I am very appreciative for all of your videos! Because of you, I recently built an unraid server in order to move away from a Synology NAS. I couldn't be happier with how versatile and powerful unraid is!
Me also similar, but rather than I am using still my both qnap NAS and my proxmox server and at the moment I am experimenting with quite powerful Unraid with 12 core 3900x cpu 64GB ram and 16 TB u.2 NVMe system which is definitely very interesting. But, I must say that this unraid is compared to OS from qnap and even proxmox significantly more difficult to customize. Nothing works from scratch and since 2 weeks I spent too much time for configuration. Especially the docker containers are crazy annoying even with such videos it is not working how I want. All the different respiratories making it more complex. Further more there is absolutely nothing in unraid integrated, so that I need for every small.action a plugin. Especially the containers could have been realized more automatically. Nevertheless, I like it and especially his videos
@firatguven6592 Same boat. Bout to built my Intel 14900 14th Gen with Aorus Master X z790 with 16 port HBA controller on a Meshy XL2, 2 stick of 96gb of 5600mhz DDR5 with room to max on ram if needed on a Iron Wolf NAS 20tb parody drive to start off with and 4x 8tb western nas drive and 1x 18tb seagate enterprise and 1x 20tb iron wold nas drive for storage and a 2tb nvme cache drive for plex.
Very informative and useful information. I'll go thru all of this series before I start moving large amounts of data from my old NAS to my new UnRaid server. Thanks for creating and posting this!
Nice editing effects and visual transitions! As someone who has been watching your video for about a year or so, it is cool seeing how your video skills and quality continue to improve over time. Thank you for all your hard work! IMO, your guides are the best way for new (and old) users to learn how to use Unraid
🎯 Key points for quick navigation: 00:00 *📦 The video is part of the Unraid 6.9 series and focuses on transferring data to, from, and within an Unraid server.* 00:53 *✂️ The original video was nearly an hour long, so it was edited into a five-part series to be uploaded over the weekend.* 01:34 *🛠️ The video offers techniques for data transfer that are useful for both new and experienced Unraid users.* 02:16 *🗂️ Four different methods for moving and transferring files on Unraid will be covered, including Crusader, root share, rsync, and Midnight Commander.* 03:25 *🖥️ The video highlights the importance of understanding the Unraid file system to make data transfers easier.* 03:54 *📂 The Unraid file system stores all files under the `/mnt` directory, with specific paths for disks, shares, and unassigned devices.* 06:08 *🔌 Unassigned disks, such as external USB drives, are mounted under `/mnt/disks` in Unraid.* 07:30 *🌐 Remote SMB or NFS shares are mounted under `/mnt/remotes`, with the plugin allowing connections to external shares.* 08:54 *🚀 Directly connecting hard drives to the Unraid server is the fastest way to transfer data, bypassing network limitations.* 11:41 *🔄 Using a physical connection, like SATA or USB, is recommended for large data transfers to avoid errors and network slowdowns.* 12:38 *⏳ The next video will cover the first method of copying data using the Crusader Docker container.* Made with HARPA AI
nice video, you might re-consider your choice of font/typeface and text color when editing these videos. The bold dark gray text with black outline at 4:29 is barely readable to me and i'm sure lots of other people. Consider using something simple like white text with a black outline in less dense font would help make the text more accessible.
I'd add that the third thing thatll impact speed is the number of files themselves - a thousand 1kb files will transfer far slower than a 1mb file, especially when using SMB. If someone is just mass ingesting large amounts of data, and for whatever reason cant (or doesnt want to) direct connect, I'd recommend NFS (specifically v3).
Ok I have a problem that i cant figure out. I have a 10gb usb ext hdd thats full of movies for plex. I was able to get it to mount in Unassigned devices so I can copy over all the movies to my unraid array. I unmounted the drive, deleted device history, but later when I connected the same drive back, it shows up in Unassigned devices, but it refuses to mount. For almost 2 weeks ive been trying to look up solutions as to why my usb disk wont mount anymore. Any suggestions? Its gotta be something simple im not doing? Im still new to unraid and linux.
Would you have a suggestion for an efficient method for transferring large numbers of photos, using Metadata, specifically "date created" field to place the individual files in directories based on the date the file was created?
Is there a video about GPU passthrough to VMs on Unraid 6.9.x in the works? I can get my 5700xt to passthrough to my linux VMs, but not my Windows VM and I was hoping you would have a tutorial about that :)
I have 3 harddrives that are completely full at the moment. Now i want to start an Unraid (Raid5). I also bought 2 new harddrives to have some that are empty. So i would create the raid / share with the two new harddrives And then... i would need to move all the data from 1 of the full hard-drives to the newly created share until its all transfered. After that i can format the harddrive and add it to the share, correct? And i'll repeat that until all my data is in the share and all my drives are added to the raid. Is that correct? What is the quickest way to move data from 1 drive to the share? Is it as easy to add another drive to my share (raid5) as i think it is? By a couple of mouseclicks?
Hi another great video!! but I need your help. I have 5 disk array and I my data is on disk 1,2,3.. Can you tell me how to move the Data from disk 3 onto another disk do I can pull disks 3,4,5 out of the array? I currently have highwater setup, is there a way to change the format so all sata moves to 1st drive? maybe the Fill up instead of highwater?
When I connect my NTFS drive after installing the Unassigned Disks plugins it only gives me a Format option. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get past it
Hi Spaceinvader, i learn all about unraid from your videos. Hope you will make a video about removing (not replacing) a drive from the array. That would help me a lot. Why? Because i have a old disk in my array which is too loadand i don't need the space of it anymore. Thanx
Hi Ed. Any chance you might be able to do a piece on 'links' within a file system? I'm new to Unraid (and 'Linux') and was setting up SABNZBD and PLEX to work nicely in the same sandpit. I think due to a lack of knowldge about how the Unraid file system is put together, and having stumbled across 'hard links' for directories using WINSCP and SSH into the Unraid Server, I put some hardlinks into the default Plex directories and pointed at the 'movies' folder within my SABNZBD directories. I'm sure there may be a better way, but was intrigued aboout shares vs links when coming to the likes of SABNZBD, Sonarr etc. Ta!
As a newcomer to Unraid I am finding your videos really helpful, I have several Terabytes of data to move over so I am watching this series, but one thing keeps triggering my Linux brain ... I keep seeing you pop up an overlay that says everything is mounted in /MNT when the correct directory is /mnt/ ... Please help my OCD and your Linux newbies by correcting this or mentiones that diretcory and file names on Linux are case sensitive and that /MNT doesnt actually exist hey do need to go to /mnt ... other than that, keep up the good work, I've learned loads.
SO why am i getting slowdown to zero and unexpected file error transfering files to unraid now what the hell windows did in the new updates? They killed the older SMB standard.
Thanks ed for all the videos. I need help with ipv6 and docker. how to enable ipv6 in docker?? How to use NGINX proxy manager with ipv6?? please if you have the knowledge help me or make a video of ipv6 and unraid. my ISP have CGNat in the ipv4 but give me an ipv6 that i can reach outside. greetings from Bolivia
'No one wants to watch an hour long video' . . . . . . well I do! I'd choose thorough, well-paced and in-depth every time, given the choice. I also really appreciate one subject being comprehensively covered in one video so it's easy to refer back to. Bear in mind that most of us watching these videos will be pausing, tweaking or checking stuff on our own servers, and then resuming playback, probably with a quick rewind to double-check. So an hour long video is probably going to take me 2 hours to watch minimum AND that's perfectly OK, because the alternative is to do it wrong, at best inefficiently, at worst to have to start totally from scratch because I've cocked it up so badly. That wastes time measured in days not hours, just to get back to where you started. I speak from experience!! So please hear me when I say, please don't follow TH-cam trends and algorithms for shorter videos, which probably take a HUGE amount more time to edit. People who have a super short attention span are unlikely to be your target audience, so please relax, have a bit of a ramble, talk about what inspires and enthuses you. I guarantee you'll have more fun making the videos and spend much less time in post so you end up creating more videos! Just my 2c P.S. Just checked Buildzoid's Actually Hardcore Overclocking channel - this guy has TMK never said anything succinctly in his life and has 3x this channel's subscribers. Now I'm not saying he's someone to emulate, especially since I know for a fact that some of his subscribers, including my partner, use his channel to help their insomnia, but . . . BUT . . . there are equally a bunch of people like myself who thoroughly enjoy a good solid 90 minute + Buildzoid ramble :)
@@bluesquadron593 Yes - I wasn't suggesting he was chasing subs, but equally he is clearly assuming that "no one wants to watch an hour long video" - since I'd be VERY happy watching an hour long video, instead of 4 x 15 minute videos, I simply think he's wrong. He's also said it takes a huge amount of time to edit these videos, which while I respect the effort enormously, I question how efficient a use of his time this is, when I, and possibly a few others, would be very happy with a lower production value, especially if that made it easier for Ed to make more content. Speaking for myself, I'd be perfectly happy watching a 'livestream' type format, where Ed just talks in a very relaxed fashion about how he goes about doing things. I understand that this is impractical to actually do live because of the need to keep some aspects of his personal server secret, so some things have to be edited in post, however I also suspect a bit too much effort is going into sleek presentation. Pearls before swine as the saying goes ;) That's why I gave an example of someone like Buildzoid who also has phenomenal knowledge to share, but who frequently confesses to being fairly disorganised and undisciplined, such that he has to do several takes of the same video just because he keeps wandering off the point or starts to rant about some manufacturer's marketing idiocy (which I find hugely entertaining btw). Despite these, let's be kind and say, 'not very high' production values, AHOC is a very highly respected channel. Clearly it's not respected for video production values, but for quality of content and information conveyed. Personally I wouldn't dream of buying a motherboard without knowing Buildzoid's opinion of it's components and design, anymore than I'd currently have an unraid server without Ed's videos. Buildzoid has actually talked about this specifically: Explaining just how much work - hours and hours of editing - goes into shaving a few minutes off a video WITHOUT losing any pertinent information, whenever he has to record video for Gamers Nexus. He does it for GN but cannot be bothered to do it for his own channel - and I think this is a smart decision because it would be a colossal waste of his time just for the sake of chasing a production value none of his subscribers give a damn about.
I'm happy to watch any length video. I can always pause and come back later if I need to. Covering an entire subject in one video is always preferable than trying to track down multiple parts anyway.
I am very appreciative for all of your videos! Because of you, I recently built an unraid server in order to move away from a Synology NAS. I couldn't be happier with how versatile and powerful unraid is!
Exactly in the same boat! Many many thanks spaceinvader
Me also similar, but rather than I am using still my both qnap NAS and my proxmox server and at the moment I am experimenting with quite powerful Unraid with 12 core 3900x cpu 64GB ram and 16 TB u.2 NVMe system which is definitely very interesting. But, I must say that this unraid is compared to OS from qnap and even proxmox significantly more difficult to customize. Nothing works from scratch and since 2 weeks I spent too much time for configuration. Especially the docker containers are crazy annoying even with such videos it is not working how I want. All the different respiratories making it more complex. Further more there is absolutely nothing in unraid integrated, so that I need for every small.action a plugin. Especially the containers could have been realized more automatically. Nevertheless, I like it and especially his videos
@firatguven6592 Same boat. Bout to built my Intel 14900 14th Gen with Aorus Master X z790 with 16 port HBA controller on a Meshy XL2, 2 stick of 96gb of 5600mhz DDR5 with room to max on ram if needed on a Iron Wolf NAS 20tb parody drive to start off with and 4x 8tb western nas drive and 1x 18tb seagate enterprise and 1x 20tb iron wold nas drive for storage and a 2tb nvme cache drive for plex.
Very informative and useful information. I'll go thru all of this series before I start moving large amounts of data from my old NAS to my new UnRaid server. Thanks for creating and posting this!
MC with screen -R is my working beast for this kind of situations
I would love to learn MC better, have used it a little but keep forgetting how to use it 😂
Nice editing effects and visual transitions! As someone who has been watching your video for about a year or so, it is cool seeing how your video skills and quality continue to improve over time.
Thank you for all your hard work! IMO, your guides are the best way for new (and old) users to learn how to use Unraid
🎯 Key points for quick navigation:
00:00 *📦 The video is part of the Unraid 6.9 series and focuses on transferring data to, from, and within an Unraid server.*
00:53 *✂️ The original video was nearly an hour long, so it was edited into a five-part series to be uploaded over the weekend.*
01:34 *🛠️ The video offers techniques for data transfer that are useful for both new and experienced Unraid users.*
02:16 *🗂️ Four different methods for moving and transferring files on Unraid will be covered, including Crusader, root share, rsync, and Midnight Commander.*
03:25 *🖥️ The video highlights the importance of understanding the Unraid file system to make data transfers easier.*
03:54 *📂 The Unraid file system stores all files under the `/mnt` directory, with specific paths for disks, shares, and unassigned devices.*
06:08 *🔌 Unassigned disks, such as external USB drives, are mounted under `/mnt/disks` in Unraid.*
07:30 *🌐 Remote SMB or NFS shares are mounted under `/mnt/remotes`, with the plugin allowing connections to external shares.*
08:54 *🚀 Directly connecting hard drives to the Unraid server is the fastest way to transfer data, bypassing network limitations.*
11:41 *🔄 Using a physical connection, like SATA or USB, is recommended for large data transfers to avoid errors and network slowdowns.*
12:38 *⏳ The next video will cover the first method of copying data using the Crusader Docker container.*
Made with HARPA AI
Ed, your videos excellent as always 👌
Many thanks Nick :)
I am just now playing around with rsync and boom, a new video. Thank u very much
nice video, you might re-consider your choice of font/typeface and text color when editing these videos. The bold dark gray text with black outline at 4:29 is barely readable to me and i'm sure lots of other people. Consider using something simple like white text with a black outline in less dense font would help make the text more accessible.
Thanks al lot for the series. Now all I need is something to back up all these videos from this (or any other) channel automatically to my server....
These videos are so useful but i need to play them at 1.5x speed as it does take a while to get the message across. All the same thank you do the help
thank you sooo much. im learning alot from these vids
I'd add that the third thing thatll impact speed is the number of files themselves - a thousand 1kb files will transfer far slower than a 1mb file, especially when using SMB. If someone is just mass ingesting large amounts of data, and for whatever reason cant (or doesnt want to) direct connect, I'd recommend NFS (specifically v3).
I also LOVE to use TeraCopy to transfer items over the network. It has resume and pause features. As well as a verify option (and it's free).
thank you i was about to move some TB of data and i am thinking of how to do it best
so that would be , a video every 9 hours and 36 minutes .
What a great teasing ! Thanks a lot Ed :-)
12:26 can you access 2 drives at the same time on the intech hard drive dock?
Perfect Video! I am a new follower, because your videos help a lot! Thank you
Your videos are invaluable!
Great video Ed.
Thanks for sharing this, it helps.
Sir. Any way to re-balance out existing shares on an array to be equal across all data drives?
when i plug my USD SSD into my NAS, it doesn't appear under unassigned unless i stop the array, at which point i don't think i can mount it
Ok I have a problem that i cant figure out. I have a 10gb usb ext hdd thats full of movies for plex. I was able to get it to mount in Unassigned devices so I can copy over all the movies to my unraid array. I unmounted the drive, deleted device history, but later when I connected the same drive back, it shows up in Unassigned devices, but it refuses to mount. For almost 2 weeks ive been trying to look up solutions as to why my usb disk wont mount anymore. Any suggestions? Its gotta be something simple im not doing? Im still new to unraid and linux.
Would you have a suggestion for an efficient method for transferring large numbers of photos, using Metadata, specifically "date created" field to place the individual files in directories based on the date the file was created?
Is there a video about GPU passthrough to VMs on Unraid 6.9.x in the works?
I can get my 5700xt to passthrough to my linux VMs, but not my Windows VM and I was hoping you would have a tutorial about that :)
I can see clearly now the precleans done! 🎹
I have 3 harddrives that are completely full at the moment.
Now i want to start an Unraid (Raid5). I also bought 2 new harddrives to have some that are empty.
So i would create the raid / share with the two new harddrives
And then... i would need to move all the data from 1 of the full hard-drives to the newly created share until its all transfered.
After that i can format the harddrive and add it to the share, correct?
And i'll repeat that until all my data is in the share and all my drives are added to the raid.
Is that correct?
What is the quickest way to move data from 1 drive to the share?
Is it as easy to add another drive to my share (raid5) as i think it is? By a couple of mouseclicks?
I saw a video earlier from you that showed ext4 as a option to format an unassigned device but it is not showing as an option now. Any ideas
Hi another great video!! but I need your help. I have 5 disk array and I my data is on disk 1,2,3.. Can you tell me how to move the Data from disk 3 onto another disk do I can pull disks 3,4,5 out of the array? I currently have highwater setup, is there a way to change the format so all sata moves to 1st drive? maybe the Fill up instead of highwater?
Awsome, thanks Ed 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Can anyone help out a big newbie please. Can i run my synology nas and point the disks in it to the unraiid server to be used ??
Whatever happened to doing a video on Midnight Commander?
I move the like a 2~3tb file from my PC to unraid, I was use the old way,but with freefilesync,so I want to know the now way to do.
You mention midnight commander but you don't actually follow through. WTf?
When I connect my NTFS drive after installing the Unassigned Disks plugins it only gives me a Format option. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get past it
is there anyway I can connect my Unraid server to my apple time capsule I can't figure it out
can you do a update on this video please
Hi Spaceinvader, i learn all about unraid from your videos. Hope you will make a video about removing (not replacing) a drive from the array. That would help me a lot. Why? Because i have a old disk in my array which is too loadand i don't need the space of it anymore. Thanx
Hi Ed. Any chance you might be able to do a piece on 'links' within a file system? I'm new to Unraid (and 'Linux') and was setting up SABNZBD and PLEX to work nicely in the same sandpit. I think due to a lack of knowldge about how the Unraid file system is put together, and having stumbled across 'hard links' for directories using WINSCP and SSH into the Unraid Server, I put some hardlinks into the default Plex directories and pointed at the 'movies' folder within my SABNZBD directories. I'm sure there may be a better way, but was intrigued aboout shares vs links when coming to the likes of SABNZBD, Sonarr etc. Ta!
Awesome stuff :D
Ed has spoken!
As a newcomer to Unraid I am finding your videos really helpful, I have several Terabytes of data to move over so I am watching this series, but one thing keeps triggering my Linux brain ... I keep seeing you pop up an overlay that says everything is mounted in /MNT when the correct directory is /mnt/ ... Please help my OCD and your Linux newbies by correcting this or mentiones that diretcory and file names on Linux are case sensitive and that /MNT doesnt actually exist hey do need to go to /mnt ... other than that, keep up the good work, I've learned loads.
Thanks for the video.
Now where is part 2 😊😊😊😊😊
SO why am i getting slowdown to zero and unexpected file error transfering files to unraid now what the hell windows did in the new updates? They killed the older SMB standard.
Thanks ed for all the videos. I need help with ipv6 and docker. how to enable ipv6 in docker?? How to use NGINX proxy manager with ipv6?? please if you have the knowledge help me or make a video of ipv6 and unraid. my ISP have CGNat in the ipv4 but give me an ipv6 that i can reach outside. greetings from Bolivia
Noice Video
Glad you like it and thanks for watching :)
Is this still valid in 2023?
'No one wants to watch an hour long video' . . . . . . well I do! I'd choose thorough, well-paced and in-depth every time, given the choice. I also really appreciate one subject being comprehensively covered in one video so it's easy to refer back to.
Bear in mind that most of us watching these videos will be pausing, tweaking or checking stuff on our own servers, and then resuming playback, probably with a quick rewind to double-check.
So an hour long video is probably going to take me 2 hours to watch minimum AND that's perfectly OK, because the alternative is to do it wrong, at best inefficiently, at worst to have to start totally from scratch because I've cocked it up so badly. That wastes time measured in days not hours, just to get back to where you started. I speak from experience!!
So please hear me when I say, please don't follow TH-cam trends and algorithms for shorter videos, which probably take a HUGE amount more time to edit. People who have a super short attention span are unlikely to be your target audience, so please relax, have a bit of a ramble, talk about what inspires and enthuses you. I guarantee you'll have more fun making the videos and spend much less time in post so you end up creating more videos! Just my 2c
P.S. Just checked Buildzoid's Actually Hardcore Overclocking channel - this guy has TMK never said anything succinctly in his life and has 3x this channel's subscribers. Now I'm not saying he's someone to emulate, especially since I know for a fact that some of his subscribers, including my partner, use his channel to help their insomnia, but . . . BUT . . . there are equally a bunch of people like myself who thoroughly enjoy a good solid 90 minute + Buildzoid ramble :)
I think he is not making the videos for subs, but for people want nonsense UnRaid content.
@@bluesquadron593 Yes - I wasn't suggesting he was chasing subs, but equally he is clearly assuming that "no one wants to watch an hour long video" - since I'd be VERY happy watching an hour long video, instead of 4 x 15 minute videos, I simply think he's wrong.
He's also said it takes a huge amount of time to edit these videos, which while I respect the effort enormously, I question how efficient a use of his time this is, when I, and possibly a few others, would be very happy with a lower production value, especially if that made it easier for Ed to make more content.
Speaking for myself, I'd be perfectly happy watching a 'livestream' type format, where Ed just talks in a very relaxed fashion about how he goes about doing things. I understand that this is impractical to actually do live because of the need to keep some aspects of his personal server secret, so some things have to be edited in post, however I also suspect a bit too much effort is going into sleek presentation. Pearls before swine as the saying goes ;)
That's why I gave an example of someone like Buildzoid who also has phenomenal knowledge to share, but who frequently confesses to being fairly disorganised and undisciplined, such that he has to do several takes of the same video just because he keeps wandering off the point or starts to rant about some manufacturer's marketing idiocy (which I find hugely entertaining btw). Despite these, let's be kind and say, 'not very high' production values, AHOC is a very highly respected channel. Clearly it's not respected for video production values, but for quality of content and information conveyed. Personally I wouldn't dream of buying a motherboard without knowing Buildzoid's opinion of it's components and design, anymore than I'd currently have an unraid server without Ed's videos.
Buildzoid has actually talked about this specifically: Explaining just how much work - hours and hours of editing - goes into shaving a few minutes off a video WITHOUT losing any pertinent information, whenever he has to record video for Gamers Nexus. He does it for GN but cannot be bothered to do it for his own channel - and I think this is a smart decision because it would be a colossal waste of his time just for the sake of chasing a production value none of his subscribers give a damn about.
I'm happy to watch any length video. I can always pause and come back later if I need to. Covering an entire subject in one video is always preferable than trying to track down multiple parts anyway.
How do you know all this? I'm the definition of noob.