September 9, 20223 yr Hi there, I'm just dipping my toes into my first Unraid build. I've had a Personal Backup/Plex server running for a few years on ancient hardware and Ubuntu server 18.04. I recently decided I wanted an upgrade, and Intel QuickSync Quicksync was definitely something I planned on building around. Hardware: Quote Supermicro 826-revB Chassis PWS-920P-SQ (I have 2 but only 1 in use) Gigabyte C246M-WU4 Motherboard Intel i3-9100 16GiB DDR4 Single-bit ECC Kingston NV1 500G M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe Dell H200 flashed to IT mode 1TB WD Red (still in old server, older cmr model) 6TB HGST Deskstar NAS (old) 8TB WD MyBook (old, shucked) 10TB WD Red Plus 10TB WD Red Plus In terms of room to grow, I still have another M.2/NVMe slot, 2x 2.5" Sata bays and 7x 3.5" bays. The old setup had the Ubuntu Server OS on the 1TB Red, and the 6 + 8TB drives joined with Mergerfs. They were mounted in Ubuntu at /mnt/storage and approx 80% full. I bought the 2 10TB Red Plus drives on sale recently, one will extend my media storage and the other will be a parity drive. I installed one of the new 10TB drives into the Ubuntu machine, and managed to copy everything from the mergerfs directory onto that single drive. That allowed me to pull the 6 + 8tb drives and run Unraid's Unassigned Devices Preclear Plugin on them and make sure they were still in good health without wiping all my data. I installed Unraid to a flash drive and spun it up. I could only find a USB 3.2 Drive, but there's a 2.0 internal header on the motherboard so I'll eventually plug it in there when I get an adapter. I've installed the following plugins: Community Applications Dynamix File Manager My Servers Unassigned Devices Unassigned Devices Plus Unassigned Devices Preclear. Before installing any Docker containers, I stopped the service and changed Docker data-root to Directory. I've read some people having issues with the docker vdisk and this just seems like it eliminates some of that down the line. That's pretty much as far as I've got. I've read two trains of thought on setting up shares - the "traditional" way with separate shares for Movies, TV Shows etc and the TRaSH way with a top level folder for the share and media types nested within. I'd like to move my Plex db over from the old machine, and the TRaSH method seems to be the better option for that. I'll eventually move the 1TB drive over and make a separate share for personal backups that I want to have different permissions/access to. storage ├── usenet │ ├── movies │ ├── music │ └── tv ├─ 4k Movies ├─ Movies ├─ TV Shows I'm about to use rsync -avh to copy everything from the old server onto the new one over SMB. I already have SMB set up. Everything on the LAN is 1GB wired so I don't think either rsync -z or setting up NFS is necessary - HDD Read/Write will be the most likely bottleneck. After that I'll start installing Plex and *arr containers and building parity. Is there anything I've obviously done wrong or forgotten to do? Any recommendations I haven't thought of yet? Thanks, Dave
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