I hope this is the right place for this question. I had an old FreeNAS server that was just used for serving movies and shows to Plex and VLC on Fire Sticks around the house. I built a new server and went with UnRAID. It also is just for Plex and VLC. However I notice that UnRAID is a good bit slower to load than my old FreeNAS box. Is there any settings that I can change? Also, I have UnRAIS Basic, does a cashe drive count against the number of supported drives?

 

Model:Custom

M/B:Supermicro X8DT6 Version 1234567890 - s/n: VM1AS63505

BIOS:American Megatrends Inc. Version 2.0b. Dated: 08/30/2011

CPU:Intel® Xeon® CPU L5640 @ 2.27GHz

HVM:Enabled

IOMMU:Enabled

Cache:384 KiB, 1536 KiB, 12 MB, 384 KiB, 1536 KiB, 12 MB

Memory:64 GiB DDR3 Multi-bit ECC (max. installable capacity 384 GiB)

Network:bond0: fault-tolerance (active-backup), mtu 1500

Kernel:Linux 5.19.17-Unraid x86_64

OpenSSL:1.1.1s

Edited November 19, 20232 yr by ssnyderu2

What do you mean by load? Do you mean to finish booting?

Ah, I should have said its slower at opening a movie to TV show than was my old FreeNAS box. When I open video files using VLC I have noticed that it takes 2 or 3 times longer to start playing the file.

Did your disks spindown in FreeNAS?  Im guessing the extra time is account for disks to spin up in unraid.

22 minutes ago, Gragorg said:

Did your disks spindown in FreeNAS?  Im guessing the extra time is account for disks to spin up in unraid.

Hmm, been sol long since I had set it up I dont remember, but that would make sense. Is UnRAID set by default not to spin all the time?

One of the benefits of unraid is to be able to spin down all drives other than any that are currently being accessed to save power. Not sure of the defaults but setting a spin down delay is very common practice.

Edited November 19, 20232 yr by Kilrah