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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.

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.

Thanks.

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. 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.

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

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.

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. It does support pooling though, so you can have multiple boot drives in the boot pool, for example.

Yep! Your license would be tied to your TPM GUID and not your flash drive after migration.

Aw shit. I wonder if I should migrate my dozen or so caddy instances to this image..

The 10% rule is a perfect approach, in my opinion. It would stop the people creating accounts to only promote their projects while also promoting community engagement.

HA has it built in, you don’t need to use any integration other than the built in mobile app integration.

Yeah. I’m hoping that the new support for YOLOv9 extends the life of Coral. If not, I have a B50 that I’d probably use for it.

Once you set up Frigate, you’ll never want to go back. I also use Frigate with Reolink cameras. I use two Coral tpu for recognition, personally, but similarly have a fiber connection to my NAS from my server with frigate.

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My mom lives 900 miles away and she can barely turn a computer on

Very nice! I want to do something like this.. it’s just hard to make the jump since I live in Western Washington where it rains for half of the year.

Good idea on the adjustable angle!