5 minutes ago, trurl said:

My offsite is just external drives that are stored offsite.

These are the 3rd of my 3-2-1 backup. 1st is working files on PC, 2nd is nightly backups to Unraid. 3rd is external backup from Unraid to drives that are leftover from upsizing drives in my Main server. I have 4 of these in rotation and the important files will completely fit on 2TB, personal files, photos, music.

My backup server is just for the unimportant media files, etc. My backup server is made of parts including drives leftover from upgrading my main server. My unimportant media files probably total about 20TB.

Huh. 200w just seems high. I've a 12600 with 8 spinners and a quad x710 nic. It idles at 35w. Add a couple drives and an hba puts me around 70w idling. My MB has 8 sata ports so no hba in it for now, but I use an Adaptec 71605 when I need one. Do your hdd spin down? I wouldn't know where to go beyond that.

To add my own contrast, my same build with the 71605 hba above was originally built on a Gigabyte strx4 with a 3960 Threadripper and was pulling 210W at idle. That led me to look for something more efficient that I have now.

@Trurl thank you for reminding me that I need to once again put in place workstation backups like I "used" to do. Six months ago I had a Crucial T705 crap the bed and go into READ ONLY mode as it started degrading towards death. The drive was practically NEW (6 months old) but the double sided PCB was only being cooled on the top side. I assume it cooked itself. Anyway, I had no current backup so the fact it allowed me to read all the recently modified personal files was a butt saver.

My current MAIN server is new, top to bottom. Remaining drives populated a 214TB BACKUP server and a 3rd 90tb misc STUFF server and I still have leftover drives. I've spent a bit of time "curating" (i.e. hoarding) a ton of digital content I cannot imagine replacing if lost. I guess I still do not have quite a solid enough backup strategy yet with only 2 on site unRAID parity backed copies.

I am currently working on a hoard of 25 old drives from a window who's husband was something also of a hoarder. I've been given the task of recovering personal stuff like DOCs, Video and photos from the 25 drives. They are mostly 1, 2 and 3tb drives so far. They contain a lot of antiquated system backup images. At the end, she gets the condensed gathered data on a drive and I get the remaining working drives and a payment for recovery. I also still have several 4tb, 6tb and 8tb drives left over from my original Windows Server cast offs. It's possible I can get enough together for a 3rd offsite backup.

@Veah I decided NOT to spin my drives down because of stress, wear and tear on them. I would rather pay the extra $10 a month in electrics than have to buy a $600 hard drive.

My BACKUP server has the most drives because some are 26, 22, 18, 14 and 12TB drives so there are 13 array drives soaking up watts, an SSD drive and currently a questionable 14TB drive I am testing, so that's what? 15 drives?

Main Server has 10 big spinners and 3 Samsung 9100 Pro NVMe drives soaking up 170watts.

Backup server power draw

OK, extended SMART test completed in 24 hours with no errors on the 14TB drive in question. Can anyone look at this report and tell me what I should be concerned about and what I am looking at?

backupserver-smart-20260406-1815.zip

Something that is curious about this report are the following lines, mainly the last line:

SMART Extended Self-test Log Version: 1 (1 sectors)

Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error

# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 47072 -

# 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 46967 26411574888

# 3 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 46951 26411574888

2 of 2 failed self-tests are outdated by newer successful extended offline self-test # 1

A little help?

Looks OK, I guess you can use it again.

Things are chugging along with unRAID and I have settled into an effortless daily routine.

One thing I would like to know what shares are being accessed and by who?

Does anyone have a favorite plug-in that would allow this?

On 4/24/2026 at 10:28 AM, MHzTweaker said:

Things are chugging along with unRAID and I have settled into an effortless daily routine.

One thing I would like to know what shares are being accessed and by who?

Does anyone have a favorite plug-in that would allow this?

Pardon my ignorance but shouldnt You know who are users and what shares they can access?

• Regards

That's not what I asked.

I am looking for usage statistics. Of course I know who "HAS" access. I built the thing.

Another unRAID update... more problems

I upgraded to 7.30 to be able to use the vacant NVMe drives I installed to boot from.

Now I can... sort of.... eventually... it's just a huge mess

After like 50 tries, I FINALLY got unRAID to boot from the SSD.

I tried transferring the license but that doesn't work correctly either.

First I had a license mismatch the first 20 times I tried, now it just sits and spins on CHECKING SERVER ACTION.

Does anyone TEST this stuff before releasing it ?

😢🤬😰

Well, never-mind

Apparently, a person must open a ticket to have this done behind the scenes.

Not sure what the MOVE TO TPM button is supposed to do. It did nothing for me.

EDIT: Glad I did all this BETA testing on the backup server and not my MAIN Media Server. I believe this would have sent me over the edge before bedtime as I usually watch something as I fall asleep.

EDIT to the EDIT:

Also, the tutorial said there would be a boot and a data partition created on the SSD. My drive ended up with the entire 500GB as a BOOT partition and no DATA partition at all.

My main Server has a pair of pricey 2TB Samsung 9100 Pro drives which I plan to use as a mirrored boot drive. Is this wise or should I just stick to a single drive. I have another 1TB 9100 Pro not doing anything in the MAIN server.

Edited May 15May 15 by MHzTweaker

13 hours ago, MHzTweaker said:

MOVE TO TPM button is supposed to do. It did nothing for me.

Also, the tutorial said there would be a boot and a data partition created on the SSD. My drive ended up with the entire 500GB as a BOOT partition and no DATA partition at all.

Don't know what happened for you. I just did all this on my main server and it all worked.

It did take some work to get it done since I needed to move all the data from the mirrored "fast" pool (docker and other things) to my mirrored "cache" pool, so I could repartition the "fast" nvme s for a mirrored "boot" partition and a mirrored "fast" partition. Then move all the "fast" data back from cache. "boot" partition only takes 16GB of my 256GB

And TPM license transfer also worked. I did hit a glitch in the license transfer but that fixed itself after I logged in to unraid.net.

What "tutorial" were you using?

using the tutorial that was linking inside of unRAID OS itself, part 2 for existing systems.

I converted to internal boot for my main server this morning.... figured out where BOOT + DATA partitions are created on the SSD so I got that sorted.

Still, the license transfer for my MAIN server doesn't work either. License mismatch error. Still help with that... 😰

Apparently this isn't something I have authority to fix myself.

EDIT: I just opened a separate ticket for the 2nd server since no one seems to acknowledge my continued pleas for help in the 1st ticket....

Edited May 15May 15 by MHzTweaker

okay, the 2nd ticket got it fixed 😌

Edited May 15May 15 by MHzTweaker