Whatever disks you assign to your array will be deleted. Also you will learn how to upgrade or replace an existing cache drive and how to crea. Next, setup your unraid array and shares as you would normally. This has supposedly been rectified by the inclusion of a cache drive in unraid, but ive never tried using the cache drive as the sage recording.
Just run them in a mirror which it does by default. Unraid lets you partition system resources to store and protect data, run any application, andor create virtual machines in isolated environments. Open cache acceleration software open cas, combined with highperformance solid state drives ssds, increases data center performance via intelligent caching rather than extreme spending. Additional storage devices can still be utilized directly with other unraid features such as virtual machines or the unassigned devices plugin. Unraid has a builtin shared ram disk accessible under the devshm folder. Ive been using unraid for my nas, backup and media servers at.
People who know 45 drives generally have huge storage needs and love our. Sagetv software discussion related to the sagetv application produced by sagetv. Once the software is installed, you can either purchase the registration key of your choice or request a trial key. I thought at least i could archive on it rather than it just sitting around. Recovery from a failed drives is pretty simple, just stick a new drive in and start up the rebuilding process. Once booted, you navigate to the web page for unraid. Clean out the contents of the drive and name it unraid, this is going to be your boot drive.
Point is, you can more easily set up a lessspecific web cache server that will not only maintain cache of all steam games, but also origin, uplay, youtube, netflix, os updates, and more. However, unraid mitigates against this by allowing you to use an ssd as a cache drive. Owing to the relatively high cost of solidstate drives, pc users commonly pair a midsize. This video is a tutorial about how to add a cache drive to your server. Unzip the unraid server download into the root of the flash drive. How to add a cache drive, replace a cache drive or create. Thankfully, the clever dudes at unraid have thought of a solution to this problem. The cache drive feature of unraid provides faster data capture. You have set up a cache pool, not a cache drive, so you would have 120gb total in a raid1 setup. This is not necessary as you can to the same for the cache drive. Assuming you copied your data to a temporary drive, go ahead. Unraid tips and tricks setup, plugins, dockercontainers.
How to add a cache drive, replace a cache drive or create a cache. While i do intend for this guide to help others, honestly, im doing this documentation just as much for my own purposes, as i have trouble remembering all the tricks i. The video is the first of a series of unraid basics. Next, the unraid asks to format the drives, so tick yes i want to do this and click format. Plug the usb flash drive in a windows pc windows 7 x64 in my case. Since a cache drive is outside of the parityprotected array, it can be used for alternate software and unraid addons that need to read and write data often.
The majority of smart software doesnt look at all the extra information. Because unraids write performance is sluggish, i was using a cache drive on it, where new files were placed until a nightly cronjob moved them to the protected array. A few minutes later it will finish writing to the drive, and you can pull it out. Below are the various btrfs raid configs for unraid. Unraid make it a very easy process of upgrading a drive or adding a drive anytime you like. Plug in the usb drive and then run the usb creator. The storinator storage workstation ft unraid 45 drives. Hi, i have a samsung 840 pro 256gb as cache drive, but its way to small. Also you will learn how to upgrade or replace an existing cache drive and how to create a raided cache pool.
Generally speaking, by using a cache alongside an array of three or more drives, you can achieve up to 3x write performance. Be sure you pick the right disks to add to the array. Unraids base configuration requires only 2gb of ram and a 1ghz processor. Guide plex transcoding and ram disks software serverbuilds. Best way to map to unraid user or disk share general. Give the computer some time to boot up into the unraid os, then on another computer use a browser to navigate to the web ui.
Based on your op i think unraid probably fits your needs more. So i recently bought a rosewill cage, rsvsatacage34, and was going to use the same write cached issue drive as a backup drive, unassigned. It does this using the linux luks linux unified key system encryption modules. Hi, quick question for anyone storing their movies on unraid do you map to them in mb3 server using user share. How to set up intel smart response ssd caching technology. Examples include running a full slackware distro with unraid from the hdd, the ability to multiboot into a full windows os from the hdd, and the ability to use as a swap drive partition. Unraid can be configured to have up to two parity drives. Ended up downloading the trial for unraid and i was up and running in under an hour. Change all shares that you want to exist only on your cache drive to use cache disk. Next, download the usb creator software from the unraid downloads page.
The unraid unraidness is not a philosophy i like, though i can appreciate its just files on a file system plus cache. I had an 8gb usb flash drive and a 1tb hdd free and not a lot of time to get things running. See our getting started guide for details on setting up unraid server os. This will cause the mover to move these shares back to the. Added bonus of not taking a slot on my jbod controller either.
To avoid this, if possible set up your bios so that the flash is treated as a removable device. Unraid is now able to do dual parity and dual cache drives for redundancy. I dont personally think its necessary to use a striped raid setup for a bulk media storage array. The parity is for your actual hard drive parity not your cache. I have my 128gb cach ssd set so that the mover runs every hour, but only gets executed if the cache drive is over 70% full. If you write a lot to the array and it is time critical, then get a cache drive. Everybody is talking about a fast ssd in the nas as a cache drive which is easy see zfss l2arc but having a local ssd in a network client that transparently caches the nas is. Basically configure unraid to not use a cache drive, then install the new cache drive, and.
Upgradingreplacing a parity drive in unraid upgrading. Freenas vs unraid coming to terms servethehome forums. When data is written to a user share that has been configured to use the cache drive, all of that data is initially written directly to the dedicated cache. Edit the configuration of your plex container and add another path. Unraid empowers you to build the system youve always wanted using your preferred hardware, software, and operating systems. You can edit the config to combine your 240gb ssds into 1 480gb ssd.
Run preclear on the drive a could of times not necessary but will stress test the drive to find early failure 2. It shows how to create the unraid flash drive on windows. Move the 2nd ssd to the bottom under the 2nd ssd slot in the cache. Best way to map to unraid user or disk share posted in generalwindows. I had a similar problem in the last major version of unraid, but upgrading seemed to have fixed it. You mentioned easily being able to expand and that the majority of your data is media. Reboot and set boot to the flash drive in the bios. In unraid, plugins were the go to in version 5 and prior, this was the way to install applications on your nas. Luks is the standard for linux hard disk encryption. However, i for one couldnt get the dns portion to work, and two, my dns setup is already a nightmare.
I believe for the pool, it reports all cache usage and numbers on the first line only, because they arent separate logical drives here any more, they are a single pool. If you have three hard drives, then it will combine two hard drives, so it appears as one drive, with one drive used as parity. Using unraids automated caching feature you can take comfort. Build a vm test lab using unraid working from home part i. This is normally not an issue for unraid server os. Setup is very easy, either create or purchase a usb drive with unraid and boot from it.
A hybrid hddssd caching setup has some usability benefits. So i decided to tackle this with a simple app or docker container readily available on unraid called steamcachebundle. In my case i mount a drive that is outside of the array, i call it the system drive and it holds all the configurations for my docker containers. Its software raid was just more flexible, i didnt have to add drives in. For example \\tower\movies\comedy where the comedy folder on the unraid may actually span multiple drives or, in mb3 i can map direct to drive shares \\tower\disk1\comedy \\tower\disk2\comedy is one. Before we get right into the nitty gritty of setting up unraid, lets just go over some of the basics of what is unraid, suggested setups, etc. I have since added 2x 320gb hdds as my cache pool, and 2x 4tb hdds for my array.
This will eventually be one killer server, with the ability for upto 22terebytes of space 1 parity drive, 1 cache drive, 11 data drives, all at 2tb in size. We steer people away from the freenas and unraid communities as they are not generally enterprise level solutions. I think as an overall response unraid would not be recommended here. I read through the instructions and they seem right. After working with unraid for several years, i decided its time i documented things i learned and how my current setup works. Thining of moving from unraid to snapraid sourceforge. Unraid storage server on a usb drive nerd blogging. How unraid works is it will build what is essentially a raid 4 array, but using software.
While doing a preclear to make sure the drive was still working i noticed that the drive was over 100 mbs on the preclear. Then i navigated to the main tab and configured my drives. This video is about the unraid flash drive and what files are and are not on it. Its built off proven linux md driver for raid protection. Make sure the file system for the cache drive is set as you wish click on the cache drive and check file system type start the array, and let unraid format it. Open the usb creator to set up unraid on your flash drive 1gb minimum to max 32gb click customize to give your unraid server a name. Unraid is actually loaded into the systems ram during boot and runs from there, so there is very minimal boot disk io. Building a steam caching server for faster game downloads. The default in unraid for a cache pool is raid1 so that data is stored redundantly to protect against drive failure. Unraid basics the flash drive, about, install, backup.
I would recommend checking reddit or the unraid forums if you go with that solution. Unraid supports the use of encrypted drives in both the cache and the array. Open cas interoperates with server memory to create a multilevel cache that optimizes the use of system memory and automatically determines the best cache. Examples include running a full slackware distro with unraid from the hdd, the ability to multiboot into a full windows os from the hdd, and the ability to use as a swap drivepartition. Unraid os pro supports up to 30 storage devices in the parityprotected array 28 data and 2 parity and up to 24 storage devices in the cache pool. Once the formatting is completed, go to users to create a new user. Looking to move off unraid alternative bulk storage os. The container seems great, it packs both the steamcache software itself along with being a dns provider. Setup a long term supported distro like centos or opensuse and do the same thing. I download on my win7 box, then transfer to unraid. The first reply worked for me, i didnt think of setting my bios back to raid mode since my system was nonraid, but i did and sure enough i was able to. The 3tb parity drive would remain a parity drive and i know i would loose a drive to the os, how would i go about moving the current data drives to snapraid, will ubuntu server and snapraid work with unraids native reiserfs. By providing a standard ondiskformat, it does not only facilitate compatibility among distributions, but also provides secure.