Failquail

What i currently have is my old gaming PC repurposed as a NAS (Gigabyte AB350M, originally with a R7 1700, now a Ryzen 5 4600G) in a silverstone CS381 case and a 8x SAS PCIe card, which is running unraid with 6x SAS HDDs and two spare bays for tinkering (this setup is amazing for recovering dodgy HDDs in those two free bays with iSCSI i've found) Switch is a Mikrotik CSS326-24G-2S+RM which has two SFP+ cages. Currently i only want my NAS and main PC to be 10G, everything else can connect to the 1G ports. So i'm planning to just use the two SFP+ ports for these two PCs for now. (can add a small 10G switch later if needed) The switch is literally next to the NAS, so i'm thinking a 1M direct attached cable there. What would be a okay (cheap preferably) SFP+ card to stick in the NAS for unraid? Any specific types to go for? Compatibility/low-cost i'd prefer here, my PC's are going to be the limiting factor for performance i think For the switch to my PC link, i have a run of beefy cat6 between My PC and the switch laid. I just need to add the connectors. On the switch's webpage, the S+RJ10 Is reccomended. Originals are very expensive, 'compatable' parts on aliexpress are relativelively cheap... Any suggestions here? Need a SFP+ module on a Mikrotik switch to PCIe slot over cat6 cable setup.

Going from experience and after the fact, the Seagate constellation range is all over the place, with in particular the 3TB drives having horrible reliability (brought 4 drives off ebay, it took a total of 7 drives shipped to get 4 working ones) But the 4tb drives i brought have been fine... They seem to have a range of great to terrible depending on capacity

I'm having the same issue after upgrading to 6.9.2 as well. Broadcom / LSI SAS2308 card plus 6x Seagate SAS drives. From the logs: Edit: reverted to 6.9.1, all drives standby again

So new user here. My current network is a mix of old, bodged (3x daisy-chained 5port gigabit switches) and/or cheap random stuff. We've having a house extension at home built and i'm using it as excuse to redo everything. No more huge bodge-jobs. Whole house is being rewired from cat5 to cat6a, and all being rerouted to a closet that'll being hosting a small rackmount housing with panel + switch. #1 on the replacement list for the rest of the network is my ancient Thecus NAS (N0503) Reliability-wise i can't fault it, at 7+ years of service with no issues it's great, it's max of 40-50mb/sec speeds is becoming an issue though I've got a test rig setup now to play around with unraid settings/features... AMD FX 8120, FX 970 chipset 16GB 1600mhz DDR3 (4x4GB) 4x320GB Laptop HDDs 512GB 660p M2 cache drive (On an x4 PCIe adaptor card, honestly suprised it worked... Fairly sure this mobo predates the NVME protocol) Have parts on order to upgrade my main PC, the leftovers will be the new server. New server spec: AMD Ryzen 1700 B350 chipset 32GB 3200mhz ram (2x16GB) 3x4TB HDD 512GB Intel 660p SSD (cache) [Future upgrade: 10G network card] Question #!: Have a Windows 2012 VM setup running on this temp setup with an ARK game server for my brother. How simple is it to transfer when i do the upgrade? Would just putting the VM HDD image on removable media and copying it across work? Or will i need to reinstall from scratch? Question #2: Having trouble with the USB installer, any suggestions? "Your USB drive must contain a unique GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) and be a minimum 1GB in size and a maximum 32GB in size." I've tried every USB drive i have. All the crappy/cheap 1-8GB ones of questionble quality seem to work fine. The 5 different 16-32GB drives from sandisk/transcend that i have (some USB2, some USB 3) fail in the USB creator... (either stalls on 'syncing filesystems', or completes and leaves an empty 8GB partition on the drive) Next on the list is the manual method, but it seems like the USB creator program on the website simply does not function on above 8gb drives. As to why this is a problem, in my local Tesco's i checked to see if there was a decent 8GB flash drive i could buy... 16GB is the minimum size they sold...