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I am planning on upgrading my array to replace two 12yr old 3TB drives. Since the drives extended smart health still looks good, I want to make the 3TB drives a backup location for some data. Only plan to run the backup a few times a year. I want to treat this backup pool like cold storage almost. Also I might need all 6TB, so I dont want to do a mirrored pool. I'm fine with no redundancy here. Dont want to manually use unbalance here to make it work across two drives, so I prefer a combined 6TB pool. Would be great if I can do some kind of jbod or raid 0 unassigned devices grp, but can I even do that? I am assuming I need to use Pools instead. So I am asking what is the best I option I can do that meets these characteristics: -6TB pool (can be jbod, raid0, zfs raid0, brtfs?) -disks can be spun down -if pool disk has issues, wont prevent array from starting up Would be cool if I can use zfs raid0, but does it have issues with disks being spun down? Appreciate any feedback. Thanks.

I am having an issue where if my unraid server improperly shuts off or resets, the qbittorrent settings revert back to default. Not the docker config, but the in application settings. I've set the qbittorrent.conf file to read only by all users/grps, but it still reverts to default. Anyone experience this and found a solution? Thanks.

I have been using transmission vpn docker for quite a while, but it frequently had issues after updating docker, and finally stopped working correctly and am unable to fix. Tried all the binhex torrent client dockers and this one is the best imo. The others had various issues. The one issue for me for this one is that the move operation from incomplete to complete folder seems wasteful for ssds. I have my incomplete folder on a ssd cache only share. I dont want active torrent downloads keeping my hdds spinning. When complete, they move to the complete folder, which is also on ssd cache. The daily mover job will move complete downloads to hdd array. With qbittorrent, the move job from incomplete to complete seems to copy the entire contents, instead of just changing the pointer of the file location. This basically will consume twice the write endurance of an ssd if the move job is on the same ssd. Has anyone noticed this and figured out a solution? Thanks.

Just wanted to share a simple How To for setting up NUT if you plan on using unraid as the master and windows clients. I am using a Cyberpower UPS, so your settings may differ. Please note that this guide is based on unraid being a physical server. I wanted to have the UPS also shut off after the server shuts off, and power back on all the devices when the power goes back up. Because "Turn off UPS after shutdown" on apcusd doesn't work with Cyberpower UPS, I need to use NUT. Finding a simple windows client for NUT seemed challenging. Just wanted to find something with a gui and a little ini editting. The main windows binaries from the NUT team didn't seem straight forward. Other windows clients seemed deprecated or abandoned. 1. Install the NUT plugin from community applications. Turn off default UPS service in unraid. 2. In Settings -> NUT, configure it to be: Start Network UPS Tools service: Yes (when done configuring) Enable Manual Config Only: No UPS Mode: Netserver (if you want unraid to be master) UPS IP Addresss: 127.0.0.1 UPS Name: (whichever you like) UPS Monitor Username: (whichever you like) UPS Monitor Password: (whichever you like) UPS Slave Username: (whichever you like, perhaps needs to be something different than Monitor) UPS Slave Password: (whichever you like, perhaps needs to be something different than Monitor) UPS Driver: Usbhid-ups (for cyberpower, try different ones if you cannot get it to detect) UPS Port: auto (if using usb to server) Shutdown Mode: (whichever you like) Battery Runtime Left: Battery Level (maybe some users need to use Battery Level Low) Turn off UPS after shutdown: Yes (If you want UPS to shut off after server shuts off, and turn back on when power comes back on. If you want server to turn back on automatically, need to set bios power setting to On or Last State) Apply when done and hopefully it detects the UPS properly. If not, try different UPS driver settings. 3. In Windows client PC or VM, install winNUT utility 2.0.0.4a (https://code.google.com/archive/p/winnut/downloads) and follow this guide here to set it up from step 5: https://www.seriouslytrivial.com/2018/09/26/shutdown-windows-computer-and-synology-nas-using-winnut/ Example Monitor command: MONITOR [enter your ups name]@[your unraid server ip] 1 [monitor username] [monitor password] slave If it shows access denied in the log file, try using different UPS monitor username and password. By default I think it shuts down right away once on battery. If you want it to shutdown after a certain amount of time on battery, set Shutdown Delay to time in seconds. Forced will be a shutdown forcing programs to terminate. Normal can have prompts confirming programs to exit upon shutdown. For windows 7 and up, to make it run as a service, run configuration tool as administrator and set to run as service. Check services.msc that winNut service is working. I don't know if there is ways to change shutdown metric to be battery level/ runtime left on windows clients. If someone knows, please share. Thanks!

I am also seeing performance reduction with a sandybridge cpu in VM. Mine is a engineering sample mobile chip, somewhere close to a 2820qm or 2760qm. Theres one cpu-z bench I see for a 2760qm that has scores of 330/1540 for single/multi. I only get 280/1440 on my cpu. Perhaps it is inherent performance penalty of VM with sandybridge architecture? And for cpu intensive games like gtaV, I'm not getting good performance at all. My gpu is a 980ti and it performs fine in non cpu intensive stuff. My avg fps in gta online is ~40-50fps with constant drops to 30fps. This is at 720p low settings. This is with all 4c/8t passed to the VM and it is ~2.9-3.1ghz in gtaV. For reference, a stock 2600k (3.5ghz all core) with a 980ti maintains 60fps at 1080p high settings. I did notice that I get much better gtaV performance on q35 than i440. For cpu benchmarks, I don't see a difference between q35 and i440.

Anyone getting empty folders when they delete torrent and data? I am using Transmission remote gui (not web ui from docker) and every time I delete a torrent including data, if it was in a folder, it leaves an empty folder with the download name plus some random text at the end. Its only when I delete from Transmission remote gui.