Unraid: Unleash Your Hardware

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/hmmmm83 on 2023-09-24 19:47:26.

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/tradinghumble on 2023-09-24 15:00:34.

I don’t want to have server redundancy Just backup flash, apps, VMs and some Shares

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/Roaders on 2023-09-24 09:20:52.

Hi All

I have a plan to have a backup unraid box in my garage. I want to remotly power it on with a smart plug (my MB doesn't have WOL and in my experience that never works!).

I have set the state on power restore to Always in the BIOS. This only seems to work if power was lost when the server was on. In otherwords if I power off the server when it's running then it will re-boot when power is restored. If I shutdown the server then power off the smart plug it doesn't come back on again.

Is this expected behavior? Seems odd and is very frustrating...

My motherboard is one of these:

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/xman_111 on 2023-09-24 02:24:59.

Hey guys, trying to figure this out. I have 2 500gb nvme drives in a ZFS cache pool. Unraid is saying that 402 gb used but when i go into Krusader and look it seems like there is only 251gb used. can anyone help shed some light on this for me?

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/nehpets4627 on 2023-09-23 20:46:59.

Can anyone point me to a setup guide for setting up a Jellyfin Docker with an Nvidia gpu for transcoding? With the new official support and deprecation of ich777's docker, I don't see a guide with full details and/or screenshots anywhere.

The main roadblock I've hit is I know I need to add " -e NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all" (or equivalent with my specific GPUID), but I don't know WHERE to add it in the initial docker configuration.

I would go to r/jellyfin but they relocated during the protests...

Any help (specific or link to an up to date guide) is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/FTS_i_quit on 2023-09-24 05:26:16.

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/LowerDoor on 2023-09-24 02:09:13.

Will be taking a trip soon looking for a way to move tv shows etc from unraid to my iPad to watch on the plane. I don't usually play anything on my iPad so not even sure what player to use.

And i hate itunes.

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/StabilityFetish on 2023-09-23 17:40:07.

I've looked for a while and never been able to find a clear answer on the docker app supply chain, so to speak. Sometimes you've got full first party software, like Plex who maintains their own unraid community app and it pulls from an official plex repo on dockerhub. Other times you've got full 3rd party like linuxserver maintaining their own sonarr app which pulls from their own linuxserver repo on dockerhub. But most lot of the time, there seems to be this hybrid where you find apps maintained by unknown internet users, but the docker repo it points to is the proper official dockerhub repo.

So my question is, what is the role of the maintainer? Does them being a rando anon internet person present risk?

• Can the maintainer inject malware into or on top of a legitimate docker image?
• Can they change the docker repository that their app is pointed at to a malicious one?
• When my dockers have updates, are those from the dockerhub repo or the maintainer?
• If a maintainer goes MIA, would updates to that docker on unraid stop?

My best understanding is that they only maintain the unraid settings, like what you would configure if you used Add Container manually (repo, ports, paths, etc).

Community apps seems to highlight certain apps or dockers as official, starred, or similar tags, but I can't find information about what that technically means or the vetting process.

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/ElBigBad on 2023-09-23 19:37:41.

1. I went from a 11600k to a 13700k. Average wattage, even with boost limited in unraid, has dropped considerably. 50-60w. I'm really thinking the ASUS TUF boards use a lot of power. Iwent with this board from Microcenter at $150.

2. Switched to backplanes and a higher wattage UPS. Before then I'd get drive error counts on a couple drives weekly. Few here and there, people kept saying to trash the drives. Ever since I switched to backplanes and a quality UPS (I was on a way too low power one and now have 900w one) I've had zero errors on any of my 24 drives for the past two months.

3. I VASTLY underestimated how much it would help the system by letting the drives spin down. My wattage use dropped in half, the average drive temp is much lower (some were in the 50-54c range when running it 24/7 for 6 weeks downloading at 1g speeds). Surprisingly it doesn't slow plex down very much waiting for the spin up.

4. I can't explain why or what's different but before the backplanes the system felt "ok" but nothing stellar. Now it's very snappy and responsive.

5. Transcoding plex to memory was a fantastic move

6. I personally like having a dgpu. The CPU is very very capable, don't get me wrong, but I did notice an improvement in quality of use doing to a dgpu. I can also transcode a download to my ipad or macbook about 5x faster. I know there's a subgroup that wants to take a .001w cpu and make it work. I get it. But for my use case I love having a dgpu and it's a small price to pay for a better quality of service for myself and others.

I'd say my average wattage of the system is about 180-200w with 24 drives spun up and the dgpu doing some transcoding. At idle I'm about 115w which I can live with. My main point in the post was the backplanes and good power supply. I truly believe that drives get errors when the voltage fluctuates and they report that making you think you have bad sectors. Per all the people that said I should trash the drives, the error counts should be growing yet even when hammering the drives 24/7 there's been zero error counts since going backplanes/better power supply. So before you go tossing any drives check what conditions you're having them operate under.

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/Springtimefist78 on 2023-09-23 16:41:56.

I purchased a new ssd cache drive and I am unsure how best to perform the upgrade. I don't use any vm's and have around 20 docker containers. How can I upgrade from my current 500gb ssd cache drive to the new 2tb ssd drive without losing anything or having to reinstall dockers? Thanks in advance!

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/Fabtech_Projects on 2023-09-23 14:31:36.

Hey guys, I recently got a great deal on a Lenovo SR250 7Y51 server that I want to use as a backup for my current Unraid server. My issue is that I'm new to working with server equipment and had a question about my options to expand the drives on the server from (4) 3.4 HDD drive bays to perhaps a rack-mounted disk shelf solution. I have read about purchasing a used rack mounted external unit and connecting my drives over SaS to Sata. I am wondering if my current server can support this with what I currently have, or if I need to look into acquiring an HBA for the server. My SR250 currently has these specs. I was hoping I could use these cables to run from the drives to my server. My concern is my server uses a Raid 530-8i. I don't know if that acts as an HBA for the server. Furthermore, I don't know if the Raid controller would over-rule how Unraid manages the drives.

I am very new to server setups, so I apologies for my ignorance and lack of correct lingo. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/Glum_Mistake1933 on 2023-09-23 13:40:17.

Hi,

I have a NAS with four SSDs and an NVME cache. I started a test copy from my windows machine, and that is how it looks inside my main. From what I see, it only uses 2 of the drives. The cache drive is completely ignored. What is wrong here?

Thanks,

Jay

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/tradinghumble on 2023-09-23 13:07:33.

I think the text is self explanatory but I have

1 partity 10tb + 1 disk 10tb (both HDDs)

2x 1TB NVME (cache pool) - auto raid 1

Should I migrate to ZFS? I hear it's better and if so what would be the best approach pls?

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/Professional_Pin_298 on 2023-09-23 02:45:54.

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/Confident_Blueberry4 on 2023-09-23 01:46:50.

Hello, I am very new to unraid, Linux, and servers/nases in general. I want to install Tailscale so I can access unraid from anywhere. I was following a video but it didn’t work. Could someone give me a well documented tutorial? Thanks

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/JoeyZimbada on 2023-09-22 21:53:17.

I am upgrading to a new server this weekend and I was thinking of getting into VMs. I know so little about this that I just found out what a thin client is 3 days ago. Up until now this has simply been a NAS/cloud for movies and photos. If I were to start with a Windows VM how do I use it? Do I use it through a browser on my laptop which I use for everything I do on unRAID? Do people usually do this with a monitor hooked directly to the server? Thanks for help!

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/MajereXYU on 2023-09-22 05:18:41.

Recently built an UnRaid server and use it for storage, Plex and *Arrs, as well as sone VMs for testing and gaming.

I have 128GB of RAM, M.2 cache drives and M.2 VM drive.

What settings can I turn on to take full advantage of my RAM?

For example, I recently set up Plex to transcode in RAM. How else would you treat yourself with 128GB available?

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/EmoJackson on 2023-09-22 01:37:15.

Suggestions on most efficient way to move 140TB of data from old Truenas Scale to new Unraid machine?

I have 10gbe network cards in both machines. I want the data / files only, not the ZFS structure.

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/slammybe on 2023-09-21 17:59:53.

I am planning on installing unRAID on my new server. I am moving from a computer running Windows with 2 external drives attached, and I'm really excited to get it up and running. I have:

• 7x 10TB HDDs
• 1x 1TB SSD
• 1x 14TB HDD
• 1x 16TB HDD

I will use the SSD as a cache drive.

Is it possible to use the 5 of the 10tb drives for my media storage, 2 for parity, and then separately pool the 14 and 16tb drives together for additional storage that is non-parity?

I want to use the 10tb drives for my media library, and the non-parity part for downloads that I'm seeding. These don't need to be backed up in any way, because Sonarr/Radarr renames and copies files from the downloads folder to the TV/Movie folders.

I know that I'm supposed to use my largest drives for parity but isn't that just wasting space? I'd rather have 50TB in parity and 30TB non-parity than have just 70TB parity. I hope this makes sense, not sure if I'm understanding this correctly or using the correct terms. I appreciate any info you can share!

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/mustangprime on 2023-09-21 09:24:53.

I've run out of ports on my LSI 9207i card, but I'd like to add another drive that I have knocking about.

Is there anything "wrong" with sticking a drive on the motherboard's SATA ports and having the rest on the LSI card? The plan is ultimately to get another LSI card, but for that I'll need to replace my motherboard and possibly some other bits so that'll have to wait for now. Alternative is to get an HBA card with more ports, but expense is still the blocker for now. Just looking for something that'll allow me to add one more drive until I can upgrade.

Before I got the LSI card I had multiple drives on the motherboard's SATA ports and performance wasn't great, mostly if I recall, from when drives were being accessed simultaneously - especially parity checks. I'm hoping that a single drive on the on-board ports will mean that performance is still OK.

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/Roy1267 on 2023-09-21 04:44:03.

I just made my Unraid server in these past few weeks. So I thought I'd make a beginner guide for the average tech user.

This guide is essentially a playlist of Youtube videos that I used. I’ve also included extra notes on the installation videos, solutions to problems that I ran into, and other useful information.

The videos do a really good job at holding your hand throughout the entire process. It includes installation guides of the typical services people want, which include a media server (plex/jellyfin), being able to share files, and backing up photos from your phone.

Let me know if I misrepresented something. Apologies for some format errors, didn't expect Word to Google Doc mess it up that bad.

Unraid Guide for Noobs made by a Noob

Happy unRAIDING!

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/TheMrRadioVoice on 2023-09-20 18:06:28.

As the title says, my server will not stay up for 24 hours straight and its super annoying. I left it overnight download some torrents, and it stayed up, but as soon as I stopped seeding them this morning and left my house the sever was down again. I enabled logs yesterday, but of course they started over when I restarted my server for some reason. so no luck there. I am getting super close to just nuking the whole thing and starting over. Pls help.

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/ImaginaryAdvisor9282 on 2023-09-20 15:29:11.

I’m upgrading my unraid (custom machine) to 10gb Ethernet.

What Nic and switch should I buy?

I have a team of 4 using it to edit video and all our computers are 10gb Ethernet compatible.

Saw some people doing fiber to Ethernet but I don’t know if that’s right for our situation.

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/STGMavrick on 2023-09-20 16:48:59.

As the title states I'm getting an incorrect reading on the runtime left value.

I'm running a Vertiv GXT5 using the usbhid-ups driver on a raspi NUT server connected via NUT client on Unraid. The UPS reports raw value as minutes, not seconds which I'm assuming Unraid scales based on seconds. Is there something somewhere that I can scale the value correctly?

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/SchmeepyDooDoo on 2023-09-20 16:28:46.

I have an R6 with 7 drives in it, an hba, a couple of nvmes and an 11500 with stock cooler. 6 case fans, most plugged into a powered fan header and nothing else should be drawing power. Power comes in through a small ups.

The psu is a 650w gold evga. I did some rough calculations and even assigning 200w to the drives I figured I had a bunch of headroom.

So I added a few new bits and pieces I harvested elsewhere - another nvme, a small fan for the hba, another drive and an old 1060 3gb.

I still thought Id have plenty of headroom, but after plugging everything in and starting up everything began ok then flickered and reset.

Ok, whoops. Must be too much? Pulled out the 1060 and everything started up and stayed on, but now the webui isnt loading and Im super worried ive fried something. I have to pull a bunch of managed cables out to get a monitor connected so need to wait until tomorrow to dig it all out.

In the meantime;

• is it likely ive overdone the power draw with the 1060 plugged in?
• if so, can overdoing it like this fry components? Is it LIKELY to have fried components or would that be pretty freakishly unlucky?
• anyone have similar stories with nice soothing endings about everything being ok?