Setup 3 days 7hrs!!

[Barnoe]

Hi everyone I'm new to Unraid.

I'm using an HP DL165 and installed a 8tb parity with 2x 4tb storage.

I've started setup and it says 3 days 7hrs.

 

Is that normal?

 

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[itimpi]

That seems excessive  

 

You are likely to get better informed feedback if you post your system’s diagnostics zip file.

[Barnoe]

if i knew how to do that i would.
 

Im tempted to stop the set up, but if nothing changes, all i am doing is delaying the setup.

which is why i asked the question.

 

at this point the only thing i could have changed previous to what im doing is a setting in the bios?

 

i dont mind waiting 3 days if thats what it needs, but if the server is going to run slow after this then i need to make the changes now.

maybe unraid is slow and i need to find another OS, 3 days in 2022 is ridiculous tbh.

[Squid]

2 minutes ago, Barnoe said:

if i knew how to do that i would.

Follow the link in @itimpi's post

 

Odds on you've got a poor connection to a drive

[Barnoe]

diagnostic attached

 

let me know if i need to change something

titan-diagnostics-20220402-2149.zip

[Squid]

You grabbed the diagnostics within 2 minutes of the system starting up, and presumably formatting the disks etc.  Let the system level out a bit...

[Barnoe]

i grabbed the diagnostic 5 hours after starting up.
 

[Barnoe]

The discs have not been formatted
all 3 HDD are brand new out of the box

[itimpi]

2 minutes ago, Barnoe said:

i grabbed the diagnostic 5 hours after starting up.
 

If that is the case then there is something very wrong as the earliest message in the syslog is at  07:41 and the latest is 07:54

 

[Barnoe]

i started the setup around 5pm, and its now just past 10pm
so the time is wrong too?

This is not starting as easy as i had hoped.

I am going to stop the setup and do more reading up

[Barnoe]

I rebooted the server into the BIOS and enabled IOMMU.

I restarted and booted through the USB again, started the array and now its says 20 hrs
Still a long time, but better than 3 days 7 hrs!

is 20 hrs is ok for 3 new HDD?

[itimpi]

Sounds more sensible.    The time is not related to the number of disks (unless your disk controller cannot handle the throughput), but the size of the largest parity drive.

[Barnoe]

The parity drive is 8tb
2 of the 3 drives are plugged into the motherboard.... Inc parity
The PCIe card only has one drive plugged into it and has 3 ports free atm

I assume its best for the parity to plug into the main board?

I did notice in my bios that the sata max transfer rate is 3gb
My seaware ironwolf can do 6gb.
Would this be better in the sata adapter or is it still limited by the motherboard?

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[itimpi]

4 minutes ago, Barnoe said:

The parity drive is 8tb
2 of the 3 drives are plugged into the motherboard.... Inc parity
The PCIe card only has one drive plugged into it and has 3 ports free atm

I assume its best for the parity to plug into the main board?

I did notice in my bios that the sata max transfer rate is 3gb
My seaware ironwolf can do 6gb.
Would this be better in the sata adapter or is it still limited by the motherboard?

Sent from my phone
 

In reality 3gb is more than any HDD drive can transfer regardless of how it is connected so it does not matter.   It is only when you get into NVME SSDs that a single device can transfer at this sort of speed.

[Barnoe]

Just as an update for anyone reading this in the future, who may be setting up Unraid for the first time.

 

Once past the initial 20 hrs setup.

the server has no ill effects and is operating great, speeds are good and its stable 8 days in

I've installed plenty of apps and plugins and added my old Synology over LAN and an external USB connected while i transferred all my data to the array.

it actually transferred much quicker than i expected using Krusader.

So if your new and reading this, don't be put off by the long setup time, its worth the wait