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Sorry for not replying sooner, mrow: forum didn't notify me and/or I didn't have it set to do so on replies. Selling (now sold) it b/c I built (over the course of a few months as funds availed themselves) a newer array, though with pretty much the same power profile. tolan77 was the local guy who purchased it 10 or so minutes ago, stand-up person: good communication and great follow-through.

Server was built with the specific aim of low-power, high-capacity (at the time). Power consumption information below. Drives (re)pre-cleared and parity built - server is ready to plug in and have shares set up. NZXT H2 H2-001-BK http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811146072 SUPERMICRO MBD-X7SLA-H-O w/Intel Atom 330 & Intel 945GC http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182205 Crucial 1GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148147 2@ Rosewill RC-218 PCI Express SATA II Controller Card w/ 4 internal SATA with 2 external eSATA Design http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132018 Model Capacity Serial Warranty Status/Info ----------------- -------- -------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WD1001FALS-00J7B0 1TB WMATV0644004 IN LIMITED WARRANTY 02/12/2014 WD20EADS-00S2B0 2TB WCAVY4981497 OUT OF LIMITED WARRANTY 10/20/2012 WD20EADS-00R6B0 2TB WCAVY0232057 OUT OF LIMITED WARRANTY 06/06/2012 WD20EADS-00R6B0 2TB WCAVY0213646 OUT OF LIMITED WARRANTY 06/06/2012 HDS722020ALA330 2TB JK1133YAGDHKVU Purchased 12/14/2010 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145298 3 Year Limited Warranty HDS722020ALA330 2TB JK1120YAG4E3DP Purchased 12/14/2010 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145298 3 Year Limited Warranty HDS722020ALA330 2TB JK1171YAGDD27S Purchased 12/14/2010 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145298 3 Year Limited Warranty Sony 1GB LimeTech purchase Initial Power-on Draw, 125-140W Drives Spun up, 85-95W Parity Check, 95W-105W Drives Spun down, 44-48W $500 pickup or meet locally; pictures to be posted later or to interested parties. (I've sold one other item on this forum and have 100% on ebay [provided via PM].)

sold to gfoviedo directly and i ended my ebay listing synchronously.

got your PM & replied.

I just listed this on eBay for USD$99 shipped in the continental 48; opened, but never used. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280835047693 I'm more than willing to cut eBay out of the middle and perform a transaction via a detailed PayPal invoice for USD$91.50 shipped.

430.

i actually think those numbers are due to the RC-128. in my previous DQ45CB+Celeron config (5 onboard sata connections), i saw 70kB/s+ parity calcs when all drives were on the mobo. when i dropped the drives down to the RC-128, they dropped to the high 50s kB/s. so i don't think the atom is playing a part at all (i don't plan on hanging more drives off of the mobo for my aforementioned cabling desire).

average 52kB/s. started around 57kB/s, though during the calc, I did copy over about 100gb of data and then a backup ran in the middle of the night (SyncToy) that "diffed" 60-80gb and copied about 5-10gb. ("diffed" is in quotes, b/c I don't know if SyncToy actually does any comparison beyond mtime, size, etc) Rosewill RC-218; all of my data drives are hanging off of this and parity is the only drive hanging off of the mobo. I do believe that I'd have faster throughput it I hung more off of my mobo, but -- frankly, I don't like how mobo manufacturers put all of the SATA heads in the same place making for a potential cable-bump problem. I actually think it's more than enough, though I haven't done a lot of testing. I'm doing a backup right now of about 1.4T to an external drive [backups, backups, backups] via usb and i/o wait is fairly high (45% or so), cp cpu load is high (30%) and load is retarded (3.0-4.0) [most likely due to the high i/o wait]. it does come with a small h/s, and my case has very good airflow (ref: parity calc drive temps), with a large "wind" across the mobo. again, it's not "doing" anything via the gpu b/c dmesg isn't spooled to console with this config.

I recently (ie, yesterday) switched to this mobo from a uATX/Celeron combo. Given, it's only been 12-18 hours, but I am -extremely- happy with it. With my old config, parity calculations across 5 drives (4d+1p) had my drive temps above 42degC, with a few drives finishing at 45degC. With this new mobo/proc, my drives didn't get above 33degC (parity was 33degC, data drives didn't go above 31degC). I fully endorse this mobo/proc. Very happy. I was worried that the GPU's tiny fan would be noisy at the stock 4500rpm, but it isn't. (side question: b/c of the lack of graphic calc/rendering, would it be "safe" to remove this fan?) [btw, I'm running 4.5beta8, and I have an Antec P180 with no additional cooling other than the 2 stock case fans (one is 210mm, high CFM, low noise)].

Background: I've been using unRAID for 3 or so months. I had a drive failure three weeks ago, spent a week backing my data up [off of parity] and then waited around for my replacement drive to come in. It has. I was using beta6 before, but switched to beta8 this morning hoping that the below issue would have found its way out. I am a plus license holder. I'm now in the process of moving everything back onto the array. I haven't reported an issue before, so please forgive me if I'm not reporting the info correctly. Current configuration: Motherboard: Intel DQ45CB Processor: Celeron 430 SATA Controller: Rosewill RC-218 [http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132018] Data Drives: WDC_WD20EADS, 2@ ST31500341AS Parity Drive: HDS722020ALA330 (currently not enabled as I am migrating my data back onto the array. Once the data has been transferred, I will be enabling this parity drive) Cabling: All drives are hanging off of the RC-218. unRAID config: vanilla, no hdparm or kernel params. Errors, repeated literally every second -- this ata : Nov 10 10:09:38 soundwave kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x100000 action 0x6 frozen Nov 10 10:09:38 soundwave kernel: ata2.00: edma_err_cause=00000020 pp_flags=00000001, SError=00100000 Nov 10 10:09:38 soundwave kernel: ata2: SError: { Dispar } Nov 10 10:09:38 soundwave kernel: ata2.00: cmd 35/00:a0:f7:6b:2f/00:01:47:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 212992 out Nov 10 10:09:38 soundwave kernel: res d0/00:a0:f7:6b:2f/00:01:47:00:00/e0 Emask 0x12 (ATA bus error) Nov 10 10:09:38 soundwave kernel: ata2.00: status: { Busy } Nov 10 10:09:38 soundwave kernel: ata2: hard resetting link Nov 10 10:09:39 soundwave kernel: ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Nov 10 10:09:39 soundwave kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 Nov 10 10:09:39 soundwave kernel: ata2: EH complete { beta8 appears to be about 60% faster on this device than beta6 was, but it's currently hovering around ~20Mbps write speeds from usb (to other drives, i get the expected 35-40Mbps). [beta6 was around ~12Mbps] -- but this may just be coincidence } i'd like a little guidance regarding my next steps [once i'm home && the current copy has finished]: 1) try a different sata cable 2) put the "problem" drive directly on the mobo. 3) try a different mobo ie, i'm wondering if there is a step 0 before the above to try with some kernel parameter/hdparm setting/etc that i haven't tried. oh, and obviously, this type of i/o conflict is causing load to stay through the roof -- single file copy load to this drive causes load in excess of 4. help/advice, please?

mine was user error. please move on, nothing to see here.

i'm new to the software, so please forgive me if i'm placing this note in the wrong location. calling smbmount w/no arguments segfaults, yet it works just fine with arguments.

me too .. now i just need to wait for my raid to build. i went with this mobo b/c of its form factor and the 5 sata ports. in addition, working drives: WDC_WD20EADS ST31500341AS now maybe sometime this weekend, once the raid is built, i can migrate off of the piece of <insert your favorite expletive here> linkstation quad i have. that ls-quad is not more than 2 months old -- i moved to it from my beloved old terastations (first generation) b/c of space issues. i chewed for a very long time before jumping on the unRAID boat - what sold me was the fact that i'd still have some of our data should two drives fail. features i'd like to see (wrong board/thread, i know): : multiple parity drives (this has probably come up before) : mirrored data drives (unraid can treat the mirror as a single for calc purposes, and maybe even optimize reads for parity calcs away from requested reads) : and the far-fetched one: i cut my teeth on slackware, so i don't have a real issue. but the past 8-9 years i've been a debian guy and man i feel crippled (and a bit learning disabled now) without apt. and to think, i used to make fun of folks who wouldn't configure/make themselves. (sidenote, it's not hijacking a thread if it's your own thread, is it? )

tsk tsk. the copy i was playing with was what i was shipped directly from tom. i just upgraded to 4.5-beta6 (just by copying bzroot & bzimage) and "it just works". a) wish i had tried that earlier, b/c i spent an hour or so trying to figure it out b) it wasn't obvious what version i was shipped. kernel was old as stated above -- just wondering if i didn't get the latest FINAL.

Ok, so my first foray into unRAID wasn't as well thought out as it should have been. I am blocked with the fact that I didn't make sure the onboard NIC (an Intel 82567 Gigabit NIC on the Intel DQ45CB Motherboard) was compatible. I'm stumped. Motherboard: Intel DQ45CB: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=34687 Onboard NIC: Intel 82567LM: driver: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=3003&OSFullName=Linux*〈=eng&strOSs=39&submit=Go! Lo and behold, the driver is e1000e. Simply put, I cannot get this kernel to see it. boot modprobing doesn't detect it, and command line "modprobe e1000e" inserts the module, but the NIC does not come up. The NIC is enabled in BIOS and its link lights are lit. Kernel: 2.6.27.7 November 25 2008 Can anyone shed some light on what I'm missing (other than an easily compatible NIC)? It seems as though e1000e should be supported and work, but.... /edit: there is no mention of a network device in dmesg. i'd provide lspci output, but alas... it's not installed). /