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Thank you both guys. I think I'm going to buy one of those, and see what I can achieve. Thanks again. Apreciate it a lot.

Hello Everyone ! I would like to ask a question about backplanes and how could I use one (possibly). // A little Info // I am currently using a Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F+ with 9 Drives. 8 SATA and 1 nVME. All 8 SATA drives are connected using a Dell H200 card with two SAS to 4 SATA cables. (after suggestions from forum members). While the Motherboard still has all its SATA ports available. This works great, and I've had no problems using it this way. I have everything mounted on a 100% DIY box, (enclosure) and the drives are just bolted onto an old 3.5" drive bracket from an old server Tower. // What I'd like to do (and my Questions) // I saw online that backplanes from servers are sold as replacement parts. Since my drives are getting more and more (as need grows), could I possibly use a backplance as such, and connect it to my H200, to mount the drives on that ? For example I found that an F313F backplane (such as this one) is quite cheap, and I was thinking of buying one, and making a custom 3D printed case with HDD Caddies for it. Would something like this work ? The F313F has a "BP" connector that goes to the motherboard apparently. Is that necessary ? Would it be a problem not connecting it ? // Other Possible Solutions // Would you suggest against this ? Or would you suggest something else all together? I also saw about drive "cases" (such as this one) but they tend to be more expensive and require proprietary caddies. I quite like the DIY part of my solution, and difinitely like spending less IF POSSIBLE. I'm not rich by any means. ANY advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read my problem. Have a nice day.

// EDIT // Following the guide posted by alturismo Will post results.

Hello everyone. Hope you're doing great ! I've got a "problem" that I am affraid to try and solve myself and I was wondering if someone could help me out ! The problem: I think I need to update my BIOS, but not only did I get confused by Supermicro's website, but also many articles I read online, said a LOT of things about bricked motherboards, and honestly, I'm too scared to ruin my machine. The process, isn't exactly what I'd call straight-forward. My Motherboard, is the Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F+. Some people update though CLI during boot, some people through IPMI, etc. I'm seriously affraid to ruin a perfectly good machine. Why update in the first place? I currently have a single Cache Disk (a SATA SSD), but for security reasons, I'd like to upgrade to 2 NVMe drives in RAID 1. As far as I know, this is possible, and a good way to be protected. For know, I have to settle for backups of the Appdata folder. That being said, my Motherboard doesn't support NVMe drives since it doesn't have any M.2 slots, so I will have to use PCIe to M.2 adapters. I saw one from ASUS, called "Hyper M.2 X16 Card v2". It supports up to four M.2 drives, but in order for it to work, (as I read here on the forum) my Motherboard needs to suport PCIe bifurcation so it's treated as 4, PCIe x4 instead of a single x16. As this post on reddit suggests, this does actually work on X9DRxxxx motherboards, but with newer versions of the BIOS. Any other possible suggestions ? If someone has some other suggestion, instead of using 2 drives, I'd love to hear it. Or any other suggestion in general. As you must have figured out by now, what I'm looking for, is a fast Cache, but with security in case it fails. Maybe the Single drive + Backup option is good enough. I don't know. Maybe, I could use two different PCIe to M.2 adapters, but I hate to ruin a whole slot, for a single drive. If I have no option though, well.. To Conclude: If ANYONE of you knows what I need, I'd be more than happy to listen to what you have to say/suggest. If you require more info from my side, tell me. Hope I didn't bore you to death. Looking forward to your replies. Thanks. ❤️

Oh yeah. Sounds reasonable. I knew that the license is bound to my drive. It makes sense for the key to be in the Config. Thanks a lot for the help. I appreciate it.

So, what you mean is (in steps): I buy a completely new PRO License. I copy the "config" from my old "Basic" flash, to my new "Pro" Flash. Without changing ANY drives, I use my NEW PRO Flash, on my server, and it will boot up as normal. Then I can use my old "Basic" flash, on my Gaming Server, do a "Reset" on settings and start fresh. Does this sound right ? And I suppose it's not against the rules, right ?

Hello. I hope you guys are doing great ! General Info: I'm in a middle of a dilemma and I'd like your input on the subject. I've been a user of Unraid for a couple of years now. I've upgraded to better hardware, to more drives, to more apps that run on my server etc. Now, it's time to build my second machine. Some Specifics: -> I already have a server running, with 6 drives. It's running a lot of dockers, and some very specific VMs (like Home Assistant). My CURRENT server, is on a "Basic" License. But I will need to add more drives soon, so I will need to upgrade. I will most likely go straight to Pro. -> My newly built server (which I'm currently testing) is on a Trial License for the past 20 days or so, just so I can figure out if it works or not. It's a dedicated Dual VM gaming machine for me and my wife. This will NOT run dockers, will NOT be used as a NAS, and most likely will not have any HDDs either. Just the superfast NVMes I'm utilizing on the VMs. Apparently, it looks like the Dual VM Gaming setup works pretty well. Awesome I would say. So I'm going to buy the license and proceed with making this permanent. Now the Dilemma: Should I just upgrade my old "Basic" to "Pro" and buy a second "Basic" for the new build? Or should I buy just a PRO and swap the two servers around? (what I mean is:) I could start the PRO from scratch, re-add everything (dockers/vms/settings etc) and use my Basic license on my Gaming build, since I won't require more drives there. Or is that too much hassle? Or maybe forbidden by the rules? Would I break something in the process? I really don't know how to proceed, as the Pro License costs LESS, than buying a Basic AND upgrading a Basic to Pro.

Oh I didn't know that. Thanks ! The only thing that made me "want" the Form View, is the fact that I can super easily change how many cores and RAM I have assigned to my machine. [ Quick Talk - Not important ] I've built this box, only with Dual Gaming VMs in mind, for me and my wife, since it didn't make sense buying a whole separate PC for her. When my wife isn't gaming with me (on RUST 90%) she most likely listens to music, browses the web, watches a movie on Emby or Netflix or spends our money on eBay and clothes. So the idea was, once we decide to game, Split the CPU and RAM in half, (or 60-40 ) and play. Once we are done, give her a couple of cores, and about 8-10Gigs of RAM, and give my VM the full power of that beefy CPU. Anyway, many many thanks for your advice guys. I REALLY hope that EAC doesn't figure out we are trying to hide the VM from it and bans us. Good Day everyone. ❤️ Cheers.

So ! [updates] 1: I've added those 3 lines in my XML, and by ONLY adding those 3, my VM "starts" but I get a black screen. It's not a passthrough problem, because I also get a black screen on my Remote Desktop app. I use "Parsec". What's strange though, is that parsec sees the computer as "online" seconds after it boots, as if it's working normally in the background. Strange. 2: Under <features> if I completely remove the following lines (since you said "and i also deleted any lines pertaining to hyper-v"): <hyperv mode='custom'> <relaxed state='on'/> <vapic state='on'/> <spinlocks state='on' retries='8191'/> <vendor_id state='on' value='none'/> </hyperv> the VM boots up and works normally, but I can ONLY save the VM template in "XML View". If I switch to "Form View" and save, I get the error message: 3: If though, I only add the first two you suggested: <smbios mode='host'/> <kvm> <hidden state='on'/> </kvm> remove the <hyperv mode...> part, but keep the <feature policy='disable' name='hypervisor'/> out of the XML as well, then I can switch back to form view, I can save, It boots, and the game works. So my question is, do you actually now by any chance what this last line does ? It disables the "hypervisor" or something ? And if I skip adding it, will something bad happen ? plus, what about the whole part we had to delete ? Why is it there in the first place ? So many questions, so little knowledge I possess.

Gonna Check this out right when I get home ! If this works I'm gonna buy you a beer ! ❤️

Anyone? 😔 Update: Other EAC (EasyAntiCheat) games, work fine. For example Apex Legends.

Hello guys. I hope you're all doing fine ! I have a quick question to make for someone who might have a solution ! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Some info: I followed SpaceInvaderOne's guides (PRICELESS), and advice from other users, and posts in this forum, and I've put together my second UnRaid build with the intent to use it as a daily with Dual gaming VMs for me and my wife. Things are working GREAT. I've setup everything, and both VMs are running flawlessly with GPU Passthroughs. I even tried several games, and they seem to be working flawlessly as well. The Problem: I tried to launch a game called "RUST" today, (which by the way is the game me and my wife mostly play together), and when the anti-cheat software was "loading" I got the error message: "Cannot run under Virtual Machine". Which does make sense at first, but what drives me crazy, is that the game was launching perfectly fine up until yesterday, and I didn't notice any update to be honest. My Question: Does anyone know if we can somehow trick the software, into thinking it's running on a normal machine ? PS. Or is there possibly something wrong with MY VM ? Although I changed nothing since yesterday when it was working. I've also attached a photo with the error message.

Hi Guys ! I'm having a problem with OpenVPN. I've only recently installed this, so I'm new here It was running fine for a couple of days. But today I tried to start it, and I get this error message in the log: "./run: line 3: /usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/openvpnas: Permission denied" It hangs there, and just repeats the message indefinitely. Is it a permission issue ? I don't know what to do. I've read that someone had the same issue, here on this exact post, on Page 15. I could try to remove the container and re-install fresh, but last time I did something without asking first, people here told me I should ask before trying stuff myself. So, any suggestions ? [s6-init] making user provided files available at /var/run/s6/etc...exited 0. [s6-init] ensuring user provided files have correct perms...exited 0. [fix-attrs.d] applying ownership & permissions fixes... [fix-attrs.d] done. [cont-init.d] executing container initialization scripts... [cont-init.d] 01-envfile: executing... [cont-init.d] 01-envfile: exited 0. [cont-init.d] 10-adduser: executing... usermod: no changes ------------------------------------- _ () | | ___ _ __ | | / __| | | / \ | | \__ \ | | | () | |_| |___/ |_| \__/ Brought to you by linuxserver.io ------------------------------------- To support LSIO projects visit: https://www.linuxserver.io/donate/ ------------------------------------- GID/UID ------------------------------------- User uid: 99 User gid: 100 ------------------------------------- [cont-init.d] 10-adduser: exited 0. [cont-init.d] 20-time: executing... [cont-init.d] 20-time: exited 0. [cont-init.d] 30-config: executing... [cont-init.d] 30-config: exited 0. [cont-init.d] 40-openvpn-init: executing... [cont-init.d] 40-openvpn-init: exited 0. [cont-init.d] 50-interface: executing... /var/run/s6/etc/cont-init.d/50-interface: line 9: /usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/confdba: Permission denied /var/run/s6/etc/cont-init.d/50-interface: line 10: /usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/confdba: Permission denied /var/run/s6/etc/cont-init.d/50-interface: line 11: /usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/confdba: Permission denied /var/run/s6/etc/cont-init.d/50-interface: line 12: /usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/confdba: Permission denied [cont-init.d] 50-interface: exited 126. [cont-init.d] 99-custom-scripts: executing... [custom-init] no custom files found exiting... [cont-init.d] 99-custom-scripts: exited 0. [cont-init.d] done. [services.d] starting services [services.d] done. ./run: line 3: /usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/openvpnas: Permission denied ./run: line 3: /usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/openvpnas: Permission denied ./run: line 3: /usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/openvpnas: Permission denied ./run: line 3: /usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/openvpnas: Permission denied ./run: line 3: /usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/openvpnas: Permission denied ./run: line 3: /usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/openvpnas: Permission denied

oh, I did not know that at all. honestly, I find S.M.A.R.T. data to be a bit complicated. Especially since they are not the same between manufactures, or even models sometimes, and on top of that, even between readings, they are not sharing the same structure. I've read here on the forum that some numbers are 0 to 100 and some others 0 to 200 etc... Anyway, thanks a lot !!! I appreciate the time you took to help me. Have a nice day.

That was my thoughts too. Maybe the PSU can't handle that much wattage on a single lead. I will do some more testing and see what happens. What about the drive's "Seek_Error_Rate" ? Does it indicate an actual problem with the drive ? I mean, its brand new, and I can get a replacement if that seems like an issue.