Georg

I second that! With that, the limit of drives in an array per license should be extended. Use case is data safety, higher speeds and energy savings through shorter rebuild and parity check times. This especially if there are various size disks in an array as one is always in the slow part of its platter or is in general not as performant. In my case, I would split my drives in an array with 18tb drives and one with 8tb drives. Would end a long wait if that feature would come;)

Thank you for your reply! I tried that one a while a go but never got it to work. I will git it a second try then. Thank you for the heads up! That may be a big issue since there may be 10x that amount of files on there. I will give it a read. I do have krusader for the rare cases i need it but both would not help the indexing need for windows.

Hello I am using windows 10 while accessing unraid via a network share. By now the system grew to a huge number of files and many drives. As a result real time searches, as forced by windows, take ages. Is there a solution and preferably one that is realizable for a beginner? Unfortunately the discussions I have found are rather old and/ or mostly not in connection with a network share. So far I learned that Windows does not index network shares and there is nothing for a Windows sided indexing unless you use an external file manager which I am a bit reluctant to do since I mostly like the one windows provides. The server sided solutions for indexing are often outdated discussions or seem to be regarding a search within unraid or a file manager docker but not for users accessing files via e.g. a windows network share. I don't mind where it is indexed but I just would like to have a faster search result on windows. As a last resort, is there a better file manager for windows I have missed? On the side, is it really that infrequent that people use a similar setup as me? Am I missing something? Thank you in advance!

So now that there were talks over years, when can we expect it? Are we talking a few months or rather >1-2 years. Already looking forward to it

Have ordered another cable now. Thx for the help Oh, that explains the difference in some cables... Well I see that as a plus and anyway it will be until I need to connect the other disks. By then I anyway need to free up a slot or buy a bigger hba card.

Thank you for your answer. 1) I think I should go for that on then an try another source. 2) Yes they are all connected. Or do you have a bios setting in mind that could case it to not being recognized?

Sorry I have missed, that you have answered. My backplane is an SAS846A. The ones with an expander have an EL1 or 2 instead of the A. The "A" version has 6 SFF8087 connectors, each connecting to 4 drives. My HBA only has 4 connectors (=16 drives). The remaining 8 drives are not yet connected. At least as a mid term solution I wanted to use the reverse breakout sata (MB) to SFF8087 (backplane) cable for four of the remaining drives. Unfortunately they are not even recognized by the bios. I think I was able to test everything but the cable itself without any issues. As I don't think the cable is already broken I don't know where else the problem could be. BPN-SAS-846A.pdf

Not quit sure if I get your point right but when the same drive is connected with a plain sata cable it works. Meaning the MB would accept the drive as such and the sata port and the drive is working.

Hi all, My system consists of a 24 bay case with an SAS846A Backplane. 15 of the drives are connected via LSI 9300-16i and are in use. As I need to connect more drives to the MB I have ordered a reverse breakout sata to SFF8087 cable (4 sata at MB and SFF8087 at backplane). Unfortunately the bios does not recognize any of the disks attached with that cable. The port of the backplane connected to the HBA works. Also the sata ports work with other drives. The only idea I have is a cable issue or something with the bios settings. Any idea if i have to change settings in the bios or where the mistake could be? The cable is the correct one right? I am using the AsRock X470 Taichi Ultimate and an AMD Ryzen 7 2700X.

Unfortunately not. I don't even know where to start... From what I have read in forums and all, it gives me the impression that it appears if Linux (unraid) and a X version of a Ryzen processor come together. Please keep me up do to date in case you find a solution. It kinda makes me worried whether the CPU gets sufficient cooling. As the MB reads them correct, I guess the fan is not affected.

Sorry i did not get that you have answered. Could be but then the separator is not always transferred: (I have set the CPU as cpu temp and the smbus master as MB temp) Also the bios states different temperatures. Even if I read it wrong it does not move at all. From right after the start to continues loads of 50% it always says -62.5 C. Also because of: I understand that maybe not all the sensors are connected/ used but the CPU one? In the system is also an Avago SAS 9300-i16 card. I was not able to find out if it has a temp sensor or how it is called. Does someone know something? Thanks a lot, Georg

Hi all Have a problem with the plugin in combination with the Ryzen 2700X and a AsRock X470 Taichi Ultimate (bios P3.30). The temperature displayed do not make sense as most of them are in the negative area. Temperatures I have found in the motherboard seem to be correct. Has someone any experience and hopefully a solution for that issue? Has someone an idea where I could start troubleshooting or at least gather more information? Thanks in advance! Georg

Thank you very much John for taking the time to answer!

Hi guys, First of all, very good documentation work you have done here. Very appreciated! I am also planning to build an unraid system, where as one build option is the Threadripper 2920 or 50 with the discussed mainboard. This option should serve as an Unraid server but also contain a VM used as my normal PC. This VM should not only be capable for gaming but also not be too high maintenance due to whatever reason (e.g. Windows updates). The alternative to this option would be two separate builds which would be more expensive. Now I have some questions relating to the Threadripper build if you would be so kind to answer: 1. From your experience, would I, as a newbie to Unraid and advanced bios settings, be able to set up such a machine and keep it working? (as mentioned e.g. due to software updates or pass through stability issues) 2. Threadripper has its handicaps with gaming in comparison to other modern CPU‘s. Do you think, adding another difficulty level (running games on the Windows VM instead on the base platform) will result in material performance losses? 3. As far as I understood you were not able to pass through a GPU in PCIe 1 to a VM. Thus PCIe 1 is just usable for an Unraid GPU or another PCIe card other than a passed through GPU. Is this still correct or would it change with an AMD GPU? 4. In connection to question 3. Is it correct that it is not possible to put the GPU dedicated to Unraid somewhere else than in the very valuable PCIe 1 slot (x16 + space)? Ideal would be the PCIe 4 (x4) but that does not work I guess. Thank you very much in advance!