chefjaypeek

Well, that is just about perfect! I thought something like that would be possible, just wasn't sure. Thank you!!

For the record, the Xeons are x3 I think. I've had an unraid for a long time...

I have an Apple xRaid chassis. It has 14 3.5 bays. I can strip the Apple power supply out and find something that will fit. Does anyone have a good idea on a MB? I actually have a dual Xeon unraid server that serves my needs, it only has 6 bays. I have mostly unloaded the processing off of the dual Xeons, so may be time to retire that bad boy. Thanks

This may be my first post on the Unraid forums, but I have been reading and using for years. I am on my second Unraid system built from tips on the "Good Deal's" forum. My current rig is a Natex S2600 dual Xeon with 128 gig with the Intel case/power supply/cooler and drive cages talked about here. I built it about 8 months ago, originally planned on trying to run it as a Hackintosh server. That didn't work so well, so I put Windows 10 on it, but was never happy with it, so went back to trying to get OSX on it again. After wasting a bunch of time on that, I tried a demo of Unraid 6 on it, liked that so much that I moved all of my media off my old Unraid 5 server, and restarted the S2600 as a new Unraid 6 (using my purchased Key) server. Moved all my media, and have totally loved everything since then. I am learning about dockers and virtual machines, and when I mess something up, I can just delete the experimental thing and nobody knows about it. That is the coolest thing about the dockers and VMs. There is enough horsepower that I can spin up a test docker or VM and it does not affect the "production" Plex server. If I have it transcode, the fans will spin up high, but my CPU coolers are passive, so that is pretty much expected. I may try to replace the large Intel fans with Noctua fans to see if there is a difference. Chef Jay

You mention a Mac Mini and iPads. iTunes with home sharing works great with iPads. Get an Apple TV for $100 as long as your TV has HDMI and you are set for movies, including Blu Rays in the future. An Airport Express makes a great music point plugged into powered speakers. I rip DVD and Blu Ray with an ancient polycarb MacBook and then run them through Handbrake to convert to aTV 3 specs. Stored on the unraid server and run iTunes on another Mac. The aTV is the easiest way to watch the movies I've found, even my girlfriend can work it no problems. It is not perfect, but works very well.

I may have the same issue with RC3. I have noticed folders "shadowed" out, and some issues with iTunes. Just was able to look at one right now, and the drive where the folder resides was spun down. After forcing a spin up on all drives, the folder became available. Could be that my unraid box is a 10 year old Dell Pentium, and I am also copying stuff to it. I don't know. Just a data point...