Adrian

ok, so considering that the drives I'm using won't come close to 500MB/s (at most with mechanical drives will be in the 200s?) using the 8x board in the 4x slot should be fine then right? Otherwise, in order to get 3x 8x slots, I'm looking at the workstation board, which even with the savings on getting 3x 8 port controllers, puts me at $40 more. I have an SSD that I use for cache, but that will be on the onboard controller.

Did you select it from the list on Kingston's site?

Well the 9207-8is uses x8 lanes, so I thought I could only have 2 x8 cards in the X11SSM-F-O. These would be the only cards, so am I mistaken? Could I have 3 x8 cards? I looked at the PCIe 3.0 24 port card (9305-24i), but that thing is $570. I'm only using 4TB drives (mostly the HGST NAS drives). I only have 20 drives, so I was thinking I'd put 8 on the 9207-8i and 12 on the 16 port card. Would that help deal with any limits I may hit?

So if I get an LSI 9201-16i and 9207-8i, I see them on Amazon, I'll have to flash them? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003UNP05O/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?smid=A2J5EC07WROWMJ&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0085FT2JC/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A2J5EC07WROWMJ&psc=1 Ok, I checked the price and a single 16GB is actually $50 less, thanks! Yea, I'm staying out of ebay if I can for this upgrade if possible.

ok, so this possibly looks like my final build: Supermicro X11SSM-F-O Xeon E3-1230 V6 3.4 GHz Hynix MEM-DR480L-HL01-EU24 2x 8GB ECC $755 for it all. That's about $80 less than the i7-6700 route. I could shave another $20 if I go with the Micron memory instead. I didn't include the LSI controllers in my comparison since I'm using the same controllers either way, but those will run about $340 more.

Ah yes, I was looking at the wrong specs. Thanks! Graphics Aspeed AST1400

Oh crap, I completely forgot about GPU availability. Hmm, so are you sure the GPU is included in the MB and it doesn't require a GPU in the CPU? If so yea, that's also like a $70-80 savings for not having to get the E3-1245 Well I guess, in terms of direct console access, IPMI provides a VGA GPU?

Well I'm looking at E3-1230 due to pricing. The V6 is $10 more than the V5, so not much more. I may get the V6, still undecided. Did you have to do any flashing?

So I'm looking at upgrading my unraid server. It's currently running on a Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H with an i3-3245 CPU in a Norco with 19 drives. I'm using 2x AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 plus the onboard SATA ports. On an off it's given me various issues and while it's still chugging along I'm just expecting any day now for it to take a crapper. I was going to upgrade it a while back, but then got distracted with other things. I'm trying to work on this again. I've been reading through various posts and also researching other sites regarding which MB to get and controllers. This is what I've put together so far: Supermicro X11SAT-F i7-6700 3.4 GHz 2x Supermicro Certified MEM-DR480L-HL01-UN21 Hynix Server Memory - 8GB DDR4-2133 2Rx8 Non-ECC UDIMM LSI 9201-16i LSI 9207-8i or Supermicro X11SSM-F-O (cheaper than the workstation motherboard) Xeon E3-1230 V5 3.4 GHz Do I need ECC memory? I got to this choice as it's supports the i7, has IPMI, 4 PCI-E 3.0 in case in the future I want to upgrade the controllers. For the controllers, I wanted to get away from the Marvel based controllers and saw several posts regarding these specific controllers being recommended. I couldn't find any 9201-8i (I'm getting them on Amazon), so hopefully the 9207-8i is good. Looking for thoughts, recommendations, warnings, etc... regarding this build. Anything else I should look at? Alternatives? Thank you, Adrian

oh lol, my head was elsewhere. Yea, that worked

Hey, I see an orphaned image, but doesn't show a name. (orphan image) Image ID: 17b0f8ceaa5b Could it be that one? How do I remove it? Thank you

Not sure if this falls under a general Docker issue or if it's specific to the docker application. I just tried using the update option on a docker app and I got this error: To me it sounds like an error you'd get if you tried to install a duplicate docker app with the same name, but I'm doing this as an update, so not sure why it's complaining about the container name.

Mystery solved. It's a firewall rule I have to route traffic from unraid through a VPN. It was supposed to be disabled so I'm not sure how, but somehow it got enabled. Even though ping should be working through it, I guess something else is wrong. Maybe while it should utilize ping initially it could fallback to something else if ping fails just to make sure? Not a big deal, but you can see where it caused some confusion with what it was reporting and what everything else was showing was conflicting a bit.

So ping resolves the name, and it transmits the packets, but 0 received. Mystery deepens....off to check the firewall, but it is able to resolve and download apps/updates.

ok, well I ran that and the extended and it still reports the same issue. My DNS is definately up. I was also able to install 2 APPs that pull from github without any issues.

I run pfSense as a VM in VMWare and it's pretty much always up. Can I force this test? Is it the same as a rescan?

Started seeing this recently, so happy to find a post about it until I followed the link to setting up the DNS servers with Google's. That doesn't really answer the issue. I run a DNS server on pfSense (firewall). It uses Google as it's forwarder. All my computers use my firewall's DNS server without issue. Also, I'm able to update plugins, install docker apps, update unraid, etc... so it's obviously able to resolve DNS. So what's the deal here? Thanks in advance, Adrian

I haven't had any luck finding the Samsung memory, so I'll probably go with the Crucial one. Thanks.

Unraid primarily with docker apps and VMs (Windows and Linux servers). I have a desktop for gaming.

ok great, thank you so much. I added it to my list while I research it. Where did you get the Samsung memory? And which model? Thank you.

So in trying to find a CPU under $600 with 6 cores (12 threads) with a clock speed > 2ghz it looks like these are my only 2 options. If anyone knows of any other options, let me know Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 ($600) Memory Type: DDR4 1333/1600/1866/2133 https://ark.intel.com/products/82765/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-1650-v3-15M-Cache-3_50-GHz vs Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 ($450, $420 on sale atm). Memory Type: DDR4 1600/1866 https://ark.intel.com/products/83352/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2620-v3-15M-Cache-2_40-GHz For memory I'm looking at Crucial 32GB Kit (2 x 16GB) DDR4-2666 RDIMM ($363, only found it directly from Crucial) http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/x10sra-f/CT9319493 Any other options would be appreciated. So even though the MB is single process, the E5-2620 v3 seems to be the best option based on price. Are there any reasons this would be a bad choice? Is the E5-1650 worth the extra $150? Thanks, Adrian

The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H Link to manual: http://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z77X-UD3H-rev-10#support-manual I just read through it and I don't think I see any mention of which IRQ's are shared between slots and USB controllers. If you can, take a look and see if you find it or maybe you can see what options I might have available. I see some options regarding USB on page 52. xHCI Pre-Boot, xHCI Mode, HS Port #1~#4, xHCI Streams. Not sure if those settings could help deal with this issue. Thank you, Adrian

Can't move the controller, there aren't any other slots where they work. I'll go over the manual and see if I can find this info.

ok, sooo I haven't exactly eliminated the issue. It's still keeps coming up. I ran "cat /proc/interrupts" before int16 got disabled and this is what it listed. IO-APIC 16-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, mvsas So I'm thinking, maybe I need to disable that USB and find another one to boot off of? Would I need to disable it in the BIOS or would simply not plugging anything in be enough?

I just wanted to let you know that I was able to eliminate the IRQ 16 issue by removing the secondary Intel NIC. It took a bit, but I finally got the on-board NIC working. This MB really sucks, but at least I've bought me some time before I have to drop almost a grand on a replacement. So far I haven't had this crazy issue which would happen at least once or twice a week. I've written to drives that used to always cause the issue and so far everything is running really nice. Thank you all! Adrian