mole

There might be a problem: some gigabyte mainboards write a "Host Protected Area" to a disk, making it 1056 bytes smaller -> possible data loss and more... Take a look at http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Topical_Index and search for "HPA" for more detailed information. I don't know if your P35 DS3R is using/producing HPA. I suggest that you make sure it doesn't before you take it for replacement. Perhaps someone here knows?

Some time goes in the naming-conventions of the files and the extra-files (posters, .nfo, ...) If you want to safe these and not the (big) movie-files, a small script like robocopy z:\ c:\mirror\ /S /E /create /XD excluded excluded2 robocopy z:\ c:\mirror\ /S /E /XF *.mpg *.eyetv /XD excluded excluded2 First, all files and directories are created with 0 bytes, then all files except the big files are copied. z:\ would be the drive you mapped an unraid-share to, excluded excluded2 is list of directories in this share you want to ignore, c:\mirror\ of cause the local destination and *.mpg *.eyetv the list of extensions of the big files. All in a .zip makes a very compact file for a backup of some work.

Perhaps this wouldn't trigger the shutdown-script... The power-switch I was referring to is the atx-case-mb-power-switch.

I would like to move my unraid-box to the cellar, but I want the power-switch and the power-led to stay... Step 1 If I take another push-button an a led, I can put them parallel to the existing ones of the case?! Step 2 Cable. There is an unused cat5-wall-socket going to a patch-panel in the cellar. So my idea is - take an phone-cable with small (4 pin) western plugs - cut it in two pieces - solder the extra led and push-button on one end and - put the other end in the case, like in Step 1 Under normal circumstances, this should be no problem. But if - by mistake - a pc or network component (GigE) is plugged in on one of the sides of this cable, it might not like it. The component can find a shortcut or some power (ment for the led) there. My question: Can I choose pins on the cable so a mistake would have no impact? Depending on your answers, it is likely that the power-switch und -led decide not to stay and that they will leave me a note: "Bye. Use s3 and wol..."

For each disk in unraid, I have an external USB drive with the same size. I fill the disks manually one after another and each time I copy a file to unraid, I also copy it to the latest USB-drive. This method is not very elegant, but I feel very good with it. Most of the backup is really offline all the time and safe from digital human errors. On my todo-list: bring them off-location

Just want to let you know that the PCI SATA Controller ASRock SATA3 card (http://www.asrock.com/mb/spec/card.asp?Model=SATA3%20Card) - PCI Express 2.0 x1 - Chipset Marvell 88SE9123 - 2 x SATA3 ports seems to be working with unraid 4.5.3. MB is Supermicro C2SEE using the x1-slot. I connected one drive (pulled it of the onboard-controller), Parity-check is running with > 80,000 KB/sec. Drives are WD15EADS and WD15EARS. It's cheap I think: 13 EUR in Europe.

After taking to much time trying to solve the HPA-problem with my Gigabyte-board, I replaced it with a Supermicro. Unraid runs rocksolid with it and I have no bad (HPA-) feeling - important for me