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Yeah, like I said I swapped the CPU shortly after the first post and after testing the 5600x for an hour no issues so I think that was the issue. Started an RMA process with AMD. I guess I was just worried it was going to be more complex than it actually was. Thanks for the reassurance.

Maybe I'm mistaken but I think that should work fine though you might end up limiting yourself on performance. Here is my understanding of your situation. You currently have 3 NVMe drives, if I remember correctly 1 or maybe 2 run directly to the CPU, the 3rd probably goes through the chipset, sharing resources elsewhere. Now lets imagine you add a drive with 4 more nvme slots. A 16x slot has only so many lanes and so in my experience (and I believe this depends on your bios/chipset etc...) your computer should boot with two PCIe cards in it but the second may be running at 8x, a third card may require reduction in all the pcie slots. I had a 5600x based computer that wouldn't boot with 3 GPUs until I used risers in one or two of the slots (I forget, sorry). Anyway so you add your card into the 2nd slot, those nvme drives should now just share those lanes afaik so I would assume this would work. To everyones point though, I don't think it would be that beneficial though. If I were you I'd just resell them, make a little money and save up for some larger drives.

10 minutes into prime95 and now WHEA issues, though the 5600x didn't like doing 1:1 ratios which I sort of expected to be the case. As long as it's stable though I'm happy.

That was my thought as well. Any specific things I should try to do in order to troubleshoot or just replace it and retry?

TL;DR my new system accumulates WHEA errors and eventually reboots. System Ryzen 5800x Gigabyte X570s Aorus Master 32GB Crucial Ballistix MAX 4000Mhz (4x8gb) (single rank which I heard this combo could be good) WD Black SN850 SSD 3060 The Issue Originally I was trying to get my mem, IF and mem controller to get 1:1 ratios, so 2000mhz each. Things seemed fine in benchmarks but then playing rust with some friends I started getting random reboots. I started tweaking things thinking that maybe I got some bad silicon, I ran memtest for a BIT (I need to rerun this for a longer period) and eventually I reset my bios and started from scratch. At first things seemed fine running prime95 for instance I didn't see any whea errors occur so I kept gaming and then it seems like it started coming back worse and worse with random reboots and low and behold after doing a longer prime95 session I saw WHEA errors pile up. So running at stock what do I need to test in order to figure out what's failing? I do have a spare 5600x sitting around, 32GBs of decent DDR4, a few GPUs and a mobo but I guess I just want direction on what to test first and the best way to test.

It's really up to you. If I were in your shoes I'd invest my money in crypto because as you point out everything is pretty cheap feeling right now. Then since you have a 3090 I'd 100% give it a shot with mining. I'd start with something simple like NiceHash which you can run on your PC without doing anything complex, work through whatever issues you run up against. Get a feel for how to tune the card using something like Afterburner. Read some guides and if you're feeling good and want to move forward start by trying to pick up a few extra cards and just add them into your PC. Eventually you'll need a second PSU, a mining rack, a second mobo, ram etc... and you'll probably want to move to something like HiveOS and at that point make another post e.g. 'I have these 4 cards, trying to get a bunch of card X and I'm wondering what a good mobo/cpu combo are, what risers you suggest, what PSU and connecters should I be using'. Right now the issue is too abstract for my mind. We could suggest you tons of different parts but without you knowing what you need or want it's hard to suggest the right parts. Anyway good luck and please keep us updated! Super excited to see where you go with this!

The issue is you don't have a plan. I don't say that to be mean but you're not going to get a bunch of people on a forum to design you a hardware setup for something you're not even sure about. You need to take a step back and figure out what you're doing before you can ask a question, or ask a broader question like 'I have x amount of currency, what is the best bang for the buck with crypto'. Even that though will probably end with what Blue4130 said though I disagree that you're too late. You're just getting close to a crossroad with gpu mining and we're not sure what's going to happen. If I were you, assuming you have a bunch of money, just invest in crypto if you believe in it. If you want to try to mine, then work out a general plan and try to get ahold of a card or two so you can get your feet wet and understand a bit more about what you're up against. There are plenty of sites where you can try to figure out profits like nice hashes calculator or whattomine.com.

My concern is around my Plex docker starting but not seeing the drives on server #2 if it doesn't startup for some reason which I think plex would start removing that content based on my config because it would assume that media was deleted. So I could just do a powered riser for the DAS's expander? I have a second computer that's already rack mounted in a rosewill 4u chassis but I'm thinking about finding something with a proper backplane. If I did a server though I would need to buy another cpu, ram and a few other parts as I'm moving some of the components to a regular case for a new gaming computer. Price wise I think things might be a wash with either route.

Make sure your pump is plugged in as well and plugged in properly.

I haven't seen any but I also recently switched to Tidal so maybe that has to do with it. I'm really curious what the account stats are for the last month with Spotify, Tidal and Apple Music. It'll be really interesting to see the earnings reports for these 3 platforms next quarter.

Right now I have 174TB of storage on my Unraid server with 2 parity drives which fills up all my drive bays on my current 20 bay chassis. I'm slowly upgrading all the drives to Toshiba 14TB enterprise drives which will get me to 252TB of potential storage but I want to setup a DAS or a NAS that's available to the main server for my Plex install which I'll put the old drives in to give me even more storage as I upgrade. I'm unsure if I should do this via a share or DAS. My main use case for this storage is Plex but if I setup a second box I might do some additional things like a steam cache via an SSD array and migrate some of my webhosting to the second server. Share Concerns Server restarts or issues causing Plex to think content is missing and erasing the media from its database. Speed over ethernet. Currently running built in gigabit ethernet to a UDM Pro which also only supports gigabit ethernet. DAS Concerns Never done this, how do I connect the drives up? I think I'd need an HBA on the main computer with an external port which would go to an expansion card? Does anyone have a good guide or have experience with this? Can I have a second server running on the DAS box but have the drives going to the first server? Need to buy extra hardware

I'd agree with Voyager. nvidia is more wideley used, the only other option is quicksync with an integrated intel gpu which sounds like it works well but I haven't used myself. Another good option is a Quadro M2000 ($100-150 on ebay) though you can sometimes find a P2200 for just a touch more (people usually only search for P2000 so the p2200 is somtimes crazy cheap).

Fantastic server, the only potential issue I can see is potentially being limited in Plex transcodes & h.265 support. I think the default for the 970 is 3, but as you might know you can override that (great resource) and it doesn't support h.265. I ended up going with a Quadro M2000 which is in the $100-150 range on ebay, is single slot and low power. Neither are huge issues though and your system sounds really rad!

I think the key here is understanding if the drive is dead or your motherboard is having issues. Do you have another computer you can try it with, and if not does switching m.2 ports help? It looks like you have a new one of these drives that does work so maybe it is the drive. It's possible you've just had a drive die randomly but do what SSD Sean suggested. sfc /scannow This scans Windows files for problems and replaces them if it finds issues. My guess this isn't the issue since it sounds more like a filesystem issue, but you could get lucky and it's something simpler like this. chkdsk This is more likely to help as it checks the file system and metadata for logical and physical issues. DISM repair This is less likely I think but it resolves update issues. The only other thing that comes to mind is when you had an electrical issue, did all the other components that were effected get replaced?

Running a GTX680 right now. It's my first non ATI/AMD card in ages. Rocking an FX 8320 right now, but I've had AMD's in my PC since I swapped out my P3 a million years ago. Lots of great memories of overclocking, like the pencil trick on the old tbirds (I think), the Barton cores awesome OCing and this CPU which made it through a fire!