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I have about 2.5 TB right now. I'm using the original Intel MB (bought from LT). I've forgotten the specs over the years but it's a low-end Celeron I think. I probably need 5 TB. I may have a couple 500GB drives laying around (my parity is 500). Maybe I can get by for now and convert to something different later. If my drive enclosures and MB were SATA, there'd be no issue. This system has been rock solid for several years now. Only had to replace the PS's. Nice design.

I have one of the original servers running all ATA drives. I need to upgrade the machine because I'm out of space. Do you think it's cost effective to continue with this machine? For example, I'm using the old ATA drive enclosures and I'm not sure the original MB includes any SATA connectors. So, at a minimum, I'd probably need to add new SATA drive enclosures and find a SATA card. Thoughts?

On further reflection, I may have accidentally "moved" these files to portable disk. I have a small Oyen USB disk (great product btw) that I copied the files to for later viewing on my laptop. Perhaps I accidentally hit the Cut button in the context menu instead of Copy (Bad UI design on MS's part...placing these buttons side by side). For now, I'll assume that's what happened.

I'm on 4.4.2. Over the weekend, I copied a bunch of DVD's to Disk9, the last disk in my array. When I view the disk using windows explorer, it shows the disk as totally empty. When I view the tower via http, I also see the disk is (mostly) empty. I thought for a minute that I was confused. So I reviewed my explorer history and I definitely copied these files to Disk9. What gives?

Thanks Carpet3. I've haven't had a chance to try it yet. Will try and report back. Tom

I don't have unMENU installed. If installed, does it require a script to send the WOL packet?

I'm using an "original" server running 4.4.2. I use the machine mainly for archival purposes. Is there a relatively easy way to suspend and wake the server? I searched and found many articles. However, I'm not the most technical guy and I quickly got lost. Any advice?

Ok, another twist. I decided that the drive I wanted to use for cache is too small for my purposes. Some of the files I'd like to transfer are larger than the drive's capacity. So, I pulled a spare sata 500gb from my spares (these are WD drives, so it pays to have spares). My setup is pretty old and I'm using the original MB. Also, all the existing drives are IDE. I've taken a screen shot of the current drive assignments and I'm on 4.4.2. I'd like to replace the small IDE drive (no files on it) with the new 500gb sata drive, and make that drive a cache drive. I assume the correct procedure is: + Unassign the small IDE drive. + Hit Restore + Physically remove the too small sata drive (can probably be done before I hit Restore) + Add the new sata drive + Hope it doesn't screw up the other drive assignments (and fix it if they show up in the wrong order) + Assign the new drive as a cache drive (not sure where this selection is made...also, I probably need to format the new sata drive somewhere along the way). Make sense?

Thanks Joe. As usual, a thorough and clear reply. Much appreciated.

I've read through the wiki and can't find this topic. I'd like to convert an existing Data drive to a Cache drive to increase write speeds. I'm on 4.4.2 Pro. What's the proper procedure?

I get about 9 MB/s up and 10 MB/s down. I've tested with multiple cables. The card lights are green and amber on both cards (with only 2 PC's connected). The lights on the switch show 1Gb/s. I have a cheapo SMC switch (smcgs5).

Thanks for the reply's. I looked at the MB again and now see the 2 SATA connectors. I completely missed them before (I did look, honest). So, I think I will buy 2 1TB SATA drives. Swap the parity first. Then add the other new 1TB drive (and, after that, add the old 500GB parity drive as a data drive). I'll probably also pick up a couple internal SATA cards. Some of my old drives are pretty small and will need to be replaced, when the time comes, with SATA drives. Doesn't sound too bad. Now, if I can just track down that pesky problem with my slow network (only 10MB/sec throughput on a 1Gb switch in a full 1GB environment). Always something to "optimize"...

Hi guys. I'm not too technical and hopefully someone will save me hours of research. I have the original Lime Technology setup with IDE cards. Lately, I've noticed I can buy a 1TB SATA drive for only $10 more than the 500GB IDE drive. So, I need to bite the bullet and more over to SATA. I'm running version 4.4.2 of the server software. A few questions: Can I easily run a mixed SATA/IDE environment? If so, can you recommend a specific SATA internal card (since the old MB does not included SATA on the board)? Any other recommendations or cautions? Thanks much.

Works great. Thanks for the instructions!

The instructions below discuss how to upgrade from 4.0. However, I'm running the beta 10 version of 4.0. Guess I need to see if there were any changes between 4.0 beta 10 and 4.0 RTM (or if they would already be incorporated in the files below). If you are currently running unRAID server 4.0 or 4.1, please copy the following files from the new release to the root of your Flash device: bzimage bzroot syslinux.cfg menu.c32 memtest