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Just on a side note I have been upgrading all my servers to 12G SAS controllers and drives and have been loving the DELL PERC H730 series as you can switch them to HBA mode in the software perfectly and then use them fine VIA unraid then you can get adapting plugs for any type of drive, Ive been using external HDD enclosures like the MD1400 and now just installed the Sandisk infiniflash IF150 SSD array of sickness! right now preclearing 5x 8TB 12G SAS SSD Drives

this will be interesting, soon ill have some 12G SAS SSD NVME drives running in my system 'waiting on a power cable' hopefully they dont need special formatting as ive had some drives with 520byte sectors and needed to format them correctly back to 512 byte sectors. these NVME drives need a special backplane just to work at all, not to mention the special NVME SAS controller dedicated to the backplane with 4 12G SAS cables' one for each drive connector on the backplane ' should be fun fast

ok so I have been hammering my HDD's upgrading them all to 12G SAS dives all on full 12G backplanes and controllers for happy fun super fastness. regarding the fear I have had myself of the way this all works !! I have fixed all my worries and dove into the deep end! its not scary just a little painful sometimes if you got heaps of data on the drives you want to remove I found as long as you know your parity drives you can easily work out the rest of the drives in your system. then all you need to do is use krusader or some other type of file browser system to shuffle files from the drives you want to remove to the keepers and just do the ' new config thing and keep no assignments ' and then add/remove as many drives as you like old and new, and just keep your parity drives as the correct assignments 'they will get rewritten each new config' and this way you can add multiple new drives to an exsiting array and remove multiples at the same time 'AS LONG AS YOU COPY YOUR DATA CORRECTLY'!

if it has not already been requested. a third parity drive 'for those of us with more than 25 drives in our system and the ability to add 10 more I really would like to have 3 parity drives just in case

and if that doesnt work add --six after size=512

I also recently finding the PERC H730 in HBA mode wont register the older protected drives for formatting, ive put them into an old MD1200 and LSI2008 card it mode

i think i found out this one its obviosly very late but i just got a bunch of drives and they are protected as well the new command is : sg_format --format --fmtpinfo=0 --size=512 -v /dev/sgXXXX

i have my system check parity on the entire drive once a month it takes more than a day new config is scary as youre removing your array if done wrong its all wonky and takes hours to fix 'scary as i get death threats when my plex server isnt running JJ I would still love a little button next to the drive that says remove me and rebuild parity but anyway.

theoretically that should work yes but not in my network and yes probably pfsense blocking non DHCP IP addresses but for somme reason my system wont issue an ip address to the PLEX docker unless its in host mode and is then using the unraid Os IP which works fine also I think KMilburn isnt that savvy gotta try to KISS it for him havent gone down the VLAN road in UNRAID yet its too annoying to have to shut down the array to change network settings and dont need it in my unraid setup, but do profusley use vLAN tagging in my main network for running 2 incoming modems to load balance in pfsense for nice n fast internet 'here in Australia we are lucky to get 50 megabit on one line so i double up everywhere and load balance

first plex must be on host connections settings in the docker and then you must forward your ports to plex's specific ip address which is the unraid ip address i use a separate external port for my plex but most users should just forward 32400 and just use that after you have fixed all your settings and port forwards then enable the remote access I use my plex via 2 connections through 2 pfsense routers and its chaotic but works fine once you get it all set right, my PLEX library is also quite vast LOL space invader one on youtube is a boss for all this information as well! but PLEX will only work online via host network settings therefore it will end up with the same ip address as UNRAID just different ports. My system is Jackett sonarr radarr lidarr into DelugeVPN then to the PLEX directory after again spaceinvaderone has all the setups for this i cannot take any credit and I also use all BinHex containers hes got the best goods

I will say as of right now I would love to just remove my 24th disk that has no drive or data and is currently emulated by hitting a button and then letting my system do a parity rebuild instead of having to do the scary new config option as I have before. it takes a long time to rebuild 3TB my total parity check takes 1.5 days on 52 TB gets crazy when you have 28 drives in your system

I did a quick skim on an article that was reporting to use a VPS and then a VPN tunnel from that to your network and you could use pfsense as your gateways and VPN's which would probably make things easier and more secure, after the setup is done you can forward ports via the VPS to the tunneled VPN but a Virtual Private Server costs money

I always try to have a esxi server running pfsense and at least one windows vm for remote access with all modem ports with vlan tags so if i kill my pfsense vms i can always connect via the win vm using a vlan tagged port to the modem "needs managed switches and advanced networking skills i tried the pfsense on unraid but like everyone is saying its a bad idea if most of your network isnt static your stuffed and will have a fun time waiting for your pfsense vms to boot before you get access to internet and then either wait for your unraid IP to update 'takes ages sometimes' or restart the network via cli on the unraid machine itself. dont do it unless extremely neccesary and make sure unraid has a static ip address to add in i usually have 2 connections to deal with at most locations i work at and also need to use squid to block sites blah blah so am required to use pfsense as its one of the best load balancers i have used yet but squid will only work on one connection so i have to have 2 pfsense routers to load balance and then proy after "creates a nice strong network being that one has multiple firewalls enabled but quite confusing at times"

the ability to have user accounts be allocated various web sections for access to vms and / or dockers, shares, etc for obvious reasons, ie if there is more than one administrator of the server, I dont want to give out my super hard password to all the admins... this needs to be an Immediate addition for the web GUI, not just root login for web GUI this is living in noob land

all good now, I forgot that you have to connect to port 80 and not the controlr port