I thought about removing some of the ram to save money on electricity but honestly its nice not having to worry about it and that cache is awesome. Their ssd cache pool and automated distribution policies turn your old array of spinners into a 10gbe capable. I am thinking about switching my current cache driver over to an ssd now that i am on unraid 6b12, and as far as i can tell it supports trim now. This is a video showing unraid running on a raspberry pi 4. For now unraid is working fine strictly as a bulk storage array for me as well as a backup nfs vm datastore cache only share for when i need to move some vms around in my vm cluster. You can filter the list using the dropdown list to make finding a particular device easier. Gpu cannot be used with unraid due to lack of nvidia drivers as you. I may be mistaken but it seems a lot of people on this forum use both plex and unraid, so seems like a reasonable question. Jan 10, 2017 to answer many questions that ive been asked about how much does the cache drive improve unraid 6 write performance. Odd thing is, it ran ok for a few hours before the issue appeared. It is particularly useful for users who write data to the array on a regular basis, and can also be used as a scratch disc for certain applications. I am a really new to this and building a unraid system.
In order to follow this guide, you will need the following pieces of hardware and software. And if you have a unraid server nas device, you probably would like to copy dvd collection to nas drive to allow you to view via streamers as tablets via plex. With unraid, however, were virtualizing the environment in which plex is running and therefore mapping transcode to tmp masks the fact that ram is being used. Limetech does not officially support running unraid in a vm, so this should not be used for production data. What this means is that there is parity across the disks in case of a failure. There is a forum thread about running unraid in a vm and that is a appropriate place to ask questions. There were reports that dvd playback stuttered with this motherboardnetwork driver, but that was using previous versions of unraid, and the more recent 4. Best way to map to unraid user or disk share posted in generalwindows. Please use tags videoondemand, news, podcasts, tidal, or webshows.
This is achieved by using qemu, libvirt and virtmanager running on the pi running the 64bit. 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 drive. Windows disable large send offload lso driver setting. How to set up the plex container now that i have unraid up and running, in this post i am going to discuss how i went about adding the plex containe r in u nraid 6. Sas3, in hba mode, so no marvel chipset and no saslp2 driver, but the same symptoms. Change all shares that you want to exist only on your cache drive to use cache disk. That said you should be able to mount it and use it for plex by pointing the plex library and temp directories to the drive. Video producers, streamers with extensive video libraries, media editors.
Freenas is free and seems to have a lot of community support out there, but the ability of unraid to allow random additions of drives and simple setup it appealing as well. I personally only use the official plex inc release due to this. How to add a cache drive, replace a cache drive or create a. This video is the third in a series of videos about setting up a cctv system on an unraid server. Cache drives how many and how large of ssds suggested. Nov 1, 2008 wired up the the ac receptacle into the area where the unraid server is and everything powered up fine there. That said, i did used to run into occasional issues when i was importing a lot of data into unraid.
Discussion in hardware components and aftermarket upgrades started by frozensolid, oct 1, 20. My 12tb library has a 5gb data folder which resides on my unraid cache drive. We will be migrating from dual xeon lga 2011 2960s to a ryzen 3700x for the homelab. Plex uses a lot of tiny files to organize itself, keep metadata for all your media, etc. Unraid is an operating system for personal and small business use that brings enterpriseclass features letting you configure your computer systems to maximize performance and capacity using any combination of applications, vms, storage devices, and hardware. Hd300 through xboxone in living room, samsung hlt6189s other clients. Finally moving forward with the nasserver i have been talking about doing. Media server downloads plex media server for windows. I dont really care about transfer speed to unraid though since i usually download stuff directly to unraid machine. There has also been talk of supporting ext4 and therefore trim on unraids cache drives, but nothing solid yet. Dec 09, 2016 please note that the preclear plugin has been depreciated from unraid 6. I previously used limetech plex docker on unraid for a while, but wanted to use the latest plex pass version so i switched to linuxserver plex.
Jan 07, 2015 hey everyone, just thought id put this up here after reading a syslog by another forum member and realizing a repeating pattern ive seen here where folks decide to let plex create temporary files for transcoding on an array or cache device instead of in ram. Generally speaking, by using a cache alongside an array of three or more drives, you can achieve up to 3x write performance. I don t really understand how the ssd cache hd is working. I have various mixed size of drives with the parity being the biggest. Backup dvds to unraid server nas for playing on tablet. Here is what my default unraid web gui looks like ive got seven drives. The cache disk feature of unraid greatly increases the perceived performance of the system when writing data to a parityprotected array. Jul 08, 2019 in this video, i show you how to easily setup a steam cache or lancache on your unraid server. Freenas comes with snapshots, builtin compression, encryption, deduplication and remote replication while unraid offers just disk encryption. With our easytoinstall plex media server software and plex apps on the devices of your choosing, you can stream your video, music, and photo collections any time, anywhere, to whatever you want. Originally, i was using two 240gb intel 540 ssds as cache drives for unraid. Also with unraid and xen now you can have features such as the ones offered in zfs to protect your critical data, it is just a matter of you willing to put the work in. Mainly was using it as a file sever, then started adding docker for plex, unifi controller and openvpn server.
I can understand that if it is a raid0 and i thought with the cache i could do it and not lose the data but i also wanted to make sure first. Help me understand volume mapping unraid posted in linux. How and why to preclear your hard drives before adding to. Jan 28, 2017 this video is a tutorial about how to add a cache drive to your server. Open an ssh session to your nas and move your plex. The cachedrive feature of unraid provides faster data capture. How to use gpu transcoding in an emby or plex container on unraid. The only real reason i am thinking about doing it is for that purpose, so i dont want to waste. 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 know someone with 4x 500gb evo 860s and i was going to do the same but am now wondering if there would be any pros or cons to having 2x 1tb evo 860s instead for my caching. How to set up unraid nas software with plex media server. Unraid empowers you to build the system youve always wanted using your preferred hardware, software, and operating systems.
There is now a thread on the plex forums to cover bugsissues when running on an unraid box. Bios and driver support from the oem and reduced cooling capacity. However, the benefit of dual parity is the same regardless of how many data drives you have it still provides a 2nd layer of fault tolerance that will allow a disk rebuild to successfully complete e. Will the cache drive work for this build or im i better off using a 2. The objective of this guide is to help you to set up limetechnologys unraid network attached storage and install plex media server and. 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. This will cause the mover to move these shares back to the cache drive. Using plex on unraid, users can leverage their underutilized hardware resources cpumemory to stream content over their network to a variety of different devices. Also about how to avoid data loss for things that arent moved quickly. Its primary uses will be as a nas, a plex server, and running game servers. Im a bit uncertain about what things should be on the cache and what shouldnt. What is the transfer speed you get with your unraid machine. Plex media server wont load after cache drive filled up. The need to migrate unraid to new low powered hardware has finally arisen.
Bare in mind im a unraid noob too, as ive only just built and had my server up and running for about two months now and managed to install both sf and plex without to much hassel. Hi, quick question for anyone storing their movies on unraid do you map to them in mb3 server using user share. Stop your plex container create a share on your array eg. My question is, would i see a performance gain via indexesui browsing since my meta data is stored on my cache drive now. This video is a tutorial about how to preclear a harddrive before adding it to your array.
The streaming speedquality is controlled in the plex app youre using. Lime technology llc does not recommend or endorse any plugin for any particular purpose, and shall assume no responsibility for their use. I am still putting together the parts for my unraid build and i would like some input on the cache drives. I personally learned a lot virtualizing unraid in kvm on manjarobox but the latest unraid beta v 6. This third part shows how to install and configure shinobi as a docker container. Plex just thinks its writing to a disk folder called transcode. If your cache drive is an ssd, its a great choice to set up plex to use a cacheonly share. 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. Im not familiar with docker, but i think if usr actually belong to host system on top which docker is runned, you should run patch on host. How to add a cache drive, replace a cache drive or create a cache. Looking for this to be relevant for vr content, so a video card upgrade may be due sooner than id like, but am i wrong thinking this should be workable. Setting up the plex container in unraid 6 luke manning.
In this video, i show you how to easily setup a steam cache or lancache on your unraid server. Unraid lets you partition system resources to store and protect data, run any application, andor create virtual machines in isolated environments. I mainly use the box for torrenting with radarr and sonarr as well as hosting plex server and openvpn. Also you will learn how to upgrade or replace an existing cache drive and how to crea. 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. Ive already setup unraid 6 and have my array running. So here is a quick guide on how to install the plex beta on unraid. Im going to pretend that disk3 located from the shell at mntdisk3 is the drive i want to remove. Those tiny files are murder on a spinning drive, but work really nicely on an ssd. Also you will learn how to upgrade or replace an existing cache drive and how to create a raided cache pool. Pia is popular with unraid users as its easy to setup with various vpn. How to quickly upgrade your plex appdata unassigned drive using. Sep 24, 2016 then shutdown the docker container from the unraid gui. Plex diffrent location for thumbnailsmetadata unraid.
This is my unraid nas server, plex media server, unifi controller, unifi video, pihole, and virtualization system. All plugins are the responsibility of the plugin author. Make sure the space youre giving plex on the cache drive is big enough for the transcodes youre doing. Additional storage devices can still be utilized directly with other unraid features such as virtual machines or the unassigned devices plugin. Elan lead plex developer is aware of this thread, so it would be a great place to document all the current issues.
I dont use a cache drive and i get about 15 16 mbs when transferring files to unraid. Sadly, the most confusing and aggravating part was getting the plex beta installed on my unraid nas. Aug 12, 2015 install the unraid nvidia plugin, download the version of unraid required containing the nvidia drivers and reboot 2. Feb 12, 2019 this is a tutorial showing how to use gpu transcoding in an emby or plex docker container on an unraid server. I know unraid wouldnt be the winner for data integrity and availability, but it looks user friendly and also looks like it could make my tower be an all in one soluion run various vms, passthrough the gpu for a gaming vm, raid with. Sep 30, 2016 i have a situation where plex is running but the webserver is not. Im just always looking to streamline thingslessen my maintenance duties so i will continue to research alternatives. This is my unraid nas server, plex media server, unifi controller, unifi. It offers more flexibility with data sharing nfs, cifs, afp,ftp it allows for disks to be used in a pool or individually without reformatting. Just another warning make sure if you do start docker disable emptying of the trash until you map all of the media folders otherwise it will have to redownload all metadata step 4. You might notice in the list that the same device is. The plugins page is a powerful addition to version 6 and serves a dual function, both to add, update, and remove. Below are the various btrfs raid configs for unraid. Click on update driver and browse my computer for driver software.
Look for the location of our virtio cdrom and next to install the driver. Now that i have unraid up and running, in this post i am going to discuss how i went about adding the plex container in unraid 6. Please help explain cache disk general support unraid. Ive really put a lot of eggs into one basket with this build but sometimes its just very convenient to have a system that can do it all. The devices list lets you inspect all devices linked to your plex account. Go to the device manager, we will see 3 devices that dont have a driver in other devices. High quality high performance preliminary testing sees a single nvdec job on a 128bit gtx 1050 ti 4gb pascal unable to use more than 30% 112 fps of the nvdec. This is the ryzen unraid server build i have been waiting for. Its a fairly straightforward process and didnt cause me many headaches thankfully. If you were to install the ssd via usb, i dont believe it can be used as a cache drive in the sense of it cant be assigned as the cache drive in unraid.
Contribute to w wunraid development by creating an account on github. Please tag with os tag like servermac or serverwindows and any other appropriate to the topic. You will need a valid license key for the unraid vm. Plex has a memory leak as you can see in the above image but since i have 144gb it gives me plenty of wiggle room to just restart it every couple days until the issue is fixed. If simple features doesnt install on reboot, then youll have to telnet in and use the installpkg command, but we can cross that bridge if it doesnt work on reboot. Ive been using unraid for the last 10 years and love it so far. Please make sure to tag your post with the plex player your topic will be about. Each disk in the unraid array is independent, two disks crashing will not bring down your entire array only the disks that crashed. In the past, some people have documented the process for putting the unraidspecific components on a full slackware install unraid is based on slackware, but not as of the latest version. It shows how to install and setup the excellent plugin from linuxserver. Unraid docker settings w cache drive pool for plex. This is essentially the unraid do everything build.
While, the nas is just a big file storage really and you may find that just copying the dvd files to nas directly is a pain to try and play with a media streamer. Click format, set the volume label to unraid this must be in all caps and click start after the format is complete, click on your usb flash drive labeled unraid and copy the contents of the unraid server zip file downloaded from above 1 to the flash drive. Upgrade cache drive to samsung 850 evo 500gb ssd includes plex library and transcode folders all in a shareonly app folder upgrade option 2, on unraid v6. Jun 14, 2019 the best way to install and setup a windows 10 vm as a daily driver or a gaming vm duration. This video shows how easily upgrade a plex unassigned drive to a new.