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I'd highly recommend the below video from Spaceinvaderone. I followed that set of operations and was able to remove a handful (about 6) of 2,3, and 4 TB disks and condense them down to 1 or 2 16TB disks. The one think you'll want to keep in mind is when you go to remove a disk if it's not on the tail of your array you could have a number gap where for example you may have something in slots 1-5 and 9-15 and nothing in between. This only matters if you're trying to maintain parity throughout. If not you can follow the first part where you just move your data and can arrange the disks however you'd like.

Thanks @JorgeB I was able to backup my files to the array, reformat the cache pool, and migrate my data back. Some strange networking bugs with wireguard happened but they seemed to fix themselves when I upgraded to 6.11.5. I read the post you linked and set up an hourly check using User Scripts. I also read a few other forums about the btrfs issues and set up a weekly balance as it seemed that there is really no harm in doing this? I've had a busy day and didn't get a chance to really look in depth but is there anywhere I can start for a basic understanding of Scrub and Balance and how often if at all they should be run? I'm not sure I understand the purpose of these features.

I saw your post elsewhere to do that so I ran 6 passes total yesterday and it returned zero errors.

With those being relatively new devices (<2 months) should I be worried that something is wrong with them? Was there something I could've done to prevent this?

Recently after updating to 6.11.1 (to correct for the wireguard display glitch) my server would intermittently become unresponsive and I would be forced to perform a hard reboot. This typically occured while I was connected via wireguard to my server (it runs pi hole so I can get benifits remotely). I had previously gotten a docker image corrupt error but when I was unable to stop/delete the image I simply rebooted the server and it seemed to have fixed the problem. I posted on another topic that I thought I was having the same issue but I was mistaken. I tried to run the memtest built into the server but upon selection the server just rebooted and came back to the unraid boot screen. I read I was supposed to enable CSM but for some reason when I did that my server would no long POST. I disconnected my PCIe JBOD cards, and my boot flash and was able to post, and am now currently running memtest86 v10. The first run just finished and hasn't found any errors but I'm going to let it run through a few more cycles. My question is however, I have a dual NVMe protected cache array set up and I'm unsure if I have the right settings, and/or I need to do the balance or scrub. It's worked find during 6.10, and I upgraded to 6.11 to take advantage of the iGPU in the 12500 I just upgraded to. I tried to find some documentation, but it seems to be a little fuzzy (or maybe i'm the fuzzy one) about what to do when, where, and why. Anyone have any recommendations? Thanks in advance! syslog.txt citadel-diagnostics-20221118-2026.zip

"Set the Intel GPU value to /dev/dri" how do...?

Does v6.11.1 change anything as far as setting up quicksync for Jellyfin? With the most recent updates to Unraid it seems that the process in setting up HW transcode has changed. Is anyone able to clarify or point me in the direction of how to set up Intel QuickSync for a 12th gen iGPU on Jellyfin?

Can anyone confirm if this is working (h265, tone mapping, etc) for 12th gen for jellyfin? And if so is there a beta release I need to use or just unRAID 6.11 stable and the latest stable of jellyfin?

Thanks. Iknow I'm being paranoid and picky. As I'm sure you can imagine yourself it would not be fun to drop $1-2k on an upgrade and forget one small detail that bites me on the behind later on.

So I shouldn't have to worry too much about my (eventual) 24 hard drives capping out over the expander to the 9308-8i over PCIe 3.0 x8 link?

I was going to have (eventually) 20-24 Exos drives. I saw in that link you sent that there is a LSI 9207-8i PCIe gen3 x8 card but it says "(4800MB/s)". I'm a little confused. I thought PCIe gen 3 was 1GB/lane. Wouldn't this go up to 8GB total then? I don't know what I'm missing. If that's the case the MB I was looking at has a bunch of x4 mode PCIe 3.0 x16 slots and if I put that card in those and it runs in x4 mode I'll still get ~4GB/s in each slot? And this I can use the 9207. Otherwise if I get the 9308-8i and I was thinking the Intel® SAS3 Expander RES3TV360 I can hook up all 24 hard drives in dual link and get about the same performance as one 24i controller? I'm slightly out of my element with HBAs and expanders and how they work. For example I'm having a hard time understanding dual link. Is it literally just both cables go from the HBA to the expander?

Couldn't that lead to bottlenecking at some point like during parity check/rebuilds? I know it's a small portion of use case and I'm being picky but I'd rather get something I can move to another case and not have to worry about newer tech capping it out.

To clarify you have 16GB of each (4x4gb vs 2x8gb)? And you're using 25% of the 16GB? Those graphics cards are older than the CPU (by a lot in some cases) IMO I wouldn't use them. I'm not to familiar with Virtualization in unRAID as I'm trying to get that started up myself. But I did notice that some Virtualization is not compatible with your CPU: http://ark.intel.com/products/52210 It seems VT-d (needed for PCIe passthrough) is not supported but general virtualization (VT-x) is. Spaceinvader One has some great videos about doing VMs. This one is a little old but you can see if that gets you to where you want.

I'm looking towards the more ports, less cards approach and you said like the "...9305-24i, etc" what other 24 port cards can you think of off of the top of your head. the 9305-24i cards i founc are available on newegg and/or amazon but i'm not sure if I can trust the sellers and I checked Art of Server on ebay and they don't have any currently.

I'm having some difficulty finding the 2tb version of the P41 currently. Although I did read up on some reviews and I think the reason I chose the Firecuda was because of it's drastically higher TBW lifespan. I know practically it'll never get hit but I don't want to take any chances down the road for a slight increase in cost. Yeah I know I'm trying to be both a beggar and a chooser but I'm about to say screw it and get something stupid like a -24i HBA and just slap that into the first slot and call it a day... the lack of PCI lanes on processors (or the addition of multiple m.2 slots in conjuction with PCIe slots) is killing me....