shoemoney

I apologize if this sounds out of line but I am at my wits end with my unraid box and I don't have the time to fix it. Long story short - My unraid box has been operating flawlessly then one day every movie on plex started pausing every 8 seconds or so no matter what quality. I downgraded wiped, reinstalled same issue. Then I noticed the entire system started pausing. I have zero errors in any log, syslog, plex log nothing... I would rather pay someone to ssh in and have a look than go back and forth on the forums. Plus I value your time. Please PM me if you are interested.

Does anyone have a copy of this ?

Here is my situation. I preveously had installed all my applications like plexmedia server, sabnzbd, etc onto the array and it was working fine but I always read you are to put them on a cache drive. So I bought a 128gb PCI-E-SSD and then moved my apps directory from the previous location of /mnt/user/apps to /mnt/cache/apps. I added the drive as a cache drive as you can see: In the share settings I have it set to cache only. But as you can see I did not specify anything like include or external disks. Also I have never seen a "mover" script menu like some of the screenshots I found here when looking. My issue is this - Every morning all of my applications bomb out with errors. It drove me crazy.. Then I realized it must have been the mover moving them over from the cache drive so then the apps would bomb out. Whats the best practice for what I am trying to do? I only want to run apps from this almost like its a drive outside of the array but from the looks of it, it is very much part of the array as any file I make in that cache directory a share is created. Should I just suck it up and name it .apps folder? Or should I take it out of the array and mount it separate? Or should I just put my apps back into the main share? I would like to do this correctly. I think I am using the cache drive for something its not intended?

I have this exact same issue. Please let me know if you find a fix.

Ya this is for the cache drive (or static drive) however you want to refer to it as. It wont be in the array I was referring to any drive that you assign on the main unRAID page. this is true because USB drives are not automounted in unraid, and even then, they are not normally mounted to /dev/sdX devices. Yes you are absolutely correct. When I referred to it as a cache/static drive I should have included that I was going to mount it manually and use it statically outside the array for applications outside of the array. I should have been more explicit in what I meant by static drive.

Nevermind I can see from the link above it's way to deep. Damn would have loved this.

Nice rig. I does it need a full rack or will it fit in a micro one ? Mind measuring the depth?

*UPDATE* Ok so I got the card. First off its a full sized PCI card and was too big for my 2u unit. oups... However I wanted to see if it was even compatible. So put it in the slot and was kind of surprised that it was detected. Stopped my array assigned this drive as cache fired it back up and formatted. All was well. Did some write/read test for an hour and everything was great. So then got some tin snips and did a little adaptation to make it fit perfectly. Before: After (ghetto rigged) : Thanks for all the replies. Pumped to start moving stuff over that was installed on the array.

I went ahead and ordered that card last night should be here sometime today (love amazon prime). I am not sure compatibility if it will even work if not that will be my next option.

Ya this is for the cache drive (or static drive) however you want to refer to it as. It wont be in the array

No ports or power ports left. Room is fairly tight but I could stick a velcro drive in. 4 drives in top and one in a 5.25 to 3.5 adapter on right bottom side. Its a 2u unit so not a lot of room but some on the left hand side I could stick something on with double stick tape but I would have to get another controller and power right? Here is a pick for reference :

Hello community long time lurker first time poster. I have a setup with 5 4TB (1 is parity) drives and using a usb key for the boot drive. I opted to make full use of all the sata cables for the parity/array instead of adding a cache drive. At first I didn't think it would be that big of deal and I installed apps on the array (which I realize now why people say not to do it). So basically I need a cache drive solution. Problem is my rig is jam packed with drives. The way I figure it I have 3 possible solutions (that I can think of). Use a usb key as a cache drive (probably will burn out?) - super cheap Use a usb external drive (not really ideal). - cheap Get a PCI - Express card with a drive on the card - not cheap. I am leaning strongly to getting this - Plextor M6e Series 128GB PCI Express Internal Solid State Drive PX-AG128M6e - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J69VMB2/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J69VMB2&linkCode=as2&tag=nextpifreenex-20&linkId=WVKPCCWY3HG5ZUHS I am sure its probably way overkill for a cache drive but I would love to hear if anyone else has any more rational solutions. Thanks!