First unRAID build & work-in-progress

[Jcloud]

Hello!

 

I saw people posting their builds and I wanted to show off my system too -- and say hello.

I'll list off some details I ran into, in-case anyone is interested, perhaps someone might point out any of my mistakes.

 

Incidentally, I first heard of unRAID on voat forums when I asked about NAS solutions. I was dreaming about storage solutions, due

to my lack of it, and two hard drives died on me recently. Alas, the drive was seven years old, it was fair game.

Someone pasted URL. What sold me was the hyper-visor support; coupled with array setup ... I'm preaching to the choir.

And in time, I believe, I'll become as fanatic to unRAID as an old school Amiga fanatic.

 

Also my old motherboard died, which actually worked out well for unRAID - more up-to-date logic board.

My gaming rig, is now my unRAID server and still functions as game rig.

 

 

Motherboard: Asus X79-Deluxe

CPU: Intel i7 3930k

CFAN: Noctua NH-D14

RAM: 64GB - DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)

PSU: Antec HCG-900 900W

CASE: Antec 1100

GPU: 2x Radeon R9 290

 

Parity: WD Blue 4TB

Disk 1,2: WD 3TB Red

Disk 3: Seagate 2TB

 

Cache: OCZ 240GB SSD

 

Flash drive: Kingston Data Traveler G3 16GB USB2

 

Tried to use Data Traveler G4 but it refused to boot.

 

OS: unRAID 6.1.9, Win8.1VM (provisioned: kb, mouse, 4 cpu cores, 32GB RAM, crossfired GPUs), OS X 10.11.2 in VM/vnc-walkthrough-setup.

Dockers (so far): binhex-couchpotato, sonarr; aptalca-duckdns; linuxserver-openVPN-as; Emby; Transmission; coppit-filebot; sparklyballs-handbrake, DokuWiki

 

Hardware Issues on Initial Setup:

[*]Had to disable on-board WiFi and Bluetooth in BIOS/EFI. Didn't leave notes for myself, but recall I/O conflicts with VM and host.

[*]Unable to use 4 sata ports on mobo. Ran into this issue with Marvell controllers.

[*]Windows 7 worked with one GPU but second GPU had I/O conflicts in Windows. Resolution, upgraded to Windows 8.1, that made me cringe. Windows 10 also worked, but F!!! W10!

[*]Actually started with a Windows10 VM and then worked backwards. Figured newer would be easier to setup, which it was, then went to preference OS.

 

Current issues or TO do items:

• setup two 1-gpu gammer VMs; run side-by-side.
  
• Flavor of the month OS ... I guess.
  
• SteamOS ... again, see above.
  
• Pass through my optical drive ... I guess. BDr is kind of a pain now. (Diverted to MakeMKV Docker)
  

 

root@HYDRA:~# lspci | grep USB
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 06)
06:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042A USB 3.0 Host Controller
07:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042A USB 3.0 Host Controller
08:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042A USB 3.0 Host Controller
root@HYDRA:~# lsusb
Bus 008 Device 003: ID 0930:6545 Toshiba Corp. Kingston DataTraveler 102/2.0 / HEMA Flash Drive 2 GB / PNY Attache 4GB Stick
Bus 008 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 1532:0040 Razer USA, Ltd
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1532:011a Razer USA, Ltd
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
root@HYDRA:~# readlink /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb*
../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:07:00.0/usb3
../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:07:00.0/usb4
../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.2/0000:08:00.0/usb5
../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.2/0000:08:00.0/usb6
../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb7
../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb8
root@HYDRA:~#

IOMMU Groups

/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/0/devices/0000:00:00.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/1/devices/0000:00:01.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/2/devices/0000:00:01.1
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/3/devices/0000:00:02.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/4/devices/0000:00:03.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/5/devices/0000:00:05.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/5/devices/0000:00:05.2
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/5/devices/0000:00:05.4
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/6/devices/0000:00:11.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/7/devices/0000:00:16.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/8/devices/0000:00:19.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/9/devices/0000:00:1a.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/10/devices/0000:00:1b.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/11/devices/0000:00:1c.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/12/devices/0000:00:1c.1
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/13/devices/0000:00:1c.2
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/14/devices/0000:00:1c.4
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/15/devices/0000:00:1c.5
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/16/devices/0000:00:1c.7
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/17/devices/0000:00:1d.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/18/devices/0000:00:1e.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/19/devices/0000:00:1f.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/19/devices/0000:00:1f.2
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/19/devices/0000:00:1f.3
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/20/devices/0000:04:00.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/21/devices/0000:01:00.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/21/devices/0000:01:00.1
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/22/devices/0000:02:00.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/22/devices/0000:02:00.1
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/23/devices/0000:06:00.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/24/devices/0000:07:00.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/25/devices/0000:08:00.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/26/devices/0000:09:00.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/27/devices/0000:0a:00.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/28/devices/0000:0b:00.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/29/devices/0000:ff:08.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/29/devices/0000:ff:08.3
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/29/devices/0000:ff:08.4
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/30/devices/0000:ff:09.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/30/devices/0000:ff:09.3
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/30/devices/0000:ff:09.4
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/31/devices/0000:ff:0a.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/31/devices/0000:ff:0a.1
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/31/devices/0000:ff:0a.2
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/31/devices/0000:ff:0a.3
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/32/devices/0000:ff:0b.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/32/devices/0000:ff:0b.3
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/33/devices/0000:ff:0c.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/33/devices/0000:ff:0c.1
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/33/devices/0000:ff:0c.2
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/33/devices/0000:ff:0c.6
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/33/devices/0000:ff:0c.7
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/34/devices/0000:ff:0d.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/34/devices/0000:ff:0d.1
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/34/devices/0000:ff:0d.2
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/34/devices/0000:ff:0d.6
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/35/devices/0000:ff:0e.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/35/devices/0000:ff:0e.1
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/36/devices/0000:ff:0f.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/36/devices/0000:ff:0f.1
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/36/devices/0000:ff:0f.2
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/36/devices/0000:ff:0f.3
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/36/devices/0000:ff:0f.4
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/36/devices/0000:ff:0f.5
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/36/devices/0000:ff:0f.6
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/37/devices/0000:ff:10.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/37/devices/0000:ff:10.1
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/37/devices/0000:ff:10.2
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/37/devices/0000:ff:10.3
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/37/devices/0000:ff:10.4
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/37/devices/0000:ff:10.5
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/37/devices/0000:ff:10.6
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/37/devices/0000:ff:10.7
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/38/devices/0000:ff:11.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/39/devices/0000:ff:13.0
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/39/devices/0000:ff:13.1
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/39/devices/0000:ff:13.4
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/39/devices/0000:ff:13.5
/sys/kernel/iommu_groups/39/devices/0000:ff:13.6

 

Pictures! I can work on pictures, at some point.

Any Docker or plugin recommendations? I've been trying to keep a good eye on the forums.

 

If you have any questions, or comments about my build let me know.

[cool]

Hi i have a similar board the gigabyte x79s. Does your board has intel c606 chipset for SAS ?

 

If so can you confirm the new unraid use the SAS port fine?

 

Thanks

[Jcloud]

Sorry for the late reply, I just seen your post.  No this board does not have the c606 but instead:

 

Intel® X79 chipset :

2 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), black

4 x SATA 3Gb/s port(s), black

Support Raid 0, 1, 5, 10

Marvell® PCIe 9230 controller :

4 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), dark brown

ASMedia® ASM1061 controller :

2 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), dark brown

2 x Power eSATA 6Gb/s port(s), green

 

I have no issue with the Intel or ASM1061 controller, but I do have issues with my Marvell controller with my VM.

 

I hope that answers your question.

[Jcloud]

Hi i have a similar board the gigabyte x79s. Does your board has intel c606 chipset for SAS ?

 

If so can you confirm the new unraid use the SAS port fine?

 

Thanks

 

Mine has the X79 chipset and not the c606 chipset, my board does not support SAS or Xeon cpus.