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  1. This is honestly something I have been asking for for years. As @ashman70 stated, if it's a technical limit that unraid has, then so be it. I can't say that I've ever seen other OS's struggle with this limit, so I'm not sure its a technical limit vs a LT imposed limit. I've also said for years I would have been happy to buy a Pro Plus or Ultra or whatever license to get rid of the limit. While I'm now running 12TB drives, it would have been a hell of a lot cheaper to buy an upgraded license rather than expensive larger drives. I'm not talking hundreds of dollars cheaper, I'm talking thousands of dollars cheaper. As to not wanting that much data (or drives) being protected by 1 or 2 parity drives, that's just personal preference. I no longer even run parity drives on my array. At $400/drive and having a main and backup server, dual parity on those machines would be a $1,600 expense. If a drive dies, I replace that drive, and copy the missing data from my backups. So if that was a real concern, give us multiple arrays with each array protected by it's own set of parity disks. Cost issue solved, scaling issue solved. We get what we need, LT makes money, everyone wins.
  2. My opinion on that I get the bigger sticks. I bought 2x8 but if your planning on bumping that to 64GB down the road it would be more cost effective to buy 2x16 and just add two more sticks later vs having to buy 4 new sticks later. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  3. I got my gear at Microcenter as well. Even though it was $10 higher for the CPU, the additional $50 bundle made it cheaper. I also snagged my 500GB 960 Evo for $139 while I was there. There was a price mistake which I took full advantage of! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  4. I must have missed that item on prime day. I never saw it go below $269.99 which is where it's currently at and was prior to prime day. So I'm also curious how much they reduced it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  5. I went with Asus Prime X370 Pro's on all 4 machines. Reason was I run all my data drives in SAS2 JBOD chassis (non expander) so I needed/wanted the PCIe slots for my LSI 9201-16e cards over something like the B350 boards that don't have that additional slot. Also with the price difference only being $50 per board I figured why not get the better of the two anyway. I updated the bios to 0805 I believe before I did anything and everything went smooth. No memory issues, no issues detecting the M.2 drives.. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  6. I'm with ya, I just got through building 4 new Ryzen systems this week to upgrade my FX8350's and FX4350's. For my unRAID systems of course it'll boot off the thumb drive but for my Windows machines (I don't use VM's) I said to hell with it and bought Samsung 960 evo's. Figured if I'm updating technology just as well go all the way. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  7. That's strange. I ran the 8350 on a Asus M5A97 R2 board for years and never had a heat issue using the craptastic stock cooler. And my chip should have ran way warmer than yours. I know you've said that you hanged coolers but this CPU should not be getting hot enough to shut down. If it is, it still sounds like a cooler issue. This isn't meant to be sarcastic but make sure the coolers your using are capable of cooling your specific chip. Not all of them are. A suggestion from me would be before you even get into unRAID just boot into your bios and watch your CPU temp at idle and see what it's doing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  8. I may be off base here but are you upgrading the size of your parity drive as well? I'm not clear why your removing the parity drive then inserting a fresh parity drive then building parity again? As to moving hardware, the drive assignments refer to making sure you don't add your parity drive as a data drive. Ask far ask disk 1 being in slot 1 and disk 2 being in slot 2, unRAID doesn't care. I can take my 12 bay chassis and play musical bays with them and unRAID could care less. If your simply updating your hardware in a new enclosure, just move your drives, pop in your thumb drive and let unRAID do what it does. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  9. Another SeaSonic fan here. I use all SeaSonic power supplies in my 2U chassis. Plenty of power for my 12 drives and they run silent. Had these about 3 years and never had a failure. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  10. I'm guilty of that too. I do have my full backup copy but a third offsite just isn't feasible for me. And your right, if it was a small array that would be different. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  11. Only you can answer that for yourself. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  12. Now that I would defiantly agree with. Amazon/Newegg craptastic packaging FTW!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  13. I, and I assume many others, have never seen any evidence that drives from the same batch are more likely to die together than drives from separate batches. As to your example of nobody would every catch you running 14:1, I ran (4) chassis all running 28:0, no parity drives at all. Parity isn't a backup method, never has been, and never will be. My chassis ran along just fine for years. Two were main servers and two were backup servers containing an identical set of data disconnected from power and network. Since unRAID doesn't stripe data, 14:0, 14:1, or 14:2 is honestly just personal preference. Unless you have at least one full backup of your data, and preferable a third set off site, your playing with fire. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  14. Affordable is relative but compared to the $180 deal we're all getting for the 8TB Reds, they are way out of the ballpark at MSRP. https://www.wdc.com/about-wd/newsroom/press-room/2017-05-17-western-digital-expands-wd-red-and-wd-red-pro-nas-drives-with-10tb.html Looks like they are already a available on the WD site. I haven't tried to add to card so don't know if it's pre order or not. Looks like $399 https://www.wdc.com/products/internal-storage/wd-red.html#WD100EFAX Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  15. That's odd that you couldn't get them open like the video showed. I did my first couple the way you described worked for you, the PDF, which is where I kept snapping the tabs off. Switched over to the way it showed in the video and it came right apart. I did 14 of them I believe with the same card. It was actually one of those flimsy AARP cards you get in the junk mail. It did bend the card which is what made them come out so easily. It's all about applying slight pressure where it is needed. But at the end of the day you got it open so that's all that matters Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk