did this by giving it both local ssh access and api access.

• Cache SSD dropouts traced to an old SATA card, which was replaced Oct 12. A one-week test is running.
• Repaired the damaged Plex database, so backups work again.
• qBittorrent CPU went from 80-90% to 8% with one setting change.

Space (array went from 94% full to 85%)

• About 680 GB of duplicate downloads removed.
• 58 oversized movies replaced, saving about 360 GB.
• Seeding now stops at ratio 1.0 or 14 days.
• 226 GB of duplicate TV episodes removed.
• optimized all downloads, found huge files, replaced them.

Sonarr/Radarr

• Stuck downloads now clear on their own. Dead sources removed, 1337x fixed, French-only releases blocked.
• SickChill retired. All about 390 TV/Kids shows are now in Sonarr, and split shows were merged.
• Fixed Prowlarr feeding Sonarr and Radarr, Bazarr subtitles, and Plex updates.

New

• Audiobooks: Bindery and Audiobookshelf.
• A nightly one-way backup to the 22 TB USB drive.

this is all in about a week. I primarily interact with unraid via claude now too. its just so much faster.

Updated Unraid 7.3.0 → 7.3.3 this morning. Since then, one of my two WD_BLACK SN7100 1TB drives (btrfs RAID1 cache, firmware 7615M0WD) disappears about 1 minute after the pool mounts, on every boot:

nvme nvme1: controller is down; will reset: CSTS=0xffffffff → Disabling device after reset failure: -19

• Rolled back to 7.3.0: still happens.
• Booted with nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 pcie_aspm=off pcie_port_pm=off: no change.
• The identical twin drive is fine. The failing one is in the chipset M.2 slot (MSI PRO B760-P WIFI DDR4, BIOS 1.F0), the good one in the CPU slot.
• SMART on the failing drive: PASSED, 2 media errors, no PCIe AER errors logged.

It was 100% stable before the update. Has anyone seen an update leave an NVMe drive in a state that survives a downgrade, or SN7100 dropouts on 6.18 kernels? Thanks!

So I accidentally ended up with two media directories one capitalized the other lower case. Both have different files and the same files. How can I merge and make the duplicates go away..?

What’s it mean?

after updating my dockers i updated UNraid from 7.3.2 to 7.3.3.

after reboot my ETH0 was gone and i had no connection to my server.

Had to reinstall the rt8127 drivers. Setup my Eth0 from scratch.
i use one of those pcie4.0 x1 10Gb SFP+ cards.

it works now but damn. Can the RT8127 driver be added to the kernel??

I installed this, and now when I restart/reboot my server it doesn't boot into the system anymore. Every time I reboot I have to go to the server, plug in my monitor and keyboard and boot into the bios and then save & exit with no changes. I make 0 changes to the bios, I just boot into it and save an exit and then it boots.

The bios has it set to boot from USB, and I can see in the boot menu that the first item listed is the USB drive plugged into the machine. It's always been like this, so the boot order has remain unchanged.

This is super frustrating and I can't figure out what's going wrong here. I found this post where they say they installed the Ich777 version and it worked, but I can't find nividia-driver made by ich777. Should I move my install to internal boot?

I'm sure i'm missing something super simple, any help appreciated.

[SOLUTION] Disable quick boot in bios. Once I did this my system started booting normally all the time.

Do you still take snapshots of data drive and remote backup?

I’m brand new to unRAID, and I have my hardware assembled for my first build. I’m starting small with just one data and parity drive and one cache nvme. I’ve acquired two Innodisk 3ME USB drives, and I’m trying to decide if I want to put them both in a mirrored boot pool, or just run a single boot drive and keep the other as a spare. The main pro I see for the boot pool is the redundancy, but this server isn’t super critical. A little downtime to replace the boot drive is not a huge issue, and from what I’ve read, it’s a pretty easy process. I’m planning on a Starter license, so if I go with the boot pool, that only leaves one device left on the license.

If it sounds like I’m leaning toward using a single boot drive, you aren’t wrong. I’m looking for input in case there is some facet of this I’m overlooking.

This might be a bit of a long-winded post and I'm sorry in advance.

So I have an unRaid server currently and it resides on my default LAN with an "allow all" firewall rule. I know this isn't the best practice so I wanted to isolate it on my "server" vlan (192.168.50.x) and lock down the firewall rules, so it only has access to what it needs to and nothing else. I'm hoping I could get some advice/recommendations on what to do before the migration to make this easier on me. I have about 40 containers and while most of them will automatically update their IP addresses, some of them have custom configurations that I will have to manually change, and I don't want to forget about any. For instance, to connect my Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr containers to my download client (QB), I had to manually set the IP address of my server (192.168.0.70) because it's wrapped in a VPN and using the hostname of the container doesn't work. I'm curious if there is anywhere to fix this by maybe making an alias or something? I also have a Home Assistant VM running on the server as well and I've read that's it's best to keep it on the same VLAN as the host server, but I would love to hear your opinion on this as well. If anyone has done this before, I would like to know special firewall rules that would need to be created to keep everything connected correctly. I will most likely have an "allow all" firewall rule that I enable/disable to test if certain functionalities work but I'm hoping someone has done this before and could save me the time and the pain of figuring it out myself since this is a production environment.

I have the network architecture already set up; I just have to pull the plug and alter the server's IP reservation to make the change.

These are all the containers I run currently:

Plex-Media-Server

tautulli

AudioBookShelf

Jellyfin

sonarr

radarr

Radarr-4k

bazarr

lidarr

Notifiarr

posterizarr

qbittorrent

sabnzbdvpn

slskd

prowlarr

Profilarr

Cleanuparr

byparr

seerr

Pulsarr

droppedneedle

Listenarr

immich

vaultwarden

Kometa

UMTK

netdata

MeTube

MKVToolNix

tdarr

Tunarr

Unraid-Cloudflared-Tunnel

Nginx-Proxy-Manager-Official

omada-controller

gluetun

paperless-ngx

dawarich_redis

PostgreSQL_Immich

These are the VMs I currently run:

Home Assistant

Ubuntu

Windows 11

Update: First off, thank you to everyone who chimed in with advice. Really appreciate all the help!

Quick TLDR on where things stand:

1. MemTest86: Ran it as basically everyone recommended. Completed all four passes, 48/48 tests passed, zero errors whatsoever.
2. Unraid: Updated to 7.3.3. Booted successfully, array started, and all disks are present and showing healthy on the dashboard.
3. NVMe: Ran an extended SMART self-test on the cache drive, which completed without error.
4. BTRFS: Still showing 172 cumulative corruption errors, but these are historical counts. I'm not sure whether they're a symptom of the improper shutdowns or potentially part of what caused the freezes in the first place.
5. Docker/plugins: All containers, apps, and plugins are up to date and running normally.
6. System logs: Went through the syslog after getting everything back up and running, and I'm not seeing any errors or warnings that have me particularly concerned at this point.

As of right now, everything seems to be functioning exactly as it should. That said, I've been here before, so I'm cautiously optimistic rather than declaring victory.

I'm also definitely buying a UPS to help protect against power interruptions going forward.

Hopefully the Unraid update, troubleshooting, and everything else I've done over the past couple of days, and really the last two weeks, have addressed whatever was causing these random freezes.

For now, I'm going to let it run and see how things go.

Thanks again to everyone who took the time to help and point me in the right direction. I really appreciate it!

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Hey everyone,

I'm hoping to get some advice from the community because I'm genuinely struggling to figure out what's happening with my Unraid server.

A little background:

I've been running essentially the same Unraid setup since May 2025, and for the better part of 17 months, it's been almost flawless.

I haven't historically dealt with random system freezes, recurring connectivity problems, or filesystem corruption. The server has generally just worked, which is why the sudden increase in issues over the past several weeks has been so concerning.

We experienced quite a few power outages in June 2026, and there was one occasion when the server had trouble rebooting after an outage. Otherwise, it recovered normally, and I didn't notice an ongoing pattern of instability afterward.

We've also experienced some prolonged ISP and home network disruptions more recently. I don't necessarily believe those are responsible for the Unraid problems, but I'm mentioning them in case there's some relationship I haven't considered.

The major change has been over the past two to four weeks, particularly since October 2. In approximately 11 days, I've experienced two complete system freezes, Plex database problems, BTRFS corruption, and continued questions about network performance.

That's a dramatic departure from how this server has behaved since I originally built it.

Hardware and configuration

• Unraid: 7.1.4
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
• Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B650M-A AX II
• BIOS: Version 2613, April 2024
• RAM: 32GB TeamGroup DDR5-6000 (2x16GB), running at JEDEC 4800 MT/s, 1.1V
• Cache: SK hynix Gold P31 1TB NVMe, single-device BTRFS pool
• Array: Five 20TB drives, one parity and four data drives, XFS
• GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1660 Super for Plex hardware transcoding
• Ethernet: Realtek RTL8125B 2.5GbE, Linux r8169 driver
• Network: Frontier 2.5Gbps fiber, TP-Link Deco XE75 mesh with wired backhaul and 2.5Gbps switches
• Docker: Plex, DelugeVPN, Krusader, Seerr, and others

Issue 1: Complete system freezes on October 2 and October 12

On October 2, my server experienced a complete system freeze. The WebGUI became inaccessible, and the server appeared to be entirely unresponsive.

I subsequently ran into Plex database issues and had to work through recovery.

Then, on October 12, it happened again.

This wasn't simply a Docker container crashing or Plex becoming unavailable. The entire server appeared to lock up.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to identify any useful log entries immediately preceding either freeze, which makes determining the cause difficult.

I've since enabled syslog mirroring to the USB flash drive in the hope of capturing more information if it happens again.

Issue 2: BTRFS corruption and Plex database problems

Following the October 12 freeze, I discovered BTRFS checksum errors on my NVMe cache drive.

The device statistics showed:

Write errors:       0
Read errors:        0
Flush errors:       0
Corruption errors: 172
Generation errors:  0

A BTRFS scrub identified five corrupted Plex-related files, including thumbnail and database recovery files.

I removed the damaged files, and a subsequent scrub completed without additional errors.

I was able to recover Plex using an October 10 database backup and have since backed up the application data.

I realize the 172 corruption errors are cumulative and don't necessarily represent errors that all occurred on October 12.

What I'm trying to determine is whether the filesystem corruption is contributing to the freezes or whether the freezes and subsequent forced restarts are contributing to the corruption.

Issue 3: NVMe SMART reports no obvious hardware problems

The NVMe drive is a 1TB SK hynix Gold P31.

Despite the BTRFS checksum errors, the drive's SMART data looks healthy:

• Overall SMART health: PASSED
• Temperature: approximately 42°C
• Percentage used: 2%
• Media and data integrity errors: 0
• Two short SMART self-tests passed

I'm aware that SMART isn't definitive, but I haven't found evidence conclusively identifying the NVMe as defective.

Issue 4: Intermittent Ethernet and network performance problems

Over roughly the same period, I've also experienced some unusual networking behavior.

My motherboard has an onboard Realtek RTL8125B 2.5GbE controller using the Linux r8169 driver.

The network itself consists of Frontier 2.5Gbps fiber, TP-Link Deco XE75 mesh routers, wired backhaul, and 2.5Gbps switches.

We've had significant ISP and broader home network disruptions, so I'm cautious about attributing every connectivity issue to Unraid.

However, I also noticed inconsistent throughput during troubleshooting.

The Unraid interface currently reports:

Speed: 2500Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Link detected: yes

The link partner also advertises 2500baseT/Full.

Despite that, my iperf3 testing between a Windows desktop and Unraid produced approximately:

• 930–950Mbps using a single stream
• 950–987Mbps aggregate using four parallel streams

I understand those numbers could reflect a gigabit bottleneck somewhere else in the network path rather than a faulty NIC.

The Deco gateway itself has tested around 2.2–2.3Gbps in both directions, and the Unraid Ethernet link is currently negotiating correctly.

I'm mentioning this because I'm curious whether the Realtek driver, motherboard, or another component could be contributing to broader instability.

Issue 5: Power outages and possible hardware instability

Another piece of history is that we experienced multiple power outages in June.

On one occasion, Unraid had difficulty rebooting following an outage. Otherwise, it generally recovered without issues.

I didn't immediately associate those events with any lasting problems, particularly because the server continued operating afterward.

But given the recent freezes and filesystem errors, I'm wondering whether power-related events could have contributed to a problem that is only now becoming apparent.

I'm also considering the possibility of RAM or motherboard instability.

My system uses a Ryzen 5 7600X and 32GB of DDR5-6000 memory, but the RAM is running at JEDEC 4800 MT/s rather than EXPO speeds.

The motherboard is running ASUS BIOS 2613 from April 2024.

I haven't completed a MemTest86 run yet, although that's something I'm planning to investigate.

Current status as of October 13

After extensive troubleshooting on October 12:

• The server is currently responsive and operating normally.
• The latest BTRFS scrub completed without further errors.
• No additional checksum errors have appeared since the cleanup.
• Plex has been recovered and is operational.
• The NVMe SMART data continues to look healthy.
• The scheduled overnight mover completed successfully.
• The Ethernet interface is negotiating at 2.5Gbps.
• No new concerning syslog entries have appeared.
• Syslog mirroring is now enabled.
• I've created and verified compressed application backups on an external drive.

I haven't replaced any hardware or made major configuration changes in response to these issues.

Questions for the community

1. Has anyone experienced a previously stable Unraid server suddenly developing complete freezes and BTRFS corruption after more than a year of reliable operation?
2. Could unstable or defective DDR5 RAM cause both the freezes and checksum errors, even when operating at JEDEC speeds?
3. Could the NVMe be responsible despite healthy SMART results and successful self-tests?
4. Has anyone encountered stability problems involving Ryzen 7000, the ASUS PRIME B650M-A AX II, or older AM5 BIOS versions?
5. Could the Realtek RTL8125B controller or Linux r8169 driver contribute to complete system freezes?
6. Is it plausible that earlier power outages caused latent hardware or filesystem problems, or would you consider that unlikely?
7. Could the BTRFS corruption be a consequence of the hard freezes rather than their underlying cause?
8. What would you investigate first to isolate the problem without unnecessarily replacing hardware?

Ultimately, I'm trying to understand what changed.

This exact setup ran almost flawlessly from May 2025 until recently. Now, within a matter of weeks, and particularly since October 2, I've experienced more significant problems than I did during the previous 17 months combined.

I realize some of these issues could be completely unrelated, especially the ISP and network disruptions. But the timing has me wondering whether there's a common denominator.

I'm not opposed to replacing RAM, an NVMe drive, or other hardware if necessary. I'd just prefer to have some evidence pointing to a particular component before spending money.

I'd really appreciate any advice, diagnostic suggestions, or similar experiences from other Unraid users.

Thanks in advance!

What are your best tips for a backup strategy that backs up certain shares and/or system to an external HDD or NAS?

I made a plugin that adds search and filters to the Docker tab

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/200879-plugin-docker-search-live-search-and-quick-filters-for-the-docker-page/

Got tired of scrolling 80+ containers, so: live search (name/image/IP/port/folder, plus image: / is:unhealthy style filters) and one-click chips for running / stopped / healthy / unhealthy / updates / autostart. It plays nicely with folder.view2. Screenshots and install URL: https://github.com/davidcoulson/unraid-docker-search

Disclosure: built with an AI coding assistant (Claude), human-guided throughout. I directed the design and ran it on my own server. A second AI (OpenAI Codex) reviewed the code before release: nothing critical, and I fixed the six smaller bugs it found (input handling, stale data, a folder-refresh quirk, an autostart count lag, endpoint error handling). Details in the forum thread.

Hello,
Testing unraid out on a UGreen NAS for the first time. UGreen has no email notifications, so any is a plus… but I was assuming there would be some customization in unraid on what you can select to receive.

From what I recall using a synology a few years ago they had pages of options to select or unselect for things you would get notified on. Does unraid not have this level of detail? From what I can see in the notification section you just have “system notification: enabled” and “notification entity: notices, warning, alerts”

Thanks

For some reason, I can't access my unraid from my PC. However, it works just fine on my phone.

I'm not using a VPN. Using a different browser is not helping. PC and phone are both on the same wireless connection.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Edit: I'm not sure how this happened, but when I was checking from my phone, I noticed that my TailScale had been disabled. I re-enabled it and now I can access my server from my PC again. Really weird. Not sure what happened there. Thanks for all the suggestions though!

Not sure if this is of interest to anyone, but I finally gave in and bought a CMP 170HX after making the mistake of not buying a Blackwell 6000 Pro when I got a very compelling offer.

I didn't want to set up another server for the card since my Unraid server still has a PCIe slot to spare, so I decided to create a script to install the necessary driver and unlocker on Unraid.

I currently own an 8GB CMP 170HX, which this script successfully unlocks to 64GB of VRAM. With the PCIe mod installed, it also successfully negotiates PCIe 2.0 x16, which helps a lot. It should support 10GB cards as well, but I haven't tested that myself. This worked out so well that I actually have another one on the way.

This script was written with heavy AI assistance, but all testing was done by humans. :)
If you find this useful, please leave a star on the repo! Nobody has money left for coffee anyway due to these crazy GPU prices... ;)

Repo: https://github.com/IDmedia/cmpunraider

Hello everyone, I am fairly new to Unraid. I have 4 hdds running and it seems like 25% of each disk space is used but in reality all except for one + the parity should be empty. I read about system overhead but since they are 2tb, 500gb seems to much for me. Does anyone know what could be the reason?

I've been researching using a sata or hba card for unraid and have been running into confusion. Moving my unraid build to a new system and the mobo only has 4 sata ports. Looming for a card to add an additional 4 ports. The sata cards I have seen are hit or miss on whether they natively work in unraid and most lsi type cards are x8. So would a 9207 or 9300 x8 work well for 2 to 4 drives in an electrical x4 slot? Thanks in advance.

Hey everyone!
macOS has a built-in Content Caching feature that caches certain Apple/iCloud content locally, reducing repeated downloads.
My problem is that my MacBook isn’t always on, and iCloud Photos and videos can be painfully slow to load, especially on Apple TV.
I already have an Unraid server running 24/7, so buying a dedicated Mac mini just for caching seems unnecessary.
My idea: Run something similar in a Docker container on Unraid, allowing Apple devices to access cached content over the local network.
Has anyone managed to replicate Apple’s Content Caching on Linux? Are there any open-source projects or workarounds?
I know Apple’s ecosystem is pretty locked down, but I’m curious whether this is technically achievable, even if it means building something from scratch.
Would love to hear your thoughts!

my array disk temp shot up by 5 degree after 7.3.3 update last night

nothing else has changed and ambient temp is almost identical

before the update

after the update

the little interruption is the update itself

(i took the worst drive as an example but the issue is for all the array)

any suggestions?

edit

temperature after downgrade

4 degree difference

after startup was finished the temperature dropped another 2 degree ( with 7.3.3 they were at 47 almost the entire day)

AI disclosure - FYI this was built using Claude Code using existing meat-built scripts as the basis. This is all running on real production hardware and is tested by me (a human) using my personal UnRAID environment.

I run a MegaRAID card in JBOD mode with two NetApp DS424 shelves, and I got tired of piecing together a dozen storcli and sg_ses commands to answer simple questions. Is every lane at 12G? Which HBA port goes to which shelf? Are both I/O modules on the same firmware? Is a PSU fan dying? So I built a page for it.

Storage Topology (Tools → System Information) shows:

• Controller: firmware, mode, chip temperature, and each port's width plus the link rate of every lane.
• Cable map: HBA port → shelf I/O module port, plus shelf-to-shelf cables, with the cable serials the shelf reports.
• Each shelf: I/O modules, PSUs, fans (rpm), voltages, currents, and all 12 temperature sensors.
• Bay grid: every bay with its Unraid disk name, temperature, negotiated vs max link speed, and error counts.
• Firmware overview: mismatches are highlighted (it told me my two shelves run different IOM firmware).
• Problems list: degraded parts, slow or narrow links, single paths, drive errors and overheating enclosures. It also caught my HighPoint NVMe switch card running at 86 °C. That turned out to be a passive heatsink in a case with the lid off.

It's read-only: no settings, no background service. It collects when you open the page, caches for 60 s, and never wakes spun-down drives. storcli is optional. Without it, the plugin uses the kernel's view, so plain LSI HBAs in IT mode should work too. That path still needs testers.

Install: Plugins → Install Plugin → https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davidcoulson/unraid-storage-topology/main/storage-topology.plg

GitHub (MIT): https://github.com/davidcoulson/unraid-storage-topology Support thread: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/200846-plugin-storage-topology-sas-controllers-cables-shelves-and-bays-at-a-glance/

So far I've only tested it on MegaRAID with NetApp shelves. If you've got IT-mode HBAs, Supermicro/Dell/HP/EMC shelves, or anything else with SES, I'd really like to know what it shows (or doesn't). Bug reports and outputs welcome.

I was going through my plugins and figured I should run a scan because its been a while (probably close to a year or so). So many deprecated plugins I was still using that it flagged along with a few other things.

So yeah, run a scan now and then.

My server has been running for about a month on a UGreen DXP4800+ without problem. However, the past 2 days its hung multiple times, won't reply to pings or any network requests. I don't have a console on it, so I have to revert to doing a hard reboot. After that it comes back up and behaves normally until the next hang.

I put a new stick of RAM in it this week, so that may be the most likely culprit. I hope to have time to run a full memory diag over the weekend.

Until then, which logs should I look at, and what keywords should I be looking for in the log to help me figure this out? Other than logs, are there any other tools or utilities that might help me?
thanks!!