Hi Everyone,

 

I decided to turn my old Gaming PC to an Unraid Server, I had read so many good reviews that I bought the unlimited license w/o trial.

 

The PC is an old i7-6700k PC with 32GB of Ram. The Drives are :

512gb Samsung NVME Boot

2 Samsung SSD (512gb & 1TB)

5 * 8TB Seagate Ironwolf

2 * 14TB Seagate Exos Mach 2

 

Since my PC didn't have enough SATA ports, I got a PCIe Sata Card and connected all SATA drives to it, it is booting fine though weird flickrs during boot

 

I put the NVME and the 512gb SSD as Cache Pool

1 14TB drive as Parity Drive

Rest are in the Array including the 1TB SSD which I plan on using for Plex apps and such

 

The goal of this setup is to transfer my Plex Server, and also store DVR recordings, VPN server and possibly a Pihole (though currently using NextDNS)

 

Now to the questions (I did research some on Forum to unblock myself) but still some left.

 

1. The Sandisk Cruzer USB Flash wasn't available during installer method, so I used the manual method, are Sandisks not supported, should I use a different Flash (if so is it possible to transfer the content) ?
   1. I chose the EFI boot and it works, any advantage to use this as opposed to regular (Legacy) for this Flash drive ?
   2. Does it matter if the USB is booted in 2.0 or 3.0 ?
2. When the Parity Sync is happening, It should take about 1 day & 10 hours, is this normal ? Are Parity Checks this long as well ?
3. During Parity Sync the Fans on the PC go really loud (new Noctua fans), I didn't see much CPU utilization and afaik the fans were set to silent in Bios, just curious if others had similar issues and what remedy they choose. I hope they are more silent during regular operations
4. The Cache Pool has an NVME and SSD (each 512GB), would it be possible to Mirror them or not possible since they are different types ? If they are separate, would Unraid use both ?

 

Thanks!

 

 

I figured these things on my own...

1: nvm

2: took like 1day 10 hours

3: Fans were loud because they were set to DC not PWM in Bios

4: Cache is using 2 Drives NVME + SSD in Raid 1

 

but have one question I can't figure out:

 

My only question is that I moved my Plex server data files from Windows %LOCALAPPDATA% to appdata/PMS in Cache, but where are the Plex Server Docker files installed ? Is there a way to use my extra 1TB SSD that is in the Array to host all the docker images ?

 

Note that when I created the Media Share in the Array to store Video files, I chose all disks minus the 1TB SSD, so the latter is available...

 

Thanks for any suggestions, help.

 

 

Edited November 30, 20232 yr by Houmi

Typical (default) locations:

Appdata is stored in the where it is specified in the Docker Template.  Typically in the Appdata Share, best kept on fast drive (SSD / cache).

Docker executable files are held in the docker image file, the location is specified in Settings > Docker.  Default is in the System Share (again, on fast drive - SSD / Cache)

The rest of your data files are wherever you put them.  Defined in the Docker Template and mapped accordingly to the application inside the Docker container.