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Hi Guys, I am using the emby app on my mobile phone while I commute and am somewhat frustrated with how its working. I have a more then capable set of hardware specs and have no issues transcoding with my p2000 nvidia card but when commuting and lets say using Netflix there seems to be a buffer so that when I hit the occasional dead spot it doesn't pause the movie. In emby it does not seem like there is any buffer so the second I hit a dead spot the movie pauses, is there away to enable this? Additionally I would like to download movies direct to my phone so its usable offline all together but it seems like when I try to download a movie it does not show any progress bars and doesn't seem to be transferring to my phone. Does anyone have any experience with this?

thanks for all the help guys, my server is now running on the 3 x 10tb drives and everything is looking healthy.

OK Thanks. Before I do this i was going to run a parity check again with the write errors unchecked, is there a faster way to do this or will this be another 20hr round before i can safely shutdown and swap the drive out?

Thank you! Last thing the on this topic based on your last post. Once my parity check is done and everything is ok in order to replace the last 4tb drive should I do the following shutdown the array unassign disk 1 (the 4tb drive that has my data) start array Stop the array assign the new 10tb drive to disk 1 start array

How do you do a parity rebuild for future reference?

Thank you so much for the info this is very helpful. I was mistaken in the directory I mentioned I did actually create the folder in mnt/disk2 not /mnt/user/disk2 as you mentioned. After the parity rebuilt drive2 I was trying to stop the array in order to do the new config but it looks like the array was just hanging in the stopping state. I hard rebooted the server and then canceled the parity check after the reboot. I then stopped the array and did a new config. In the drive assignments I set disk 3 to no device and set disk 2 to the new 10tb drive and checked the box that parity is valid and started the array. My current configuration is 10tb parity drive, 4tb disk1 and 10tb disk2. After all this it seems like all is fine but I decided to do a parity check with the write corrections checked before trying to swap out the last drive which actually has some data on it, disk1. Currently there is this parity check running and it seems to have found a ton of errors. I still can access my shares and all my data seems to be here. Based on what I have read about the errors it seems like this parity check with the write correction box checked should fix any parity issues so I can continue on to stopping the array and swapping disk1 out for the last 10tb I have. Does this sound ok? I didn’t see any responses yesterday so I just went ahead with what I mentioned above thus far so I can’t go back and undo how I did things up to now. I wasn’t so concerned if things blew up because although inconvenient I don't have to much on the array yet and have all that data on Dropbox as a backup but would rather not have to go that route. any suggestions based on my current state would be helpful, and thanks again for helping.

It looks like the parity sync / data rebuild completed. Is there a way for me to see if the clean disk is done so I can stop the array and do a new configuration?

Hi, The entire process i did so far was the following: 1. Stop array pull the 4tb parity drive and replace with 10tb drive, reassign in the main screen and start array. it did its rebuild/sync and after about 20hours completed. 2. Stop array pulled disk3 drive and replace wiith 10tb drive, reassign disk 3 in the main screen and start array. it did its rebuild/sync and after about 20hours completed. 3. I stopped the aray and then set disk2 to no device and then started the array thinking that since its empty and unused it would not be more complicated then that. It didn't remove the drive and then I did some research and found this clear an array drive method so I started the array back up and did step 4. 4. Installed user scripts plugin and downloaded clear_an_array_drive.zip and created a folder in the correct plugins directory "clear an array drive" and put the script and description file in there. Additionally added the clear-me folder in /mnt/users/disk2 which was totally empty and then started the plugin. Now after all these steps I am at the stage of having a running parity sync which I am not sure if its part of the clear an array process or because I set disk 2 to no device and started the array as well as a 10tb parity drive a 10tb disk 3, an empty 4tb disk 2 which i am trying to remove and a partially full disk 1 which I plan on swapping with my last 10tb drive once disk 2 is full removed. When you say "After you do a New Config, it will give you a parity valid checkbox when you go to Start the array." where will i see this checkbox, after i hit the button start array, or is it somewhere on the main page or is it on the new config page? Is the way I am doing this, thus far ok and how can I see the progress of the clean an array disk? PS This is not an old array with a lot of data, its pretty new I have just not realized all the features of unraid and now want to use the server for a gaming / nas box and having 3 drives allows me to remove a drive cage so i can fit a full length gpu with the added benefit of 20tb usable vs 12tb usable so the only drive that has data on it are the cache drives and disk1. PS Sorry if this is long winded but just trying to give all the background info. My end goal is to have just the 3x 10tb drives.

Hi all, I am attempting to shrink my array from 4 x 4tb drives to 3 x 10tb drives. I have replaced 2 of the 4tb drives with 2 10tb drives and each time did a parity sync and am now looking to remove/shrink the one 4tb drive that is totally empty before swapping the last 4tb drive for a 10tb. I have read the page on doing the shrink via the user scripts plugin and was able to start the script with no problems via the plugin. I would like to make sure I don’t screw anything up in the process and am looking for clarification. I left the user scripts page open displaying “closing out this window will cancel the script” but I was under the impression that I was supposed to be able to see a progress bar. How do I see that progress bar, do I have to type ! to see it? It looks like there is a parity sync running, how can I verify the script is running properly as well and roughly how long will it take in peoples experience. Once this script/parity sync is done and I go to tools and do a new config, set the disk I want to remove “disk2”to no device and start the array will that disk disappear? I do not see the checkbox mentioned in the instructions that says “parity is already valid” is this on the new config page or the main page where I do the drive assignments? Will this only show up after the current parity sync completes? thanks in advance for any input.

Anyone have any suggestions on this?

Hi Guys, I have an asrock z390mini itx board which has a built in wlan/bluetooth controller. I want to pass this along to my windows vm in order to use bluetooth controllers for gaming and i am having some difficulty. These are the following devices that show in my system devices: IOMMU group 0:[8086:3ec2] 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 8th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 07) IOMMU group 1:[8086:1901] 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 07) IOMMU group 2:[8086:3e92] 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 630 (Desktop) IOMMU group 3:[8086:a379] 00:12.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Thermal Controller (rev 10) IOMMU group 4:[8086:a36d] 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH USB 3.1 xHCI Host Controller (rev 10) [8086:a36f] 00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM (rev 10) IOMMU group 5:[8086:a360] 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH HECI Controller (rev 10) IOMMU group 6:[8086:a352] 00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SATA AHCI Controller (rev 10) IOMMU group 7:[8086:a33d] 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #6 (rev f0) IOMMU group 8:[8086:a33e] 00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #7 (rev f0) IOMMU group 9:[8086:a305] 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Z390 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller (rev 10) [8086:a348] 00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH cAVS (rev 10) [8086:a323] 00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SMBus Controller (rev 10) [8086:a324] 00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SPI Controller (rev 10) [8086:15bc] 00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (7) I219-V (rev 10) IOMMU group 10:[8086:1539] 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03) IOMMU group 11:[8086:24fb] 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] (rev 10) <======= I followed a space invaders video and added vfio-pci.ids=8086:24fb to my sysconfig file and rebooted the server and now see that i can pass this card to the vm. The problem is when i get into windows in device manager the card has a warning on it and says its not working properly (I also tried to update the driver and that failed). I am not sure if thats because this is a combo wireless controller / bluetooth controller and there is another iommu that i need to pass but am not. I don't know which of the other devices in this list would be the bluetooth part of the controller and additionally do i need to split up the groups? I tried to split the groups up by turning on the acs override to downstream and it didn't work, then i tried to add, multifunction as in space invader video and that still didn't split the groups any differently. Some assistance with this would really be helpful, thanks in advance all!

5k isn't even on my radar, 4k is barely on my radar, im just looking for nice smooth gameplay on the monitor i have, it doesnt have to be cutting edge. So if i get a 2070 with usb c i should be able to plug into my monitor and output the vm to it, sorry if this is redundant but i dont fully understand how it works and dont want to get the gear if it doesnt do what i think it will.

Yes the cache is a pool but I think when I added the second cache drive back and it tried to add it back to the pool i formatted the wrong one. I have rebuilt everything and all seems to be working for now. I have not run another parity check on the new parity drive i added so I will see what happens when that runs again. Thanks all for the help for now.

seems like there is something seriously wrong. I re added my second cache drive back and accidently blew away the other and now lost all my dockers etc... but now i am rebuilding them and to downlaod 1 docker image is taking a lifetime i do not understand why. I am uploading a current diagnostics. tower-diagnostics-20190402-2227.zip

Does anyone with passing graphics cards to a windows vm for gaming have a good suggestion for a card based on my setup? asrock z390m mini itx intel i7 8700k 16gb crucial ram 3 x 10tb hardrives 2 x samsung evo 860 500tb ssd for cache Monitor apple/lg 5k usb c/thinderbolt ultrafine display

i hard rebooted the server again and everything comes up fine. I stopped the parity check from running and downgraded to rc5 instead of 6. I am going to try and reboot gracefully and see if the parity check needs to run again and let it run.

Got it! So as long as the 2060 i buy has the usb c and supports the alt mode i should be ok no?

ALso tried shutdown -r now and same message but after a couple minutes i log back in to the cli and look at uptime i see this root@Tower:~# uptime 10:09:48 up 14:49, 2 users, load average: 137.49, 134.82, 127.46

when i issue the reboot command i get this Broadcast message from root@Tower (pts/3) (Tue Apr 2 09:57:36 2019): The system is going down for reboot NOW! but it does not actually reboot. The parity check is still running so could it be preventing it from rebooting. I have no way in the gui to stop the parity check because i cant get to the dashboard tab to stop it or issue a reboot from there,

I also tried the reboot command and it does not seem to actually fully reboot the server.

Looks like it finished but it was just sitting at that screen in terminal. Any insight you guys have based on the logs. tower-diagnostics-20190313-0828.zip

I started running the diagnostics but its still running and has been going about 7 or 8 minutes so far "Starting diagnostics collection" is that typical or does it normally only take a minute or two.

Thanks for the info. So what do you guys do in order to access a windows vm to use for gaming purposes? I cant think of any other way. I can Remote Desktop to the vm but then I can’t chanhe the resolution and it’s not native so I am sure I’m not going to get the same result as plugging the usb c from my graphics card right into my monitor. It sucks that my monitor is limited to usb c but I can’t change that.

Hi guys, I have 4 x 4tb hard drives and just swapped out the parity drive for a 10tb western digital white drive that I shucked. The parity rebuild started and seemed to complete after about 20 hours but during the rebuild I was unable to load the dashboard page but could load other tabs. After the build completed I was unable to also load the docker page and eventually couldn’t load the GUI at all. I eventually hard rebooted the server and it came back up and everything seems fine, the issue now is that it had to start doing another parity check because of the hard reboot and again I can’t load only the dashboard page. I really could use some help on this. Ps I can still mount my shares and still have access to the CLI. Before the hard reboot I tried restarting Nginx and that didn’t work. At a minimum does someone have steps to gracefully shutdown the server via CLI so it won’t try to do another parity check after the reboot.

Thanks Pappaq. I may have not have fully understood though, does this mean I can plug the usbc from the video card into my monitor and i will get the windows vm on my monitor?