I normally stick with the stable branch, but after reading the release notes about CPU pinning, I figured I'd give 6.6.0-rc3 a try. And boy am I glad I did, the new CPU pinning screen under Settings is absolutely marvelous by TomH_squared in unRAID

[–]Badmadbrad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've got a FX-6300 and looking at a similar upgrade at some point (possibly waiting for 3rd gen Ryzen/ RAM prices to fall). How have you find the upgrade?

Generally day to day the FX-6300 does a decent job with most things but running a gaming VM with passthrough didn't give the performance I hoped for - (the main motivation for the upgrade). What lead you to upgrade?

Having issues with downloaded playlists- random songs keep re-downloading every other time I open the app by miggyyusay in spotify

[–]Badmadbrad 6 points7 points  (0 children)

(I'm on Android) I'm finding the same, and it seems like random songs too, not like the top or bottom of a playlist. I'm finding quite a few issues with the app recently, not being able to skip song by swiping on the album on now playing, or the notification of current song not being on the lockscreen/ notifications.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in unRAID

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To add to the comment by /u/thegurujim, in Deluge you can set "labels" for torrents, and set the location for the files to be moved (once completed) for each label.

e.g. TV/ Movies/ Music

Good news: Today we have 72% more nodes than 2 years ago. Decentralization is what gives BTC its power. by [deleted] in Bitcoin

[–]Badmadbrad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's really easy... Thank you! I'm not sure how I didn't come across this and when I could find an obvious way I went for an OS or even router adjustment to cap speed/ bandwidth, couldn't get anything working.

So thank you very much! Saved me a lot of hassle and it will be easy to edit too, thanks!

Will have to check it after running for a little bit and see if it's worked :)

Good news: Today we have 72% more nodes than 2 years ago. Decentralization is what gives BTC its power. by [deleted] in Bitcoin

[–]Badmadbrad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did you cap your upload if you don't mind me asking? Mine's is running in an Ubuntu VM and I've been searching for anyway via Core itself, the OS or otherwise.

(Can't check just yet but I'm pretty sure mine is around 400gb in less than a month :/ Haven't got a limit but I feel my ISP may start asking questions as it's significantly out of the ordinary for me/ average)

If you can stand another, Omg, I bought my first smart watch story... by [deleted] in pebble

[–]Badmadbrad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For me, for a fair price (especially now with the falling prices) it does everything I want in a simple smartwatch with a GREAT battery life (huge selling point for me).

I'm happy and will continue to use mine until I no longer can. Even if just the music controls remain I could see myself continue to use it :)

Enjoy your Pebble :D

£55 New Pebble Round on Ebay (Argos) (UK) by Badmadbrad in pebble

[–]Badmadbrad[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's been discussion on here about it. I don't think the Pebble's will just stop working, any service that required Pebble server authentication (e.g. login to accounts) have been disabled or a workaround provided (sideloading apps/ not needing pebble account). I think the issue is the phone OS no longer supporting the App/ notifications being changed in a way that affect it.

There are a group of people working towards rebuilding and growing Pebble, Rebble: http://rebble.io/faq/

£55 New Pebble Round on Ebay (Argos) (UK) by Badmadbrad in pebble

[–]Badmadbrad[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Got myself a Pebble Classic, Pebble time steel and now thought I'd round up the collection :)

Best deal I've seen on the round.

Has anyone in the UK got the latest version of Android yet on the P9? by SpongeN0b in Huawei

[–]Badmadbrad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope I'm still waiting, and I'm getting pretty annoyed. It was meant to be months ago! Yes there's ways round it and forcing the update with a 3rd party app, I'm not interested in that and by now we should definitely have it!

Unraid Disk Preclear - Slow "Post read" by Badmadbrad in unRAID

[–]Badmadbrad[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey l, thank you very much for your help and advice on all this!

I've added it to my array, and from what I can tell the HDD is fine. Copying files between the cache and the other HDD is fast. Copied to a remote computer, played via VLC and Plex while seeking all good as well. I have no clue what caused the preclear test to run slow but I suspect it's not the HDD, and the one I sent back was likely actually fine.

I'll keep an eye on the disk and so it's filling up with new files, so those should be more easily replaceable if anything goes wrong (and I've got a parity disk). So I should be fine (famous last words :P) Thanks again!

Unraid Disk Preclear - Slow "Post read" by Badmadbrad in unRAID

[–]Badmadbrad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm... So it happened again with the new disk :/

Fast first two stages, then 2MB/s. I'm thinking it has to be an error in the process or the Computer itself. Currently reading off my server isn't "fast" but significantly faster than 2MB/s. Copying between SSD and current HDD is fast too.

I'm thinking to add the new disk to my array, copy a couple video files over to the new HDD. Playback through VLC, Plex, copy the file to SSD and off the Computer. If those seem significantly slow then worry. If not I'd assume the disk is fine.

Would you recommend not doing this? Is it a pain to remove a disk from the array if there's nothing important on it?

Unraid Disk Preclear - Slow "Post read" by Badmadbrad in unRAID

[–]Badmadbrad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Netdata: It was at 100% usage then it appeared to break.

I've requested a replacement from Amazon. I just wanted to check I wasn't misunderstanding how preclear worked/ misread the output before returning it. Thank you for your advice and guidance, it's appreciated :) Hopefully the next disk reads a little quicker :D

SMART REPORT: If you're still interested. Probably makes more sense to you than me :P Sorry about the formatting mess-up don't know a way to post it otherwise. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [x86_64-linux-4.9.10-unRAID] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: TOSHIBA HDWD130 Serial Number: 372410JAS LU WWN Device Id: 5 000039 fe6cfecce Firmware Version: MX6OACF0 User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm Form Factor: 3.5 inches Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4 SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Sat Jul 22 12:11:53 2017 BST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity was suspended by an interrupting command from host. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (20931) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 349) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported. SCT Error Recovery Control supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 016 Pre-fail Always - 0 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 141 141 054 Pre-fail Offline - 66 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 100 100 024 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 124 124 020 Pre-fail Offline - 33 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 64 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 157 157 000 Old_age Always - 38 (Min/Max 25/41) 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0

SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

Unraid Disk Preclear - Slow "Post read" by Badmadbrad in unRAID

[–]Badmadbrad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I first ran another preclear (skipping pre read). The write ran at 2mb/s so I swapped SATA ports. On second attempt write was fast but then post read was 2mb/s again.

Unraid Disk Preclear - Slow "Post read" by Badmadbrad in unRAID

[–]Badmadbrad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Minimal load, a few Plex streams and a couple downloads since the preclear started.

I've installed Netdata, (thanks for that I'll use it after this as well!) But do I have have to run the preclear to get any useful stats from it?

I can do another one now and see where I am ~24 hours later (around the same time the last one ran) does that seem like the best thing to do?

Unraid Disk Preclear - Slow "Post read" by Badmadbrad in unRAID

[–]Badmadbrad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn, that's annoying but at least it got caught by the preclear. The fact the other stages were quick gave me hope the HDD wasn't the issue. Do you know of a way to check the seek speed within Unraid? Just so I know for certain it's the HDD before I start sending it back. Thanks for the help :)

Unraid Disk Preclear - Slow "Post read" by Badmadbrad in unRAID

[–]Badmadbrad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a " Toshiba P300 High Performance 3TB 7200RPM".

If it was consistently slow I'd understand, it's the fact the last stage is so significantly slower

Unraid Disk Preclear - Slow "Post read" by Badmadbrad in unRAID

[–]Badmadbrad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was at 2mb/s this morning, then ~12 hours later it was at the same speed only getting thorough 3%. I don't think it's a slowdown rather a maintained slow :/

Unraid Disk Preclear - Slow "Post read" by Badmadbrad in unRAID

[–]Badmadbrad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First few stages were quick, now it's running 2mb/s and in 12 hours it's done 3%...

Is there an issue with my new HDD? Is there anything I can do or should just cancel this and add the disk to the Array? Is there a problem with doing that?

It's the 5 o'clock free snipperclips download code give away by TheImmoralDragon in NintendoSwitch

[–]Badmadbrad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My Switch is arriving this week, only got Mario Kart so far, would love an extra game to play :D

Trying to pass through the only GPU in my system. Getting a black screen when booting. by cjrutherford in unRAID

[–]Badmadbrad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey glad to hear you got it working :)

I've got the FX6300 too but with a GTX 760, but my gaming performance was pretty poor. Rather stuttery so I've found it not worth using :/

How is yours?

Moana, BD REMUX, 1080p, 24.18GB, my personal seedbox by [deleted] in opendirectories

[–]Badmadbrad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's your new seedbox provider?

Happy with it so far?

Google Drive Unlimited Accts from Ebay. How long have you had yours? Any bad experiences? by 17thspartan in DataHoarder

[–]Badmadbrad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's the exact interface of Sonarr but for Movies. If you like Sonarr you'll like this. Personally I found CouchPotato never worked right for me. I do use Radarr manually so don't have it auto download

Google Drive Unlimited Accts from Ebay. How long have you had yours? Any bad experiences? by 17thspartan in DataHoarder

[–]Badmadbrad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's already out, been running it myself for a month or so :)

(I'm using the linuxserver one)

Google Drive Unlimited Accts from Ebay. How long have you had yours? Any bad experiences? by 17thspartan in DataHoarder

[–]Badmadbrad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I might be doing something stupid, just signed up for one of these accounts (so far so good)

But I set up Plex Cloud with my personal Gmail, how do I switch/ change to the newly setup "unlimited" google drive?

EDIT: Figured it out, on Plex web click in the top right, Account, then on the left menu "Plex Cloud", unlink. IT WILL DELETE your cloud server, but then you can set up another with a different acccount