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These are Rackmounted cases. Do you have a rack for a professional setup? If so, can you tell me what type of Rack you bought to house this unit? This is for an office or home environment. I am thinking of a video server for my home theater which I need infinite space for. Thanks.

It worked, I was able to rebuild the array. Thanks

Exactly that. When reading from an unraid array drive you're just reading directly from the disk in question so should expect the same speeds you would see as you would reading that disk in any other scenario. Parity is only involved during writes. This is what I suspected and its actually good for me. I guess it will take a while to transfer the video files to the unRaid server but once they are there, it should be a fast reading for streaming to my various devices such as popcorn hours.

Assuming you can get the license issue resolved( or that you are using the 3-drive free demo), what is going to happen to your data on your array when a new operating system is loaded from a freshly downloaded software? Does it just boot up as if the old disk was still there? I mean, are there certain configuration files stored on that USB drive about your data array that will be needed or what happens exactly? I guess I should maybe buy a second USB flash drive and test it out of my demo setup. Thanks.

Hello. If the USB flash drive breaks, does this destroy the array or can you just download another copy of the software and load it on a new USB flash drive? Should you take an exact clone of your USB flash drive to plan for such an event? Please let me know if this is a weak spot in the system or how exactly you can recover/prepare for a USB drive breaking. Thanks.

It worked, thanks.

I realize that UNraid gives you the security of data being recovered from individual drives and being able to use odd sized drives by compromising performance by not striping the data in multiple drives correct? My question is does this lack of performance effect both read and write or is read ability completely unaffected? In other words, is reading data from this system the same as reading data from a single networked attacked hard drive or computer? Thanks.

Hello. On the unRaid server on the Dos prompt( not the WEB interface), it is asking for a Tower login and password. I would like to know what that default user name and password are. For some strange reason, I am unable to find that information in this forum anywhere. I believe I need to access that in order to do a factory reset. Thank you.

I am using Version 4.7, where exactly do I " enter initconfig"? It is on the web based interface or the dos type interface on the actual unraid server? The web based server has the following options: Main | Users | Shares | Settings | Devices If its on the actual server, is there a user name and password required to into it? Thanks

Hello. I am playing around with the demo software to see how well this work. I tried to replace a hard drive to see if the array would rebuilt itself however the hard drive I put in was too small. Anyway, I figured that I would just then place back the original drive which I took out. When I actually did this, I get this error " Stopped. Replacment disk is too small." even though its the same disk that I originally took out. Now, these are extremely old hard drives only like 16GB in side and IDE connection so it might be a hard drive issue more than an unraid issue. At this point I just want to wipe it out and try again from a factory default, does anyone know how to do this? Thanks.

Hello. I am considering perhaps building a 20 hard drive server and I am in the very early research stages of this software. I am just wondering how exactly do you get power 20 connections for hard drive using a power supply? Are there special types of power supplies which provide 20 hard drive power cables or are there some kind of power splitter where maybe you split each power cable into 5 separate cables for the hard drive? Also, do you guys factory in like 10 watts per hard drive? So a 20 hard drive system would at least need 200 watts for the hard drives alone before considering the motherboard, processor, video card, etc...... Thanks.

Hello. I am wondering the process of recovering the files from a hard drive in the event that 2 or more drive being lost. Its my understanding that you can still recover the data in the drives which were not lost. I am currently playing around with the demo software trying to simulate difference things happening to see how it works. How exactly would these files be recovered? Could they be connected to a USB docking station on a windows computer, linux operating system, or perhaps some kind of special software tool made for recovery? Please let me know Thanks

Thank you for all the replies. I have also watched a few video on unraid after posting my comment. It seem like this system is better than Raid5 because you have the same level of disaster recovery of being able to recover from a drive lost however you can actually read information from each drive on a computer whereas with raid 5, the information is stripped. Plus being able to use uneven size drives and get 100% of the space available(after parity drive) is a big freaking deal. I have tons of uneven drives in my house that I would love to incorporate into a raid system. So this system is closer to a Drobo than a Readynas as far as using uneven drives. If this system works the way it claims so, why would anyone use Freenas or raid5 instead of unraid? Thanks.

Hello. I currently have several readynas and buffalo system but I am tired of wasting a hard drive on these little 4-drive system and their larger drive systems are too costly. I only have video and music files and do not need all this corporate applications they have on it. I have some questions on how the unraid system worked and how safe it was to use. 1. Can you recover from the software on the USB crashing or the motherboard, SAS controller breaking? In other words, can you just place it in a new computer and run a backup of the software? In other words, how resilient is the setup? 2. How much space do you get off the drives? It is like with RAID 5 where you loose 1 drive to parity? For example, if I had 8 X 2TB drives, would I have 14TB of protected space out of the 16TB in the system? 3. Can I use sata port multipliers in the system? 4. I read that you can use uneven sizes of hard drives, does it basically treat the entire array hard drive at large as the smallest drive? For example, lets say you have the following hard drives, 1TB,1.5TB,2TB and 3TB drives in the system. Does it act like you have 4 X 1TB drives? I am trying to figure out if its like Drobo(beyondraid) or more like Readynas( X-raid). 5. Is there any type of recovery utility that provided you have your hard drive labeled correctly, can read the data off each drive in the event of a hardware crash. Thanks for your help.