dakar82

Hello all,

I've been using Portainer for roughly 6 months now, and I'm having what I believe to be an odd issue with several of my containers.
I have about 19 containers running, and the vast majority are running smoothly, but three of them are giving me trouble with their ports. I have Heimdall, Wizarr (a Plex invitation agent, relatively new), and Overseer that all run with ports in the 3276x to 3277x range (I think within 5 digits, between 68 and 73). There seems to be a "random" issue that when Portainer restarts, the ports for ONLY these three containers swap around. Like stated above, all my other containers run fine and their ports never change. I've noticed it definitely happens if my server has to restart for any reason, but I swear it's happened at other random times (I just can't say with any certainty as I haven't logged it).

Has anyone seen an issue like this before? Is there anyway to lock down the ports to each container after they've already been deployed?

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Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

Hello all,I'm looking for some input into if I'm looking at the best options for an HBA card to expand my storage capacity for my Windows 10 machine. Right now I've got 4 drives in my tower, and two drives externally hooked up via USB, as I don't have enough SATA ports on my motherboard to put everything internal.

I have two PCIE x16 slots open, one with an x8 data lane and one with an x4 (as well as 3 x1 slots, but those I'm assuming are too slow to use for multiple HDDs). I have a Fractal Design Define 7XL, so I can fit a lot of HDDs it into for my future needs, I just need to be sure that I'm set for at least 8 new HDDs before I consider adding either a second HBA card or upgrading to one with more ports.

The below table are the cards I've looked at that MIGHT work for me, but I'm honestly not certain on how good the brands are (aside from StarTech and LSI), or whether there are better options out there.

I know that there is a lot of knowledge in this subreddit, and I really appreciate if anyone can steer me in the right/better direction on this.

Thanks in advance for any help!