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http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2817.0 it's sticky under user customization page

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=14695.msg138466#msg138466 Tip #3

I believe the reason is because M1015 is a software raid card and unraid doesn't have the correct driver for it when it's raided. and i can't find where i read it, but i read somewhere that if it's in default mode, HDD won't be detected by OS's if HDD's are not in raid. so if you dont make them in raid, hdd's wont be recognized by unraid. if you make them in raid, the raid wont be recognized by unraid. so IT firmware is necessary. but, IR in other hand may be different. in the article that you posted up about M1015, it talks about M1015 being able to be in three different mode: LSI9211-IT, LSI9211-IR, LSI9240 (Default) (http://www.servethehome.com/ibm-serveraid-m1015-part-4/) sounds like IR mode is IT mode + raid capability. but again, it comes down to unraid's raid driver. maybe someone else can answer if RAID using IR mode is supported by unraid

actually, power consumption is lower than green drives See these pdf docs for detail: http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-771438.pdf http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-771442.pdf but here is the power management part of it: WD30EZRX (Green 3TB) Read/Write: 6W Idle: 5.5W Standby/Sleep 0.8W WD30EFRX (Red 3TB) Read/Write: 4.4W Idle: 4.1W Standby/Sleep 0.6W I am slowly changing all my drives to Red drives..

Nope, it's actually very low http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/red-wd20efrx-wd30efrx-nas,3248-8.html and performance per watt is one of the best. green drives are low too. could be lower than red, but the performance is not worth it. i recently moved my green drives out of the array, and my parity check and build performance went up pretty high

I never ran 4.7 before. I jumped straight to 5.0 beta.. but i had the same problem before on 5.0 where unraid would lose the connection. it kept losing connection when i try to copy >10GB files. so when it lost the connection, i went on the machine console and typed these to renew the ip address ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig eth0 up It crapped out on me and gave me some weird error i remember. it was because of RAM. for some reason, it gave me out of memory error in the syslog and it was shutting down the ethernet card. and when i try to renew the ip address, it's not able to cause it completely shut down ethernet card. so this is why we would need the syslog after losing the connection. as you expand your storage, it may require more ram. (i am not too sure on that though).. I'm guessing you still have 2GB as you mentioned earlier? anyway, i fixed my issue using this though: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3999.msg36211#msg36211 I used 65536 instead of 8192 like this: echo 65536 > /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes if this fixes the problem, better to put it in go file

Are you getting the syslog after you lose the connection? or are you getting the syslog in the middle of the big transfer? We would need the one after you lose the connection, not in the middle of the transfer. and i dont know if i missed it, but did you run memtest overnight to see your memory is okay?

Yea PART 4 is a good article about flashing the firmware. It has the link to the zip file that includes the latest firmware (P15 i think) and efi version of sas2flash. It doesn't mention anything about uefi shell in that specific article though, but if you can go to uefi shell, the instruction's the same.

okay. here's another info. recently i bought M1015 to replace my MV8. However, in earlier posts, people mention that they weren't able to flash it to IT firmware using 970 extreme4 Well, I was able to flash M1015 without any problem using built in EFI shell in 970 extremem4! no need to try to flash it from a different mobo this is what i did pretty much: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=20761.msg186485#msg186485

yea, like Joe said. It is completely insecure. Never meant to be accessed directly from outside. I believe it was designed to be internal use only. I have set up a VPN server using my router, and that's the only way I connect to my unraid from outside. Even if it was 'secured' though, you should never make your file servers available directly from outside world in my opinion.

All gone now. That was fast. For those still looking for M1015, here are sellers that's selling it for about $90-$95 ish. I've been watching them over the week and they have been lowering their price slowly.. So it is possible that they may lower it more so may want to watch They don't include the full bracket though, which you have to buy separately. $85 + $5 Shipping (Could try make offer): http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-SASSATA-M1015-DP-PCIE-SAS92208i-46M0861-46M0831-46C8933-SHIPS-TODAY-/321093220404 $94: http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-SERVERAID-M1015-ADAPTER-PCIE-20-X8-SAS-SATA-CONTROLLER-46M0861LOW-P-/310640105140 $95: http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-ServeRAID-M1015LSI-SAS92208i-PCIE-SASSATA-46C8933-Half-Height-Low-Pro-/171015898712 These are the price for them at the time of writing this post. Good luck!

lol let's not be so greedy now. i'm just sad that I could have waited 2 days to save $25 I literally orderd it two days ago (Sunday) I thought no one would sell it under $100 anymore. bahhh was i wrong. at least i got one for $80.

I've been looking into getting this card for awhile..but it's been over $100 over at ebay without the bracket But finally, someone just posted it up for $80 with the full bracket.. I bought one last week for like $105 but i ordered another one lol http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200912082875 At the time of writing this post, there are 3 left.

Why not G1610? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116889 Same price ($49.99), better benchmark score from http://www.cpubenchmark.net/ (2366 vs 2618), ivy bridge, and lower power consumption (65W vs 55W)

A lot of unraid users use that card. They refer it as 'MV8'. I use it myself. It is also listed in the hardware compatibility list in wiki : http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Hardware_Compatibility#PCI_SATA_Controllers

I had G530 for the longest time until I got the esxi machine set up. G530 is enough for all plugin including plex Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

Getting off the track here.. but i honestly dont think it's doing it wrong. maybe not using the main feature.. but not really doing it wrong. someone can use unRAID with 1 drive if they don't need data protection but need quick NAS solution. All they need would be unraid flash drive, and a pc. without any much setup, they've got themselves a simple NAS solution. They can expand their NAS by adding another. so unRAID with 2 drives there.. If they want to protect their data with the parity drive, then they can add the parity drive.. Not every data needs protection.

I've been looking into itx builds as well... but from my research C60M1-I is not good enough for plex and couchpotato. so it is a good thing that you didn't get C60M1-I for that purprose. As trurl pointed out, a lot of people are using i3-3220T for low power consumption (35W) and pretty powerful. However... I've been looking at G630T instead.. It is cheaper than i3-3220T.. same power consumption (35W). . If you don't care too much about the power consumption and low on budget, I'd go with Celeron G1610. It's 55W and it's about $50 over at newegg.. and it should be powerful enough for transcoding (plex) and sab + cp + sb set up.

I have AOC-SASLP-MV8.. but i heard they use same or similar chipset. Did you try the MV8 hack shown in this thread: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=14695.0

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=9572.msg94243#msg94243 I use this. It's 5 beta2, but easily upgradable to the latest rc

This is awesome. Just what we needed.

Well.. since I wanted to post up something like this too.. I will post it here. I don't know how many people know, but back in 01, someone created this unraid image for VirtualBox (http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=9572.msg94243#msg94243) I took unRaid 5 beta2 image from that thread and converted to vmdk file. The VirtualBox image was just a hdd image anyway. Create a VM in esxi, add this as the main hdd, and you will be able to boot up the machine. This will be like booting to unraid without any hdd. but again, this is unraaid 5 beta 2, so probably needs to be updated. To update this to the latest unraid, boot up the machine, go to \\tower\flash\ then replace the two file that needs to be replaced here's the file https://mega.co.nz/#!M58ljS6A!TkHakWeygkZNqTi1WwfKo0gMAdsDK2NRcAchg1vndNo

update.. the problem may not be passing through the video card.. i am not able to passthrough USB devices, which means no keyboard or mouse (dedicated input device for the vm) Looks like it's a bug in 5.1.. because i see that some people were able to do it in 5.0u1, but not able to in 5.1. maybe you should install 5.0u1 instead to get it to work. there's a thread about this issue here: http://communities.vmware.com/message/2183426#2183426 Hopefully.. they will have a fix for this...

I'm planning on doing something similar.. (a xbmc vm that uses the video card) Have HD 5450 card right now, so i ordered ATI Rage so that can be the main video output for console and 5450 can be hw passthrough. I should be getting it tomorrow so I will let you know how this works out.

I see that you saw this post: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=22675.0 Not sure if you read them though. The whole thread is about how having more than 4GB of ram in unraid is causing some problems with transfering. Some people think it's specific to MB's ( I don't ), some people just think it's because of the limitation of 32 bit software. ANYWAY, for people to help you, they need more than what you said here. saying something's not working isnt enough. Please attach your syslog and spec of your machine