If you’re going this route, you may want to pay attention to the switchover time. For most consumer hardware, it can handle 10-20ms of switchover time. However, enterprise grade stuff is more sensitive to power fluctuations and sometimes needs near instantaneous switchover. It can get very expensive if you want LiFePo4 (like many of these portable stations) while also being “on line” (meaning instant switchover).

There are middle ground options which have switchover timing of 5-8ms that are also LiFePo4. LiFePo4 is great because the chemistry doesn’t have a huge fire risk and it can do more cycles than a lead acid battery.

Anyway, my bad for rambling.

Nice, going to be great to get away from Slackware. I’m glad they’re finally implementing native docker compose as well. I do wish they’d offer rootless containers, maybe that’s coming down the pipe since Fedora supports them?

I use mTLS and vlans whenever I expose things to the internet.

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Oof. 🙃

Ebay, particularly GoHardDrives, or sometimes you’ll find new drives from random sellers.

I also check ServerPartDeals. Drives are pricy these days, don’t sneeze near your NAS.

Edit: I’m not sure if they ship internationally or not, however.

I use B but not for any particular reason other than it was what was used to teach me to crimp.

Just wanted to thank you for using the tag.

Interesting, I haven’t had an issue with the browser extension (yet). Have you considered the emergency access to your vault, or are you just letting it ride?

Oh really? I didn’t know that was supported, good to know.

I haven’t done it, but supposedly it’s a similar procedure. They blacklist the license and give you a new one of the same type through a license replacement.

https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/troubleshooting/tpm-licensing-faq/

What if I get a new motherboard?

You can replace a TPM-based license on a new motherboard, similar to replacing a flash-based license on a new USB device. In this case, only the original license is blacklisted, not the entire motherboard.

What happens if I update my BIOS? Do I need a new license?

TPM should not be affected by BIOS updates. If somehow it is, you can replace your license as if you got a new motherboard.

I don’t pay annually. I’m locked in with permanent licensing because I’ve used it for over a decade (see: legacy licensing). Unless that changes, and something else can do the mixed drives as well as Unraid, I don’t see that changing for me any time soon.

For my servers that aren’t mixed JBOD, I use Fedora/CoreOS with Quadlets, so believe me when I say that I know that outside of that specific use case, there are better options.

But I use Unraid specifically for the ability to mix drive sizes and easily emulate and rebuild failed disks. That’s it. That’s the whole reasoning as to why I still use it.

Oh, also, while yes, it did become a subscription (which does not apply to me anyway), it’s not necessarily a standard annual subscription, it’s a one time purchase and then you can choose to stop paying until you want to update again. The subsequent payments are less than the first purchase of the license and do last for a year. You still own your license when you stop paying, you just stop getting updates until you pay that lesser amount again. While similar (and I personally wouldn’t buy a license today), it isn’t what an annual subscription normally implies.

I mean, it’s all personal preference in this community. Other than this flash drive issue, Unraid has been rock solid for me.

I originally started using it more than a decade ago to be able to mix drives.

I also do have multiple Unraid servers as well.

This is actually what I did for the mSATA! I used an Eluteng USB adapter.

For my main server, though, I have a 36 + 2 2.5in bays, so I was fine using one of those bays for this.

It certainly should have been a feature a long time ago.

Yeah, I’m guessing it’s a Supermicro thing for sure, and maybe they’ve changed that now that TPM is completely commonplace, because my Epyc does support TPM, 100%.

Yeah, YMMV on the USB drive. While running Unraid for a little more than a decade, my main server chewed through around 2-3 drives causing crashes each time. It could have been bad luck with the flash lottery, though.

I assume this means I’d need another drive to boot it from?

That is correct. You’d need a drive just for booting, outside of any array or pool that you might have. I bought a tiny 32GB Samsung mSATA SSD for $15 (new) for my transcoding server, and I somehow scored a brand new Micron 250gb 2.5 SSD for ~$25 for my main server (both from ebay) which I use for this purpose.

Yeah, that’s absolutely understandable. It was definitely a much needed option for far too long.

My Epyc 7702 does have onboard TPM, but my supermicro H11DSi-NT doesn’t pass it through to the OS, for some reason. It seems like it’s a common thing for supermicro boards - the enterprise ones like mine have TPM headers instead. I do wish that weren’t the case, though.

On my second Unraid server (which I use for transcoding), the i9-12900T’s TPM does pass through properly and I was able to use it, no external TPM needed.

It uses an individual drive for it - so your cache and array are separate and you’ll need to install a drive for boot purposes. It does support pooling though, so you can have multiple boot drives in the boot pool, for example. In that case, it will fail over to the secondary drive if your primary dies.