gshipley Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Recently upgraded my old unraid server from 5.x to 6.x and a bug hit (not software bug) where I decided I should go ahead and upgrade everything on my system to take better advantage of docker and the other new features. Just looking for a quick sanity check here before I tear down the server. My current 2gb ram system is 6 years old and the memory quickly gets exhausted after spinning up a few docker containers causing the server to become unresponsive with a "waiting on available socket" message in the browser when accessing the UI. Original build - 2009 1 x Norco RPC-4020 4U rackmount server chasis w/ 20 hot-swappable Sata drive bays 1 x GIGABYTE GA-MA785G-UD3H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard 1 x Patriot Xporter XT Boost 4GB Flash Drive (USB2.0 Portable) Model PEF4GUSB 1 x ADATA 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model AD2U800B1G5-DRH 1 x AMD Athlon II X2 240 Regor Dual-Core 2.8GHz Socket AM3 65W ADX240OCGQBOX Processor 16 x 2tb green drives w/ reiserfs no cache drives 2 x SUPERMICRO AOC-SAT2-MV8 64-bit PCI-X133MHz SATA II (3.0Gb/s) Controller Card New parts ordered: SanDisk Ultra Fit CZ43 64GB USB 3.0 Low-Profile Flash Drive Up To 130MB/s Read- SDCZ43-064G-G46 Gigabyte Black Edition LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboards GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK (needed 2x PCI) 2 x Kingston Digital 240GB SSDNow V300 SATA 3 2.5 (7mm height) Solid State Drive (SV300S37A/240G) (Cache pool) Intel Core BX80646I74790K i7-4790K Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz) G.SKILL Sniper Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2400 (PC3 19200) Desktop Memory Model F3-2400C11D-16GSR Rosewill ATX 12V 750-Watt 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Power Supply Hive-750 Over the last years I have been slowly upgrading the 2tb drives to 4tb as they have failed. Currently 36 usable tb. I am also slowly in the process of migrating from reiserfs to xfs but will be using btrfs for the cache pool as per http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=37490.0 A couple of questions: When the new flash arrives, I am thinking it might be best to just start from scratch with a new install. Am I correct in that I only need to copy over the Pro1.key file and the super.dat files over to remember my drive placement? Do I actually need to get a new key since the GUID of my flash will be changing or can I simply copy over the existing key? I notice my sata add on cards (SuperMicro aoc-sat2-mv8) only support 3.0Gb/s and all my drives support 6. Is this worth upgrading as well or are these still the go to cards that people with large arrays are using? Link to comment
gshipley Posted July 28, 2015 Author Share Posted July 28, 2015 For posterity sake in case anyone has the same question I had above about the key replacement: http://lime-technology.com/replace-key/ Has the info needed to move to a new flash drive. Link to comment
hernandito Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 You must also copy the .cfg files for yor shares and disks from the old thumbdrive. Link to comment
gshipley Posted July 28, 2015 Author Share Posted July 28, 2015 As mentioned above, the .cfg files in question can be found here: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Upgrading_to_UnRAID_v6#Upgrade_or_Clean_Install.3F Now, I just need to figure out the add-on card situation. Link to comment
garycase Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 I believe there's an issue using flash drives > 32GB. If the drive is formatted with exFAT, UnRAID can't use it ... it requires a FAT32 formatted drive. Not sure if simply formatting it with FAT32 resolves that or not (haven't tried UnRAID with a unit that large). Simple enough to test it (just try it) ... but if you have any problems, that's likely why. When the new flash arrives, I am thinking it might be best to just start from scratch with a new install. Am I correct in that I only need to copy over the Pro1.key file and the super.dat files over to remember my drive placement? Do I actually need to get a new key since the GUID of my flash will be changing or can I simply copy over the existing key? You can't just "copy over the existing key" ... but as noted above there's a built-in key replacement feature in v6 that you can use instead of buying a new key. HOWEVER ... be sure you test the 64GB flash drive first => I'd simply install a clean v6 and boot from it (don't assign anything ... just confirm UnRAID will boot on that flash drive) ... and THEN follow the procedure to move your system to it and replace the key. I notice my sata add on cards (SuperMicro aoc-sat2-mv8) only support 3.0Gb/s and all my drives support 6. Is this worth upgrading as well or are these still the go to cards that people with large arrays are using? No need to upgrade the card ... no modern spinning drive can sustain data rates anywhere near SATA-II rates, so the card isn't a bottleneck. Link to comment
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