Vishesh Gupta

The main UnRaid array consisting of 20 SSDs of 1TB each with 2 parity drives. Total 18 TB. A ZFS pool with 3 x 10TB HDDs in RaidZ1 config, giving a total of 20TB. I would like to have incremental backups from main SSD array to the HDD pool. How can I achieve this? The purpose:- 1) To have a mirrored backup on HDD for long term storage 2) The SSD array would always be mounted with read / write permissions, whereas the HDD pool will never be mounted and just be used as a backup. 3) The ability to roll back on a previous version of backup incase of a ransomware attack. Am I overthinking?

1) So essentially I could have an all SSD array, and not having trim is not the end of the world, right? So it is plug and play just as if I were using HDDs? 2) Can you explain the difference between the main array vs pool? Can I have an SSD pool without the main array? 3) Since ZFS has been recently introduced to UnRaid, there aren't many youtube videos, please excuse me for the noob questions. Correct me if I am wrong, is it the same as setting up ZFS in truenas that is ZFS pool > vDEV (raidZ config, giving 1 parity drive within the vDEV) > Adding a dataset > Creating shares? 4) Can I add multiple ZFS pools? 5) If one ZFS pool is doomed for some reason, the other pools wont be affected, right? 6) For my setup, I am planning to have just one vDEV in RaidZ config per ZFS pool, and 4 SSDs per vDEV. This would effectively give me 1 parity drive per pool. 7) Can you point me to a documentation / video that takes me through the steps of setting up a ZFS pool?

I am planning on building an all SSD unRaid server. Is it possible to have an all SSD array? My planned config: 1) 4u, 20 bay hot swap server chassis 2) B550 motherboard with AMD Ryzen 5 3) 32GB DDR 4 ram (Non ECC) 4) Three LSI Sas HBA 9207-8i (6GBps) IT Mode, connecting it to the backplane of the drivebays via mini-sas connector SFF8087. 5) 10GB TP-Link Switch SFP+ for networking along with 10Gig NIC in both the server & client PC. 6) Samsung Evo 980 sata SSDs The plan is to install 4 SSDs in the main array with one parity drive initially, and then add additional SSD's to the array as and when needed. My queries: 1) Does UnRaid support an all SSD array out of the box? In other words, is it just plug and play or do I need to tinker with a few settings? In the past, as per my understanding, auto-trim was absent due to which SSDs were not supported in the main array but only in the cache pools, is it the same case now? 2) Will it be the same process as setting up the array with normal HDD? 3) What will be the performance / transfer / read - write speeds? As I understand that 10Gig network has a max speed of 1280 MBps, whereas the SAS HBA has a throughout of 6GBps, which translates to 768MBps. However, the max write speed to sata SSD is approx 500 MBps give or take. Assuming that there is no traffic on the network, and the files are being written to the UnRaid server, can I expect 500MBps transfer speed? 4) Cache pool would be completely unnecessary, correct? OR, having an NVMe SSD (reads / write upto 7000MBps) for cache can help accelerate things, assuming the files are being transferred from the client pc having an NVMe drive with reads / write upto 7000MBps. My question is, does it translate to 875 MBps real world performance?

For the APP, i meant to have an App that could access all the files and folders on the server. Have automatic sync of the photo albums etc.

Dear Sir I was wondering, 1) Is it possible to have cloud access to our server? 2) Is there an iOS or Android App in development? Best regards

Dear Sir As I understand UnRaid is limited to just 1 Node, with max of 30 drives. I would like to know is it possible to purchase additional licenses for each node, and then create a cluster? (Just like CEPH or Gluster FS) I see a huge potential in the future growth and expansion options for this. Please do let me know if this feature is available or is under development.

Great recommendations, in order for me to make a list of all files & folders, I am using File List Export on Mac (the app I already had), have enables disk shares, and created the list manually. Then disabled the disk shares, since user shares are what I use on regular basis. Thanks all for your recommendations and inputs.

Probably a feature worth considering adding in future. Or a Plugin to make lists of all the contents of the Drive, then a copy of the list saved to each drive.

Sorry for totally noob question, I am not using a parity drive, since I have a backup of all my data on external drives. Incase of a Drive Failure, I would like to know is there a way to find out the names of the files/folders that were on that drive, so that I can restore those files from my external drives? I have setup user shares with Movies, TV Shows, Games, Softwares, Backups etc. A single share is using 4 drives to store that data. How can I find out what drive stored what data?

Did you buy this card for about 40$ on eBay delivered from China? How does it hold up in your system? What is the transfer speed like?

Shall I assume that the first option, that is " set up user permissions in such a way, that the user can Read / Write to the SMB share, but not Delete any file/folder." is NOT POSSIBLE?

Dear Sir 1) I would like to know is there an option to set up user permissions in such a way, that the user can Read / Write to the SMB share, but not Delete any file/folder. This is so as to prevent any catastrophic data loss in case of accidental deletion. 2) If the above cannot be achieved, the second best option would be the recycle bin plugin, do we have to separately install it on the latest version of UnRaid, or does it come pre-installed? Best regards

Thanks a lot. You guys are awesome. I know that the discussion went beyond the scope of UnRaid, but you guys went above and beyond to help me out. Keep up with the great work. Really appreciate it.

https://www.amazon.in/APC-UPS-Model-BR1000G-Battery/dp/B0038ZTZ3W/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1533056648&sr=8-2&keywords=apc+smart+ups Could you please have a look at the above link for the UPS. Would this be ok? Server Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/4U-Supermicro-24-Bay-6Gbs-UNRAID-FREENAS-Storage-server-2x-Xeon-Sandy-Bridge-CPU/132715478149?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

Thank you all for your input. I was not aware that there can be overwrites caused by brownouts damaging the stored data. Would a regular Inverter UPS that is generally used for home use be ok? I think they are usually offline UPS. Or do I Need to have an online UPS?