessly for months. When you say unstable, what do you mean?

    Now I run it in a VM on a dedicated NUC running Ubuntu.

    Taking the server down for maintenance, tweaking or WhateverTF was not very wife or family proof. One machine to do it all doesn’t really work for me these days.


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    Yeah I had it running like you but it seemed to just stop working unexpectedly and I would have to modify that tweak where you added the letter to the description in the supervisor settings or one of those self generated images would go off line and would need to be restarted when it worked it worked great but like I said and same scenario as you it did not go over well when it dropped off line with the wife and kids

    Home assistant

    in General Support

    Posted

    Does anyone have homeassistant running stable as a docker in unRAID?  I followed digiblurs method and although I got it to work it was problematic and unstable, I have a vm running it on a dedicated Ryzen machine but I feel like I'm just not getting it setup right on unRAID was hoping that the latest version would have corrected the issue such as having to install the supervisor separately would really like to have it on my server as it has been rock solid for several years now and the vm is a bit slow, any takers?

    What is the best controller I can use for Dell R710??

    in Storage Devices and Controllers

    Posted

    On 5/17/2020 at 4:22 PM, lalu97 said:

    Thanks...I was asking about boot device. I ordered 2 Sandisk Cruzer FIT usb 2.0, one drive to boot and another to backup the boot drive.

     

    How is your experience with R710 so far?

     

    The cruzer fit seems to be the goto so you should be fine there, I can't complain about the R710 but full disclosure my hearing is not the best however I also have an R410 and that thing is absolutely loud as all heck I'm still considering modding the R710 with a custom hood with noctua fans but I'm in no hurry as at this time it's not running 24/7 I custom built my daily driver and runs 24/7 and its been solid for over 2 years now you should have a  good time with your setup its a proven rig

    What is the best controller I can use for Dell R710??

    in Storage Devices and Controllers

    Posted

    1 hour ago, lalu97 said:

    I'm planing on setting up unraid on R710. What are you using to boot the system? 

    I have an R710 running unRAID if you are asking what boot device and its location I am using a store branded micro center usb 3 thumb drive put into the internal usb slot in the system, do not take that the usb 3 thumb drive is right for you I can only attest to the fact that I have both my unRAID machines running with these over a couple years now with no issues usb 2 is recommended, haha maybe my branded usb 3 devices are really usb 2 I just paid the upcharge, if you are asking what hba to use I got mine on ebay and they were "certified" for use with unRAID if you need model and brand I can dig that up

    Changing disk allocation method

    in General Support

    Posted

    1 hour ago, sdamaged said:

    I assume you've just watched Linus' latest video?

     

    As far as i'm aware, most free is straightforward,  but fill up requires that minimum free space is set correctly on each share

    Spot on! I didn't really study up on it when I first started my build but every now and again I see something that makes me look harder at the options

    hardware help for my first Unraid server.

    in Hardware

    Posted

    5 minutes ago, BVL1 said:

    Thanks for the help dampoe, your info helps a lot.
    Gonna watch my local vendors and see if i can find a good deal on a better cpu.

     

    Try looking for a used pc with the specs you're looking for it may be cheaper I built my server from my old i7 6700 and its been great for the last 2 years 6-8 streams in PLEX 15 dockers including the ones you listed have fun with it!

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    Cache question

    in General Support

    Posted

    If I were to create a BTRFS cache pool and make them set to "only" in raid 1 is that not a striped array that will read/write at a potentially higher performance also could I create multiple cache pools from say 4 disks into 2 pool arrays?

    can not add two new drives to the array

    in General Support

    Posted

    I once did what you are and had dual parity but with the number of drives you currently have I question the need you would serve yourself better by making the parity a single 8TB disk and adding the 4TB and 8TB drives to your array the chances of a 2 disk failure at the same time is minimal and of course you should have a backup of any critical data on 2 other sources not connected to your server

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    upgrading server, understanding SAS

    in Hardware

    Posted

    2 hours ago, loady said:

     

    Doesnt seem to be any that are uk based

     

    if i can get a card delivered from within UK and needs flashing, are they difficult to flash ?

    I'm told it's not but it's an unknown as I have never done it, it sounds like it's similar to a bios update with the same pitfalls of potentially bricking the card if not done properly

    R720 Internal SD Cards as Cache Pool?

    in General Support

    Posted

    I'll only add that you can install an ssd drive bay adapter to your optical drive bay for additional space but that does not help with a pool although check to see if you have a unoccupied sata port on your motherboard as my R710 has one your manual indicates you should have one as well then all you need is to tap a power connector with a couple wago clips and you will have 2 new options for a cache pool not sure what version of sata the R720 has but mine are sata 2 so that may be a deal breaker for you not sure of your use case

    upgrading server, understanding SAS

    in Hardware

    New to UNraid

    in Motherboards and CPUs

    Posted

    38 minutes ago, sstretchh said:

    Hello everyone I am new to UNraid and wanted to get some opnions from everyone

     

    A friend gave me the following hardware to get started and I have a questions if I updated the CPU if everyone things I would get a big performance change

     

    currently I am running the following dockers, Plex, NZBget, Sonarr/Radarr with the following CPU / motherboard and the CPU maxes out on a regular basis

     

    memory - 16GB : (4) HyperX Fury 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR4 2400MHz DRAM

    Processor -  Intel BX80662G4400 Pentium Processor G4400 3.3 GHz

    Power Supply - Rosewill Quark Series 750W Full Modular Gaming Power Supply 80 Plus Platinum

    Motherboard :  MSI Z170A GAMING M7 ATX DDR4 3000 (o.c.) NA Motherboards Z170A GAMING M7

     

     

    If I upgrade to the following CPU will I see a big performance difference ?

     

    Intel Core i7 6700K 4.00 GHz Unlocked Quad Core Skylake Desktop Processor, Socket LGA 1151 [BX80662I76700K]

    by Intel

     

    I appreciate any feedback

    I cannot comment on the processor you currently have but I can tell you that my primary unRAID box is built around my I7 6700 non K and it performs excellent and I work it hard, its my Plex media server, my home assistant sever, and running upwards of 12 dockers  and still has plenty of room in the tank

     

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    Intro: new Unraid setup

    in Lounge

    Posted

    1 hour ago, cktulsa said:

    Thanks @itimpi ! I'm thinking of going with the LSI 9211-8i : https://smile.amazon.com/SAS9211-8I-8PORT-Int-Sata-Pcie/dp/B002RL8I7M

     

    Plus a set of SFF-8087 to SATA Forward Breakout cables. 

     

    I can probably handle the flashing to IT mode since there's instructions here (hopefully I can find the most current ones).

     

    Curt

     

    I have 2 of these from this vendor they were plug and play with both my unRAID boxes one home built the other a Dell R710 and seem to be a bit cheaper than that card listed:

     

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-H310-6Gbps-SAS-HBA-w-LSI-9211-8i-P20-IT-Mode-for-ZFS-FreeNAS-unRAID/162834659601?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

    Question about (ls -lah /boot/config/shares)

    in General Support

    Posted · Edited by mrbilky

    Totally not a cli guy so I saw this posted on another thread and I ran it on my rig out of curiosity and to continue learning this stuff and found that I clearly have had a misconfigured host path in a docker and now it seems I have a lot of garbage on my flash drive, Primarily the music .cfg files I can't seem to be able to find them in krusader to remove is this right? Kinda remember there might be a setting that protected the flash drive but don't see it so maybe I'm mistaken?

     

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