Michael_P

The choice to sleep or don't sleep drives is often pretty binary - mechanical drives are most likely to encounter an issue on power on, or on spin up, so if you are doing it often it's adding additional "wear" to the drive increasing (by some amount) the likelihood of component failure. Conversely, while a drive is happier to keep spinning than not (easier to keep moving than to start moving), there is wear on the bearings - so it's not a panacea, either. You need to take your personal use case into consideration, and add whatever variables to weight the decision on one side or the other (lower power consumption = plus, longer wait times to access files = con). There really is no Right Way™️

I'm in the consolidate and let them sleep camp, in fact I keep most of my "always on" stuff on the cache to help. As long as they're not constantly spinning up and down all the time, It's the best way to go IMO - if you don't mind the delay when waking. Set a decent timeout, 60-120 mins is my suggestion.

If SMART says it's failing, it's failing. Looks like a problem with N300 drives in particular, you should replace - save the data first if irreplaceable

Yeah, it's a chonky boi

My Plex metadata and thumbnail directory is over 400GB by itself. So, as always, YMMV

i wouldn't use the NVME for plex alone, it'd be a waste - i have my metadata living on an unassigned SATA SSD (just for space consideration) and the rest of appdata on the NVME cache drive

When it happens, see what's going on with the CPU/RAM usage

Cool, then you can put everything on there if you like, you're not gonna touch the limit of the drive in any practical sense (mover or not). But if you're trying to watch a movie on the array while the mover is putting stuff on the array, the speed of the array is likely your limiting factor - less likely if you're reading from a disk not being used to store things from mover. Next on the list, is the device you're using to view the media - how it's connected to the network and whether or not transcoding is being done

Is the new drive an NVME or just a SATA m.2

First, you need to define what it would mean to "speed up PleX" - what is your current problem with performance that you're trying to solve?

The iGPU should be fine, the 960 is capped to 3 streams anyway so your use case would be right at its limit while the iGPU might be able to squeeze in another

If the drive passed and you're OK with it, click the thumb and acknowledge the error

Depends on your needs, I guess. I moved from towers and routers and drive cages on a shelves to consolidating everything into the rack cabinet to keep everything together and looking nice and neat

Splitting power to too many drives can cause power to sag, and cause the issues you describe when all drives are under load. The wattage of the PSU is plenty sufficient, but power handing per connector may not be (4 drives per connector is pushing it, for example). Eliminate the splitters and see if it solves your problem.

Any splitters?

Yes 😄 but are you using splitters, how many drives are connected per run back to the PS, etc

Condescension aside, some of us value having the choice for "air gapping", if simply for maintaining the illusion of control over our own gear 🙂

You underestimate my endurance

How are you powering the drives?

Then why the ginormous sign-in icon in the header? I'm already signed in to the server. It smacks of future intentions, and us tin-foil hat wearers default to nefarious, unfounded or not. Just rubs me the wrong way. Same with M$ - I have a Microsoft account, personally and professionally. They already have my "data". But still, requiring an unrelated account and nagging me when I don't want to associate them just to login to MY MACHINE to use software I PAY FOR, just annoys me - especially when it provides absolutely no benefit to me. Seriously, the sign-in nag in the header is huge. If it's not necessary, it should be smaller or better yet, on the admin page.

I'm against it, too. I don't want a forum account tied to my server, just 'cause (reasonable or not, rubs me the wrong way). Won't give in to M$, either. Seems unnecessary, so I'll just stick on 6.8.3, I suppose.

Here's my rig: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/86712-compact-rack-setup/ - more hard drives, and some of the smaller ones upgraded to 8TBs but more or less the same. Almost all movies, tv shows, concerts et al - I have a digital hoarding problem for sure lol. Yeah, that's what I keep telling myself, too lol

Yeah, I feel your pain Hoarding, amirite

Oracle, and in regards to this question Unraid, has no obligation to the 3rd party purchaser to provide replacement keys (or anything else) - doubly so if they don't have operations in the EU (who would you sue?). Oracle let the cat out of that particular bag by taking action against a company within the jurisdiction of the EU court, here you'd just be pissin' up a rope.

No https://unraid.net/policies No Key Transfers Lime Technology does not support the transfer of an Unraid Server OS Registration Key to a 3rd party for any reason whatsoever.