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Hi guys, Feeling a little stupid. My large torrents writing directly to UNRAID NAS kept failing. I tried everything and read that this can happen with SMR drives. I thought to myself, no way, not me. I just bought these used datacentre quality drives! running a few of these: HUS726T6TALE6L4 - 6TB and one of these cheap consumer drives: ST4000DM000 - 4TB I've googled, but can't get a definitive answer - Tell me it isn't so...

I'm watching the this weekend - thanks Fancy (and thanks everyone) Would any of this have anything to do with my "Masterclass" TV Library not being able to 'match'? I replaced all the 720p masterclass video with hvec 265 1080p vids from a new torrent and now I have to go through and manually match every damn one. It's odd because when I click match, it almost always finds what it needs from the TVDB. Why doesn't this run during a scan? I'm literally going through each one, clicking match and selecting the first and only match that comes up - because it's correct - weird

ah - I had limetech. But when I go to download that - the container settings are very old. I remember doing a ton of changes compared to what I'm seeing here - there's no "fitness" (only "P90X"), no IMAX etc.... I don't think I want to download that old one

no worries. So wait, where is my appdata then? In case I want to back it up before this happens again If I go into /mnt/user/appdata/plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Metadata - I just see Movies and TV Shows only... I am not sure if I have the same docker - I am using the linux one and I believe I was using that prior as well, but I'm not 100% sure

Thanks Fancy I do not have a "/mnt/cache/appdata/" folder though only /mnt/disk1 /mnt/disk2 /mnt/disk3 /mnt/disk4 /mnt/user

Hi, I recently updated my plex docker and it broke plex with an orphaned image. I downloaded the plex app again and when I opened the settings to install I found no saved information from my previous paths or libraries. Oh well I guess. I will start to create them from scratch. I only did Movie and TV. I left out Masterclass, IMAX, Christmas, Fitness and more... When I attempted to reach plex via the gui I was asked for a server name....I guess I was creating a new server....wtvr. Weird thing was once I gave it a name and passed the initial set up - I had all my libraries in the UI!!! I could see my old plex server was unreachable and although I had all my libraries intact in my new server's UI, but I couldn't play any videos. So I simply went through the UI and adjusted the paths for all my libraries and I was able to play the content. Even all my customization for P90x and other fitness was intact. How is this possible? I checked the appdata and I didn't see any of my libraries in there, nor is there anything in the docker settings. I'm scared that I have a disjointed server that will be hard to fix should something go wrong in the future and want to resolve this ahead of time. Can you guys offer some assistance?

Hi Folks! I've read the guide - https://rclone.org/onedrive/ and watched this video to try and deduce what needs to be done in a simple but granular step by step to get my "Pictures" folder in UNRAID to use OneDrive as a back up solution- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b9Ow2iX2DQ&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=SpaceinvaderOne The goal is to set up the pictures folder so that every little change that is made in "UNRAID Pictures" (add/delete/etc) syncs with the OneDrive folder. I've made a OneDrive account specifically for this task and have a full TB to use but for the life of me although I can get rclone to recognize the OneDrive account using 'rclone lsd XXXX' What I can't get is the mounting part. When following the video at 8:20 I do not have a mount script, there's simply nothing really there. I guess what I want to do is mount my UNRAID Pictures folder as my OneDrive folder?? There seems to be nothing in my /mnt folder though... I do not want two way syncing, only syncing from UNRAID to OneDrive account - so this should be fairly easy right? EDIT - I just realized I posted earlier this week, sorry for the double post, but at least this one has more explanation . Wow...Sorry about that guys

Hi Folks - I'm clearly missing something here and hoping for a little guidance. I followed the video guide - and was able to get the rclone part configured, I am able to view my onedrive account via the rclone cli commands. Where I got lost was right after that, the scripts and the mounting. I want to have my Unraid Pictures share folder, rclone itself to my OneDrive account. This way OneDrive is a backup for me and unraid file share is the master copy. What am I missing - this Guide on this thread is more of a high level step by step than a guide as there are no examples or explanations.

thanks trurl - easier is better sometimes. Out of curiosity what speed of drives do you use? I see many threads on this (5400rpm vs 7200rpm), slow lasts longer etc.... But if you were to buy drives, full knowing that you plan to have 20-30 different streams at a time, would it still be ok to be running the cheaper 5400rpm drives? The server will be at the in laws with 100mbps upload and each drive is 112mBps read speed so I should be way more than fine using the 5400rpm drives no? Does multiple reads at once matter here?

Nobody here mentioned the Node 804 - I'm personally using an old beige tower from the late 90s early 2000's so I'll be looking to upgrade as well. OP why not look at the Node 804? The one downside of it (from what I've read) is that the fans are 3-pin fans. From my understanding this means they'll run at full speed. Also, it looks like the PSU has to come out to pull out any downed drives (except if it was the first one). Am I wrong here?

Regarding copying data from one disk to another, is it ok to simply plop an 8TB into the array, take all the data from 2TB and copy it over then just remove the 2TB from the array? I know the easiest way is to pull the 2TB out first and replace it with the 8TB drive and let unraid rebuild the array but I'm trying to avoid being in a degraded state.

Thanks for the reply and I will take into consideration everything you've mentioned. I've attached the ZIP. The following may seem long but I think the answers will be pretty straight forward for most. I'll start with the "migration" topic as I should have been clearer. I plan to upgrade to 8TB drives. I was going to put in an 8TB drive and assign it as parity, then pull the 2TB parity out. Next I would put my first 8TB data drive in, but I want to migrate a lot of my data off one of my full 2TB drives and then pull that 2TB out - this is what I am referring to in terms of migration. But from my understanding one does not simply cut/paste from the 2TB to the 8TB drive. I've been told to always add media into the /usr folder and never the /disk1, /disk2 or /disk3 folders - not sure how this would be accomplished here, only way I can think of is disk-to-disk For the pool within a pool - the reason I was asking about that was I don't want to have too many disks in my array - the more disks the greater the risk of catastrophic failure. If I pooled the four remaining 2TB drives as one 8TB pool (minus the parity) I would a bit more redundancy built in compared to just letting those four drives be part of this larger array I'm building. Spreading data across drives - any ideas on how to optimize this? Like if half a dozen people will be watching streams, perhaps TV on one 8TB and movies on another? Training videos on another? I originally was trying to conserve power by inquiring about placing all servable media on one drive but now I'm thinking that ain't to great for performance - but then again, that goes back to the question can a drive be a bottleneck, if not then putting it all on one drive should be a-ok. Upload speed - a lot of my concerns are actually stemming around this. This is because I have terrible upload speeds and will be physically bringing this server to my in-laws' 1 hour away from my house, place it in their basement with ethernet connection to 1-gbps up/down yee haw. So as you can see, I'm thinking about power conservation, redundancy and alerting since I will be an hour away at minimum at any given time Cache Drives - I think I have a couple of 500GB drives lying around (eventually I'll also have those 2TB drives). I don't think I fully understand this concept though. I don't have any VMs and the only Docker I have really is Plex. Do you mean as the data (movies) is served to users it will be copied on the cache drive and prevent array disks from spinning up? That's kinda cool. What CPU do you have - notice how old mine is? Also, I've just realized I can't control what ppl use on their end to transcode - for example I tried to cast a 4k H265 movie (50GB) locally to my chromecast and my server started screaming via the hardware temperature alarm, not good. If I had someone attempt what I did, I would never know my cpu is melting since the server will be an hour away in someone else's basement - so I want to make sure I have a decent CPU or even a GPU that can do the work. Which leads to another question - if you have GPU transcode set, does that mean the CPU basically does nothing anymore and the GPU is doing all the work, or is there a shared load? I'm thinking if the CPU is left alone, might as well use the CPU I have with a kickass GPU tower-diagnostics-20200430-2145.zip

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Hello, Hopefully this is posted in correct place as it's more of a unraid/plex hybrid post. I've been a light Unraid user for a couple years now and am looking to offer my Plex content to family and friends but I know I will need to do a complete overhaul on my server and am looking to the community for a little assistance in terms of bottleneck discussion, CPU/GPU, migrating data and how to optimize performance/longevity. The server currently acts as a media server and network share for family pictures/training videos/documents etc. My current build is: Parity - 2TB WD RED Disk 1 - 2TB WD RED Disk 2 - 1.5TB WD Something or other Disk 3 - 2TB WD RED COLD SPARE - 2TB WD RED Motherboard:Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. - GA-MA785GM-US2H Processor:AMD Athlon™ II X2 245 @ 2.9 GHz Memory:4 GB (max. installable capacity 16 GB) A0 = 2048 MB, 800 MT/s A1 = 2048 MB, 800 MT/s Graphics Card: Onboard Is there a general "walk-through" I should be looking at that has server build, tips, tricks and gotchas? Pardon my ignorance but bare with me here. I'm looking for advice on the more obscure things like: "remember to get a cache drive and set it up to copy at night" "when setting up your drives make sure all your plex media is one drive that way you can implement 'spin down' to help save power" "put the most used drive at the top of the array or the bottom or the middle (or wtvr) for thermal reasons" "make sure you run automatic smart scans and are sending email alerts if either it fails the smart scan or straight up if a drive fails at anytime" "is it wise to get a meh CPU and a great GPU and sign up for a plex pass to perform hardware transcoding (i've never owned a gpu in my life - always had onboard on all PCs ever built)" "where's the bottleneck? ie if 5 people tried to stream the same file, could a standard 5400rpm hard drive keep up?" "when you upgrade your parity and first drive to 8TB drives, migrate all your data to the 8TB drive and pool your 4x2TB drives into one pool and add that as a '6TB drive w parity' to the main array (so the 2TB drives don't go to waste) - would this make sense?" "I've read when migrating data, do not migrate from disk-to-disk, it should be migrated using the user folder instead - this seems like an important gotcha" These sorts of things, I would think, should be part of an in-depth walk-through to get unraid/plex up and running. I appreciate any assistance that can be given here or perhaps lead me in the right direction - my wife is ripping on me to get off the computer so I'm outta here

Thank you for that explanation. My unraid setup is clearly incorrect as I leave the drives spinning (since my NAS drives are supposed to always be on). I may wait till Black Friday and upgrade to a bunch of 8TB hard drives, whatever they may be!

Why are you suggesting any drive type vs using NAS type drives (out of curiosity). I'm looking at slowly expanding my current 4x4TB WD Red to an 8TB platform and finding it difficult due to cost. I found some 8TB Ultrastars for an ok price Your comment has me interested - if I can use any ol' 8TB this drops my cost significantly. Also one would think that using non-nas drives would warrant a double fault tolerant setup now - two parity drives (ability to lose two drives in the array vs only one).

shoot well this didn't work for me. That video was pretty awesome though. AS SOON as I copied the PlexMediaServer folder over it failed............and now come to think of it, I think I had the service turned off........omg I just blew everything away for nothing.......ugh EDIT: I just downloaded the linuxserver plex again to start from scratch.....at it works....everything is back - what in the actual fork.

Thanks - I will simply use /mnt/user/SHARE_NAME from now on and let the OS figure out what disk it feels like choosing. And thanks for letting me know to never copy from DISK to user share. I think I have already done this a few times but will avoid it from now on.

Hi guys, I've been using unRAID for a while now but had it down for two years after we moved. Just recently brought it back up and I'm copying a ton of stuff to it lately via FTP and sometimes via windows network share. One thing I'm confused about is when I am copying via FTP - I see my disks (1/2/3) and a "user" folder - should I be copying directly to disks or should I be copying to the "User". I have 4 disks total. Media share is spread across disk 1/2/3, pictures share is only on disk 1. How does the User folder come into play here Thanks!