James Yu

Purchased a WD Elements 8TB drive from Amazon and shucked it. It's a white label WD80EMAZ (i didnt take a pic but looks like the pic below) there were theories these are WD red, but also theories these are HGST drives. Plugged into the unread and detected model family as HGST He10. How accurate is this information? Where does unRaid pull this information from? If it's accurate enough then it's such a good value as it only cost like 40% of a HGST He10, only sacrificing 7200rpm.

Recently I noticed that my windows 10 often eating up 100% on one core at idle state, or just some http download. And if I restart the VM the cpu usage goes away. And if I use remote desktop and check task manager, the usage isn't there. It never occurs to me this has anything to do with Remote Desktop. Today I found that when I have the remote session open, then cpu usage is normal. but if I close the remote session (but microsoft remote desktop wont disconnect), then the CPU usage takes 100%. It appears that windows 10 1903 has a bug where VM freeze on RDP connections (when not enough cores are allocated), interestingly i have 4 cores from 9700K allocated and still have this issue. This also explains why at VM restart i wont have this issue as i dont have remote session connected to it yet. Issue explained here https://borncity.com/win/2019/08/28/windows-10-v1903-rdp-dwm-exe-causes-high-cpu-load-freezes-vms/ The workaround is to force using XDDM driver instead and in that way the session will disconnect when closing the RDP window, by editing group policy and run gpupdate /force in command prompts. This fixed for me as cpu usage stay normal no matter RDP session stay active or not. (Unfortunately steam home stream wont be fixed by this, still need the following workaround if you use remote desktop of any sort. https://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream/discussions/0/617335934139051123/)

thx. I did notice the encoding speed being much faster. But I don't understand the cpu usage since the windows ver of Handbrake barely use any cpu when hardware transcoding x264 1080p

with the dev/dri params I'm able to see H.264 (Intel QSV) option in my handbrake webUI, but choosing that and transcode, Handbrake seems still using my CPU (70%-80% on all cores). Is that because it doesn't support hardware decoding at this stage?

unRAID ver: 6.6.1 I have a LSI SAS 9207-8I HBA and using a Mini SAS 36Pin (SFF-8087) Male to 4 SATA cable to connect to hotswap cage: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00V5JHOXQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1. I flashed the HBA to latest IT firmware (actually how do i confirm that?) , and lspci also shows the HBA: 01:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller [0107]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2308 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [1000:0087] (rev 05) Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 9207-8i SAS2.1 HBA [1000:3020] Kernel driver in use: mpt3sas Kernel modules: mpt3sas But I'm unable to see the two SSD drives in the cage from unRAID: the syslog gives me this: Oct 1 23:08:21 Tower kernel: mpt2sas_cm0: LSISAS2308: FWVersion(20.00.07.00), ChipRevision(0x05), BiosVersion(07.27.01.01) Oct 1 23:08:21 Tower kernel: mpt2sas_cm0: Protocol=( Oct 1 23:08:21 Tower kernel: Initiator Oct 1 23:08:21 Tower kernel: ,Target Oct 1 23:08:21 Tower kernel: ), Oct 1 23:08:21 Tower kernel: Capabilities=( Oct 1 23:08:21 Tower kernel: TLR Oct 1 23:08:21 Tower kernel: ,EEDP Oct 1 23:08:21 Tower kernel: ,Snapshot Buffer Oct 1 23:08:21 Tower kernel: ,Diag Trace Buffer Oct 1 23:08:21 Tower kernel: ,Task Set Full Oct 1 23:08:21 Tower kernel: ,NCQ Oct 1 23:08:21 Tower kernel: ) Oct 1 23:08:21 Tower kernel: scsi host9: Fusion MPT SAS Host Oct 1 23:08:21 Tower kernel: mpt2sas_cm0: sending port enable !! Oct 1 23:08:21 Tower kernel: ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Oct 1 23:08:21 Tower kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._GTF.DSSP], AE_NOT_FOUND (20180531/psargs-330) Oct 1 23:08:21 Tower kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._GTF, AE_NOT_FOUND (20180531/psparse-516) I also have the diagnostic files attached. Anyone have an idea? tower-diagnostics-20181001-2350.zip