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Awesome, thank you so much Hoopster. I was not searching for the right terms. This is exactly what I was looking for.

Looking for a recommendation or best practice to reduce the number of hard drives in unRAID. Right now, I have 7 disks with 68TB of storage plus a 16TB parity drive. I have purchased and not installed 4 additional 16TB drives. I would like to get back down to five total drives, all 16TB for 64TB of storage with a parity drive. I understand the process to switch out let’s say one of my 8TB drives and have the server rebuild that data onto the 16TB drive I will replace it with. What is the best way to move all the data on a disk that will not have a one-one swap and will be permanently removed to the other drives across the array? Ideally I would like to move all of the data from drives 5-7 to drives 1-4, and then start to swap out my 8TB drives. I have already added one 16TB drive to make sure I have enough space to move everything around. 1. Do I go to my share settings and exclude the disks that I wish to remove? 2. Do I use the CMD line or Krusader Docker to manually move all the files off a drive and onto another one? 3. Do I remove the drive from the system and let unRAID rebuild the data onto the other drives? 4. Is there another way that is more particle? Thank you for your help in advance.

I have tried to troubleshoot my issue for a few days now and have also tried Reddit with no solution yet. I think I have read most threads out there and watched a lot of YouTube videos. Issue: I cannot get my Intel i5-12600 CPUs iGPU to HW transcode Plex movies. My unRAID box was working with my GTX 1080, but I wanted to give that to my nephew for his gaming rig and figured I would upgrade my unRAID box with a modern Intel CPU to handle my transcode needs for PLEX. I have removed everything Nvidia-related from my unRAID box (Scripts, plugins, ect.) My System: UnRAID version 6.11.5 CPU: i5-12600 MB: MSI PRO Z690-A DDR4 BIOS-24MAR2023 Memory: G.Skill 64GB DDR4 3600 Plex-Media-Server Settings: Repository: plexinc/pms-docker:plexpass Host Path 2(/transcode): /tmp (and /tmp in the PLEX GUI) Host Path 3(/data): /mnt/user/Media/ Key 4 (Version): latest I added Container Device: /dev/dri/renderD128 AppData Config Path: /mnt/cache/appdata/Plex-Media-Server Extra Parameters: --device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri --mount type=tmpfs,destination=/tmp,tmpfs-size=20000000000 --no-healthcheck I have downloaded the Intel GPU TOP and the GPU Statistics plugin. I have also enabled transcoding in Plex. lspci -vnn gives me this: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 770] [8086:4690] (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) DeviceName: Onboard - Video Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device [1462:7d25] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 160, IOMMU group 2 Memory at 6001000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) Memory at 4000000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) I/O ports at 5000 Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] Capabilities: [40] Vendor Specific Information: Len=0c <?> Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [ac] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable+ 64bit- Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [100] Process Address Space ID (PASID) Capabilities: [200] Address Translation Service (ATS) Capabilities: [300] Page Request Interface (PRI) Capabilities: [320] Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915 To me this shows that unRAID recognizes the iGPU (I may be wrong), I know the iGPU works because I have a monitor hooked up to the PC to check the BIOS while I troubleshoot this issue. I can direct stream my movies when I am on my network. Plex will software transcode if I watch on a device outside my network, but it taxes my CPU hard. When watching some videos of others installing the GPU statistics plugin, I noticed that the IMC Bus Utilization fluctuates a little right away. My receive and transmit are both at N/A. Does anyone have any thoughts on what else I might try to troubleshoot my issue? EDIT ***********Solved - 27APR2023 - Solved I switched from the official Plex docker to the Linux server docker. I reinstalled the Intel_GPU_Top and GPU Statistics. My extra parameters are (for RAM transcode too): --device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri --mount type=tmpfs,destination=/tmp,tmpfs-size=20000000000 --no-healthcheck I added Device: /dev/dri/card0 I added Container Path: /tmp/ (and also the same way in plex) I went into the plex container preferences and manually changed HardwareDevicePath="/dev/dri/renderD128" to force the Intel QSV vaapi For those having issues to force your iGPU, I would check this first. Mine was set to renderD129. My Intel Alder Lake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 770] works as it should now. I hope that this can help someone else.

Thanks for everyone that contributed to this thread recently with the PIA issues and feedback. I just changed my files over to France with the nextgen file from PIA. I had to restart unraid, but I can now get into the webUI and the speeds are great. I have not changed any other setting.

I just moved back to the states from Japan. Upon setting everything back up I was unable to access my unRAID server through Win10 Network discovery. I used the solution above and it also worked for me. Win10, v1903. UnRAID 6.7.2 Hope that this can help others.