jsebright

Thanks for pushing out 7.3.0 - I was worried too much love was going to 7.25/6 My "daily driver" server has an Unraid Basic licence - 6 drives limit and I'm using 6. I bought some Optane 16gb disks to use for boot, but it wasn't supported in the early Betas. Am I able to move to this boot method now? or does it count as a storage drive (when a larger flash drive doesn't!). Would be great news if it is as I'd like to move over to this boot method with either USB flash or TPM licencing.

Thanks for your reply. That's a shame. Fingers crossed this might change. I have another server with a pro licence that I also want to use this on, hopefully the 50% restriction won't be an issue.

I have a 6 drive licence and would like to use a dedicated 16gb intel optane drive exclusively for this. Will the licence let me have this as a boot drive (no data/array) and keep my existing 6 drives?

You will likely see a higher number of issues on here as there will (hopefully) be a silent majority for whom the versions work. I've upgraded through most of the rc's on 2 servers - one with a "daily driver" VM, and not seen any issues. I assume it's the edge cases that cause problems - less common hardware, more obscure docker / networking setups etc. If there's some data gathered around installs it would be reassuring to see some numbers of users on the latest versions.

LMS for streaming in the house via raspberry pi (picoreplayer) or wiim clients etc using something like Squeezer for a mobile controller. Navidrome works well as an alternative if your aim is to play directly through a browser or on a mobile device - I use DSub on Android for this. The container is much faster than the original subsonic. I run both.

So, now that the discussion around new licensing is starting to ease off a bit, I'd like to ask the obvious question... When can we see v7 and the next round of exciting new features?

Doesn't sound unfair to me. But... Along with a Pro licence, I've currently got a trial for a small install that I need to licence. I can either buy a basic key or extend / wait and buy a starter licence. Will there be a period of time during which I can make that choice - either by both being available, or knowing the new pricing in advance?

Thanks for replying. Not sure what the risks are of just plugging in a plain cable and seeing what's shown. Obviously nothing should go wrong, but I don't want to trash two servers if they both try to send power when they shouldn't! Might try to find some donor machines to try with first off to check that nothing bad happens even if the hardware and software will be completely different. I just don't want any of the magic smoke to come out of the chips because they won't work the same after that.

This might be a daft idea but... I'm setting up a second unraid server on an unused laptop to run some basic services. This is much lower powered than my main unraid server so I don't need to worry about leaving it on all the time. The main one has many disks, better CPU & ram and will still be used for some VM's, bigger protected storage and backups. I was thinking about faster networking between the two because I'm limited by the 1gb port on the laptop. I remember a very long time ago networking two windows PCs using a firewire cable that was configured as a network, and wondered if I could do the same with USB3 and make a direct attachment between the two machines as they're physically close together. (This would be in addition to them both going to the switch). Some research has revealed some usb cables with a device in the middle which refer to themselves as "Windows Easy Transfer Cable". Searching Amazon, this is an example (not currently available for me, but something similar might be). https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Transfer-Thunderbolt-Software-Migration/dp/B0BGRVS51T/ So, would this sort of cable present itself as an ethernet adaptor in both servers that could then be configured to use as a fast sync / fileshare connection? Would a plain usb cable do the same thing (USB-A or USB-C) ? It seems this could be a very cheap way to get fast networking between two machines and only using a USB port.

I went quite early on this, but another uneventful upgrade. Many thanks.

Done. Thanks.

Upgrade from 6.12.3 to 6.12.4 appeared to go OK, but I have a network card issue. I have a 10gb fibre card, and onboard 1gb nic. These are set to a bond and it mainly uses the 10gb (onboard is enabled for WOL - a script after waking forces the 10gb card to be active). My fibre card is constantly showing as disconnected (Interface Ethernet Port 1 is down. Check cable!) . Changing designations between eth0 and eth1 makes no difference. It is listed in system devices as [15b3:1003] 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3] The new system drivers shows two drivers: mlx4_core Mellanox ConnectX HCA low-level driver Inuse net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4 mlx4_en Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet driver Inuse net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4 I have the Mellanox Firmware Tools installed - which seems to report the card OK. Anyone else with this issue?

Some of the Kingston G2 readers supposedly available at Amazon UK for those interested. Had a usb fail about 4 years ago and I think it was painless to get a replacement licence.