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I think it is sata power as I remember buying a new 12v atx cable for the PSU with sata connections but I will take a photo and check next time I open.

Next time I open the case, I will take a photo. I just put them in to the housing and then used those rubber caskets to hold it in to place, it was a bit tricky putting them in but doable. Then the wire went in to the socket and they were still hot swappable. I am not sure i bought the correct fans, they do run moderately quiet as they are in my living room after I set them at around 900rpm but I feel a different type of fan could have achieved a quieter sound but this motherboard is limited on its fan voltage configuration so I ended up using the software one but that is temperamental. In the end I get very cold temps like 30-34 and can still watch TV with it being there. The only major down side still is the size, as for my tiny rack it sticks out too much at the back. I also bought this sound dampening sticky pads from amazon and put those on the inside of the case where reasonable and that has helped a lot as well.

2024 update Total 66TB now. I bought the new Logic Case LC-4680-16B-WH 4U it has 16 hot swap bays and 12gbit hba support. I use two HBA cards in IT mode now and still using the same sea sonic 550w PSU and same UPS. I removed the existing 120mm fans from the case because they were way too noisy and at full RPM they went to 4000 RPM haha. That is like a datacentre cooling. Not for me, I am looking for silent as possible. I installed 3x 1700rpm Noctua 4pin and set the fan speed to max out at about 1000rpm. They are pretty quiet, I also bought some 4mm rubber adhesive to sound proof the case. I closed up the top front and side vents and put the sound proofing on the top. This is so that the air is pulled through the drive cages from outside. It has reduced the temps down and now I am idling at low 30s c temps which is better than my old case. The only other main downside to the case design is the depth, it sticks out the back of my small rack 20cm, this is mainly because they give support for extended ATX and the over sized fans. I think they could cut it down by 10cm or more by changing fans and no e-atx support. Other than the case is a lot higher quality than the previous generation, in terms of sharp edges, the closing mechanism and the hot swap drive quality. Also would have been nice to have some screw holes in the back of the case for a ssd or two. The hot swap bays also don't adapt to support SSD which is a shame because they could easily do that. 150-170w on idle now. Unraid Logic Case LC-4680-16B-WH 4U Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD4H Intel 4670k 3.8ghz 8GB corsair unbuffered PCI-e 8x SilverStone ECS04 PCI-e 8x SAS 2308 3x 12TB SEAGATE 7x 6TB SEAGATE 550W Seasonic Focus Gold PSU 3x 120mm fan 1x 512gb cache drive Pfsense in-Win IW-RF100 Supermicro A2SDi-4C-HLN4F 4gb 2133mhz Unbuffered new Seasonic 1u psu 60gb SSD TPLINK EAP660HD 8 port netgear switch UPS Cyberpower 780w Future New NAS mb and cpu will be the gigabyte X570S AERO G and rysen 9 5900x. Once I upgrade my desktop PC. Also looking in to moving to 10gigabit internal lan.

You have to add the windows user in to unraid. Then enable that on the share. Click on users then click on the windows user that you added then you see all the shares, set read write. then in windows map a drive to the \\ipaddress\share name using the windows user account.

Is it possible to sync a share across all the disks? I don't see the option to be honest but I thought to ask in case i am missing something obvious.

My share setting is that I have the same folder over all the disks at specific levels. The point is that I copied the same file to the same path on a different disk and i didn't realise but yet through the shared mnt point it didn't show any different. I was using twice the space but didn't realise. My fault for copying by mistake. If the same file can exist on multiple disks what happens if it is a writable file that changes over time?

I added a new disk and then started moving some files between disks in order to balance out some space but I noticed that I had some disks with the same folders and files. I could even rename the folder one each disk and then look through shared mnt point that I had two lots of the same folder and files. I can't work out how this happened but could be due to copying data between mount points incorrectly? I didn't realise that could happen. Has anyone ever mentioned this before?

I bought one of those plugin dust air blowers and clean the case out twice a year now and my temps are looking perfect since 6.12.6 and in winter I can even remove the front fans now if I wanted to, which looks a lot better. Still planning on moving to a new case at some point.

Is there any way to make the files while they are still on the cache writeable? If I download something and then want to remove it, I can't delete it until it has been synced to the main array. Is there a way to change the permissions on the cache drive so that I can delete through SMB?

2023 update on my build Unraid Logic Case SC-43400-8HS Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD4H Intel 4670k 3.8ghz 8GB corsair unbuffered 8 Port SilverStone ECS04 3x 12TB SEAGATE 5x 6TB SEAGATE 550W Seasonic Focus Gold PSU 2x 140mm fan 1x 512gb cache drive Pfsense in-Win IW-RF100 Supermicro A2SDi-4C-HLN4F 4gb 2133mhz Unbuffered 60gb SSD TPLINK EAP660HD 8 port netgear switch UPS Cyberpower 780w Interesting to see the entire setup including another windows media pc, vero 4k, my LG CX and the unraid nas only uses 110watts at idle.

I finally bought a 512gb SSD for a cache drive cost me £25 and I couldn't believe how much it allowed for my main array to not be spun up and reduced disk temperatures of the array overall.

I did it I live another day.

You can understand my hesitancy though? the button is in the same list as the start stop array etc.

I can see it shows format will create a file system in all unmountable disks and then shows the new cache drive on the left side as the only disk. When I click are you sure box it warns me it is going to wipe the disk etc. I just want to be sure this is not going to touch the main array, I don't think it will but I don't think it is clear enough for me to just do it without posting this for confirmation. Its only going to format the cache right and is there any other way I can format the disk, like with the array unmounted and just that disk selected?

OK thanks, sorry for being blind and doing no research on this one. Seems like I might have a justification to add a cache SSD now though.

Am I correct in saying that there are no system logs prior to a reboot? Is there an app I can use to backup syslog across the network then? I had a weird power cut and not sure what my UPS did and wanted to investigate the cause but it seems the logs start at the current boot up time. Alternatively if the system logs could be copied to persistent storage that could help to solve it as well, is that possible. I could keep a copy on the main array.

Adding one more array would be a great addition because would allow for different controller on the same Pc to manage the drives. After 1 or 2 arrays is not realy feasible. The cache is useflul but having a few more arrays would be even more useful. I like unraid in how the data sits on the disks compared to zfs.

At the moment my main array is done through the pcie HBA connector but it would be possible to add more sata disks or pcie disks using ssd now that they are coming down in price. Is adding a second array on the roadmap or will that never happen in unraid?

never mind, I see you use the scheduling to add the cron for you...

What i do is I add a user to Unraid with the exact username and password that I use in windows and then I have no problem adding the mapped drives after that. Then apply read write for that username to all the shares. Seems to do the job for me without changing the guest access gpo. Then if you want a private share, you can set private on the permissions and then set no access on guest access but read write on your user that you added.

I did post about my build buying decisions back in 2018. I have since bought a rack, so I thought I would share a photo and current specs. Unraid Logic Case SC-43400-8HS Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD4H Intel 4670k 3.8ghz 8GB corsair unbuffered 8 Port SilverStone ECS04 7x 6TB Seagate ST6000VN0033 1x 4TB WD 550W Seasonic Focus Gold PSU 2x 80mm back Noctua Fans for Case 2x 120mm front fan 1x 140mm front fan Pfsense in-Win IW-RF100 Supermicro A2SDi-4C-HLN4F 4gb 2133mhz Unbuffered 60gb SSD TP-LINK CAP1750 WAP 8 port netgear switch Vero 4k for media center To solve the heating issues in the Logic Case I had to cable tie fans to the front of the case on the dust filter. It solved the temp issue completely. Unfortunately it does not look very good, I need to buy some fan guards and maybe matching 120mm FANs would look better. I bought a very good short throw rack from Amazon Samson brand, it was only £90 delivered. If you have any questions let me know.

I am trying to configure the Auto System Fan. I have it detecting fans on PWM 1 and 3 which I think is correct. I have two 80cm fans at the back of the case that I want to increase the speed of when temps go over a certain level. Will it work with multiple fans or only change the speed of the fan specified in the PWM controller drop down? Nevermind: they both seem to have increased to max RPM after detecting them both and applying.

Thanks for the clarification. I will contact prtg and ask them why they don't have a linux version. I would still recommend it for monitoring in a windows vm, if you have that ability. You will basically get full feature enterprise monitoring for free. Some of the sensors are multi as well. For example some netapp sensors take up 1 sensor but read back 20+ properties in one sensor. So 100 sensors will go a long way at home network. There is also a multidisk sensor which monitors all the disks for free space in one sensor. The api to create custom sensors is also easy. It would be great to see some unraid specific sensor templates.

I would recommend running PRTG as the free trial is 100 sensors for ever. Which is perfect for home setups. I think it only runs on windows, not aware of a linux install. Probably be best running it on a windows vm, unless someone can create a docker through wine? I don't know much about docker.