Kodx Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Hello Everyone , About to build my UnRaid Server this weekend ( been playing with the OS for 2 weeks now on a test machine ) Cant believe i haven't found this OS before , I am now running Ubuntu Server till this weekend . This will be a unmanned machine after install ( i will be accessing web GUI on My linux macine ) I will not be running any VMs at all I will be only running a few Dockers and the main use for me is File storage for media files ( Videos,Music,Pictures, Docs. ) there is only a few docks i know i will want * Community Applications * PreClear Please feel free to suggest Dockers or apps if you think it will help or be Needed. I will be accessing these files from Linux Desktop OS on a Laptop ( core 2 duo 3.1 HP ) Windows 10 Home OS desktop ( Core I7 3.9 Dell ) Sony 850D 55inch TV running android 7 Xbox ONE S Amazon Fire TV box ( gen 2 ) Not the tv-cube ) Amazon Fire Tablet All devices with have Kodi 18.1 installed also and network mapped drives from the desktop and laptop My Server stats below will be * Intel Server Running Unraid OS 6.6.7 Intel i3 processor (3.3 gig) Socket LGA1156 8 GB RAM and is expandable to 32 GB.( 2*4) ECC Memory Supported Three 1 TB SATA drives ( 2 in parity ) ( 1 Storage ) Two 4 TB SATA drives (Storage) One 2 TB SATA drive (storage Two 500 GB Sata drive ( cache drives) Integrated BMC with IPMI IPMI 2.0 Integrated Graphics Six PCI Express Lanes (PCIe x8 Gen 2.x2 -PCIe x16 Gen 2.x1 -PCIe x4 Gen 1.x1 -PCIe x8 Gen 1.x1) Intel® I/O Expansion Module x4 Gen 11 I/O Specifications Six 6 (2.0 rev) USB Ports Six SATA Ports RAID Configuration 0, 1, 10, 5 Integrated LAN 2x 1GbE Integrated SAS Thank you Very much , Scott AKA KODX Quote Link to comment
kizer Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 I'd install the following: 😀 Keep in mind there are many many many you could install These are rather musts on my two machines. Plugins: Community Applications CA Auto Update Applications CA Backup / Restore Appdata - If you have an SSD CA Docker Autostart Manager CA Mover Tuning Dynamix SSD TRIM - if you have an SSD Fix Common Problems Tips and Tweaks Unassigned Devices - Allows you to plug in USB drives or simply add drives to your machine and not use them in your array. unBALANCE User Scripts - Allows you to create your own little scripts and launch them from a button or a schedule Dockers: Plex FileBot 1 Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 It is not clear from your description what you mean by ‘storage’ drives? Since the parity drive(s) have to be at least as large as the largest data drive in the array and you only mention parity in the context of the 1TB drives are the larger drives meant to be part of the array? You also mention a RAID configuration? Where do you expect to use that as Unraid does not understand RAID. 1 Quote Link to comment
Kodx Posted April 20, 2019 Author Share Posted April 20, 2019 On 3/27/2019 at 11:12 AM, Kodx said: Hello Everyone , About to build my UnRaid Server this weekend ( been playing with the OS for 2 weeks now on a test machine ) Cant believe i haven't found this OS before , I am now running Ubuntu Server till this weekend . This will be a unmanned machine after install ( i will be accessing web GUI on My linux macine ) I will not be running any VMs at all I will be only running a few Dockers and the main use for me is File storage for media files ( Videos,Music,Pictures, Docs. ) there is only a few docks i know i will want * Community Applications * PreClear Please feel free to suggest Dockers or apps if you think it will help or be Needed. I will be accessing these files from Linux Desktop OS on a Laptop ( core 2 duo 3.1 HP ) Windows 10 Home OS desktop ( Core I7 3.9 Dell ) Sony 850D 55inch TV running android 7 Xbox ONE S Amazon Fire TV box ( gen 2 ) Not the tv-cube ) Amazon Fire Tablet All devices with have Kodi 18.1 installed also and network mapped drives from the desktop and laptop On 3/27/2019 at 11:12 AM, Kodx said: ( old setup i was wanting to do untill @itimpi Corrected my set up ) My Server stats below will be * Intel Server Running Unraid OS 6.6.7 Intel i3 processor (3.3 gig) Socket LGA1156 8 GB RAM and is expandable to 32 GB.( 2*4) ECC Memory Supported Three 1 TB SATA drives ( 2 in parity ) ( 1 Storage ) Two 4 TB SATA drives (Storage) One 2 TB SATA drive (storage Two 500 GB Sata drive ( cache drives) Integrated BMC with IPMI IPMI 2.0 Integrated Graphics Six PCI Express Lanes (PCIe x8 Gen 2.x2 -PCIe x16 Gen 2.x1 -PCIe x4 Gen 1.x1 -PCIe x8 Gen 1.x1) Intel® I/O Expansion Module x4 Gen 11 I/O Specifications Six 6 (2.0 rev) USB Ports Six SATA Ports RAID Configuration 0, 1, 10, 5 Integrated LAN 2x 1GbE Integrated SAS My Server stats below Corrected .. * Intel Server Running Unraid OS 6.6.7 Intel i3 processor (3.3 gig) Socket LGA1156 8 GB RAM and is expandable to 32 GB.( 2*4) ECC Memory Supported Three 1 TB SATA drives (data ) Two 4 TB SATA drives (parity) One 2 TB SATA drive (data) Two 500 GB Sata drive ( cache drives) Integrated BMC with IPMI IPMI 2.0 Integrated Graphics Six PCI Express Lanes (PCIe x8 Gen 2.x2 -PCIe x16 Gen 2.x1 -PCIe x4 Gen 1.x1 -PCIe x8 Gen 1.x1) Intel® I/O Expansion Module x4 Gen 11 I/O Specifications Six 6 (2.0 rev) USB Ports Six SATA Ports RAID Configuration 0, 1, 10, 5 Integrated LAN 2x 1GbE Integrated SAS .. Thank you @itimpi for you time . Been up and running now for 2 weeks after install with no problems ... On 3/27/2019 at 11:12 AM, Kodx said: Thank you Very much , Scott AKA KODX Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Just a comment - having dual parity on such a small array feels like overkill! Do you have a good backup strategy in place? If not you might find one of the 4TB drives being used as parity is better utilised as a backup drive. Remember that parity is about uptime and protection against drive failure - it does not protect you against other ways of losing data. You should always have an offline copy of any critical data. 1 Quote Link to comment
Kodx Posted April 20, 2019 Author Share Posted April 20, 2019 i will be adding 2x 4tb's soon for storage , waiting for extra money .. Quote Link to comment
mrbilky Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 4 minutes ago, Kodx said: i will be adding 2x 4tb's soon for storage , waiting for extra money .. I thought as you and started with 2 4TB parity drives but in the end the scalability of unRAID is so flexible I pulled down 1 4TB drive for data and will allow to fill my array up to at least 50% capacity or more before I feel the need for dual parity and that will be some time yet 1 Quote Link to comment
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