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Just to be sure I understand this method - I have a 3TB Parity drive + 2x2TB data drives and want to backup my 1TB picture collection, I can add a 1TB drive and make a cron job to daily backup the files to the UD drive? Should probably just try it out but don't want to mess anything up in case this is not the purpose of it.

?? The case should have about any card you want. The drive cage has a section missing on one of the bays, so if you need that space for a long add-in card (e.g. a video card) it will fit just fine (it does, however, reduce the useable drive count to 7 in the hot-swap bays). If you're referring to how many ports you may have to add to do a specific configuration, that's a function of what motherboard you use -- NOT a question related to the case. Sorry my bad, I meant because I want to use all 8 bays will something like a BR10i fit incl. 8087 cables attached? Thats one of the bigger cards as far as I have seen.

Im thinking of getting a DS380 chassis, but before I punch buy I would like a little thing clarified... The size limitations of the expansion card is really confusing me Anyone who can compile a list of 4 and 8 port expansion cards that work in this case??? I have a motherboard with 4 ports but would ultimately like to build a 9 drive system with the cache drive in the 2.5" cage - so I would need a 8 port card to make that work. ...or I bite the sour apple and only build a 8 drive system and then needing a 4 port card.

As Johnm said in your UCD thread. You need to use the HP USB tools and make it bootable before extracting these to it. I did it, just as it showed in the provided png image - after that I extracted the zip to the drive but the machine refused to boot from it. It could be a bios setting I suppose but otherwise I haven't had any problems getting my systems to boot from USB thumb drives. Make sure it shows up in the bios as bootable and is first in the boot list which I'm sure you have already. Maybe try to make it bootable again. Sorry out of ideas. This time I tried again, but tested the USB stick on a Lenovo laptop were it booted just fine. When I move it to the NAS, were I first of all reset all BIOS settings and made sure the USB was 1st boot, I only get a black screen... Would it be possible to install XP or Ubuntu and flash from in there? If so, what files would I need to flash via those OS?

As Johnm said in your UCD thread. You need to use the HP USB tools and make it bootable before extracting these to it. I did it, just as it showed in the provided png image - after that I extracted the zip to the drive but the machine refused to boot from it.

I have today assembled the last few pieces of my new unRAID and thought I should start installing - but wanted to get my IBM M1015 into IT mode before I started. Used the guide mentioned here - but when I have extracted the zip mentioned in the readme to my usb sticks root - it refuses to boot up... Any one have an idea what I do wrong? My unRAID is the one here>

I have just bought a IBM M1015 for my new unRAID server. As soon as I receive the card I am going to flash it the usual HBA FW - but! If I one day want to use another OS than unRAID, say windows server 8 maybe, is there then anyway I can reverse the process and get back the original IBM RAID FW?