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I would like my idle state to not be disturbed by random 'Arr activity - if you think likewise feel free to comment here

Rather than power my server off to save power, what might be useful would be to restrict when my dockers will be active... so I dont want Arrs doing their thang at certain hours and no downloads etc... so... what about activating my dockers on a schedule? Anyone able to do that? Or see the value?

Works AND allows you to run powertop --auto-tune and get better power saving? EDIT: Was able to flash my identical card using the Silverstone sourced firmware... have enabled power saving and will wait and see if I lose a random HDD again from the array

Definitely share :-)

No... it is not.. PCIE 2.0 x1 means a total of 500MB/s bandwidth split over 2 ports.. so fine for HDDs but will bottleneck SSDs. PCIE 1.0 250MB/s/lane PCIE 2.0 500MB/s/lane PCIE 3.0 1000MB/s/lane (appx)

where did you get the firmware and flasher to update the ASM1166 - I have this one https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005225401697.html but it doesnt like me using Powertop --autotune so maybe new firmware will help??

Thanks Jorge :-) I should know this having tinkered with unRAID for some years... I leave, use something else and keep coming back. My rebuild time started super slow but now speeds up to only 1 day 14 hours. That's wiped out any attempts at power saving. I know its a different topic but I really cannot find reliable info on how to optimize a server for power saving with unRAID.

OK will do... (how do I get the parity disk back though?) but ideally want to use some power saving if at all possible. My server sits idle most of the time. If I could work out a way to have my dockers only load and active on a schedule I could have the machine truly idle...

I have powertune --autotune set to run which puts all things in lowest power settings... do I need a new PSU then? I find the "loose" connection unlikely.. its not like the machine moves... These sorta issues are the worst... Be much easier if it was an easy "replace X"... I do have an LSI SAS2308 card but didnt want to use it cos it will idle at 5-10W more than the ASM1166. Ideally want a S1151 board with 12 SATA ports.. heck ANY Intel 8th or newer with 12 SATA ports

thanks. SMART for Parity drive attached..Obviously still shows as Offline after reboot uberserver-smart-20240415-1250.zip

I have onboard Intel SATA and a (yes, you guessed) Chinese controller PCIEx4 ASM1166 with 6 SATA ports on. I'd guess its either that faulty or some BIOS setting thats allowing that to drop out? Or a driver issue? How do I get the disk to "undrop" then? Sorry, dont like feeling I need to be spoonfed but I think i need it

OK totally different disk (parity) has had a wobbly now... very strange Diagns and Smart report attached... uberserver-diagnostics-20240414-1159.zip uberserver-smart-20240414-1300.zip

@Fuzzy0101 noticed you have a new plugin - how about a support thread linked to it and some details of what it does? I think the name might be not great if its "just" power saving cos there are other tweaks plugins... maybe PowerTweaks? Very interested to know more about it as suspect I will stay on current CPU (not get an N100) and see if I can optimize power usage

Do I need to rebuild it then? I think I do but puzzled why it got wiped.... plus (unrelated) is it safe to update to latest unRAID now? I know 6.12.6 isnt!

And randomly after a few page refreshes it comes to life uberserver-diagnostics-20240405-1802.zip

I did get the expected red X but unfortunately now I seem to be getting that old unRAID problem where the webUI goes rogue and doesnt display all elements so I cannot see my drives and requesting diagnostics has been stuck at "Downloading... /boot/logs/uberserver-diagnostics-20240405-1741.zip" for 15minutes now At times I really HATE unRAID. Thankfully not all the time!

I havent even checked what emulated drive shows (but I assume it will be all my files - I trust unRAID). The drive itself, attached in RO to Kubuntu and mounted shows empty I'll put it back in unRAID and look again and add diagnostics

Thanks. I thought so... so do I just assume unRAID had a brain-freeze and put drive back in the rebuild it from parity and other drives? I'm a bit freaked out that the drive is empty.. why would that happen?! And why would it not just happen again?

My first disk in the array (less than a year old) has suddenly dropped out. Server is off(line) while I look at disk and decide if I need a new one. I swapped cables, SATA ports etc and it didnt reappear. Just shows as Red X and reported 300+ errors during parity check. So popped HDD into a 2nd PC running Kubuntu, powered on and it is seen, mounted it and looked at SMART report (attached). Disk is showing as Empty!? Is this disk toast? No reallocated sectors... so wondering why it is empty? Appreciate some help, suggestions etc smart.htm

Hilarious... usually the unraid community is actually helpful but no matter.

Necro this thread as I am surprised there isnt more discussion on HOW to optimize a system for power usage. Powertop isnt installed by default so you need NerdTools to install it. BIOS settings - which are needed (ASPM on but any others) sudo lspci -vv | awk '/ASPM/{print $0}' RS= | grep --color -P '(^[a-z0-9:.]+|ASPM )' to identify stuff that needs tweaks? Then some script needed to force some devices to enable ASPM like https://gist.github.com/baybal/b499fc5811a7073df0c03ab8da4be904 I have no idea really and was hoping one of the gurus could come to the rescue?

How well do these boards do Parity checks? Are enough PCIE lane assigned to the 6 or 12 SATA ports?

What about AMD GPUs.. do they have this problem??

Is it possible (IDK how) to get my Intel iGPU passed to this docker so I can encode using Quicksync?

I have this problem every time I reinstall Windows, despite having automated "fixes" like adding the registry entry. What would be REALLY useful would be script to create that Network Neighborhood and do the other fixes. So a Windows 10/11 user can just run it.... I've done everything except that so far and nothing works... so Network Neighborhood time for me now.