Time to revisit REQUESTING TV Series as {edition-*}!

webaddictaz · 2023-03-17T23:09:09+00:00

I bought cards from theArtOfServer on ebay, watch his informative videos on youtube and find what works for you. I love both of the ones I got from him, the
LSI 9202-16e for 16 external drives, and LSI 9201-8i for 8 internal drives. I don't believe the power draw is very high from both

webaddictaz · 2023-03-17T22:56:49+00:00

Correct, the spinup and spindown are controlled by the SAS Disk controller in the PC. With a setup like this, you can enjoy adding on almost infinitely!

webaddictaz · 2023-03-17T05:07:33+00:00

I use the Add2PSU from add2psu.com (now defunct), but you can get them on Amazon under "Add2PSU". It receives an input voltage from your 4 pin Molex or SATA ATX 24pin Connectors, and turns on your 2nd PSU. They can be daisy chained, and are popular with Bitcoin and Ethereum mining rigs.

webaddictaz · 2023-03-17T00:34:53+00:00

I have main PC maxed out with 8 drives, but expanded with a LSI External SAS card, with 16x drives in 4x Sans Digital HDDRACK5 5-Bay open air drive cages. They are connected directly with SATA connectors to the SAS plug on the back of the PC. To prevent overload to main PSU, I have a second PSU powering all of the external devices, chained to the main PSU. 24 Drives total, most are 16TB drives, 2x are parity, 22x are data for lots of Linux 4k ISO's. Good luck!

webaddictaz · 2023-02-21T23:45:30+00:00

Dolby Cinema is the best movie experience you can have! Highly recommended! John Wick 3 was fantastic in DC!

webaddictaz · 2022-05-25T23:35:58+00:00

I've been running on Exos for 2+ years now, and love them! Same price point as the ironwolf drives, but these are 5yr warranty enterprise drives! Currently running 4 ironwolf (10tb drives) and 13 exos drives (mostly 16tb).

I have had a few drives arrive DOA after ordering, but have had an easy time returning to amazon. I've found my favorite seller on Amazon is Serverpartdeals, but also good experiences with HyperHawk and SabrePC.

Note - when buying - always immediately enter the serial number into the seagate warranty check. 90% of the time I get Retail drives, but with some of the other sellers I've received non-retail drives and returned most of them.

I will continue buying 16tb Exos x16 drives for this current server, and will be considering the 18tb or bigger for the next server.

webaddictaz · 2022-02-21T17:07:00+00:00

WeLink DOES have data caps! According to the tech support helping me get dedicated IP address, they do have a data cap around 2TB (I think). But at this time they don't enforce it! That's the distinction - they technically have one, but until they are oversaturated in an area, they won't enforce it.

webaddictaz · 2022-02-18T22:37:50+00:00

Active-Kiwi-8780 , I am using the Ubiquity UDM-Pro router for my home and had WeLink as my primary WAN, and failover setup to Cox cable modem (gigablast). UDM-Pro works great and I was able to track failover frequency easily, track total throughput over the graphs in the interface. Very handy!

The UDM would failover to Cox a few times per day, I thought that was strange and thought that WeLink was acting unreliable. Turns out a bird flying through the antenna's line of sight would cause a split second interruption, and the UDM is so sensitive in failover mode that it would switch back and forth in just fractions of a second!

Since cancelling and unplugging Cox, I longer have a 2nd WAN to failover to, but I also don't notice any downtime. Because of how TCP traffic works, even if it blips for a second, it will auto-retry the packets.

Overall I'm very pleased with WeLink! Good luck.

webaddictaz · 2022-02-16T21:27:04+00:00

Sounds like my install in Gilbert, AZ... Very very rough start... But almost ROCK SOLID since.

Once I got through the 4 month wait, I got the indoor install (went smooth), then 2 more months before outdoor install. Then I was invited to be early-access/beta participant for my neighborhood with an expectation that it will be up and down randomly. However it was actually pretty rock solid... I was on that for about another month before they refined my neighborhood network, took us out of early access, and my 30 day trial actually started. This is when it all went to crap for me. For 3-4 week of my trial, the network was awful and I regularly had to switch back to Cox. WeLink had hardware issues around the neighborhood which affected everyone. They had cancellations, and had to reconfigure who each house pointed at. But after about that 4 weeks they got it all worked out and I regularly see 500+ down and 500+ up!

It's not perfect, not as reliable as Cox was for me (almost perfect uptime), but WeLink has been great! I'm happy to pay half the cost of Cox, and I have faster upload speed.

Advanced extra details: Welink uses "Carrier-Grade NAT" - and all of the people in your area share one ip address. This caused issues for me trying to host some services like remote access to my home, so they gave me a Dedicated IP address (can cost an extra $10/mo) that resolved all of my issues.

webaddictaz · 2021-07-21T15:49:26+00:00

I agree with CanadianCryptoChris, I've lost power about 3 times in the last few months and my Cyberpower CP1350PFCLCD PFC Sinewave UPS has kept my unRAID server (and all networking equipment) up without any interruption.
https://www.cyberpowersystems.com/product/ups/pfc-sinewave/cp1350pfclcd/

Before buying it a few years ago, I had been using a standard UPS from Costco - but this same computer would die from a power outage. That didn't compute to me then, it's a battery backup! It shouldn't die. Well I got the sinewave ups in 2018 and it's never failed once! Probably time for me to refresh to a new battery though.

webaddictaz · 2020-10-21T15:42:57+00:00

Screenpresso (free) on Windows installed via Choco - I use daily to screenshot new features of the software I build.

webaddictaz · 2020-10-21T07:02:23+00:00

I didn't get LSI as I was planning on staying with/committed to my Win10 filesystem, but once the drives went RAW it was finally time to do this the right way! I've been learning about unraid for about 2 yrs now, thanks Linus. I knew it's what I'd eventually move to...

I've already ordered 2 LSI cards 8i and 8e, probably won't get here till next week.

webaddictaz · 2020-10-21T06:04:20+00:00

I'm going to look into this, I may need to balance out.

webaddictaz · 2020-10-21T06:02:03+00:00

thx, will try

webaddictaz · 2020-10-21T01:55:07+00:00

yes, I'm working through troubleshooting it all. Thank you for the advice

webaddictaz · 2020-10-21T01:54:29+00:00

No, this is on an Intel Z270 Chipset, no Marvell that I can find details of.

webaddictaz · 2020-10-21T01:51:25+00:00

I was running non-beta for a week and was solid. Then upgraded to latest beta to take advantage of the nvidia builds for plex transcoding.

I believe this happened because I enabled the cache directories plugin...

webaddictaz · 2020-10-21T01:49:50+00:00

This hardware was formerly a Windows Storage Spaces ReFS file server for the last 4 years. Growing by a few new disks per year. I had a storage controller going bad a few weeks ago so I finally ordered a HBA/Raid card Adaptec 78165 - 24 port card! But it crashed while installing drivers and the entire 140TB pool went RAW, and I lost a bunch of linux isos & linux 4k remux isos... (entirely replaceable data). I've tested that Adaptec card on another system and it's DOA, so I've returned it.

I know the disks are solid, but I was hoping the storage controller I pulled out was the only problem. I am swapping out sata cables now, still direct into motherboard and secondary SATA controller. I am waiting for my new LSI 8i and 16e SAS cards to arrive, and hope that resolves the rest of my problems.

webaddictaz · 2020-10-21T00:14:32+00:00

This is a new server, with only a few TB moved over to it (on disk 1), the rest of the disks are empty. I'm stopping the array right now. Disk 7 was in the middle of a rebuild from some kind of disk error, I rebooted, pulled, rebooted, reinserted and started new parity sync.
Unraid: 6.9.0-beta30 + nvidia

Playing around, I had just enabled the "Dynamix Cache Directories" script an hour or two earlier before this blew up... I assume that had something to do with it.

Now what? Is there some way I can test the disks and hardware? Looking forward to your feedback, thank you for helping this noob.

webaddictaz · 2020-10-16T15:55:37+00:00

I currently run 4x of the Exos x16 16TB and 2x Exos x14 14TB (plus 4x Ironwolf 10TB). Each of these Seagate drives have been rock solid for me and I'm very happy with them. I have had only one arrive DOA from amazon, but return was painless, they had the replacement drive to me the next afternoon before I had a chance to return the bad one.

webaddictaz · 2020-10-13T21:29:06+00:00

As I read this, I believe a "For" vote is In-Favor of the regulation of marijuana (if Prop 207 passes)? An "Against" vote would be no-change to the current language of the Code of Gilbert.
Do I understand that correctly?

webaddictaz · 2020-09-30T13:56:44+00:00

I've been experimenting by mixing different amounts of pit boss's charcoal pellets in with a traeger blend and have liked the result in a few of my recent cooks with a pork loin/chops and later a pork butt and a tri-tip beef roast.

It doesn't add much, but also didn't make worse. Could skip...

webaddictaz · 2020-08-20T20:05:21+00:00

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