I use one with 8gb of memory, but otherwise stock, for a 5 camera set up and it works just fine, 25% CPU usage recording at 10fps using quicksync.
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Apologies if Iāve missed something obvious but Iām new to all of this so i figured Iād ask here. Iām looking to run Unraid on this so I put a 9200-8e card I had into the machine. It doesnāt seem to be properly detected. Unraid ids it while booting, but none of the drives show up and I canāt seem to get Into the cards bios during boot. Any advice would be greatly appreciated I have no clue what to do from here.
You might have to go into your UEFI/Bios to set the SATA to āRaidā as well if thatās an option Editā¦donāt listen to me.
I would also investigate the LSI card using the UEFI firmware instructions found in this forum to make sure itās set to āITā mode and updated.
This HP box might just not like HBA cards too.
Do not do this, it has nothing to do with SAS functionality.
What cables do you have connected to it?
Just one single sas cable run to an external enclosure with 4 SATA drives.
More asking did you make sure itās the right cable? Replace the cable?
What resolution are the cameras?
2304x1296
Could I get a link to the 9201-8e card or an equivalent thatās confirmed to work with this hp? I can only find the 9201-8i variants.
Just confirming all of these should (Assuming all goes well) work. The 9200 I have was an hp model so I may grab one of the other 8e and try them.
I can tell you from personal experience an LSI 9207-8E does for sure work in this little box. I have one connected to a silverstone ds380 with 8x 8TB drives and it works perfectly fine.
Thanks, Iāll give it a shot. I just tested my 9200 in 2 other computers it was definitely defective as far as I can tell
Wanna reuse your WIndows 10 key from your Ubuntu Plex box but donāt want to have to reboot back into BIOS to find it? Thereās a Linux command line utility for that!! Linux find Windows 10 OEM product key command - nixCraft
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New to the site but built a NAS/Plex server for the home thanks to the guides around here.
I want to throw a pfsense dedicated box at the beginning of my network just for peace of mind. Besides my PC I just have a BI box and the NAS/Plex. Is the 290 still the way to go if I can snag it for a decent price? Space isnāt a huge issue but Iād prefer to keep it smaller. I donāt access the Plex outside of my home but I wanted to add a VPN to remote in whenever needed (also want to open up BI to remote access). I see prices have crept up and are now closer to $200 so I wanted to double check before buying one of these.
Has anyone ever found a seller of the 290 that will ship internationally? Or does anyone know of any alternatives available within the EU? I might have to go the Otis route but even then, our hardware costs are no where near as cheap as the US 
Iād pay gold for someone in the US to buy & ship me one over 
On mounting the drive, I recommend mounting by UUID: How To Use UUID To Mount Partitions / Volumes Under Ubuntu Linux - nixCraft
You probably need to set permissions for the āmediaā drive to something that all users can read in some way. This can be done by chmod o+rw -R /path/to/mount
The āoā = all users.
You could also create a unique group and give both the plex service user (generally called āplexā) and the qtorrent service user (check it with ps -aux | grep qtorrent) and chown -R user:FANCY /path/to/mount and then make sure that your group can read/write with another chmod -R g+rw /path/to/location.
Reference: https://www.linode.com/docs/tools-reference/tools/modify-file-permissions-with-chmod/
Depending on how fancy you want to get and if you have systemd controlling everything you can edit the users to make everything run as the same service user and group and then everything will just default work as the users are all the same and the files/folders are all owned by the same (this is my solution). I just created a new user called āmediaā did a few systemctl edit plexmediaserver.service and setup my override.conf and then did that to sonarr/radarr too and everything is owned by media and run by media.
Anyone have PCI-E NIC compatibility issues? I got a Broadcom 5720 that works fine in my main machine that has an MSI mobo, but this little guy just doesnāt want to boot with it plugged in. Every time it starts with 3 long 2 short beeps. HP website said this is a memory issue but when I unplug the card everything boots normally. The pcie slots should be fine as I also put a pcie to m.2 WiFi adapter in it.
Any ideas on how to fix it?