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Following up my own post: I first tried a Deep Silence 6 by Nanoxia, and while it was well built there's really no way to use more than 1 (3 slot) hot swap bay with it, the cooling wasn't great especially for the internal drive bays, and it is also enormous - not that I expected a small case, of course, given my E-ATX requirement and the number of drives I needed, but it was ridiculously big all the same and ironically, didn't make great use of all the extra space either - in fact I found it harder to work with than the case I ended up with. Luckily I was able to return it - Nanoxia support is pretty good. Next, I found a Xigmatek Elysium Black on Ebay, new, for a good price. This case has 12x front bays, so 4x 3x5 hot-swap bays fit in it. It also fits E-ATX though I had to use 3 silicon motherboard standoffs at the top of my Supermicro X9DRE-LN4F motherboard - 6 mounts (including one in the center) fit but the holes didn't align for 2 at the top and 1 at the bottom. The silicon standoffs (old-school PC builders will remember those) worked fine and I didn't have to drill the case. Good case overall, though I needed to add some sound deadening (SilverStone sells sheets of it for PC cases for $14) - not that it is loud with the right fans (I replaced all 3 stock case fans with Noctua PWMs controlled by my BMC), but the deadening helped quiet it all the way down. The case also has lots of open venting slots, particularly at the top, which made balancing airflow difficult and let the sound from the CPU fans at full rpm (also Noctua) escape easily. Cheap to remedy, at least, and not hard to install. Overall the case isn't outrageously big like the Deep Silence 6, has rubber grommets and plenty of tie downs, and overall was easier to get fitted out than the former in spite of being maybe 3/4 the size. In fact, other than having to deaden it it'd be almost perfect for a large dual-Xeon tower case with all hot swap bays except for the fact they don't make them any more. You can find the remaining stock on Ebay (make an offer lower than advertised, they will take it trust me) but beyond that, you're out of luck. Which is too bad because tower cases like this that aren't obnoxious, fit weird Supermicro motherboards, and can handle 4 full hot-swap drive bays are unicorns these days. Next, for the hot-swap bays I went with 4x Icy Dock Black Vortex MB074SP-1B and...well.... On the plus side, they have solid Sata III backplanes - power capacitors, sata power, no trouble with SSDs or large drives (I am using 10TB WD Reds) and the fans are in the front (and 120mm in size) so cool air blows in vs. being pulled in from the back of the cage. My drives run cool (37-40 under load - parity, preclear, etc. - and 29-32c idle), better than I've done with other cages in the past that have fans in the back. And the fans have removable dust filters in the front doors, which is convenient. On the minus side, quality control is lacking with these; I had to swap one out for a dead drive light, and 2 of 4 filters didn't fit right, I had to bend the internal fan mounts out with a flat head. Also the stock fans are a little loud at full power and there's no temperature sensor/alarm, just a 3 position switch on the front. They are also blue LED, which I think looks dumb on a server (you can turn the light off, at least). I ended up replacing all 4 fans with Phantec high static pressure PWM fans; they are connected to my Supermicro BMC in a zone I set up just for the drives. Much quieter and same cooling performance, and also when the drives are idle you can't even tell they are on. And if one of the fans dies I get alerted. The cages also have a bit of a funky design to them, though I found they blended well with my Elysium case. If I did it over I might not go with them again but that could just be because I had to do a lot of modding work (including stripping part of the nice cable braiding Phantec has on the wires so they wouldn't impede the door, and a bunch of other little things like that). In any case I now have a dual E5-2697v2 server with 128gb memory, 8x10TB storage drives, 2x1TB ssd cache pool, and 1x1TB SSD for a passed through Windows VM game drive, in a case that fits next to my desk (though it isn't small by any means) and doesn't sound like a vacuum cleaner when running at full bore. I'll write up more on this later with pictures if anyone is interested, though this probably isn't the right thread for that.

Use duplicati/duplicati:canary for the repository instead of LSIO's in the docker settings for the plugin. Duplicati Canary's can be hit or miss; no matter how stable they may be at any given time you really need to know what you are doing to get the best use out of them. I kinda doubt LSIO wants to get in that business for Unraid users but not my call

Thanks for the awesome plugin! Can someone assist with the right config settings for my fans? I want to make sure I edit it correctly for my Supermicro X9DRE-LN4F: CPU and system fans- CPU 1: 92mm Noctua cooler/Fan2. Specs 2000rpm high 400rpm low CPU 2: 92mm Noctua cooler/Fan5. Specs 2000rpm high 400rpm low Side intake: 200mm Noctua/Fan3. Specs 800rpm high 350rpm low Rear exhaust: 140mm Noctua/Fan6. Specs 1500rpm high 300rpm low Drive bay fans (Icydock 5in4 front cooler hotswap) - Bay 1: 2x120mm Noctua/FanA. Specs 1300rpm high 300rpm low Bay 2: 2x120mm Noctua/FanB. Specs 1300rpm high 300rpm low I have Fans123456 set to System temp - should I use CPU1 instead perhaps? FANA/B are set to hdd temp. Want to make sure I have this configured correctly before I work on thresholds. My Supermicro BMC has the fans set to high/full as recommended. Thanks for any assistance!

Need recommendations for a tower case that fits: X9DRI-LN4F+ (E-ATX) (3) 3x5 HDD hot-swap enclosures (15 drives) What's the latest? The Antec 1200 is sold out everywhere and also ancient, are there better options? Also has anyone tried the Kingwin 3x5 here: https://www.amazon.com/Kingwin-Enclosure-Internal-Backplane-Optimized/dp/B01BMJ1WD6 Looks decent but hard to find reviews of it since Amazon mixes all their models up as usual in the review section.

I don't understand all the white knighting in this thread. I can see liking something and wanting to defend it but come on now, there are some valid points being made here. Last year I bought a server plus UnRaid Pro from Limetech. It was a good deal - didn't cost much more than it would have cost me to buy piece by piece on Newegg (which I imagine is where Tom got everything) and it was all put together and tested. I could have done it myself easily, but the price was right and it saved me a lot of time. Good deal there. After a few months I ended up removing the flash, adding an SSD as a boot drive, and installing a regular OS on it, then moved to a regular RAID system. UnRaid the software turned out to not be what I needed. It's overkill for a media center centric system (even though it was designed to handle just that) and far too underpowered to do much of anything else. I was all on board with it anyway since it seemed like Development was going at a fast pace and new features, like Active Directory support, were being added, but then well.... we see in this thread what happened there. Obviously life interfered with Tom and Limetech and hey, it happens, but he's making the same major error all small software development shops make when things get tough - head goes in the sand, customer contact goes out the window. When you leave it to forum fanboys to white-knight you instead of keeping everyone up to date yourself, there's a problem, no matter what the reason. I don't feel ripped off by Tom/Limetech - I still got a good deal, hardware wise, and worst case I can just consider the cost of UnRaid to be an "assembly fee" of some time - but I'm disappointed. This product had a lot of potential beyond media centers, which in addition to being a very niche market is one it wasn't serving well to begin with - UnRaid is way overkill for a simple movie share, and requires too much tweaking, fussing with split levels, etc etc to suit most people. It could have done much better as a small to medium business file server system - there's a growing market for large, reliable storage in that space, that doesn't involve RAID or hugely expensive storage arrays from Enterprise vendors (or slow as heck Cloud storage). It is what it is. Sad to see; there's a lot of potential being missed here.

Tom replied to my email very quickly and went over a few things. I'm ordering two of these from him tomorrow

My small/mid sized business needs a couple new servers to store many terabytes of video/audio files (we're an online education provider). Our current system of RAID-based file servers aren't cutting it for us - too limited - and enterprise-grade storage that mitigates those limitations comes with many features we don't need and huge price tags. Something like an UnRAID box, which limits exposure to data loss to the actual drives that fail beyond the parity drive, and offers basic file sharing capabilities sounds right up our alley. All our stuff is backed up anyway to our offline storage cloud via Limelight, this is more for local, convenience storage of our files. We have a small IT department that works for me and overall we're a pretty competent bunch, technically, but as we are a business I had a couple questions regarding the MD-1510: I'm planning on ordering two, and possibly two more in January if they work well. What kind of support does the hardware come with? I'm not talking about, I need to call someone because I can't figure Samba out, I mean more along the lines of, the PCI-E SATA card died, who do I RMA it to type questions. Is there a hardware warranty in other words? Or is this just literally a case of, it's the same stuff you can buy off Newegg only we'll screw it together for you? At the current price special of $1199 it's damn near what Newegg prices would be anyway, plus you get 2 copies of Pro, but if I buy the parts direct from Newegg I know I'll be able to RMA them there if they have problems. If I buy from Limetech, what's the story there? I'll send this in an email too because I really do plan on getting a couple of these today.