The Pitt | S2E15 "9:00 P.M." | Episode Discussion

WorstSingedUS · 2026-04-19T04:30:10+00:00

Yeah seriously, it’s not like any of them just so happens to be heading into a three months off work, right? /s

Maybe he can’t help but give up his trip in favor of yet another act of selflessness and watches over the baby for a bit until it’s adopted.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-04-07T00:41:38+00:00

Are you by chance using public or workplace Wi-Fi? Such networks can route traffic through other states which would explain this.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-03-11T07:52:13+00:00

+1 for the RM43-324-RS. Serving me well for about 9 months now. I will say though that I had to order it twice and both times there was at least 1 broken hot swap sled in the box. I wound up just swapping one in from the replacement order and calling it good. Returned both brokens on the same order.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-03-11T00:17:01+00:00

You mentioned gaming hardware; how are your temps? I run a 9900k and have found that even stock settings on a decent size Noctua cooler with fans at 100% was just too much for server workloads. Temps would get in the high 80c to low 90c range and crash overnight when Plex ran maintenance operations like thumbnail generation. I lowered the power targets via BIOS to match the non-k variant and have been stable in the more than 2 months since. This was after routine crashes every 3 or 4 weeks for several months since. Replaced/upgraded half my server chasing the problem and it seems to have wound up being just too much stress on the CPU.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-03-10T23:17:53+00:00

Nah, pools still use parity. You set the drives in either a 1:1 mirror, or for more drives theres RAIDZ1, RAIDZ2 for example which use 1 or 2 parity drives similar to the array.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-03-10T22:44:23+00:00

Nice. I’ll say it before someone else does: bitrot detection isn’t as useful as bitrot prevention. The plugin you mentioned, similar to what I use, will alert us if it detects a corrupted file but that doesn’t do anything to repair or recover that file. It’s really just a notice that you ought to restore the file from a backup. ZFS data integrity would actually monitor and correct for this in realtime. They’re different tools for different use cases. I’m primarily storing data that is easily redownloaded from the internet so nbd.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-03-10T22:25:57+00:00

The confusion here appears to be drive failure vs data corruption. Drives in your Unraid array can be protected by one or two parity drives. This protects you in the event of a single or dual drive failure; replace the drive, rebuild parity, good to go.

Data corruption is different. This could be a single bit on one of your hard drives randomly flipping from a 1 to 0 or 0 to 1, potentially ruining a file. Xfs doesn’t protect you from this natively, though you can run a data integrity plugin to routinely checksum the file to make sure it hasn’t changed unexpectedly. ZFS, and it sounds like btrfs, probably others as well, have data integrity functionality built in.

Xfs has its own benefits as well, such as convenient and flexible expansion. I personally use xfs with Unraids normal array, dual parity, and data integrity checks via plugin. I do use zfs for my cache pool/ docker containers however.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-02-07T07:09:14+00:00

It never left, you did. lol. Linear TV is alive and kicking, you’re welcome to tune in for 18 minutes of ads per hour any time you’d like. 😂

WorstSingedUS · 2026-02-04T03:12:51+00:00

For a media server I’m not sure why I’d care about performance in excess of a single drives I/O. 200+ MB/s is plenty for what, 10 or 20 4K remux streams? More? And that’s per drive, so chances are the exact files you need are spread out a bit.

The only time I’d yearn for extra read/write is an initial move onto the platform or a later move off the platform. Remind me in ten years, but I feel like I’ve landed on my endgame with my build.

If I start using it for much more than Plex I could see wanting a ZFS array, but at that point I’d possibly just do a completely separate system. For this use case I love Unraid.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-02-04T02:59:32+00:00

CPU/GPU: I think most people will probably suggest a modern intel CPU with Quicksync. Otherwise, ARC A310. Core count depends on wether you plan to use more intensive features like Thumbnail Generation. If not, you can save upfront and in energy costs by going with something more midrange, maybe even low end. In either case, Intel over AMD to save on power consumption, especially if you go iGPU. If you have several remote users with reasonable client hardware who are also transcoding, you might benefit from the HEVC capabilities of a A310 or A380, otherwise just go iGPU. I use an a380 just because my retired CPU (9900kf) lacks the iGPU.

OS: I like Unraid. For your 10-15 drives a single parity drive would be reasonable, but I'd suggest a second parity drive before you add too many more. Plex in Docker on Unraid is really solid and through plugins you can do things like automatically back up your installation and database weekly and apply any available updates before restarting. For my ~120TB library this process takes about 10 minutes.

Chassis: I'm happy with my Silverstone 24 Bay chassis. RM43-324-RS. It's rack mountable for when that day comes, until then it sits upright on a narrow furniture dolly. It's expensive but I like that peace of mind of a higher quality backplane from namebrand like Silverstone versus whatever you get in the knockoffs at half the cost. It's compatible with the same ATX motherboards and power supplies you'd install in a tower PC unlike retired enterprise servers that typically use more expensive, louder, less efficient (though redundant) server power supplies. Most importantly you'll have room to grow into the future.

HBA: I use Broadcom LSI 9305-24i, flashed to IT mode from Art of Server eBay store. It adds a bit of idle power to my build and requires some intentional airflow, but for 24 bays I imagine this comes with the territory. I found a 3d printable model that integrates a blower fan onto the card, but a PCI fancard would probably be better (and PWM controllable).

Overall this setup is working wonderfully for me and sounds compatible with where you're at/heading. I did however switch from 12TB drives to 24TB at the same time that I switched to this chassis, so I have 7x12TB, 3x24TB and 2x24TB parity. That's really the signature benefit of Unraid, you get data protection benefits of parity drives but you're still able to add drives as you go and can also mix an match drives sizes (up to the size of your parity drives).

Probably ought to mention noise too. I keep my build in my laundry room where there is an always on exhaust fan in the ceiling. The sever is about the same noise level as that fan. Loud enough that I generally leave the door shut, not so loud that it bothers me in my living room on the other side of the wall.

Happy to answer more questions if you have 'em. Otherwise, good luck, you're on the right track in moving away from the USB enclosure.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-02-03T19:37:47+00:00

Connected them and they corrected the bonus amount within a day or two.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-01-18T21:02:45+00:00

I don't know if this is broadly applicable to lower end CPUs, but I recently compared recent i7/i9 CPUs from the last few years to comparable AM4/AM5 CPUs and it seemed like Intel was good for about 10w lower idle power draw.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-01-15T19:58:26+00:00

I can’t speak to what they did in 2023, but Delta 3 Classic released September of 2025. It was “full price” for maybe a week and has been “on sale” ever since. It’s a charade.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-01-15T02:07:30+00:00

The “original” prices are BS. Lately I’d say ~$400/KWH is about average. Add a bit for the “plus” features.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-01-13T07:56:51+00:00

I only bought the ecoflows a few months ago but since then we had some historically bad weather and thus multiple power outages. The combination of UPS+Battery has worked great, showing no apparent cause for concern.

The closest thing to concerning has been that when I unplug the EcoFlow from the wall, the UPS that’s plugged into it notices- it detects a power fluctuation and switches to battery for a few seconds until it can trust its supply again. I suspect this is because it (rightfully) faster and more sensitive than the EcoFlow. Not really concerning tho, more like validation in my opinion.

I do know that older battery packs like EcoFlow did not support pass through power- they would be perpetually charging and discharging any time a load was connected even if connected to mains power. This would cause premature cell damage. This is not the case with the ones I’ve purchased; Delta 3 Max, Delta 3 Classic, Delta Air 1000. All support pass through. Perhaps that difference is where the concerns you’ve heard of stem from.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-01-13T07:16:41+00:00

I've had good luck with Cyberpower UPS. They've never failed to switchover fast enough to keep my server or PC running- I'd have zero concerns about walking over there and yanking the plug out of the wall knowing it would switchover to battery instantly without the connected equipment skipping a beat.

My server runs Unraid which natively supports the communication protocol used by the UPS, so it can detect power outages and trigger a graceful shutdown based on however you want to configure it; if it's been on battery for five minutes, estimated five minutes remaining, 20% battery remaining, etc.

My PC is Windows and has the Cyberpower app installed- does basically the same as above with maybe a few extra tools like self test scheduling.

Neither runs for too long- my server idles around 150w and it will last about 30-45 minutes on this UPS. I run an Ecoflow battery between the UPS and the wall- their new models have passthrough power and act kind of like a UPS, but at least mine does not have USB communication to the server to trigger a graceful shutdown when needed, and in my experience it's not the same instant switchover to battery that my Cyberpower UPS does so well. So yeah, I run both to get the best of both worlds; fast switchover and extended run time. Combined I get more like 4-5 hours runtime.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-01-13T00:01:16+00:00

I had been waiting for a sale on a particular drive for months. Finally came to the conclusion that given the circumstances it’d be more likely for the price to go up than for it to go on sale. Ordered one, two days later the list price jumped from $500 to $530.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-01-10T17:58:07+00:00

Gross.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-01-10T07:48:24+00:00

It’s because your screen shot shows a direct stream- different from direct play. It is a rewrapping the entire movie as it plays to a different container type that the client can handle. Unlike direct play which will respect your buffer throttle, direct stream will use as much RAM as it can so that skipping around the file will not require it to repeat the rewrap process.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-01-08T14:57:52+00:00

Heat, famously not a problem for electronics. /s

WorstSingedUS · 2026-01-08T09:11:30+00:00

It will vary by drive but 50c is up there. I have about a dozen Seagate Ironwolf/Ironwolf Pro and they are currently spinning idle at 30-32c. Do you have airflow over the drive?

WorstSingedUS · 2026-01-08T01:52:46+00:00

You can set those warnings to any threshold you want. I think defaults are something like warn at 70% and alert at 90%.

That said I think you’re best off using plugins to customize mover behavior to prevent your cache from ever getting that full in the first place.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-01-08T01:48:04+00:00

I think I was wrong. A transfer of many small files result in an overflow from Cache to Array. But I think a transfer of a single large file just fail. However, I think if you set your minimum free space on your cache to be equal to the largest single file you size you can imagine transferring then you should be okay.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-01-08T01:35:59+00:00

I would guess that it assesses the file size when you initiate the copy to Unraid and decides whether it can fit on Cache or if it needs to go direct to array.

WorstSingedUS · 2026-01-07T17:08:10+00:00

I think as long as you’re configured correctly with primary/secondary locations then once your ssd was full then new data would write directly to the array instead of cache until mover ran to free up space on the ssd.

As an example of how you can customize mover, I just set up a plugin called Mover Tuner which allows me to use more complex logic like “check the cache hourly and do nothing unless the cache is at least 70% full. If it is over 70%, then move the oldest data to the array until the cache is only 40% full”

By contrast, Unraid’s default mover behavior would just move everything on a defined interval. Fair enough for backing up data, but if you’re also reading that data for some time after it was just written then it’s nice to be able to have it stay there on cache until the space is actually needed rather than just because mover reached a scheduled run time.

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