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My current data--disk1--is a WD20EARX drive that I hadn't done a preclear on and I'd like to do one. I have as my parity drive a precleared WD20EARS and I performed a Parity build--worked fine, zero errors anywhere. I currently have a HD204UI going through a preclear and it will be done soon. So from my understanding, if I shut the system down and pop in the HD204UI in place of the disk1 (WD20EARX), assigning the disk1 slot to the HD204UI, and start up the array, unRaid shoudl recognize this and rebuild disk1 from the parity drive (WD20EARS), right? Once rebuilt, I can then preclear the WD20EARX and add it to the array and user share, rebuild the parity and all will be good?

Yes I meant to type PCIe thanks.

I added the same 6000+ files to both iTunes on Snow Leopard and iTunes on Windows 7. Snow Leopard via AFP and WIndows 7 via SMB. It took about 10 times longer on Snow Leopard for some reason. Running Snow Leopard 10.6.8, Windows 7 and unRaid 5.0 rc3 over gigabit ethernet.

Tried copying a bunch of music files from a Windows 7 client to NAS server (5.0 rc3) and got some error messages: "meta-data properties can't be copied" (or something along those lines). What's this problem?

--does anyone know? I have both boards and can get either card.

Where is the hardware comptibility page?

Oh, the board can be used or new, doesn't matter. It needs to be less than $100.

--from the top of every forum page? --and to the wiki

I have a LGA775 motherboard that is only pci-e 1.1. I'd like to go for a pci-e generation 2 board. I have 2 x 1gb DDR2 667MHZ modules along with a core2duo 2.66ghz processor (that doesn't support virtualization). I'd like a motherboard with onboard 1 gigabit ethernet as well if possible (or I could use my existing intel pci-e 1 gigabit ethernet card) 6 sata ports would be nice but 4 would work. It also should be able to support a IBM BR10i and M1015. There must be a board that can do all this and is favored by others here for unRaid usage? Thanks!

I thought about going the route of single bay trays that fit in 5 1/4" drive slot. However, thinking about how poorly the sata power connectors preserve their connection made me rethink.. I really like the redundant (two) molex connectors on the back of the ss-500 tray. They lock in and can't fall out like the sata power connectors seem to do on my client computer. I also picked up some locking sata cables for the ss-500.. so it's all secure in the back and can't come loose. Then I don't ever have to worry about connections anymore and just slide drives in and out. I dont' know if there are individual locking sata power cables but from what I've seen on the two power supplies here at home, they aren't locking. OR... do most of the single bay trays use molex connectors?

That's the way I have it now.

I've tried 2 other drives in that bay--same problem. I even tried disconnecting the case hd led from the motherboard as suggested here in another thread--also didn't help. Someone mentioned jumpers on the back of the ss-500 cage.. i don't know if that'd help or not.. there absolutely no documentation with this cage so i wouldn't know how to set them. I suppose I can try the norco web site for documentation.

Actually now I am thinking about just replacing the motherboard on that machine with my gigabyte p35-ds3l motherbaord which has three pci-e x1 slots. IT's also pci-e generation 2 (2.1 i think). Hopefully the br10i would work in one of these two motherboards!

ok so it sounds like i should free up my pci-e x1 slot by removing the gigabit nic and buy a PCI gigabit nic instead. Then buy a pci-e x1 2 porta sata controller, which will get me about 90MB/s to each of the drives, since I have a pci-e 1.1 motherboard.

I got this motherboard free from my boyfriend for the NAS, lol. It is in fact only 10/100--it's about 4 or 5 years old or so. My motherboard on my hackintosh has 1Gb/s ethernet. I asked my BF and he said yeah the motherboard has only pci-e version 1.1. Is the IBM BR10i compatible with PCI 1.1 or does it need PCI 2.0? Hopefully this ASUS motherboard will work with the br10i.. i know some motherboards x16 slot will work with video cards only. The motherboard is ASUS P5GC-MX/1333.

Thanks I have been having a problem with LED in bay 1 of my SS-500 and now I got some ideas from this thread. I have the case HDD LED plugged in.. i'll try removign that. I'll look into the jumpers on the back of the ss-500 as well. thanks again.

Wow that sounds really dismal--I've never heard of such failure rates before. Now I am afraid to invest in hard drives for this lil nas project lol. I was planning on going with up to 15 2tb drives lol.

I think mostly it just loses connection to the server. I haven't notice this when the server isn't loaded down with a parity build. And anything I do successfully with the server while it is building the parity, is extremely slow--makes sense. (like music playback pauses sometimes). I started a torrent to write to my user share while doign this parity build and it got an I/O error and stopped like 100mb in the download. (i.e. after a minute or two).

My motherboard has two pci slots, one pcie x1 and one pcie x16. I currently have nothing in the 2 pci slots; I have an Intel 1 Gb/s NIC in the pcie x1 slot--motherboard NIC only has 100mbps NIC. And I plan on putting a BR10i in the pcie x16 slot. Should I replace the Intel pcie NIC with a PCI version of it? I understand that PCI bandwidth is 133MB/s and PCIE x1 is 500MB/s. 133MB/s would handle the bandwidth Gb/s ethernet traffic. I could then perhaps get a 4 channel pci-e sata controller since 500MB/s divided by 4 is 125MB/s each (which sounds good for each drive to me since that's about what I get with my onboard controllers).

ok so 1 hard drive per pci slot (i have two of those slots).. that gives me 2 + 4 (motherboard) + 8 (br10i) = 14.. darn 1 short of the 15 bays 3 x ss-500 offers me, lol.

Side note: btw, as I mentioned in another post here on the forum, the data access LED on the first bay isn't working--sucks The other drive LEDs are working fine.

I just searched google images and looked at least a dozen pictures of installations of ss-500 in various cases, and they all installed them like I did, with the levers up.

I installed it with the release levers (blue tabs) facing up--which seemed the right way to me since the power and sata connectors are more readily accessable in the back then having to go up and over the fan in the back shroud. I was contemplating flipping it to see if the holes lined up but the design begged for it to be installed this way cause of the connection points in the back lol. I suppose I could flip it. No matter what though, it's gonna get scratched up going into the prominent 9 case right? I mean for me it was a tight fit and I bent those tabs down all the way I thought.

Has unRaid ever saved your butt?--I'd like to hear about it. e.g.: I'd really like to know how well the parity drive accurately reconstructs a failed drive. I'd like to know how well the unRaid server determines which drive is going bad in the array. How it notifies you?--I don't recall seeing a place to enter in my email address for SMTP notifications; etc..

Also sometimes the music pauses I am listening to on my iTunes client (reading from a user share on nas)