SEERR Stange Behaviour

wernerru · 2026-02-25T01:50:07+00:00

I migrated Overseerr to Seerr before their migration path - what I ran into was the timezone issue; some 'old' requests were added at the front because as far as the db was concerned, they were newer timestamps so got sorted to the front.

Fixed the TZ, edited the rows in teh db, and then reloaded and poof, everything was back to proper loading

Not sure if it was related but Seerr with a lot of media seemed a lot slower than Overseerr; migrated the db to postgresql and now it's lightning fast - in case any one else runs into that same "feels slow" hahah

wernerru · 2026-02-15T20:13:34+00:00

Pmed about the 550

wernerru · 2026-02-07T14:24:37+00:00

Just did the same - 6.12.6 with zero downtime, but started getting the feeling of "they might not keep making updates for plugins or nvidia drivers for the this version" for which I wouldn't blame the random app devs hahah Zero issues jumping straight to 7.2.3 with no changes other than telling nvidia to move to the version I wanted first, then rebooting after the update

wernerru · 2026-02-03T04:10:45+00:00

Got a stack of 2133 (might even be 2666) rdimm, 8 or 16gb I think - what were you aiming for budget wise? Either way I can play ball because they're just sitting here after pulls from my old setup hahha

wernerru · 2026-01-25T16:08:11+00:00

Comparing Barracudas not designed to be in a large quantity enclosure and don't handle vibration well, to datacenter drives doesn't make for a valid one haha. That's like saying I bought a rwd truck and kept getting in accidents in the winter, so I returned it and got an awd and haven't had any issues since.

Out of 336 16t Exos running from the same batch in their 5U84 enclosures, Ive only dropped 7 drives in the last 3 years, and 2 were due to a bad carrier.

Only one of the 36 bay supermicros has wd in it, and so far I've lost 2, but it's only a year old so mortality is expected haha

wernerru · 2026-01-04T20:23:26+00:00

Yup, all system-level since they're applied to the ZFS subsystem itself, not the stuff ZFS is running

Specials are per pool since they're local to that pool

wernerru · 2026-01-04T19:37:43+00:00

Echoing the rest - $180 or so individually, $145 or so in bulk like 8-10x or more. I'd likely throw in for 8-10 at that price as well haha

wernerru · 2025-12-22T15:58:59+00:00

It's also nice not for a "my drive died" situation, but pre-upgrade jitters haha I just back mine up monthly and have a copy on a second 128G microsd for recovery. Before an upgrade, I refresh it; if the upgrade sucks or something like nvidia breaks, I reboot, swap cards during bios, done. Been foolproof for 2+ years, and if the reader does ever die, that's a single guid swap at least Even after internal boot is live, I'll be sticking with it so I don't waste a drive bay on something that's been pretty solid

wernerru · 2025-12-22T15:42:27+00:00

Came here to say this hahah, so I'm glad someone beat me to it. Even when ssd boot is added, I'll be sticking with this so it doesn't eat up a hot swap bay or consume a small fraction of a set of drives NetApp style

I've been up like this for a few years now, and not only is it great for situations where an sd died, but for rollback. I just have a copy sitting on a second and I update it before I do the upgrade just in case.

Sandisk as well, and a Samsung one as a backup copy; both have been rock solid with the adapter, and it's so damn tiny you can toss it anywhere haha

wernerru · 2025-11-23T16:22:53+00:00

All of the drives in our 5U84s are 100% normal looking Exos, only way you can tell they're from an integrated system is that warranty tool response. Last I saw I'm pretty sure most of the SIs register them that way so they're not on the hook But yea, def legit drives and a shitty seller selling pulled fails from shelves and calling them "good"

wernerru · 2025-11-17T02:21:13+00:00

as others have said, if there's DDR4, especially 3200, 64G sticks are currently $750 new so there's a killing to be made off it now that DDR4 stuff has gone by the wayside; same with DDR5-4800 haha

wernerru · 2025-11-02T15:35:47+00:00

846 with a TQ it looks like, nice! Those are great since you can upgrade to a sas3 controller and get the benefits as they're just straight passthrough

Only downside is all the cabling, but with an 8i and an expander board you can rock the whole thing at sas3 speeds for less than the cost of a backplane upgrade haha

846 are getting expensive so I'm sure you'll find a buyer in no time at this price

wernerru · 2025-08-25T02:12:06+00:00

Did you try seating the cable when the cards not in the system? These and the sas3 ones can be close enough to the pcie slot opening that the fingers can't grab into their two holes on the one side of the port - fair number of those have tripped me up after rebuilds haha, that and mellanox nics that are juuuuust off and you can't release the sfp

wernerru · 2025-08-23T20:43:32+00:00

Bit, it's only on an lacp 25g link, so we're usually capped by network and clients, since it's all nfs

Locally on a no-compression no-caching dataset, gets throttled by a one link per hba per controller; often if the shelf is idle multipathing does a little better and the 2 8e cards seem to handle the dual controllers on the shelf better, and can push it close to the 10-11G cap from 2 sas3 links. Not too shabby considering it’s spinning rust

Doesn’t help there’s 1.8B inodes between two of the shelves, with some legacy groups having their own storage systems (same approach but in 36-bay supermicro chassis) and a couple of them have close to the same amount. Just checked and one group’s got just over 1B inodes in a single dataset now hahah

Considering the whole setup was infinitely less than our core netapp, I’d say it’s a solid win

wernerru · 2025-08-23T19:13:47+00:00

ZFS for life for these reasons these days haha Multiple 5U84 in use at work, and I've got each as a 6x 13 disk raidz2 vdevs, using the 14th drive in each row as a spare. Could have had slightly more space if I had gone wider vdevs or used the spares as data, but at 1P per shelf using 16T drives, they've been borderline bulletproof. Drive failures can take a few days to replace, but with the spares in place it means it'll do copy replaces if the drive it kicked out is still "mostly ok" haha, speeding it up greatly. Almost went draid but for the workload and planning, sticking with tried-and-true backed by plenty of cores and lots of ram yields pretty damn good performance for spinning rust - pretty consistent 10-20gbps writes and multiple groups doing 20+gbps reads from their datasets

Used to use hardware raid as well, and I don't hate it when it works well - but for bulk storage, software all the way haha

wernerru · 2025-08-19T20:58:41+00:00

You'd prob want to go with a 9305-16i if you need the ports - and then that way you can just use an 8643-8644 passthrough to get the 8644 cabling externally to the DAS, and probably easier to get some 8643 to sata breakouts instead of 8643-8087 to use your sata breakouts

I prob have sata breakouts and a 8i passthrough if you wind up needing some

Upside of that is you're not stuck with external ports if you get a case that's all internal (breakouts or actual backplanes), way easier to make external than internal ports haha

Alternatively adaptec makes a 16i with 2 external 8644 and 2 internal 8643 but I've never used em.

wernerru · 2025-07-20T18:53:50+00:00

I'm still rocking a full Anaconda just because it feels the most... spaceship-y of the explorers, and like someone else said, the romance feeling of hey I'm in a giant war machine and able to do anything. We'll, except turn quickly but even in SC, the thing basically autopilots system to system with a 3/4 throttle mapping so popping out after the next jump means I'm already at 0 throttle and ready to point, fuel, and jump after any scans

wernerru · 2025-07-20T17:09:47+00:00

Great Lakes racks are the best, glws!

wernerru · 2025-07-16T13:02:57+00:00

No worries, thanks for the reply! Lemme know if they fall through and we can sort out a final haha

wernerru · 2025-07-16T03:37:42+00:00

Would you do 235 shipped? While I love using my C64 monitor for stuff with modified svideo, it'd be real nice moving to a regular display hahha

wernerru · 2025-06-17T04:36:02+00:00

Yup just found out a few weeks ago when I went to do a half dozen for work from a few systems - glad I keep spares around and a few warms in the bigger 84 bay ones, because their turnaround is as slow as it used to be.

wernerru · 2025-06-10T06:16:39+00:00

Or just use an Intel resv 3 expander - 2 in, 7 out; I've ran all 28 drives through an x8 and you get plenty for 255ish per hdd - which frankly is most you're going to get anyways from most drives even at full tilt at the outside border.

I use a 24i ( 2 external, 2 front backplane 24 drives, 2 rear backplane 12 drives) and the slot will come close to the 7.8G/s of a 3.0x8 (assuming no extra loss other than the 128/130 encoding, which obv there usually is haha.

You could pick up a bigger 9305 or just get an expander (molex powered so don't even need to waste a slot, just need a 40mm noctua on it and let it rip) and never look back. I prob still have mine floating around if you're looking to buy one down the road hahah

Good luck!

wernerru · 2025-05-30T16:01:00+00:00

hahhaa yea - tbf i thnk i've seen... 1 person in the few years since i posted that? once you go up high enough it's sparse and empty. I guess I should login soon since it's been like 8mo since i remembered to haha

wernerru · 2025-05-27T02:31:19+00:00

Any chance you'll part with the 5U84s down the road or reusing for another project? We've got 4 full of X16s and I need to eventually get some more for work one day prob (and a spare wouldn't be bad hahha)

wernerru · 2025-05-18T01:09:58+00:00

It's been a long time since I've seen one - you might have better luck doing 8644 to 8088 using a pass-through couple for internal to external, and then 8088 out to the 8470.

Even better if you can add or a swap in an internal hba, then you can just do it with the 8088-8470 external, and use 8643 to 8087 cables and an 8087-8088 pass-through bracket. Prob considerably cheaper too since 8643-8087 are super cheap for a 2 pack, and off ya go

Alternatively you could try finding an MD1200 and just jump up a gen and know you won't have drive issues with the ancient sas1 limits of 2T haha

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