r/unRAID

I have been building an unRAID media server and when it goes live I want to do my best to make sure the server never has power cut while booted. Basically, if there's a power outage, I want my UPS to tell my unRAID server to shut down at a certain point. When power is restored, I don't want the server to boot up until power has been live for x number of minutes.

I know I can get unRAID to communicate with the UPS and shutdown at a given time, and I know there are smart plugs that can monitor power and wait to turn on until after certain criteria are met. I just would like to know which smart plugs can do this and which are preferred. I currently have a Cyberpower 1500VA true sine wave CST1500SUC but open to using another.

I have some Shelly relays and smart switches in my home but also have a number of TAPO smart plugs and camera too. I just want something that works and isn't a hassle.

Anyone got any recommendations for smart plugs and a UPS? Thx

Below is my possible build, im planning on running a unraid server, going to have 10 HDD drives for media and other backups. Im also planning on using this system for local streaming to devices for gaming via a docker container.

Will there be any compatibiity issues? Thanks for any help!

[PCPartPicker Part List](https://pcpartpicker.com/list/fTBCLy) Type|Item|Price :----|:----|:----

**CPU** | [AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 4.3 GHz 16-Core Processor](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/Pk62FT/amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d-43-ghz-16-core-processor-100-100000719wof) | $657.00 @ Amazon

**CPU Cooler** | [Thermalright Peerless Vision 360 ARGB 68.9 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/DhXMnQ/thermalright-peerless-vision-360-argb-689-cfm-liquid-cpu-cooler-peerless-vision-360-argb-white) | $103.59 @ Amazon

**Motherboard** | [Gigabyte X870E AORUS ELITE WIFI7 ATX AM5 Motherboard](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/pLtLrH/gigabyte-x870e-aorus-elite-wifi7-atx-am5-motherboard-x870e-aorus-elite-wifi7) | $269.99 @ Amazon

**Memory** |

[Corsair Vengeance RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/kTJp99/corsair-vengeance-rgb-32-gb-2-x-16-gb-ddr5-6000-cl36-memory-cmh32gx5m2e6000c36) | $439.99 @ Newegg

**Memory** |

[Corsair Vengeance RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/kTJp99/corsair-vengeance-rgb-32-gb-2-x-16-gb-ddr5-6000-cl36-memory-cmh32gx5m2e6000c36) | $439.99 @ Newegg

**Storage** | [Western Digital WD_Black SN850X 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/DyhFf7/western-digital-wd\_black-sn850x-1-tb-m2-2280-pcie-40-x4-nvme-solid-state-drive-wds100t2x0e) | $248.99 @ Amazon **Storage** | [Western Digital WD_Black SN850X 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/DyhFf7/western-digital-wd\_black-sn850x-1-tb-m2-2280-pcie-40-x4-nvme-solid-state-drive-wds100t2x0e) | $248.99 @ Amazon

**Video Card** | [ASRock Challenger OC Arc B580 12 GB Video Card](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/bYcBD3/asrock-challenger-oc-arc-b580-12-gb-video-card-b580-cl-12go) | $309.99 @ Amazon

**Video Card** | [PowerColor Hellhound OC Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB Video Card](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/rGPv6h/powercolor-hellhound-oc-radeon-rx-9070-xt-16-gb-video-card-rx9070xt-16g-loc) | $819.99 @ Amazon

**Case** | [Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL ATX Full TowerCase](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/f2hmP6/fractal-design-meshify-2-xl-atx-full-tower-case-fd-c-mes2x-02) | $219.99 @ Amazon **Power Supply** | [Corsair HX1500i (2025) 1500 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX

PowerSupply](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/q98Pxr/corsair-hx1500i-2025-1500-w-80-platinum-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-cp-9020309-na) | $344.33 @ Amazon | *Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts* | | **Total** | **$4102.84** | Generated by [PCPartPicker](https://pcpartpicker.com) 2026-04-25 23:58 EDT-0400 |

This is probably too vague of a problem to get specific advise about, but I feel like my unraid setup is way too slow. The responsiveness of the UI for unraid is pretty poor, taking 15+ seconds sometime to respond to clicks. Some of the dockers are slower than I expect, especially the UI for home assistant. If unraid is installing a new docker, other browser tabs for the unraid UI are basically unresponsive for minutes until it's done.

However, if I open a incognito window the UI will be somewhat responsive (but not perfect) even though the other version in my regular chrome browser tabs are stuck.

It's not a CPU issue, I can see on TOP that the CPUs are not at all near max load. (all usually <10%).

I'm on unRAID 7.2.3. I recently upgraded the motherboard/CPU to try to improve performance (now on Z790 mobo with i9 CPU).

I run the docker share off the cache array (SSD drives).

Some of this might be a browser issue (clear cookies?) since it works a little better in incognito mode. But beyond that I still feel like it's overall too slow.

Is there some tool I can use to narrow down where the bottleneck is (array? cache?).

Is it a speed issue to have appdata have the array as secondary storage? Will the mover only take stuff off the cache if the cache is getting full, and only move stuff that hasn't been touched for a while? Cache drive is getting pretty full.

Also, if appdata is on cache only, does that mean it's not protected by the RAID redundancy of the array?

So as the title says, I'm going to be using Unraid for a Jellyfin server.

My specs are:

i5 3570k

16 GB RAM

1050 Ti

I saw the data migration guide, but I have a few questions:

1. I am going to set up the USB on my laptop before moving it to my media server because I don't want to risk erasing anything. Is this a good idea? How do I avoid wiping my laptop? Or should I just run it in a VM to make sure I don't fuck up?

2. My media server is currently on Windows. It was running Windows Media Center on Windows 7 - but now that Verizon FiOS killed Cable Cards...I've had to look for a new solution. This is the one that seems like it'll work. If I want to transfer all of my recordings...do I need to get another drive, have Unraid format it, then plug in my DVR drive and copy and paste everything?

I am considering installing unraid on an old qnap and only use it for storage. I will keep vms and dockers on a dedicated machine running proxmox. The idea is to separate storage from my vms, so even if my main machine is down, i can still access the storage.

Is this doable. I am considering something like TS*59 pro and then add some more ram to it.

Hi guys,
Could you please help me to fin the best read performance array setup FROM server ? I need the disk to stream media and read ISO files through a 10GB/s network from the server.
Current setup is a XFS Unraid array, and I am considering to change to ZFS RAIDZ1 in case it has better performance.
Also in case someone can tell me a migration cookbook, would be awesome.

current:
12TB HDD (parity)

12TB HDD (data)

6TB HDD (data)

6TB HDD (data)

480GB SSD cache

Many thanks in advance!!

Hi, I am wondering if I can put the new internal boot pool on the same physical drives as my cache pool? I know that I have to empty the drives first.

Here is my current setup:

- BTRFS cache pool with 3 NVME drives (mirrored)

- 2x 1TB NVME + 1x 2TB NVME

Is it possible to create a boot pool which is also mirrored on these 3 drives and add the cache pool in parallel?

I'm having a weird issue.

I created a share called batocera. Had a few directories and files on it and set it up as a smb share... That all worked great.

Decided to delete the share... I deleted all the files and folders no problem. But I can't delete the share or even edit its properties. If I try my server freezes.

I've tried ticking the delete box within the share

I've tried midnight commander and krusader

I've tried "rm - r /mnt/user/batocera" (minus the quotes in a terminal window

I've tried rebooting

Rebooting into safe mode

New permissions on that share also causes a freeze

Any ideas anyone?

i want to update the bios on my motherboard before booting and installing unraid, my computer doesnt have windows since ill be installing unraid, is it easy to access bios to update it without windows and if so how

I got my hands on 3-4 older 2.5” HDDs, ranging from 250-500 GB. Primarily from older Mac laptops, before they had SSDs. I’m good on storage for a while, so what’s a good use case for these? What would you use them for? Cold storage? System backup?

We’re looking at probably 1,5 TB max. I’m good on storage for a while so they’ll likely be spun down for a good while if used for media storage.

As you can see it sees the zfs pools

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Hi all,

I’m running into an issue after migrating from a traditional Unraid array to a full ZFS setup, and I’m hoping someone here has seen this before.

From the ZFS side, everything looks completely healthy — the pools are imported, visible, and functioning as expected. However, in the Unraid UI, those same disks are being marked as unmountable and Unraid is prompting me to format them.

This seems to have been caused by a mistake I made during the migration/configuration process, but I’m not sure how to cleanly recover from it. This happen when I was moving the last half of disks from array and the new config where I accidentally reset its understand of the zfs setup.

The current state:

• ZFS pools are healthy and working
• Unraid incorrectly flags them as unmountable
• UI prompts to format (which I obviously want to avoid)
• On reboot, the pools don’t always mount cleanly
• I sometimes have to stop/start the array to get things working again

What I’m trying to do is essentially “reset” Unraid’s view of these disks so it recognizes that:

• the pools are valid
• no formatting is needed
• they should be treated as part of the system properly

Has anyone run into this before, or knows how to clear/reset Unraid’s disk state without risking data loss? Please see screenshots above.

Appreciate any guidance — I’d really like to get this into a stable state.

Thanks!

I am finding it impossible to "gracefully" shutdown torrent clients in Unraid 7.2.4

Every time I restart the torrent container (qbt, transmission, whatever), I get "missing files" and errors and have to do massive rechecks. I'm finding it impossible to download any sizable torrents.

Docker keeps force quitting even though I define DOCKER_STOP_TIMEOUT as 400 seconds and have the global docker setting in the GUI set at 400.

I even get a dirty error filled shutdown when I quit with 'docker stop -t 400 qbittorrent' the docker still kills it after like 5 seconds.

I'm at my wits end.

Been looking at this for 4 hours, chasing my tail. I'm exhausted and hoping someone can point me right.

Upgraded from 11400T w/quicksync, working fairly well but starting to show it's age. Moved to Core Ultra 5 225 and new Gigabyte board. Running Unraid 7.2.4.

Now I can't get hw transcodes to kick in.

Tried both plexinc/pms-docker AND linuxserver/plex. Both won't do HW transcoding.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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Go File

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im using the usb creator tool and its asking me to format the drive into either exfat or ntfs, i read online it should be fat32, is this because i have too big a usb, im using a 64gb i had lying around

Im interested in moving to Internal Boot while keeping the license tied to USB.

The only reason I would like Internal Boot is to speed up the boot process. If it is exponentially faster then I would be happy to start shutting down my server nightly. It would be nice if I can remote WOL the Unraid box and be at the Dashboard in under 20sec.

I dont reboot much my server because there is something always in use or someone using it but today decided to finally update it and went from 6.12.5 to 7.0.1 no issues

The 7.3 release candidate is here!

The highlights:

• Internal boot. USB flash drive is no longer required to run Unraid + a new onboarding wizard handles first-time setup; existing users can migrate via Tools → Onboarding Wizard. "Flash" is now "Boot" across the UI, where appropriate.
• TPM-based licensing. License can now anchor to the motherboard, not a USB drive. Most boards from 2019+ have TPM 2.0 via firmware. New users get auto-detection; existing users can choose.
• Docker 27 → 29.3.1. Heads-up: v29 randomizes container MAC addresses on upgrade. If you rely on stable MACs for DHCP reservations, firewall/router rules, or switch ACLs, this will bite. 7.3 adds a fixed MAC address field directly to Docker templates so you can lock them in. The jump also pulls in runc patches for CVE-2025-31133, CVE-2025-52565, and CVE-2025-52881.
• Plus: ZFS corrupted-file visibility, zfs_arc_max as a proper WebGUI tunable, AMD XDNA/NPU + Intel firmware, Cooler Master Qube 500 case support, kernel 6.18.23, QEMU 10.2.2, libvirt 12.2.0, and a long list of File Manager / WebGUI fixes!

Full release notes, known issues, and rollback guidance: https://unraid.net/blog/unraid-7-3-rc.1

Please help find bugs! Thanks for testing. https://product.unraid.net/b/unraid-os-prerelease-bugs-feedback