r/unRAID

I want to know the smartest and safest way to swap out 3 older drives with 3 newer ones. I usually preclear all my used drives but I ran out of hdd bays in my case.

I have a total of 10 hdds with 1 x 28TB parity/9 data drives. I want to swap out 2 x 12TB and 1 x 16TB with 3 x 28TB used recertified drives I bought from goharddrive.

I had the idea to preclear them on a Sabrent hdd dock one by one with a desk fan to blow at the dock. I read that some docks don't pass full SMART data and I want to make sure that the dock won't disconnect in this process and run into issues.

I thought to do smart tests on Windows 11 instead but I wanted some advice and what you guys would do.

This is the dock I have: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT/

Thank you.

After several months of development, I've decided to open source a project I've been building for my own Plex server called Server Manager Portal.

The goal was to provide users with detailed statistics and insights into their viewing activity on a Plex server.

Server Manager Portal is a self-hosted web application that provides a complete management and analytics layer for Plex servers.

Features include:

• Setup Wizard that walks you through first time setup
• Set a date for each shared users access to be revoked (default is unlimited)
• Personal user dashboards with viewing statistics, rankings, streaming habits, binge tracking, top movies and shows, watch patterns and yearly wrap-up style analytics.
• A live admin dashboard with active session monitoring, user management, server leaderboards and audit logs.
• Automated access management including temporary access periods, invite links, automatic expiry dates and inactivity cleanup.
• Personal invite links that guide new users through an automated onboarding process, allowing them to create an account, connect their Plex account, accept your server invitation and gain access with minimal manual intervention from the server owner.
• Plex OAuth authentication with no passwords stored locally.
• Automated access cleanup based on inactivity, allowing you to automatically detect and manage users who rarely use the server, for example users who have not streamed within a defined period of time.
• Automated emails for welcomes, invite reminders, expiry reminders, inactivity warnings and newsletters. (required SMTP to be set up)
• Discovery pages showing trending content across the server, all time favourites, weekend viewing trends and hidden gems.
• User analytics dashboards with visual graphs showing viewing activity over time, watch history trends, most watched content, and breakdowns of usage patterns on the server. (requires Tautulli)
• Sonarr and Radarr integration including release calendars, queue monitoring and history views.
• Public status pages for Plex, request systems and download services.
• Mobile friendly responsive design built to work properly on phones and tablets.

All analytics and statistics are generated exclusively from activity that occurs on your own Plex server. The application does not access or analyse a user's wider Plex account activity, viewing habits from other servers, or any data outside of your own environment.

The entire application runs using flat JSON files so there is no database dependency to manage.

It is built with Node.js, Express, React and Tailwind and supports Docker deployments including Unraid templates.

The original aim was to remove as much manual administration from running a Plex server that I share with my friends and family while giving my users a better experience and better visibility into their own activity on the server.

I'd be interested in hearing feedback from other Plex and self-hosted users, particularly around features you would want to see added or improved.

GitHub: https://github.com/jl94x4/Server-Manager-Portal

Hi all,

I'm still on 6.12.9 (yes I know it's bad) and can't get myself around to upgrading. Seems like every time I have upgraded in the past I have AWFUL luck and lose all my services and have to rebuild everything from scratch (Plex for the family being the worst).

Any advice on how to make things as "foolproof" as possible?

Im planning to upgrade my server from 10 drive to 24 drive using rosewill rsv-h424 and lsi 9305 24i. Does anyone using lsi 9305 24i what are your pros and cons. Does the card supported by unraid? Does it come in IT mode or do i need to flash it. Thanks 😊

After updating to 3.0.0 Immich will not work anymore. I'm not a pro, but I think the PostgreSQL_immich is the problem.

Does someone have a solution?

Edit:

Thanks guys. The right solution was to change the postresql repository in PostgreSQL_Immich to ghcr.io/immich-app/postgres:16-vectorchord0.3.0-pgvectors0.3.0

Hey folks, im fairly new to unraid and nas servers etc but recently put one together for a home media server and all is running well.... however.

When ever I log into unraid from my main pc it kicks me out and eventually wont even let me log in.

Its not coming up with an error or saying wrong password it simply just simply reloads and im logged out again.

I can still access all the apps on the nas using their url just not unraid. Any ideas ?

As the title states, I’ve been on 6.12.8 for a long time, mostly because it was a “oh I’ll wait until the next update” and that next update never came.

Finally pulled the trigger when I wanted to take a snapshot of a vm and found that 7 had that feature.

I set aside time and hunkered down and got ready for the upgrade. Clicked update. Rebooted….and it just worked?

I looked all over the system to make sure everything was working right and there were no issues.

I know people experience problems during even minor upgrades but I have to give the team credit for this being a smooth update process.

That is all. Thanks unraid.

Like in 2026 or 2027 or beyond that?

I've been running an unRAID server for years, but I'm a set it and forget it kind of guy (my server currently has 960 days of uptime, LOL). I always consulted the unRAID wiki when making changes to my server, following the step by step instructions to get things working. Linux (well, command line interfaces, really) confuses me and I don't have a desire to understand it if I don't need to in order to get my server to do what I want. I have CRS disease and struggle to retain information that I don't use regularly.

I also have not been able to get my Transmission Docker working on my server and have stuck with version 6.9.2 for my server so that I can use a Transmission plugin.

My server is getting full and I need to replace my parity drive so that I can move that drive to a data slot. I went to consult the wiki so that I could make sure I do everything right, only to find that the wiki is gone and the forums are down. I know the required procedures have changed with different server versions. Searching this subreddit wasn't helpful.

Can anyone share with me the things I need to do before shutting down my server and swapping the parity drive?

I know I need to manually invoke the mover to make sure everything is on the data drives. Do I need to place my server in maintenance mode? Do I need to disable my plugins and/or dockers? What am I forgetting? What do I need to do to ensure no data loss?

I'm trying to optimize my Unraid server and have narrowed down an unexpectedly high CPU temperature to DelugeVPN.

System:

• Unraid 7.2.3
• Intel i5-13600K
• 64 GB RAM
• binhex-delugevpn (latest)
• 1 Gbps internet
• ARR stack (Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Prowlarr, Bazarr)

At first I thought I had a cooling issue because my CPU package temperature was sitting around 70-75°C almost constantly.

After some troubleshooting I found:

• Stopping the entire ARR/media stack dropped CPU temperature immediately to 42-45°C.
• I then restarted every container individually.
• FlareSolverr, Prowlarr, Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr and Bazarr all caused only brief startup spikes before settling back to the low 40s.
• As soon as I started binhex-delugevpn, CPU temperature climbed back into the mid-70s.

Using docker stats I see:

binhex-delugevpn    100-120% CPU

while most other containers are near 0%.

The interesting part is:

• Only one torrent is actively downloading
• No active seeding at the moment
• Overall system CPU is only around 5%, but one P-core is repeatedly hitting 100%.

I have already reduced Deluge's limits to:

Queue

• Active Torrents: 10
• Active Downloads: 3
• Active Seeds: 10

Bandwidth

• Global Connections: 200
• Connections per Torrent: 50
• Upload Slots: 20
• Upload Slots per Torrent: 4

These changes reduced Deluge CPU slightly (about 120% → 100%) but CPU temperature remains around 74°C.

Questions:

1. Is ~100% CPU normal for Deluge with only one active torrent?
2. Are there any known libtorrent/binhex-delugevpn settings that significantly reduce CPU usage?
3. Are there other Deluge settings I should investigate before considering another torrent client?
4. Has anyone compared Deluge vs qBittorrent on Unraid from a CPU efficiency perspective?

I'd appreciate any suggestions. My goal isn't to maximize download speed at all costs—I just want a good balance between performance and CPU utilization.

I am running unraid 7.3.1 and upgraded Immich to V3 and now I cannot connect. I am running Spaceinvador's progresql-immich and get the following error in the log. I am a noob when it comes to unraid and Immich. Settings are default for the install via spaceinvador's video.

Error: No vector extension found. Available extensions: vchord, vector

at getVectorExtension (/app/immich/server/dist/repositories/database.repository.js:51:15)

at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:104:5)

at async /app/immich/server/dist/services/database.service.js:62:31

at async /app/immich/server/dist/repositories/database.repository.js:376:27

at async /app/immich/server/node_modules/.pnpm/kysely@0.28.17/node_modules/kysely/dist/cjs/kysely.js:541:20

at async DefaultConnectionProvider.provideConnection (/app/immich/server/node_modules/.pnpm/kysely@0.28.17/node_modules/kysely/dist/cjs/driver/default-connection-provider.js:12:20)

at async /app/immich/server/dist/repositories/database.repository.js:373:13

Hey everyone im new to the unraid thing and im wondering what are the best docker and apps to use, i use my server mostly for photos and videos, i have some movies but not alot. Thank you!

Anyone have an idea when they'll be back up? Was trying to get to a few google search links and apparently the whole forum is offline.

Cant get into the tower/main after logging in.

Is there a way to start your array from command line?

I am posting here, since the forum is down:

My server keeps on crashing and I don´t know why.

I can´t reach reach WebGui or LocalGUI, the PC is still running.

Afer I restart everything, ther are no error messages and everything looks normal.

The array starts and is building parity, 1-2 hours later, dead again.

Any idea how to find out what´s causing this?