Kaerey

tldr; moving from a Dell r420 to a Dell m640 in a Dell VRTX, where should change any of my settings configurations

I currently am running my Unraid on a Dell r420 off a cheap USB stick. The r420 has an LSI 9206-16e with 2 Dell MD1000s attached. I'm not using any of the r420 drive bays as I couldn't get Unraid to detect them after trying to flash the controller. The storage is:

• 1x 6TB (Parity)
• 11x 4TB
• 3x 3TB
• 14x 2TB
• 1x 2TB (cache)

I also have several other 2TB and smaller drives left some 10K and 15K rpm drives and a 12TB SAS drive I stumbled upon for cheap.

The Dell VRTX is the sff format version and I have 8 drives for that, but heard I will struggle with getting those to show up in Unraid. The m640 has 2x 300TB SSDs, that I might be able to use with Unraid easily.

This weekend I plan on moving the LSI Card to the VRTX, figuring out how to pass it through to the m640, and getting everything up and running. It's going to take me minutes, so I've been led to believe as Unraid, should just work!

But I'm wondering how I can better utilize my storage. I'm wasting the 12TB Currently as it's not being used. My gut reaction is take out one of the 2tb and replace with the 12TB and run it in it's own pool since I can't parity it and I feel like using it for Parity would be a waste as well.

Am I missing anything? Should I be doing something completely different? Is using a dual Xeon Gold 6134 128GB RAM Machine a complete waste for Unraid? Everything was well loved before it got to me, but I'm giving it a good retirement home running an *arr network of tools, AMP Game Server for a bunch of Teens, and learning about things like NGINX and PiHole for myself (and failing.. stupid 502 gateway NGINX error!)

EDIT: Here's the plugins I'm currently using that I've seen mentioned on the other place that we shall not go back to.

• Community Applications
• Disk Location
• Dynamix File Manager
• Dynamix System Buttons
• Fix Common Problems
• Parity Check Tuning
• Unassigned Devices and Unassigned Device Plus
• and now unBALANCE from https://lemmy.world/u/zehty recommendation

I know.. it's horrible, I need a replacement. But this board almost perfectly fills my use case of usage from the couch on my TV/Monitor, wireless, full size (numpad needed for work stuff), balances great on my lap, or across my legs when sitting in weird positions on the couch cross-legged or one leg tucked. Built in Wrist rest to help balance and grab when putting down or on the back of the couch.

I got a Keychron K4 last year, but a little too thick, with full height keys and no wrist wrist make it uncomfortable. The length is about as short as I could go.

So I guess that means I'm looking for:

• Low Profile
• Full Size, 1800 or 96% something in that area
• Wrist wrest
• Obviously, Mech or I guess optical. but I'm done with Scissor Switches and Membranes.

Was looking at the Keychron K5 Series, and am tempted but the lack of space in front of the keys is my only hesitation. I know this world is big and I am only familiar with a small portion of it (keychron, GMMK, what I see here). Anyone got any recommendations for something similar to the Logitech K800, but you know... good.

Right now at work, I'm using the GMMK Pro I started with that has lubed Boba U4T I got from a local marketplace and knock off GMK Black Lotus Caps.

I was gifted a decommissioned Dell VRTX with 2xm640 and 2xm520 to move my homelab to. Trying to determine the pinout of the 3 6-pin gpu power cables in the GPU chassis to see how I could convert to double 8-Pin for my 2080 Super I have sitting around. Want to run Stable Diffusion on it and other GPU accelerated tasks.

Anyone familiar with this Chassis and if there is a way to power this 2080Super? I think I can get it to fit.