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If you think you will frequently use Plex transcoding or allow other remote users access to your Plex Libraries, you might want to consider an i3 with QuickSync. You should also have a minimum of 4GB RAM and perhaps more if you want to transcode to RAM or run multiple docker containers.

Unfortunately, Time Machine support in UnRAID was the least important feature listed in a recent user survey. -2773 votes put it well below the other options. Of course this does not mean that it is not needed by UnRAID users just that most responding to the survey do not think it is high on the list of potential uses for development time. Who knows how much those results will impact future development efforts but it was not a great result for Time Machine fans. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Turbo boost remains off on my system. Any CPU_CATERR I have seen has always been with Turbo Boost enabled. Been a very long time since I saw one. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Good information. Fortunately, I live in an area about 37 miles from 95% of local transmitters with direct line of sight to the mountaintop where they are located. Aligning my antenna with the transmitters has always been fairly easy for me. Others just a few miles from me are tucked in against mountains which disrupt line of sight and really mess with OTA signals.

That talks about backing up other data sources to Unraid, backing up Unraid array data to another Unraid server, etc. Nowhere does it say that the Unraid parity protection is a backup of your array data. I do both of the things mentioned above; backup PCs to Unraid and backup my main server array data to a second Unraid server. I also backup important data to external USB drives and the cloud. Parity only protects against disk failure and can aid in the recovery of a failed disk if all other array disks are readable but it does not contain any data at all and is, therefore, not a backup. No irony at all in this thread as it is talking about something completely different than what you linked.

I will ship this free to a Continental US address. I will accept the $60 payment via Venmo, PayPal (friends and family) or the Square Cash app. I have a SiliconDust HDHomeRun Connect dual tuner box for sale. It requires a coax connected antenna for receiving free over-the-air (OTA) broadcasts in your area. It will receive both SD and HD channels broadcasting in the ATSC 1.0 format. In my TV market, it detects 97 channels. This is model HDHR4-2US (Connect) updated to the latest available firmware and differs from the currently-available HDHR5-2US (Flex) only in that it does not have a USB port for plugging in a USB drive for DVR recordings. The latter requires a SiliconDust DVR subscription to use the USB port. Nothing fancy is needed as far as the antenna. Check out antennaweb to see a list of OTA channels in your area and recommended antennas based on distance from your address to the transmitters. I have a simple VHF/UHF bowtie <$50 HD antenna I bought at Lowe's up in the attic and it works great. I had it integrated with Plex for channel guide and DVR capabilities for recording OTA programs. Plex makes this rather easy. All shows are recorded to an Unraid share. This also allows you to watch Live TV (even remotely if Plex is setup for remote access) via Plex in addition to via the HDHomeRun app. If you are not using Plex with Unraid, other media servers may also offer HDHomeRun integration or SiliconDust offers their own DVR service for the HDHomeRun for $35 per year. This box has two tuners so you can record one show while watching another, record two shows simultaneously or watch two shows on different devices. The HDHomeRun app for watching live TV is available on multiple devices. I have it installed on computers, phones, tablets, TVs and FireTV streaming devices. This particular unit was made redundant when I bought the 4-tuner model with two ATSC 1.0 and two ATSC 3.0 tuners. You connect it to an antenna, connect to your LAN via an Ethernet cable, run a channel scan, download and install the app wherever you want to watch OTA channels and off you go with free OTA TV. For more information see the SiliconDust website.

NerdTools is not built into Uraid 6.11.x. Some of the tools that were previously in the NerdPack (which has been replaced by NerdTools) such as perl and iperf3 are now built into Unraid but not all of them. You still need to install NerdTools as a plugin and you will find tmux there.

I have once again updated the controller to version 7.3.83. I caved and bought a new USW-Lite-8-PoE switch which supports PoE+ for the UAP-AC-IW. I moved the US-8-60W to the basement with an AP attached to it that only needs PoE. So far, no errors and everything looks good after about 30 minutes of uptime. One problem I did have after putting in the new switch and moving the old one is that many of my client devices were reporting they were connected to the wrong switch. I have three switches now (1 16-port and 2 8-port) and with all three there were devices claiming to be connected to port X on switch Y which were just wrong. Apparently, this problem goes back almost five years and Ubiquiti has never fixed. it. The solution that worked for me was to forget the devices in the controller one by one and reconfigure them with the right device name and icon once they came up on the correct switch. Sometimes, I had to do this twice but everything appears to be correct now. I will say Ubiquiti is bound and determined to keep things interesting. 😁

That depends on how you intend to use Unraid. There a many potential uses some of which require more powerful hardware. NAS only serving up files on shared storage to external clients? The Celeron would be fine for this. Plex (or other media server) server with occasional transcoding needs? You would likely want at least an i3 CPU for this Host some Docker containers for backup, media downloading, media server, network management, etc. in addition to the above? Again, likely at least an i3/i5 and maybe more depending on how you use Docker VM host for one or more VMs? You would likely want at least an i7 with a fair amount of RAM for dedicating CPU cores and RAM to VMs. Decide first what you want to do with Unraid and that will help make the hardware decision easier. It is always good to have some headroom to grow as you will probably find more uses for Unraid than you initially anticipate. Enable signatures in your forum account settings. Many users put their Unraid hardware specs in their signature and it will give you an idea what other are using.

If I recall correctly, the controller does not have a default user name and password. There is supposed to be a wizard that appears at controller first run that allows you to setup controller username and password. I think you may have to disable cloud options if you want to set a local username/password for the controller. Your Ubiquiti portal/community login credentials do not work for the controller. It's been years since I setup my controller credentials so I may be rusty on the details. The default user name and password for logging in to Unifi devices via SSH or PuTTY is ubnt/ubnt but again that does not work for the controller. It should prompt you to set that up on first run. Perhaps someone who has done this more recently can provide additional information.

Yes, I typed that backwards. Fortunately I included the manual text which has it correct despite my brain freeze.

You could have just added the disk to the array and Unraid would have formatted it and then ask to start a preclear. Yes, it takes a while but the array can be used while disk is preclearing. It will just likely be slower. While running the preclear plugin you can also use the array normally. Here is the section from the manual (linked in the bottom right corner of Unraid GUI) regarding adding disks. Adding disks Clear v Pre-Clear Under Unraid a 'Clear disk is one that has been completely filled with zeroes and contains a special signature to say that it is in this state. This state is needed before a drive can be added to a parity-protected array without affecting parity. If Unraid is in the process of writing zeroes to all of a drive then this is referred to as a 'Clear' operation. This Clear operation can take place as a background operation while using the array, but the drive in question cannot be used to store data until the Clear operation has completed and the drive been formatted to the desired File System type. A disk that is being added as a parity drive or one that is to be used to rebuild a failed drive does not need to be in a 'Clear' state as those processes overwrites every sector on the drive with new contents as part of carrying out the operation. In addition, if you are adding an additional data drive to an array that does not currently have a parity drive there is no requirement for the drive to be clear before adding it. You will often see references in the forum or various wiki pages to 'Preclear'. This refers to getting the disk into a 'Clear' state before adding it to the array. The Preclear process requires the use of a third-party plugin. Prior to Unraid v6, this was highly desirable as the array was offline while Unraid carried out the 'Clear' operation. but Unraid v6 now carries out 'Clear' as a background process with the array operational while it is running so it is now completely optional. Many users still like to use the Preclear process as in addition to putting the disk into a clear state it also performs a level of 'stress test' on the drive which can be used as a confidence check on the health of the drive. The Preclear as a result takes much longer than Unraid's more simplistic 'clear' operation. Many users like to Preclear new disks as an initial confidence check and to reduce the chance of a drive suffering from ‘what is known as infant mortality’ where one of the most likely times for a drive to fail is when it is first used (presumably due to a manufacturing defect). It is also important to note that after completing a 'Preclear' you must not carry out any operation that will write to the drive (e.g. format it) as this will destroy the 'Clear' state.

Not a startup script. These are entries in the go file in the /config folder of the flash drive.

Agreed. Too bad it is no longer in production or I would pick up another one.

I only stumbled on the thread I linked about the issue because the problem with my UAP-AC-IW and USW-8-60W happened and I went looking for a "solution." There was no mention in the 7.3.83 release notes indicating this could happen. The closest thing is this in the Improvements section: Improve PoE usage information in the device property panel. which seem totally irrelevant to the problem the upgrade introduced. Seems Ubiquiti dropped the ball on this one.

Yeah, database changes between versions, when they occur, will render new backups useless for restoring with older versions of the controller. So you had no previous backups of the system when running older versions of the controller? I have backups going back to version 5.6.22. Probably time to clean some of those up. You can configure in the controller automatic backups and tell it how long to keep each backup and how many to keep. Fortunately, I had a backup from 7.2.95 or I would not have been able to roll back to it from the 7.3.83 version that caused my UAP-AC-IW to cease working.

I never said it was. I was just pointing out these SSDs do have issues in Linux but they have been OK for me in Windows. I wouldn't recommend the MX500 for Linux/Unraid either.

This is the motherboard I currently have in my Lian-Li PC-Q25 case. I bought it at this online retailer last year. Supports up to 8 SATA ports (4 onboard, 4 via OCuLink cable), 64GB RAM, 2 NICs + 3rd for IPMI, 2242 M.2 NVMe SSD and Intel socket 1151 CPUs. I have the Xeon E-2246G (six cores/12 threads and iGPU) in mine but it also accepts up to the E-2288G with 8 cores/16 threads. No, it is not the most modern MB available but is a lot less expensive than socket 1200/1700 MBs and CPUs; at least they were at the time I bought them.

I bit the bullet and ordered a USW-Lite-8-POE 8-port switch which supports PoE/PoE+ It was the same price ($109) I paid for the USW-8-60W 4+ years ago and I found a supplier that had it in stock with free shipping instead of the ~$11 Ubiquiti wanted to charge. The Controller software upgrade may have surfaced a potential issue but that is not the only reason I decided to upgrade my 8-port switch to the newer model. I assume that future hardware may have the same PoE+ requirement and I don't want to be surprised again. My main 16-port switch already supports PoE/PoE+ I can move the USW-8-60W switch downstairs to get some wired connections there and power the U6-Lite AP downstairs which does not have the PoE+ requirement.

I had a Crucial MX500 in my Unraid system for a a few years. It had the problem described in the post linked by Trurl; pending sector count going to 1 and then magically returning to 0. The solution that worked for me was to disable tracking of attribute 197 in the SSD SMART settings in Unraid. No firmware upgrade would address the issue and, in fact, Crucial started calling it "normal" when it started happening in WIndows as well as Linux. I have a couple of Crucial SSDs now in Windows machines (one is the former Unraid MX500) and have had no issues there.

I think Ubiquiti is going to stick to their guns on this one because they say users were complaining about the PoE pass-through not working and killing the AP because it was under-powered with PoE and required PoE+. So now, they have swung the pendulum all the way in the other direction and everyone not using PoE+ to power the UAP-AC-IW and U6-IW gets spammed with errors and a get a constantly restarting AP. They appear to be happy with this "fix." It could sell a bit more hardware. No acknowledgment by Ubiquiti that their own documentation led customers down this path even though several pointed this out.

No problem. My attempt was quick and dirty as an example. Probably would have been better if I took my time and cleaned it up bit.

Something like this:

I just put this over my my normal avatar as a layer in Photoshop and increased the transparency to let my normal avatar show through.

Who knows? Ubiquiti rarely commits publicly to fixing anything or implementing x and x features until they are already at least in a beta form. As soon as he got the OP to buy more hardware and indicate that "fixed" the problem, which was not a problem until they made it one, Ubiquiti went silent on the matter while others continued to join the discussion and complain about the problem.