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Thankyou garycase. Much appreciated.

I'm guessing I'm not allowed to upgrade my 5.x.x to this version right?

2 questions. a) I don't seem to have write access to my unRaid from a second PC on my LAN? When I try to copy files across to it, it keeps saying Access Denied, but never gives me a login prompt? (even though I can happily browse files & directories??) b) I'm noticing an average of 18-20 Mb/s when copying files, I have not applied the N40L bios patch thing. Is it too late for me to play around with the BIOS patch now that I've started using unRaid?

unRaid is more resilient than I thought... (phew) Dragged out the keyboard and monitor and did a command-line reboot. After it came back up, it wanted to do another parity check, which I let it do. My shares are back and my files are there.

We lost power unexpectadly this morning, and when it came back on, my N40L came back online on it's own. (We weren't home at the time.) There was some message about unexpected shutdown or thing like that, so I thought I would do a parity check to make sure everything was ok. It finished that and now my shares are gone. All the drives are empty (according to the console). I've just spent the last 3 days copying stuff over.

More questions: When does unRaid update/calculate the parity drive? As a trial, I moved some files to disk1 & I didn't see the capacity of the parity drive change? (I'm assumed it was done on the fly? or does it work like a batch job? ie: done at night?) What does the blinking green light against a drive (in the unRaid console) mean? My cache drive is always blinking & my user share is not setup to use a cache? When I manually initiate the parity check. Should I be using the NAS?

trurl, Is there any reason why Lime-tech didn't add 'pre-clear' controls to the unRaid console itself?

Started formatting my drives last night. (I couldn't figure out the pre-clear thing so I bypassed it) It estimated 1366 mins. However, I'm unsure if this was to format the whole array or just one 3TB HDD?

Just a small update (to what is probably the slowest unRaid build ever seen on this forum). Just bought myself an unRAID® Server Plus Registration key 2-Pack.

Quality photos + Quality build.

So how do you guys backup large volumes of data?

Been busy of late, so my N40L has been gathering dust. But luckily I had some time over the weekend... ...so this is where I am now. Q1: Does some one have a link to an idiot proof guide (preferably with lots of screen shots) on what I do now? Q2: I have 4 HDDs installed. Why is there only 3 rows? Q3: How do I buy unRaid? (ie: Where is these serial number(s) that I need to buy the twin-pack?) Q4: I haven't done that 24 hr long test thing that you guys do on my new drives, can I start that process from the web interface?

Take one screw to your local 'fasteners' shop. If they don't have it, they can machine some for you.

Sure am... SotR. Thanks for the offer pantner but I want to have a shot at this myself first...

Thanks guys. I'll get cracking tonight after work and report back on my progress.

Hello everyone. I'm currently in the process of *attempting* to build my first ever NAS using the unknown-to-me unRaid platform. I currently have: 1x HP N40L MicroServer with it's standard 250Gb HDD. 3x WD 3TB Greens I also ordered the following: - 2x 4Gb Lexar Jumpdrive Firefly USB sticks as recommended on a wiki somewhere - 2x 8Gb Patriot Gamer G2 DDR3 1333MHz (PGD316G1333ELK) I also understand that I have to upgrade the BIOS on the N40L but I haven't gotten round to this yet, as I'm a bit worried of downloading foreign executables from TPB. Also, I'm thinking of getting the 6-drive twin-pack registration here: http://lime-technology.com/products/registration-keys Does this mean that if one of my USB keys has a catastrophic failure I simply swap over to the other "backup" key right? ie: the disk array isn't encoded to be driven off a single key? Also, can someone tell me how I find the serial number from the keys to be able to enter the registration form? Anyway, what do I do next? I've been reading a few of the posts here at this forum and am utterly confused (especially with the pre-clear stuff)... Is there an idiot's guide to building an unRaid NAS? (Seriously... cause I am an idiot, and I'm bound to screw something up) Cheers.

Not according to the HP website...