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To help others, heres links to relating posts on 'TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to Errata' Arch topic - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=230516 Git Kernel commit - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=73b866d89bf7c9a895d5445faad03fa3d56c8af8 Picture 3 shows this bug, - Maybe this is the same issue causing your failure to boot?

Side note, amazing mobo that supports out of band management xD. Anyone looking for a solid 1150 board thats small? This is the one.

Any reason for using only legacy mode? @CCNB From my own support thread just a few days ago, both uefi and usb3 are supported, though I figured I would ask anyway.

Are you using a front based usb port, or the rear ports? Are you using a usb3 port?

What kind of server? Is it by any chance an HP prolient server? Based on a quick search, it appears they have had issues. In bios settings, do you have anything similar to "USB - Fully initialized at boot"?

As the title says, i'd like to import an existing raid0 array via unassigned devices, or other means. Is this possible? Im in the process of starting, and adventuring with unraid, and I ordered 3 matching drives (they also match the 3 existing raid0 ones i have), and then realized I was going to use 1 for parity... leaving only 2 for space.. I currently have the space of 3... and mostly full.. My goal was to make the new array with unraid, and copy over my stuff, then format the drives, and add to my array, and finally do a parity. Does this seem dumb? Overcomplicated? What other options do I have?

Uhm... yeah... sorry about that. I had asked @SSD why .gif's are even allowed... The upload dialog mentions jpg, and png... not gif.. even tho I clicked one and it worked :\ Sorry.

On that idea... Lets say it is the add-in card causing issues, dropping drives, ect.. What could be done to unRaid to alleviate this kind of sigkill/sigfault crash causing a system-wide crash? Maybe a question for @limetech? Is there anything I could provide on my end to help? I was under the assumption the latest kernel provided much greater system stability. IIRC, my ARCH vm on my personal computer is running almost the exact same kernel, if not the same.

This was my first thought also. Come Tuesday or Wednesday the postal man should be bringing me 3x more hard-drives, and on that day ill axe the add-in card, and go direct to motherboard. Currently no VM's, and minimal docker use, as I wanted to move my files first, and then start to tinker and modify. Also.. once files are moved, I can wipe the raid0 array, pre-clear, add the drives to unraid and get parity for the first time ever. EDIT: ^^ This seems like a terrible idea.. can anyone chime in? Should I just wait, and add the new array and parity all at once THEN copy files, then preclear old drives and add?

First thing I notice... is faster then normal speeds... are you using any kind of nic bonding? If so, the source your reading from, *seems* to be saturating the connection, but the other side (server side) cannot handle such input... there for the sawtooth pattern. Could you comment more on the sending and receiving sides as far as physical hardware, specifications, and disk speed/network speed stats? I ask though, because I've experienced this exact same thing, but my issue was due to my sending side, and network being beefier then the ending destination, creating exactly the same pattern your seeing.

Unraid 6.4.1 So, as the title says, unraid keeps hard-locking, forcing a restart, and I've tried to tail the log file both directly via console, and SSH, and it shows nothing. So, fresh install (pro license) and I wanted to make a smaller array with my older drives (this I think is an issue to begin with, at least one of the drives showed an error) Went to install the plex docker and the server just stops. Network goes down, ssh unresponsive, console keyboard no longer accepts input (but the cursor still blinks) Things ive tried- Unplug network Unplug keyboard Switch array drives (have 3 empty drives, at least 1 shows bad.. took it out and tried with just 2) I am asuming this is happening either from A) the bad drive (which I removed and it happened again) or B) which I think may me more likly, my pcie sata 4port card isnt supported for some reason? Nothing has changed inside my server case.. and it ran windows 10 for 6 months solid. I even went ahead and did a 2 pass memtest over night, everything came back clean. --Server Specs-- Asus X99E WS board I7 5820k @ 4.0ghz 32gb (non ecc) ddr4 @ 3200mhz 4 port marvell sata card (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AZ9T3OU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) 4 drive cage rosewill (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DGZ42SM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Weather or not my card is supported, really isnt an issue to me. The reason I purchased that card, was simply for more sata ports.. and it worked when I needed it to (and still works in windows flawlessly) I did order (3) more toshiba x300 6tb drives, I will use those to create my array, and ive got 3 others exactally the same currently in raid0 with most of my media on it. Has anyone else experienced anything similar, or moreover is there anything else I can do from my end to help with diagnostics? Crash log, showing nothing from putty/ssh (http://prntscr.com/iddegm)

On that note, I don't see a general tab. Would the Lounge be the appropriate area to post a personal build log, and to help me keep track of my progress?

I pulled the trigger for unraid. Just wanted to come back and say thanks to everyone who offered their support in my pre-sales questions. Thanks @limetech, @jonathanm, @ljm42, and @SSD. I know my inquiries were a bit extensive, and long-winded but you all did a fantastic job of informing me and helping to sway my decision. PS, I went with the pro key, as I've currently got 12 drives, with expansion plans for 16 (currently.. that will change im sure)

?!?! Fantastic.

Is there any support for usb3 drives, and or booting? I ask because i've got a fancy onboard usb slot.. like... sticks out of the motherboard. I would love to utilize this port specifically. But it is blue... :\ EDIT:: NVM... mobo doesnt support booting this port unless in UEFI.. this would be problematic I think.

Amazing response @SSDand thanks @limetechalso. Clear and concise. Im so on the fence.. I gave it a try, I loved the look, and wanted to know more. What kind of features are there for customizing UI, darkened interface, ect? Is there anything I should know before pulling the trigger? I think im going to test unRAID anyway, and worse comes to worse, I know someone who would want my key if I didn't use it. Is this allowed? No money involved, just a gift from me to him.

Okay. Right now, I have 3x6tb raid0. I get an average of 200 mbps across these (peaks of 300, lows of 150). Plex can handle 4-6 movie requests trans-coding separate files currently. (ram-disk does trans-coding) In unraid, this would be 3x independent disks, so is there a way to ensure a-f, g-q, and r-z are each on a separate disk? Or better, could I import this array to unraid? Are there any methods of importing existing volumes, disks, arrays, datasets, without zero wiping first? The cache drive for writing to the array, could that also be used as my plex transcode drive? Or, does anyone else use ram-disks, if so, what sizes are you using? If I could bring this down to 8gb, it would help with my VM's. For the network side of things, can I assign 3 nics for unraid for a total bandwidth of 3gbs? (pipe size, not throughput) Or, could I dedicate nics to certain aspects? 1 for unraid, 1 for plex, 1 for vm? Does unraid support reverse proxy between VM's/Dockers? Example, I run appache separate from sonarr, could I still access it external to my network? Does unRAID interfere in this process at all? Is unRAID available external via reverse proxy? Cpu side of things. I know unRAID supports individual thread ticker options, if I set unraid to core 0, and plex to 0-7, will this have any impact on unraid? Gui, delay lag, anything like that? Key for server, trial for desktop, got it.

I can't speak to the performance of unRAID yet, as im still on the fence my self. But I moved my plex to my m.2 nvme and found a very noticeable increase. Browsing library, and poster art was nearly instantaneous. I would also recommend you setting the trans-code folder to the ssd (if your okay with the massive amounts of writes), otherwise a ram-disk. Very noticable increase, especially on directplay/steam devices like xbone, pc, roku, ect.

Alright, so after some coffee and a pipe, I've been browsing the forums. NVME seems to be handled, and unraid runs from usb/ram, with no install option (that I can tell, but it isnt needed anyway) Usb3 support? Any recommendations? Crappy 8gb drive, or a cruizer extreme pro 32gb? Seems any ol drive can and will work, make a backup just in case. If I were to use hardware raid, and make an array previous to loading up unraid, would unraid handle this? Does the parity drive rule still apply (parity size = max drive pools size) arrays pre hand are supported based on searching forums. Assuming parity rule still applies, no reason it wouldn't. Does unraid offer any kind of customization? I love the look and feel, but want a 'dark theme' if possible. Seen a youtube vid with a dark theme. If I purchase a pro key, is this limited to my server only? Or may I use the same key to play and test things on my desktop also? ^^If not, is a second key offered at a discounted price? Any other users able to chime in on Plex Dockers? What kind of performance is everyone else getting? Most of my content is 1080 @ 10bit @ x265 hevc, I have a few 40bit files, and a few 720 1-5 bit files. Given similar hardware, what are other users expecting with ammount of con-current transcodes? Im looking for 4-6. Currently get that with no issue on windows, but thats not exactally 'tested'. Peak shows 10 users, but 5 of which are direct play. Are 2 parity drives the most that is supported? 2 Drives. (Could I use an array from hardware raid for parity?, pros? cons?) Is a parity drive required for unraid? Is ECC memory required or handled? Handled yes, required no.

HA! Not a question, but a great response! What about the high-water thing? Does this mean I can kind of separate my data so that performance isn't all hitting one drive at once? Also, side note, is there a way to do raid0 on say 2x 6tb disks, and have a 12tb parity disk? That way I get the best of raid, and unraid combined?

Hey everyone! I just wanted to go over a few things, ask a few questions, and get responses based on my use case scenario, and what better way to do that, then here at the communities forums. I guess easiest place to start is explaining what I've got now, and what more I want presumably from unraid (or an alternative if suggested) -- My use-case scenario -- Plex server, webserver(s), tracker/scraper, ftp, ssh, NAS. Need to run at least 4 remote trans-codes at any given time, I say remote, because technically Ive got 2 networks at home.. 1x fiber @ 940/880, and a 'backup' connection also fiber at 150/150. I toyed with ways of combining them, load balance/fail-over, but its easier to keep them separate. Right now, the back of the house runs on the 150 connection, and me, and my server are on the main connection. Ideally, I want one large array, that has my 'shares', Movies, Tv-Shows, Iso's, Games, Backups. Those are my main folders, and I would like to combine and condense, and maybe get a raid type boost in read performance. Im not too worried about write performance. I plan to use a ssd or 2 as a cache space. Heres my 'server' specs. Asus x99e ws board, 32gb ddr4 @ 3200, intel i7 5820k, roughly 30tb total Drives. 3x 6tb x300 toshibas raid0 (movies), 5 random drives cobbled together for tv shows. 2x3tb, 2x4tb, 1x5tb My plan here, is to buy 2-4 more drives, got my eye on x300's and the price, but im not glued to that idea. Seagate and WD both have 8tb usb drives that i've got no issue tearing apart for the goodies on the inside. Currently im running w10 as its a familiar environment, and I also run wampp (apache, webserver, php, all that), plexpy, sonarr, radarr, jackett, ombi, custom landing page, and some other random stuff, testing out a PFsense box (wow.. networking is hard) and I play with vmware and I love my debian flavors. I've noticed with windows, theres always updates.. my box randomly goes off-line, restarts, or has weird issues.. I need this to stop. I've tried to disable cortana/WUS, but no dice.. I want a linux flavor. I feel comfy enough in CLI, and I prefer stability. Currently, using a 16gb ram disk as my trans-code folder, works awesome, but limits me for things like VM's, especially snappy and responsive ones... Ideally, id like to swap this for a cache drive, such as a cheapo ssd, i've got a crucial mx100 120gb laying around, figured it would be 'good enough' Without berating me for my 'cobbled together nightmare' I would like to know how unraid would effect me. Currently I can get 4-6 transcodes remotely @ 720 with no issues. My network is definatly not the bottleneck in this scenario (940/880 fiber from verizon) ::MY GOAL:: So, now were familiar with my current setup, heres my goal, and I would like feedback on anything you notice. I plan to buy 4 drives within the next month, say 2 per check, and this can change at any moment, as I said above, WD and seagate both have 8tb's for very good prices, and my x300's from toshiba are also in a close price range, but only 6tb's. Also plan to buy unraid obviously, but again, was looking for some feedback before pulling the trigger. Aside from the 12~ spinning drives I have total (also have a games drive, iso drives.. blah blah) I've got an NVME (sm941, precursor to the 960) and crucial 120gb sata ssd. As I understand, unraid completely runs from USB/ram, correct? Does unraid handle NVME storage? Could I install to NVME?, is there any benefit? If not, should I use NVME for trans-code?, or cheapo SSD? Is ram a better idea for trans-code? Is 16gb too much? not enough? My experience shows never more then 1-gb used in the ram drive, and even then it wipes all the time. Other things to add... Also have 3x gbe ports. Can I utilize this in any way? I have 2x gbe's in my desktop, and some 10-12 computers around the house that are always blasting plex. Could the server get a 3gbe connection, my desktop a 2gbe connection? Is this doable? Dockers from what i've gathered, are like OS-less VM's, which means I wouldn't need a win/nix host to run radarr/sonarr and all that stuff. Is this correct? Are my specs 'decent'? I upgraded my gaming/desktop to a 6850k (wanted pci lanes) and... didnt want the 5820k sitting and doing nothing so... board + ram = new build. :-D (Its a geek thing lol) My appeal to unraid, is very much the robust-ness to support drives of different sizes, as well as a parity drive. I'm not totally stupid to raid, as I'm running raid0 and jbod now, but parity does seem appealing, at least just to have. I am one of those people who regularly buys new hardware, and upgrades every few months. Video card here, psu there, cpu's at major price drops, yada yada. I know of freenas, nas4free, and a few other randoms.. but most of these seem 'barbaric'... using terms like jails.. and datasets... I want it to be easy.. unraid seems easy. Also, unraid is the only one that seems to have dockers? Is this correct? Please, I would love to hear some feedback, good or bad, please don't bother berating me about my 'cobbled together setup'... I know.. trust me I know. Thats why im here. I want to do something about it. PS, <3 bytemybits is the reason I'm here, thanks Jason. This is what turned me onto this. He did a video titled "Plex battle OS" and compared several os's against each other, and overall freenas, and unraid were the top dogs. (Edit, sorry.. long post, a bit of a brain dumping. Tried to format, and spell check) Pictures, diagrams, network speed tests, hardware info anything you need is available on request. Thanks in advanced!