Blair2499

Hi All, Just managed to get my hands on some old dell R520's with brand new drives (Dad's company just moved to the cloud so i 'kindly' took them off their hands. I've already got an HP MSA60 Disk shelf that i had been given off an old client and i have ordered an Dell H310 mini and a H200e to flash into IT mode to allow unraid to see the disks from servers. My only concern is am i going to need to purchase a new disk shelf or will the h200E be able so see the SAS drives i have for the shelf? Slight novice when it comes to shelf's but when they're free i suppose you want to make them work. Any advice is greatly appreciated Thanks

i see what your saying, i have the other option of purchasing a MD1200 and using some larger 3tb disks at almost the same costs, I'm already going to need a pro licence so the amount of Unraid licences required wasn't something i took into account! 70% of my drives are ex server drives I've taken from my work and I've not yet had a spinning disk fail on me (touching all wood) i thought the redundancy of many smaller discs would be better than fewer larger disks? but if this isn't the case then maybe the md1200 would be the better option?

Hi All, after spending months browsing the forums and reading what feels like thousands of threads i thought i would put all my questions and assumptions into one thread with the hope that someone will be able to help! So I'm currently using a T710 with 2 quad-core Xeon's (can't remember the model numbers off the top of my head) 48gb of ram and a mix and match of drives in basically all raid 0 (i know i hate it too) running plex, Radarr, Sonarr, Ombi and Nzbget within a server 2016 VM. I'm looking to move to a rackmount setup (mainly cause i have an r710 sitting spare - The joys of working in it) along with a move to Unraid! However herein lies the beginning of my questions: The R710 has a perc6/i in it at the moment, i know i need to change this to an H200 however has anyone managed to get this to work in the r710's storage slot with it being able to pass drives through to Unraid? Next, is I'm needing more physical space and have found a cracking deal on a NetApp Ds2246 with 24 600gb SAS drives so i know I'm going to need an external HBA, however, what's the best one to use with this config and will i need to flash the external adapter to IT mode/IR mode also? Next for my Unraid questions is for the actual docker side, I've never really dived much into Linux in general so the full docker side of things is still confusing me, my current setup is relatively automated, i tell Ombi or Radarr/Sonarr what i want and it goes and finds it and does all the downloading, moving and renaming for me. has anyone managed to get this working on the Unraid docker side? also more of a plex side question, but i have a good amount of 4k content (trying to grow the collection why I'm upgrading) however the server will not have enough power to transcode 4k streams on the fly, and was curious to know if there is a way to automatically have a 1080p transcoded copy made and stored without me having to do it manually through something like handbrake? I've probably missed out some other stuff but any info is greatly appreciated! Cheers Blair