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9 minutes ago, will0hlep said:

 

1) yes

2) Those HDD will do about 180MB/s (assuming the data is stored sequentually and not randomly), with 6 drives in RAIDZ2 you will get (in an ideal world) 4x the read speed (720MB/s), at which point, I'm not sure there is much need for a cache at all in your use case. I'd just setup the SSD as the boot drive and nothing more.

3) I wouldn't. I'd just have a good backup policy.

4) AIO is defo overkill, go air cooling, in fact I'd use a stock cooler if you have one.

5) Remeber that networking speeds are in bits not bytes and therefore network is often a bottleneck. 10G networking means a transfer rate of 10Gb/s or 1.25GB/s, 2.5G networking only gets you about 320MB/s and 1G networking is only 128MB/s. I went with 2.5G for my NAS cause it's relitively cheap, but it is still easily the main bottleneck in my NAS, however 10G networking seems to be ultra expensive atm. This is also another reason cache dosn't matter.

Thanks for your response I appreciate you answering each of my questions. I did not know the read speed would get increased by raidz2 so that is good to know! I'll probably stick with 2.5 in the meantime, 320MB/s is still significantly better than the current transfer speed to my pi of 10MB/s lol.

Hey everyone,

I've been using an Rpi 3 Model B for awhile as my home NAS that just has a single external SSD plugged in which has been okay for the most part. Really stretching the limits of that 1GB of RAM.

We have been running into more and more issues with finding the shows we like without paying for 30 different streaming services so I want to expand to a much larger NAS that has Jellyfin and rip all our favorite shows onto it.

After a few upgrades I have some extra hardware lying around but I also intend to use this to host other things like my home webservers that I set up (which at the moment I just host on whatever PC I am coding on), my Wife's minecraft server and maybe other things in the future.

What I Have:

• CPU: Ryzen 5 3600
• RAM: 2x8GB Corsair LPX 3200MHz
• Storage: Corsair MP500 250GB NVMe SSD
• Cooling: AMD Wraith cooler / NZXT X53
• PSU: EVGA 650W 80+ Gold PSU

What I Plan on Getting:

• Motherboard: MSI B550A Pro
• RAM: 2x32GB Corsair LPX 3600MHz
• Storage: 6x4TB WD Red Plus 256MB cache HDDs
• GPU: GTX 1080 (A friend is sending me his old one for the cost of shipping; I want to use it for hardware transcoding on Jellyfin)

I'm planning to use the Corsair SSD for cache. I was originally looking into Unraid but it looks like TrueNAS is a also a really good option and also supports docker containers for me to run different servers on it plus I've been reading about RaidZ2 on TrueNAS and it sounds like a really good way for me to add redundancy to my data.

My Questions:

1. In the case of RaidZ2 am I correct in that it works the same as RAID 6 where I would have 4 of the 4TB drives available for storage as a single vdev and then the remaining 2 would be for parity?
2. Do you think the Corsair SSD would be fine as far as cache goes? I've also heard a lot about intel optane.
3. Should I look into a motherboard that supports ECC RAM instead? The one I picked I chose because it has 6 SATA ports and was pretty inexpensive
4. I have an extra AIO water cooler (the NZXT X53) but I feel like I'm right in assuming that Air would not only be more reliable but water wouldn't really even be necessary?
5. I wanted to look into 10G networking to the NAS from all my devices but I'm pretty obviously limited by the speed of the harddrives so this feels like a waste no?

Thanks in advance for any answers!

Hello Everyone,

I am planning on setting up a desk area that is dedicated to "work" to kind of separate my gaming PC from my "workstation". The laptop I'll be using for it however is technically a gaming laptop though but I digress. My intention is for the dock to have all the peripherals plugged into it (Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor, etc. ya know... dock stuff) and then when I need to take my laptop somewhere or use it on the couch or something I only need to unplug the one USB-C connection. Realistically I will still need to use the power brick as there is no way I'm getting 200W from USB-C (... unless?)

So my question is, what are your favorite laptop docks for this use case? I've seen a few from Anker and Dell that look like good options. I did some cursory research and docks that send power over USB-C *should* be overridden by the power adapter internally since it provides more sufficient power.

If it is relevant I have an Asus Zephyrus G15 2021 Laptop with a 5900HS and RTX 3070.

Thanks in Advance!

19 hours ago, Falcon1986 said:

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Hey thanks for the response! I appreciate the information and the suggestion I will keep this in mind and maybe give it a try in the near future.

As an aside I do use Private Internet Access (the app) on my FireStick as well. Ironically this works without any issues for HBO Max but does not for Hulu lol.

Actually it really seems like it is only Hulu as Funimation works as well

On 12/30/2022 at 1:47 PM, Donut417 said:

There is the possibility your provider bought IP addresses that were once owned by a VPN service. Hulu would have had those blacklisted. It might take some time before the info on that IP is updated. Depending on how IP's are assigned by the provider, there are some times way to get a new one. In my case its assigned via DHCP and I can change my IP by changing the Mac address of the router connected to my modem. However not everyone has that capability. 

That makes sense, I'm not sure when the last time my assigned public IP changed, in the meantime I've cancelled Hulu for now, I may try again in a few months to see if anything is different.

On 12/30/2022 at 1:12 AM, Urbangeek said:

I recently started experiencing this problem (Hulu doesnt VPN/Proxy) even though I wasnt using VPN. Nothing changed in my infrastructure. After some troubleshooting, the actual fix for me was changing my DNS to my ISP at the router.  I initially had 1.1.1.1 as primary and 8.8.8.8 as secondary. Still not sure why that fixed the issue though.

My router already uses my ISP's DNS I've tried using cloudflare (1.1.1.1) and Google (8.8.8.8) as well and same issue. I ended up just cancelling Hulu for now as I don't think there will be a workaround anytime soon.

On 12/30/2022 at 4:59 AM, PyCCo_TyPuCTo said:

Try doing traceroute to the Hulu IP when connected to the working modem and same when using Asus.

This may indicate if routing somehow works differently with Asus

I did a tracert and it looks like the routing is the exact same between the two, this may be a case where my ISP was previously not blocked but now suddenly is.

I've tried a few other options since my post including using my firestick which always used to work and it no longer does, as well as my phone on cellular data instead.

7 minutes ago, vertigo220 said:

Possibly a firewall issue. I'd bet the firewall in an ASUS router is more restrictive by default than the one in an ISP-provided one. Might be blocking something and as a result making Hulu think you're using a proxy.

I tried disabling the firewall and no dice unfortunately.

4 minutes ago, Applefreak said:

I've never set a modem into bridge mode myself. My ISP uses a DHCP and the 10.0. ip-range. I have my router setup as a DHPC in the 192.168. range. So my modem effectively only sees the ASUS router or a single device connecting to it and that works just fine, no bridging needed.

Ah okay, I'm not entirely sure but that may be part of the issue then. Since it's a modem router combo I could only add a third-party router by setting the modem to bridge, otherwise the ISP modem would continue to handle the routing or there would be some collisions I would think with the shared responsibility. The modem used 192.168.0.X and the Asus router used 192.168.50.X

3 minutes ago, Applefreak said:

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My ISP modem does not have a dedicated WAN port instead when setting it to bridge mode it defaults the WAN port to the first LAN port on it which is what I have the router plugged into. I would also think it has to be a setting on the router. Unless something about setting the modem to bridge mode changed how the whitelisting works.

Beforehand I couldn't use Hulu with a VPN but it wasn't required as I live in the EU but on a US military installation and Hulu whitelists the ISP for the installation (typically).

4 minutes ago, Applefreak said:

There is your mistake. You have the AX86U and you downloaded the 68U instead. Right link here

Yeah I downloaded the right one the first time when I went to get you the link I clicked in the 68U instead. I do have the right firmware downloaded.

Edit: As a follow up I got an older one to work however the issue is still there.

2 minutes ago, Applefreak said:

Did you select the right one for your router? It will fail if the wrong one is detected.

Yup, I downloaded the latest stable release version for the RT-AX86U found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/asuswrt-merlin/files/RT-AX86U/Release/

Edit: clicked the wrong one in the first post lol

9 minutes ago, Applefreak said:

But it does still work without the router, yes? You can try updating the firmware to Merlin. If you do not like it, you can update back to ASUS's one if you like.

Yes it still works with the modem from the ISP. I attempted a few times to flash the Merlin firmware but it fails immediately unfortunately.

42 minutes ago, Applefreak said:

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Well I've disabled all of those features, AI Protection was off by default for me. The issue is still there however, I even tried bouncing around to different PIA servers including ones actually geolocated in the state they say they are and nothing. I also tried changing the DNS server to cloudflare (1.1.1.1) and it just doesn't work. I'll probably try contacting Hulu support later I don't know if they will help as technically where I live I should have access to Hulu even though it is not in the US but others have had the support give them two different answers.

Hello Everyone,

This is a weird one for me. I do not live in the U.S. at the moment, however where I am located I've never needed to use a VPN to access Hulu. I've used it for 2 years up until this point without a single issue. However, I recently bought a new Asus RT-AX86U router to take over router function from the modem router combo provided by my ISP and after getting it set up I suddenly get blocked from Hulu and told I cannot access it while using an anonymous proxy even when I am not. I do have a VPN but that does not work either when I try.

I've looked through the settings and the only ones I've enable are QoS and OpenNAT which I can't see causing this issue.

Has anyone else had this issue before or any idea how it may have happened? Thanks in advance!

Nevermind I the Asus I wanted actually came back in stock at my local Best Buy right after I made this post lol.

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Can you get a used one?

 

Id probalby get something like a used thinkpad t440 or latitue e6440. Get one with a ssd and it will be reasonbly fast.

 

Or get a chromebook if you can use chromeos

She doesn't seem to mind used and I sent her some listings of what you suggested. I'm not sure if she can use chromeos and also not sure if she would know lol but thanks for the help!

Hey guys, this might be a super tough ask I'm not super laptop savvy, my mom messaged me asking if I knew any laptops she could get for online teaching and some side accounting for clients. Her budget is roughly $200 which to me seems a little low. She said she might be able to go higher if I had a good suggestion so I figured I'd come here to ask people who probably know more.

Any helps appreciated! Thanks :)

So I was able to narrow it down further. Reinstalling Windows and installing a driver works perfectly fine with both connectors. However, if I set my monitor to 144hz in the Nvidia control panel it goes black and disappears from the list of displays. After that I cannot get it to reappear or ever function again unless I reinstall windows.

1 hour ago, callmejaccob said:

Sounds like a bad pair of drivers. I would downgrade your drivers for now, and if they continue to not work, I would contact EVGA.

I just tried a driver all the way back from December before it started crashing and same thing. The weird thing is its only as windows is loading it works within the Bios.

Hi there!

I've been having a recurring issue with my RTX 2080ti. Randomly my PC will freeze and then all GPU dependent programs will crash like my game and browser. I can then move the mouse again but it will freeze every few seconds the only way to fix it is a hard reset.

Recently after a freeze and crash when resetting my PC I got no signal on the Display Port Monitor but the HDMI monitor showed up just fine. The second monitor shows up in the display settings and Nvidia control panel but at a weird resolution and windows says I can't detect another display.

The weird thing is if I turn the PC on but only have the DP monitor plugged in it works fine but as soon as I plug the HDMI in it says No Signal again.

I reinstalled windows and it was working with both like normal but as soon as I installed the drivers for the GPU it stopped working again.

I'm not really sure how to fix it but if anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it!

My Specs:

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600

RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 2x8GB 3200MHz

Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix x570-F Gaming

GPU: Evga rtx 2080ti

Psu: Evga supernova G3 650w 80+ Gold

Monitors:

-DP: BenQ 2411P 144hz 1920x1080

-HDMI: Acer something 60hz 1920x1080

Let me know if you need any more info

Just now, Master Disaster said:

Windows won't remove a system partition without cleaning the entire drive, it's a failsafe to stop people deleting their boot partitions and ending up with a non booting machine.

Am I able to do that from DISKPART like described here?: https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/71363-system-reserved-partition-delete.html

I tried it just now but it wouldn't allow me I'm assuming it can't be done while I'm at the desktop?

Hi there, my M.2 SSD is what windows is installed on. I used to have Ubuntu installed on my HDD but I deleted all the data and formatted the drive. However the System Reserved partition is still there with what I assume is the boot files for Ubuntu and I am unable to delete it in disk management. Googling it suggests a bunch of sketchy looking tools to use so is there any in Windows way I can delete it?

Thanks for all the help!

1 hour ago, Nocte said:

I mean, it's definitely a compatibility problem with your system if it works on others.

Have you tried using it plug'n'play without Logitech drivers? Try that and launching OBS and use OBS to modify the camera settings (not as many options as Logitech software obvs).

Same thing unfortunately still tears.

EDIT: So I've been trying to get it to use the default windows driver for awhile now and it just won't I'm not sure why but the logitech driver won't delete and manually changing the driver and restarting causes the webcam to use the logitech driver again.

2 hours ago, Nocte said:

You need to plug it into a USB 2.0 port instead of 3.0 iirc (I have the same webcam).

Hey! I just tried that and unfortunately same problem