Badboy

Stupid me I guess, never noticed the array was using the full amounts. How many disks should you have before considering a second parity drive? Thanks.

Disk #5 is showing all it's space is available, when only half of it should be.

The pool is set in raid mode. If I add 50tb of space, I'm only going to have 25tb available. That is the way mine is working. Up until now, when I added 10tb and it gave me the whole thing. I only had 5tb left, it should have been 10tb when I added the disk., but it's showing 15tb. Can't post anything at the moment.

Sorry, mirrored was the wrong word. They are in raid mode. Each one only uses half its capacity. Up unit this last one added. Didn't add it that way.

Hi, I have the following : Parity is 18tb Disk 1 16tb Disk 2 18tb Disk 3 10tb Disk 4 16tb I was starting to get low on space, so I activated one of my old 10tb drives. It was sitting there doing nothing and it still worked. My disks are mirrored so obviously whatever I add I lose half. It wiped the disk, and then I formatted it, and it added it to the pool. The problem is, it added the full 10tb, it should have only added 5tb. It's also not showing a file system for the disk I added. I'm assuming with the new changes to Unraid I must have done something wrong? Never had this problem before. Another question, how many disks should you have before using a second parity disk? I was going to setup a second set of disks for backups, but I just have too much data. I'm just going to have to take my chances. I try not to let my disks get too old. Any help is appreciated.

Hi, My vpn download speeds have tank severely, thinking it could be related to Deludge VPN, won't let me past 10mbs. Tried different vpns to see if that was it, didn't matter. I thought I would try the bult-in vpn, so I setup a tunnel on Unraid just for dockers, when I imported the config file it killed my internet. Had to do a shutdown and delete the vpn files off the usb. What did I do wrong? I thought you just gave the tunnel a name, import your file, and turn it on. Any help is appreciated.

I gave in and upgraded, it broke Plex LOL...This might have been in the release notes, that I didn't read. I guess I had to go to the app store and download a docker patch. which fixed the issue. This patch should have been incorporated into the update, or put a big note under the update button. Maybe it's just me. Other then that no issues.

This is why I quit doing updates...Still on 6.12.4. Nothing is broken, no issues. If something breaks I will then look at upgrading. Don't change what isn't broke.🤣

Hi, I think I'm going to have to do it the way you have done it. I have a desktop I can convert, with some newer parts sitting here. The major expense will be the GPU for Plex, in case I ever have to switch over from the main server. I like the Nvidia cards. I have a p2200, works great, good for Fileflow compression, low power consumption. I'm currently using old disks that I have replaced to back all my media files again. Thought it was better then them just sitting there. Not really old (5 or 6 years), they fit in the same server case. The only bad thing is they are not in a raid, so if one dies the whole backup dies. I figure if it happens, it happens. Still have the main server drives. Thanks for your input, appreciate it.

I now know it won't work that way. The only other way is to build a completely separate server and have the data sync as it changes. I think Space Invader had a video on this, where the other server was setup to turn off after it had updated the data. If the main server ever goes down, you can use the other one. I guess the short cut is out of the question. LOL...Thanks for the input.

That's what I was asking, thank you.

Sorry, I currently have all my disks in a Thermaltake case with motherboard etc. I would like to move all my disks to an external enclosure so the second server I build can access them, so if my main server goes down I just flip over to the other one. Is this doable?

Hi Guys, I would like to turn my desktop into a backup server that I can switch to if the main server goes down. If I move my disks to an external disk chaise, could both servers share the same disks without issue?

That's a group of storage pools that I just plugged back in. I think I have solved it. I changed the default appdata and disk image to my cache_pool. It looks like disks are going to stay spun down until needed. The ones I plugged back in spun themselves down automatically. 👍 thanks for the help!

Plexer is a pool of backup drives that I have not plugged back in yet. I went and bought a 2tb ssd m.2 drive. I use this for cache. I will move all my appdata on it, and my downloads folder. Hopefully this will fix the spin down issue. When I went to do this I had no option for cache. I did stop the array. This new version of Unraid is very strange now. Lol This is what I did. Stop the array. Look at the very bottom of the page in the Disk Devices section for a disk 'slot' labeled Cache (the very last slot). Select any disk not in the array into that slot. Thank you very much.