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Follow up question: Lets say i have torrents running, all newly downloaded data is put on the cache because it's new, later at night the files are moved to the array, while the torrent files are being seeded (in use) what happens?

What happens if the cache pool is smaller then the data transferred to the unraid array per day is? Does it fill the cache then start filling the array directly or will something bad occur if you exceed the cache limit for the day?

Damn, i think you're right, it looks very deep when you see it in pictures but once i looked at the video i realize the back plate inside the chassi isn't where you'd think it would be... That's sad because if the chassi had another hdd cage behind the 5.2 cages it would make for the perfect server chassi (outside of a rack) in my opinion.

So i have to mount them via unraid? lets say unraid is unavailable to me and i want to access the data of one of the single drives, is it possible to mount them with an encryption key outside of unraid?

Hello! Lets we got a crazy event occurring and both my parity drives and one data drive dies simultaneously and i loose the data on the dead data drive. I now want to access the other data on the other still healthy data drives, but the drives have been encrypted with unraids encryption. How do i go about accessing this data when its encrypted?

Hi, Even though i have not yet purchased a licence i am pretty much all in at this point (bought hardware for over 500$ already) to build my unraid server. I am wondering about this USB GUID stuff, i get that the licence is connected with the GUID so you can make sure i just don't buy one licence then spread it wildly on the internet. But what if i want to make a backup of the configuration of my UnRAID incase the usb memory stick dies (they usually do eventually) and i want to quickly get my stuff back up and running, do i have to have 2 licences to have a backup copy ready to go? Thanks.

After some research and help on reddit i bought these items: 2x Samsung DDR4 2033 ECC Memory (Tested with motherboard according to manual) 1x Supermicro X10SRL-F Motherboard 1x Xeon E5-2630L v3 Went with Low TDP old server components, will buy some spare items if it works well, wish me luck

Gotcha, yeah i realize now i may have to build a dedcated box for the storage solution. Thanks for the reply.

My dream chassi for unraid would be a Lian Li D600, it has 9 front 5.2 which you can convert into 3x5 3.5mm hotswap slots, so just that is 15 hdds for hotswap, then if you modify the chassi internally i believe you can get a 15+ hdd cage into the chassi behind the motherboard section, which means you have a chassi that has 15 hotswap drives, 15 internal drives with great cooling and also amazing looks. I found some guy in texas who had the D600 chassi new but he wanted 1100$ for it, i simply could not do it because i am not 100% certain i could do the modfiication needed to add the internal hdd's but i am very sure it is pretty easy to do. Here's an image of the chassi: here is the inside compartment where you could modify to add more hdd's with a self built hdd cage ( behind the motherboard )

Here's what i got so far: Chassi: Deep Silence 6 Rev. B (Modified to fit 25 3.5mm HDD) PSU: 1000w SeaSonic SSR-1000PD SAS Controller x2: LSI SAS9340-8i ServeRAID M1215 (Flashed to IT mode HBA) A lot of 3.5mm seagate ironwolf hdd's ranging from 12tb to 8tb. What i need is a rock stable motherboard, cpu and memory recommendations for unraid storage solution. The server will only be used stricly for network storage with 2 parity drives for maximum safety net. I will build 2 of these if the solution is working great and have one as offshore backup. I need the solution to be server grade, ECC memory is a must. What motherboard/cpu/memory recommendations do you have that is known to work proper with current unraid? Thanks in advance!

Hello, has anyone tried this? I have Windows 2012 server as the root OS and already have a ton of Virtual Machines running on it, i would want to add an UNRaid VM and pass thru some of the drives on to it to be able to take use of some of the great features unraid offers. Is there any guide on how to do this or has anyone tried it with windows hyper v? I see most people running something like ESXI but no one on hyper v.

Hello, I am interested in unraid but not compeltely sure how to go about installing it on my system. I have a windows 2012 enterprise server that does plently of different jobs on my local network, i use it as a virtual host that hosts around 12 active virtual machines that run various applications on various operating systems. Right now i have all the fileserver stuff installed on the root OS (the 2012 server) but installing unraid i would want to move this stuff to a VM, or is it possible to use unraid directly in windows? I have a feeling the hw passthrough won't work properly because i know these things almost never work as they should, especially on costumer hardware. I have a fairly strange setup where i use a x399 Prime motherrboard and a AMD Threadripper 2 processor with 32 threads, with 2x hdd sas > sata controllers SAS9340-8i. To think this strange combination would work in a vm and pass thru is highly unlikely, therefor i would want to somehow run unraid directly in windows where the system has direct access to the hardware rather then running it in a VM, is it possible or does unraid have to be installed in it's own container with it's own OS? What approach would you take to get going with unraid with my hardware/setup?

That's awesome, for me speed is the least of my concerns! I can't believe i didn't discover unraid earlier, very excited to try this out! Thanks!

So technically if each file written to the array is actually written on one specific hdd and not spread out over the array if i would take one drive out of the unraid and mount it in a system that supports that kind of filesystem would i be able to access the files on that particular drive? Great to hear, it's a good selling point. Also the fact that it is software gives some kind of calm too, i hate being bound to a specific raid controller and once the raid fails no controllers of this type is available to buy anymore and everything is a hell to get to work again. One more question, if i use unraid and setup SMB shares, is there anyway to have a network trash bin? So if i use an admin account (user that has delete access over the network) and delete a file, can it be restored or is it gone forever? Thanks for the quick replies!

Hello, I have a PC with 2 sas cards with support up to 16 hhds combined, then the regular controller on the motherboard has 6 sata ports. All are configured to do standard "single jbod" configuration, like all motherboards come with as standard where each port represent one drive. What i wonder about UnRaid is, can i configure more then one array of drives? Lets say i have 8 drives in one array, with 1 cache ssd and one parity drive, then i have another array with 4 drives and another cache ssd + parity drive, is this possible? What can i do if unraid somehow fails, what kind of failsafes are there? I do not trust raid at all because so many things can go wrong, especially dangerous is controller card corruption starting to write corrupt data to an entire array causing corruption and mass loss of data. I prefer having my drives as single installs and then just mirror all the data of each drive to another drive based on a schedule, obviously having double the amount of drives is very expensive. What kind of encryption is offered? Obviously some of my data is private, what kind of encryption is offered by unraid, or is unraid simply just the underlaying layer and i'll have to create containers with something like truecrypt/veracrypt on top of that? Can i use different size drives in a raid array using unraid? One of the biggest reasons i haven't purchased a expensive nas is because i cannot utilize all the mixes drives i already own, i have drives spanning from 12tb to 4tb and anywhere inbetween, being able to utilize these drives would be a plus. Perhaps i can create an array for all my 4tb, then an array for all my 8tb, then one for my 12tb etc, or is it even possible to use mixed drives in an array? Thanks in advance, looking forward to testing out unraid.