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HGST Helium 10TB units. I have tried a number of different makes over 13 yrs of using Unraid. I recently removed/replaced about 10 HGST 3TB drives from the first Unraid box I ever built. Every one of them was over 12 yrs old and none had failed. That box was a primary archival file server for our org--on/used 24/7. Freakin unreal. I realize that there have been some changes at HGST. But I continue to use them--I seem to be getting the same quality in the past 4-6 years also. I've used some Seagates and WD in some other Unraid boxes I use. About half of them crap out within 3-5 yrs. That's my experience running 4 Unraid servers---2 at home and 2 at work. HGST.....until I see some pretty big change in results.

Big grin and BIG THANKS to the author of this plug! I am using it successfully on 4 different Unraid systems and I have absolutely nothing negative to report after some months of use....it just does what it is supposed to do. Bravo!

Yes, I'm setting up a brand new unraid box and the nerdtools plugin I just installed will not actually install perl. It also has "lost" netcatBSD from the list after I tried to install that. I've used nerd tools for a long time and have never had any issue---but something weird happening with the latest one. I tried deinstalling, rebooting and reinstalling nerd tools. Did not change the problem. I did not try to install anything else.

Virt-Manager docker install worked fine for me---running well. The main reason I wanted to run Virt-Manager is for ***snapshots***. I do a lot of development on my VM's that are sometimes risky and the only way to protect myself from my risky moves is frequent, manual snapshots---which I cannot do easily with the UNRAID supplied system. The snapshot feature works as I would like---except that the snapshots are all gone if I have to reboot the UNRAID host. I kinda-sorta understand why.....(probably unsuported VM data which lives in the ram file system) .....but I really don't understand how to prevent this from happening. Anyone figure out how to make Virt-Manager snapshots persist between UNRAID host reboots? Thanks so much in advance for any help!! ........later.... Found this and got it to work--sorry I didn't find this earlier: I am noticing though that the script creates a seemingly infinite nesting of /mnt/cache/domains/save/save/save/save/save -- and the same for the same for the "snapshot" folder. I'm not a scripting expert. Anyone see why this might be happening and how to stop it? The script does what it is supposed to do---my snapshots are persistent now. Hurray and thank you!