Michael_P

You can try the 5e before you pull 6A - you'd be surprised how much it can carry

You are unlikely to saturate a 10G link, so putting everything on the 10G network and reducing complexity by eliminating the teamed 1G connections is your best bet

Or add SATA power connectors to the standard 4 pin line that came with your PSU, similar to this https://www.ebay.com/itm/20Pcs-SATA-Punch-Down-Power-Plug-Connector-for-ATX-PSU-IDE-SATA-Hard-DrivYJUS/303565748716 Have a multi-meter handy to verify continuity, but it's pretty simple

In the US, shucked drives will be covered regardless (unless you damaged it during shucking), don't even need to put it back in the enclosure - not sure how you guys handle it in Europe FWIW - WD shows it in warranty until July 2022

If your server isn't internet facing, which it should never be, your router is probably performing vulnerability scans on your network https://blog.netgear.com/blog/increase-your-cybersecurity-with-orbi/

Yep, with motion detection

FWIW- I'm running BI in a VM on an 8700, 2 cores 4 threads and 12GB of RAM and the iGPU assigned to the VM. WIth 10 IP cameras it idles around 50% (with a tablet showing 6 in the remote web viewer constantly), but I don't do any AI matching.

If it's the only thing powered on that string, it wouldn't be an issue - but if you add up whatever amps it's pulling (~1.2A) with whatever else is connected on that string back to the PSU (drives @ ~1.0 to 1.8A each) and it starts to add up

The total power that the supply can provide isn't as important as what the limit of the current the connector/wire can sustain. That's what was tripping me up, too.

How many drives are hanging of of each molex connector? From my experience: I have a Norco 24 bay case, 4 drives per backplane and 6 backplanes total. My Power supply had 4 molex connectors, so I split 2 off to get the needed power. Everything worked fine with 14 drives, but if I added a 15th outside of the array and assigned to my WHS VM with my WHS VM running, every parity check would fail random drives for read errors, and then shortly after the drives would show pending sectors. If I stopped the WHS VM before starting the parity check, it would finish no problem. I was certain it was the Toshiba drives I was using. Every drive was stable as stable could be, as long as I didn't do a parity check with the VM running. I went probably few months or so, then I forgot about the parity check so my VM was still running when it started and I get the email a drive has dropped. At this point, I'm just ready to stop doing parity checks altogether, and went a couple months without one - until I stumbled on a thread about shitty splitters and a light bulb went off in my head. It's power. The drives aren't getting enough during load even tho the power supply is more than capable of delivering, with more than 4 drives on a connector it was sagging just enough to reset. I ordered some molex punchdown connectors on ebay, took one of the extra SATA lines that came with the power supply and created another molex string. Haven't had an issue since (knock on wood).

FWIW- I had random drives throwing errors when I had too many on one string to the PSU, different ones each time, so could very well be flaky power

If you're not using the bells and whistles Unraid provides, and you're just looking for up-time resilience (RAID 1) - you're probably better off with something like the My Book Duo. If you don't need resilience, just get a My Book or similar enclosure and plug it into your router - most newer models have USB ports for sharing out drives and acting as a NAS device. No sense building a machine for it, those portable drives use probably less than 10 watts idle.

Disk 1 is on its last legs too I'd RMA the disk with reallocated sectors, especially since it has 820 after only 2 hours

https://wiki.unraid.net/Transferring_Files_Within_the_unRAID_Server

How many on 1 cable back to the PSU?

The CRC errors for disk 1 don't look bad, it's the reallocated sectors for your parity disk VKK45Z3Y that would concern me

yep, unraid only has 1 local account, root

are you passing the 'root' [email protected]?

Depends on how much data you're transferring on a regular basis, and the size of the files. Writes of a lot of small files wouldn't see much of an improvement, but large writes would. Also, your transfer speeds would be limited by the write performance of your SSDs - saturating a 10G link isn't as easy as it sounds, bursts are great, but sustained is where the money is.

I've been using Subsonic for 10 years now, one of the few reasons I keep my WHS running in a VM. It just works.

Bent pin in the CPU socket could knock out a bank, too - ask me how I know :)

You could try re-seating the RAM, or try the stick throwing errors in another slot

Pending sectors are an automatic replace drive error for me, especially if under warranty. If your risk tolerance is higher than mine, continue to monitor the number - if it rises, bin it. If those pending sectors go un-correctable, bin it.

Shove the traffic onto 443 or wrap it with something like Stunnel

Set up a VPN end point inside your network, something like: