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Interesting topic! I'm in a similar situation. Running unRAID at the moment and also have 7 Seagate SMR drives. I'm not sure yet what to change of my setup. I tested Proxmox, ESXi, OpenMediaVault, RockSTOR and FreeNAS a bit. I must admit I like Docker containers. Proxmox use LXC containers and...

So you mis a couple of drivers for virtualization? If you want I can pass on what your problems are. I run ClearOS on KVM (unRAID) at the moment but I do not experience a slow webui. There is documentation on the site of ClearOS. Maybe it helps to solve your problem with the directory server...

Thank you for sharing your experience. They moved the sas connectors to the side of the case so that is positive. Patrick I'm going to respond in the thread you linked. I'm leaning towards the E5 platform when I choose a cases without a expander these motherboards have lot of pic-e ports.

Interesting question! I also like to know if the Xeon D is a good platform for using Plex. I'm considering this board: Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X10SDV-7TP4F Edit: The Xeon D 1540 has Average CPU Mark of 10883. What does the Xeon D 1537?

Hi Patrick, so you advice not to use the expander case. One of the differences of the cases is the backplane. The value uses a 6/12G backplane and the pro a 6G backplane but the pro has fan malfunction detection and the sas connecters are better positioned. Please check the video's. The Xcase...

Hi, I'm planning to build 2 new servers (OS = ClearOS, unRAID) but I need some advice to choose the right hardware. First I need cases. I want to use 24 hotswap cases. I'm considering the following cases from Xcase. Pc Cases UK X-Case RM 424 - 24 Hotswap Bay Mini SAS - Generation II Pc...

Yes i notice that you could choice out of single mode and multimode. Not sure what's difference. Also not sure why you choose 50/125 OM3. I think I have to google and brush my skills. It's the other way around. I need more ports upstairs as in the basement. I have three server at the moment...

Thanks for your detailed answer. I probably have few questions. I will report back tomorrow. Off to bed...

Thank you for your reply. I've heard of Microtik but i have no experience with the equipment. The switch looks very interesting and is affordable. I see you have desktop and rack mountable switches. One problem i don't have a lot of experience with fiber. I can pull a fiber cable to the...

Hi, I need some advise about two new switches i want to buy. I have a server rack in the basement. I have two cat6a (10Gbps) cables from the basement to the house. I want one switch in my server rack and one switch in the house. I think the switch located in the server rack must be 16 ports...

Okay, looks very simple to do. If I'm correct you can install Plex native on CentOS system but i was just a example.

One of the nice things of unRAID is that the drives are readable in a other system and you don't lose the whole array when you lose 2 drives at the same time

Thank you for the fast reply! That whole Docker thing is new to me. Interesting!

Is this setup stable? I mean really stable? :) What i was forgot to tell that i have a license for unRAID from the early days.

Okay change of plan! I'm going to rebuild a server that I already have. It's Xeon E1275v3. This is my encode server but i'm going to stop encode movies. I'm going to remix my movies. I'm going to use the Ri-vier 3U 16bay Storage Chassis (With SGPIO). I want to buy the LSI SAS 9201-16i Host Bus...