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Biowarfare posted:anyone using unraid know if i can pass through a usb-enclosure ssd as a standalone share? i've been googling and only finding 2011s-era outdated results. I haven't tried it myself but the Unassigned Devices plugin is supposed to allow you to do this I think.
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That Works posted:Anyone got a go to case recommendation? Mine used to live in a Thermaltake Versa H21 and that worked really well, plus it's cheap (even more so since I got mine used on FB Marketplace since like you I didn't care how it looked). Admittedly my drives were in 5.25" bay hot-swap adapters that had their own fans so I can't speak to how cool the drives stay in the conventional bays, but the case itself was solid and functional and IIRC the case has mounting points for fans directly in front of the internal drive bays you can get plenty of airflow there if you want. Now I have it in an iStarUSA D-407PL which was one of the best prices I could find for a rack-mountable chassis, it's been great and let me carry over the drive bay adapters I already had and add additional ones that the Versa didn't have space for.
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It's been mentioned, but most mini racks are for network equipment and it can be difficult to find one that'll fit even a shallow depth server chassis. If it's something that is seen and may need to move with you in the future it's worth looking at audio equipment racks. They're still the standard 19" wide, usually deep enough to fit shallow chassis, can usually be found on castors so they're easy to move, and generally look pretty nice compared to server racks (and they're usually much cheaper than server racks). It just means that you likely won't have a square hole system, you'll have a round hole system. This is really only an issue if you're frequently putting stuff into and out of the rack (can wear out fixed threaded holes with no way to replace them like you could using cage nuts, or you have to deal with unthreaded holes needing a nut on the back which is annoying to install) or if you're looking to use surplus enterprise gear since most of their rail systems are designed to work toollessly with square posts (but you mentioned that you're really not in the used enterprise gear market). I can vouch for Unraid in terms of ease of use for someone not very familiar with Linux. The ability to add whatever size drives whenever you get them is great as long as you don't need high read/write speeds (an SSD cache drive is a must). Their interface for both VMs and Docker containers make it very simple to get stuff up and running without needed to learn all networking/cli commands for docker settings but also lets you use those advanced features if needed. I haven't tried to do GPU passthrough yet but as long as it's a 10 series or newer Nvidia card it seems much easier than it used to be. I run a whole bunch of containers, Plex, and HomeAssistant (VM) on a Ryzen 1600AF and it seems to handle the load just fine. In general I'd say find a case for the server first (you don't have to buy it first, but find a case you know you'd be fine with) and then look for a rack. That way you can be sure you'll be able to at least fit that case instead of getting a rack and then hoping you'll be able to find a case that'll fit. And, as has been mentioned, if you're going to exist in the same room as the server then go 4U, anything less than that means you're going to need server grade fans to push air through the box instead of a normal tower cooler and that means a lot more noise. Scruff McGruff fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Oct 4, 2021 |
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politicorific posted:This is a nice nugget of experience. I see that both the Silverstone CS350 and RM4000 have round holes, as well as some of the no-name Chinese-made cases I can purchase all have rounded mounting holes. Looks like all the racks have square holes. Another great Unraid resource is SpaceInvader One. He seems to have a video guide for almost everything you'd want to do in Unraid and does a great job explaining the process.
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VelociBacon posted:Wait really? I run Plex off that machine already but I didn't think I could have it pull media from my phone. To be clear, I'm not trying to serve the media to any devices. I just want to back up my phone gallery folder to the extra space on a drive in my NAS. Yeah, I just set up Nextcloud on my home server and it's probably your best option. Once you install the mobile app and sync it with your instance it will automatically detect phone galleries and sync (or ask if you want to sync) them up. I also like the added benefit of being able to use stuff like CalDav for syncing my calendar/contacts too, not just as a backup, but also as an integration with HomeAssistant and Mycroft.
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VelociBacon posted:Thanks man, I'll set that up tonight. Ah, sorry. Something to consider is that you can technically still run Nextcloud with Ubuntu on Windows, so it may still be an option for you. https://www.how2shout.com/how-to/how-to-install-nextcloud-on-ubuntu-20-04-lts-wsl-windows-10.html
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Mephistopheles posted:I recently got a new desktop and have been wanting to dip my toe into the whole world of unraid with my old hardware. Old hardware is rather ancient but wanted to get some advice on the build and suggestions on what I can change, obviously with limited $$ to add. This is almost the exact spec list my unRAID server started as, it's a good way to get into it and as long as you don't have a ton of people sharing your Emby it should be fine. ECC memory is unnecessary for a small home server IMO, you can upgrade it later if you want but don't worry about going out of your way for it now. It's really only needed if you're running critical hough uptime servers where a single wrong bit could cause irreplaceable damage. Your plan looks good, go for it! For a drive expander card I recommend getting a SAS HBA like this one from TheArtofServer on eBay. He's a cool guy that has a good YouTube channel explaining anything anyone would need to know about server hardware and is super helpful if you have any questions with a purchase.
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Keito posted:Saying it's unnecessary for home use is going a bit too far in the opposite direction. If you care about ensuring that the data in memory is not getting corrupted before being committed to disk, you'll want to be using ECC memory. If Intel weren't purposefully crippling their consumer hardware to segment it away from the enterprise market I think we'd likely be using ECC RAM in all our computers by now. That's fair, I guess I should caveat it with "It's not worth paying the premium for it in version 1 of your home server" because if prices were more equivalent (and motherboard compatibility better) then definitely I'd have it in my server too. I just don't think it's worth prioritizing over other upgrades early on.
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cr0y posted:So this is kind of file server related. Kind of. Yeah, you could do this with Steam Link or potentially with Parsec if you have a lot of non-steam games or just can't get Steam Link to work right (I've had difficulties with it crashing or losing connection in the past).
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More anecdotes but I've got I think 4 Iron Wolfs (4tb) in my NAS now age ranging from 1-3 years old and they've all been solid so far.
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Teabag Dome Scandal posted:I want to upgrade the drives in my Unraid and it seems like preclearing is up for debate? Should I bother? To replace a drive do I just need to power it down, pull the drive, and then assign the new drive? Seems pretty straight forward unless there is a better way? I think unRAID now does a pre clear automatically with new drives but I'm not 100% on that. But yeah, just power off, pull the old drive, install the new one, it should automatically rebuild it from parity. Scruff McGruff fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Dec 9, 2021 |
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Teabag Dome Scandal posted:Is there anything I can do to avoid having to rebuild it for each of the four drives I'm replacing? Sure, but I don't recommend it. You just move whatever data on the drive(s) off of them, then stop the array, remove the drives from it, then power down and replace the physical drives, power back up and add the new drives to the array as new drives. I guess if you have the physical capacity in the server you could probably even add the new drives to the array with the old drives, then transfer all the data from the old drives to the new ones, then remove the old drives from the array. Now if your concern there is downtime during the rebuild, unRAID will emulate the drive via parity while its rebuilding so you can still run your server normally during that process. Correction from earlier: it sounds like, while unRAID will do its own disk clear to new drives, the Pre-Clear plugin is something that's still recommended because you can run it before adding the new drives to the array (while they're still unassigned devices). This means that when you do add the drive to the array unRAID won't have to run its own drive clear first which prevents the array from running until it completes. I haven't done this myself so I can't confirm it but that's what I've read and I'm definitely going to do that next time I add a new drive.
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Teabag Dome Scandal posted:I'm not certain anything other than a format was done since it went straight to rebuilding the drive when I assigned it and I remember way back when I set this up that preclearing took forever and the rebuild is almost done. If I wanted to preclear these drives I would probably have to setup a demo system on a laptop or something since I am at my 6 drive limit. That makes sense since the rebuild is essentially doing what the clear would, going bit by bit through the drive. It's been a while since I've actually replaced a drive in my system vs. just adding more new ones.
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4TB Seagate Iron Wolfs are on sale for $80 on Amazon right now, the lowest I've seen them.
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kri kri posted:I am looking to re-purpose some 8TB easystores as backups. My enclosures they came with I tossed, what is my best bet for an enclosure for a 3.5" drive? Preferably with a USB-C connection. Sabrent, IcyDock, and StarTech all make good external drive enclosures and docks that would serve this purpose, though most are usually USB 3.0 there are some USB-C ones like this Sabrent dual bay dock. I can't speak to it specifically but I've used docks/enclosures/bay adapters from all three companies and they've all been solid.
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redeyes posted:Not super cheap but i'd be scared of no Waranty. This was my thought as well. My guess is that they're old but (hopefully) unused drives, the sale price is pretty consistent with current 18tb drives so that crossed out number is probably MSRP when they were new which was probably 5+ years ago. Looking at reviews for these on other sites it seems like you can actually get WD to register the warranty on them but you have to contact support to do it and they'll hassle you about it, if you just try to register it with the S/N through their site it'll deny you. It's pretty common to find old enterprise drives for good prices that say they're new and even look like it out of the box but then you run a diag and it pulls hundreds of thousands of hours or run time. It's common enough that most of the resellers have a standard procedure of "If customer is smart enough to find out it's not new, immediately send them an actual new one, we'll still make good profit from all the ones that don't figure it out". Basically, it's a roll of the dice if you'll a) get an actually unused drive, or b) be able to get the warranty on it.
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AirRaid posted:Hey goons I am in need of a mass storage upgrade, since the 4TB external drive I have is getting full and is becoming questionably reliable. Enterprise drives are similar but also tend to be rated for even longer operation and also tend to lack features to reduce noise or improve cooling since the assumption is that they'll be going into a data center where those things aren't really a concern. Buying these online can be a bit of a crap shoot since there are a ton of resellers that advertise them as new but they're actually used drives that have been cycled out of data centers. This doesn't necessarily mean that they're bad, just that they've had a lot of hours of hard use already and that there's likely no warranty on them from the manufacturer. Personally I use Seagate IronWolfs but I have a couple of Hitachi Constellation Enterprise drives still kicking around in my system that have been working just fine for years despite coming to me used. I bought those because they were half the cost of the NAS drives and I didn't have the budget for new at the time, plus I knew my server was going to live in the basement where drive noise and temps wouldn't be a problem. Most data hoarders tend to buy external drives and "shuck" them (remove them from their enclosures) because they're frequently the same NAS drives you would normally buy from WD or Seagate but tend to be cheaper. I'd also say don't bother with 7200+ rpm drives, 5400 tends to be fine for NAS use and they're usually a lot quieter. Scruff McGruff fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Dec 29, 2021 |
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Crunchy Black posted:BSD, I just want to reiterate that having someone with your knowledge of the low-level and communication ability is always amazingly helpful, insightful and fun. Thanks for hanging out. agreed, teaching us something new every day.
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Enos Cabell posted:Yup, this is exactly why I went with UnRAID. Everything that I can't afford to lose is backed up offsite, and I love being able to add drives as my needs and budget require. Over the past 3 1/2 years I've expanded from 5 to 9 drives, and the only problems I've had were due to a crappy USB port on my motherboard that likes to fry USB drives. Same. I have what little irreplaceable data I have backed up to Google Drive and my media library is easily replaceable if I ever can't rebuild from parity. For someone with no budget and no Linux experience that just had a lot of old computer hardware laying around and wanted to try out a home server it's been great. I think I started in 2016 with a pair of old 500gb drives and now I have 8 3-4tb drives in my array acquired whenever I had the money and when the existing drives filled up. It's also great not having Plex on my gaming machine anymore, now if that computer gets messed up I can just nuke Windows and start fresh instead of combing through forum posts from 2007 and digging through the registry for days. Obviously that's not exclusive to unRAID though, that's just a nice benefit of having a home server. Scruff McGruff fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Dec 30, 2021 |
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Sabrent has some good options but you pay for the name there. Mediasonic has a 4-bay for a good price, I've used their internal drive bay adapters and they've been solid but as a company they're a bit of a mystery, appearing and disappearing every so often. Scruff McGruff fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Jan 2, 2022 |
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I would also say that it sounds like a lot of us adopted unRAID back in like 2016/17 and I don't remember things like TrueNAS or Proxmox seeming nearly as user friendly then, but I may just be misremembering. Looking at both TrueNAS and Proxmox now it does seem like they're all very similar in UI/UX, so I wouldn't say that's as compelling a reason as it used to be. I also think that the terminology makes a difference, at least for people like me that was just getting into trying a home server/NAS from Windows. I remember reading stuff about creating multiple pools, jails, vdevs, raidz1-3, and feeling overwhelmed. It also didn't help that I'd never even heard of FreeBSD before, I at least had an idea of what Linux was. UnRAID seemed very straightforward with "put all my disks in the one array, create a share, get apps from the CA store." I didn't even have to mess with Docker Compose for containers, just fill in template fields. Again, I'm not saying that it's not that simple in other options but for me at least back then it made more sense conceptually then the TrueNAS stuff did. The biggest draw for me though was still just the fact that I could throw any drives of any size together in the one array, I didn't need to group drives of the same size together. Since I was building this out of spare parts I didn't have any drives that were the same size at the time so that was my first priority over stuff like data integrity or redundancy. Scruff McGruff fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Jan 4, 2022 |
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Matt Zerella posted:I have Sonarr/Radarr backing up to google drive. Curious what you're using for this.
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5436 posted:I sorta want a NAS that just has 2 drives and can do plex transcoding and run qbitorrent. The boxes out there seem really expensive, is TrueNas/FreeNas/etc software good/stable? Anyone have a pcpartpicker for building a NAS? Buy a used Dell Optiplex off eBay or FB Marketplace, load TrueNAS or unRAID on it and you're good to go.
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5436 posted:Oh man those are loving cheap. Sure you say that now, but just wait until a few years from now when you're staring at the full rack of enterprise server and network gear that is now somehow in your house and refusing to think about how much you've actually spent on it because you know you'll cry.
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5436 posted:That a good price? That seems about right, but you might be able to find one with 8gb of RAM or potentially even a 5th gen one for a few more bucks. I'm not sure how much of a difference it would really make though (and a DIY RAM upgrade is cheap and easy).
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Klyith posted:There's a dedicated backup thread where a lot of people like Duplicati, but that's because they're backing up to the cloud and Duplicati is very much optimized for that. IMO it's meh for backing up to your own NAS, because it turns everything into encrypted data chunks that aren't readable if you lose your configuration files. I recently set up Duplicati for the first time about a month back, admittedly for backing up to Gdrive as Klyith said, but there was definitely an option to create the chunks unencrypted. Not saying that it's the best solution here, I'd leave that to people more knowledgeable than I am but figured I'd mention it. Scruff McGruff fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Jan 31, 2022 |
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CerealKilla420 posted:I remember when smaller SSDs first started to really get affordable back in 2010 or so and everyone was worried that the drives would burn out after 2 years... Hell I was worried about it myself and I decided against getting one in favor of an upgraded 500gb 2.5in HDD drive for my laptop at the time. Yeah, my gaming rig is still booting from a 250gb Samsung 850 Evo I bought in like 2015. 56TB written apparently (though admittedly I've been looking to replace it and my gaming rig is designed to be nuked regularly so I'm not worried about losing anything on it).
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eddiewalker posted:I have an HP N54L that’s been spinning the same 4x3tb Reds since 2013. It mostly meets my needs, but it’s full. Level1Techs just reviewed a new Microcenter/Supermicro box like the N54L.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Eh, I give it about a month. Last time I successfully petitioned my wife for a new drive I was like "this should last me like another year!" and then I found myself pleading the case for another drive 3 months later.
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MJP posted:What's the zeitgeist goon opinion on NAS boxes with gig ethernet, two bays, regular old SMB support for doing local Windows file sharing, and maybe decent media transcoding? I have an old Buffalo NAS that's been a workhorse but is definitely slow at file transfers and a real kludge of a user interface. If you're storing/collecting media files my only caution would be that you'd be surprised how fast you'll fill up drives depending on what you're storing and how, so two bays might be more limiting than expected. But otherwise like Rexxed said, the Synology boxes seem to work very well as a user-friendly and easy to maintain solution. For a desktop, I would again agree with Rexxed, hardware RAID is effectively dead, don't bother with it. You can definitely add an HBA expander card in IT mode pretty easily to add more drives than your motherboard supports (I recommend theartofserver for both his YouTube channel containing everything you need to know and his ebay store for quality parts and support. Very cool dude) but if you have enough SATA ports already then you don't really need one. I can't speak to the feasibility of ZFS in Windows, though I'm sure others here could speak to that at length. I would expect the preferred method would be to flip the OS by running a Linux distro that supports all the ZFS features and then have a Windows VM inside that for your regular desktop needs.
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Combat Pretzel posted:Intel gives you ECC on Xeon CPUs only. In the past, the i3 ones had it too, but I think they disabled it nowadays on newer models. I was going to say this. A lot of Ryzen boards "support" ECC memory but disable ECC to do so, which defeats the purpose if that's something you need. Just be sure to check the spec sheet/manual for any boards you consider to check on that as well as XMP compatibility since Ryzen chips seem to care about fast memory more than Intel ones. Not sure how big a different it makes in a NAS but the difference between XMP off and on with the 3600X in my gaming rig is significant. I'm torn on the issue, I went from an i5-2500T to a Ryzen 1600AF, and now to a 3900X and while I love the cost to performance ratio and core count of the AMD chips there have been plenty of times where I've wished that I had an iGPU for both troubleshooting boot issues and to free up a slot in my server by getting rid of the GPU in it. Combat Pretzel posted:They support ECC just fine and is enabled (per chipset register readout), if they specifically mention it. Just that error reporting doesn't (always?) work. ah, this is good to know! I managed to choose RAM that doesn't have XMP support on my current board back before I knew better, and this gives me more of an excuse to replace it with something that does. Scruff McGruff fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Jun 13, 2022 |
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Moey posted:Oh there is one in there, but it will be the last one you find, after searching the box 3 times. No, there isn't one in there, it's in another box and you'll find it the day before the new one you ordered arrives.
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I've got three of the G3 Instants and a G3 Flex recording to a 5TB 2.5in 5400rpm SMR Toshiba drive in a CK2+ and writing has been fine. Actually playing back video can be a pretty slow process sometimes though. If that'll work then I feel like almost anything will.
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Brain Issues posted:Absolutely not, that's just media. Which is why I'm being a cheapskate about it. I can re-download almost all of it but would prefer to not have to, because it's still a huge amount of manual work. I will say, it doesn't have to be a lot of manual work if you set up some of the "arr" apps. Rather than backup your media you can backup the databases for Radarr/Sonarr/Lidarr and if you ever lose the media they can do most of the heavy lifting in searching and pulling down replacements. Much smaller backup.
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Ihmemies posted:I want to get rid of Spotify. It is really getting to my nerves with all the crapware and hostile features. What are my options? Like, I want to host my own private Spotify for myself. I can probably make a PC with VM's and run some OS on one VM. I haven't' used it myself so I can't speak to how good it is, but Plex also does audio (PlexAmp).
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Bobstar posted:Kind of a combo NAS/Plex/home networking question - I initially had my Synology NAS on a VLAN that can't see the internet, and just used it within my house. Then I started backing up to iDrive , and used the IP addresses that iDrive handily provides to poke holes in my firewall (USG) to allow that connection. Setting up a Reverse Proxy is the first thing that comes to mind. Basically, set up a domain, either by buying one or using https://duckdns.org to create one for free, have subdomains for whatever service you need, like plex.mydomain.com and idrive.webdomain.com. Then for those services, instead of pointing them at your public IP you point them to those webdomains so all their traffic comes to your network over port 80/443. Then you have a tool like Nginx Proxy Manager route that traffic to the appropriate location/port inside your network based on what subdomain it came from. It can even handle creating SSL certs via LetsEncrypt right in the GUI, or you can generate a wildcard cert from Cloudflare and use that, no messing around in config files. The only firewall stuff you have to do is point ports 80/443 to your proxy. Getting this set up for me was a godsend, no more messing with port-forwarding on the router and sending them an IP address whenever my friends want me to spin up a Minecraft server, now it's just "create minecraft.scruffmcgruff.com in Cloudflare, create a corresponding endpoint in NPM, send traffic to the appropriate container IP:Port" and then tell them to just put in minecraft.scruffmcgruff.com. Ibracorp has a good guide on YouTube on how to set this up. It's for Unraid/Docker but the config of the domain stuff and NPM are the same regardless of how you implement it. Scruff McGruff fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Sep 23, 2022 |
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PRADA SLUT posted:Is there an instruction on how to set up a synology nas such that I could connect to certain internal pages (e.g, pihole config) from outside the network? Like deong said, setting up a VPN like Tailscale or Wireguard is probably the best way to do this.
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datajosh posted:Not even sure if this is the "proper" thread, but I want to gently caress around at work and be able to access my Plex server, but they have Plex.tv blocked. What's the best/easiest way to get around that? I've got the ports open and I can access my home server by IP and even tried adding my work IP to addresses allowed without auth, but it just redirects me to a page that complains about not being able to reach plex.tv. If you have your own domain you can hit your plex through that, so instead of going to app.plex.tv you're going to plex.yourdomain.com.
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