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That would be awesome! Thanks. I'm going to do nzbget and sonnar - hopefully play around with it tomorrow when i've got some downtime. I'm running into some problems w/ lag on the video streams and with subtitles causing the movies to lock up, so i want to solve those problems first and then will attack the "media grabbing" portion of this project.

Thanks all! much obliged

I've spent some time looking through the forums and there is such a wealth of information that I'm having a hard time finding the answers to some questions. I'm running 6.1.3 and have installed Community Applications and have configured PLEX successfully. I'd like to supplement my setup with SABnzbd, SickBeard, and CouchPotato. In looking through the list of Community Applications, and there are several repositories featuring these packages. I'm having a hard time figuring out what the difference is between the various versions ... are these separate forks? if so, how can i find the one that meets my needs? For that matter, are there official builds that I can grab? Or, is there a defacto version of these programs that are wildly considered to be "the best"? Meanwhile, I found this on the wiki and though it's dated (and full of typos), it appears to be a pretty succinct recap of what I need to do to properly get each of these setup. http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Setting_Up_SABnzbd,_SickBeard,_and_CouchPotato That said, are there any other guides out there which outline the setup for these programs? I just don't have a ton of free time these days and want to make sure that I focus on the most efficient methods to get my system fully operational. Cheers

Thanks! That's the post i was previously pointed too!!! much obliged!

Hi folks, after many moons of traveling, I have finally returned home and put together my new unRaid server (http://pcpartpicker.com/user/helpermonkey/saved/31UO). In searching through the forums, I'm having a hard time finding a how to guide on pre-clearing. A kindly gent on this forum sent me some info on this but i've sadly misplaced that email! Does anyone know of a guide or will anyone be willing to throw one together? I have assembled the pc, but have yet to do anything with it. It has yet to be plugged in and turned on in fact :-)

Hi there, I'm looking to swap out the heatsink that comes stock with the i5 4670k as I've been told it's not sufficient for running a quiet server. Do you guys have any suggestions? I've thought about this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608020 but i don't know how quiet it will get. here is a list of my build if you have any questions about that: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/helpermonkey/saved/31UO

So I'm starting down the road of building out an unRaid server and I'm wondering if any of my old equipment is up to snuff. I'm mainly concerned with my mobo as it's not on the compatibility list. I have plenty of drives lying around, but know I'm going to need to get some PCI adapters if I keep this mobo. I don't mind dropping a few more bucks to replace, but don't intend to spend more than $50 on any one part (if i don't need to). Here's my HTPC that i'm currently assembling if you're interested http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=133044 MoBo: Intel D865Perl E210882 CPU: Intel P4 3.2ghz SL7E5 CPU Fan: Zalman 2-ball bearing Quiet CPU Cooler RAM: 2 sticks of Kingston KVR400X64C3AK2/1G PSU: Apex AL-A400ATX 400w Case: Cooler Master Centurion 5* I'm 90% sure that's the case i have, it's about 8 years old, so if it's not that one, it looks identical.

that's an excellent point! I'm sure i'll have a question about the secondary box (if there isn't some other even less expensive method to the madness) but my mind is about to break on me. Thanks so much for the friendly replies!

disco! thanks!!!!

Thanks, i did see that post and got a little inundated as CRON jobs and such (while i'm familiar with the concept and know what they are) are not something I've every really setup. I've run RSYNC before and have ghosted countless drives but I don't want to bite off more than i can chew. I'm not very comfortable with linux but perhaps that post will work for me if i start fresh one day when i'm not knee deep in this. I guess my only other ? has to deal with equipment: from a networking perspective, should i have any concerns about using DD-WRT and a different model router? Will the Airport be powerful enough to handle this? based on what we're looking to do (primarily have a backup in a different physical space) - is there another method that someone here might recommend?

Hi people, I'm strongly considering using unRAID for my media storage over the NetGear Ultra2. I've only been on the site for about 30 minutes, so pardon me if i've somehow missed this information in the documentation. My neighbors (who live 2 floors below me) share my internet. I'm moving toward a NAS setup mainly on account of my new (in progress) htpc that i'm building. I would like to have two unRAID boxes and I'm wondering if what i'm proposing is feasible (or if there is a more efficient way to do this). Box A will sit hardwired into the router/switch which is hardwired with an HTPC and a TimeCapsule. It will have its own unique set of equipment and the "array" to start off will have a 2TB parity drive, and two storage drives (one of which is 2TB). Box B will sit two floors down and need to connect wireless (perhaps hardwired into an AP). It will have its own unique set of equipment and will match the storage capacity of Box A. They will access box b for their media, I will access box a. However, I want box A & B to be "duplicates" of one and other. I've read through a few of the topics linked to at http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/UnRAID_Topical_Index#Backups and didn't see this mentioned anywhere. I'm technically inclined but by no means an expert on any of this. So is this possible? Is there a better way of doing it? I have a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH running DD-WRT but I'm going to replace it (possibly with an Apple Airport) b/c the thing craps out like every hour. So keeping that in mind - will this setup bottleneck the ability stream stuff over the internet? Since they will be "streaming" locally from their own hardwired box and i will be "streaming locally" from my own, i just want to make sure that when the boxes are backing up, that the network doesn't come to a screeching hault.