calvinandh0bbes

yeah, I said it wardsback.

Haha! they have the day first, then month, then year on their camera settings. Europe puts the month first, we put the day first. I think the US is actually in the minority, but not sure on that one.

I got mine at Provantage (http://www.provantage.com/supermicro-aoc-saslp-mv8~7SUP918N.htm) was just under $100 shipped at the time. their price fluctuates within +/- $5 constantly.

Asus P5B deluxe. 7 various brand HD's on the motherboard 1 HD on the Supermicro card. 650W Corsair power supply, single 12V rail (can't think of the model # off hand, not at home).

SI/3Ware CBL-SFF8087OCF-05M SFF-8087 to Discrete Forward Breakout Cable Drive never touched a power cable until the jumper was installed.

the last drive I added to my system required me to delve into SATA cards, so I insalled a Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 card onto my system. The drive was a WD 2TB EARS with a jumper across pins 7-8. Ever since I have done this, my write performance has consistently gone to 9.5-10 MB/sec. Now copying from my main linux desktop to my unRaid box has always been variable (anywhere from 5-40 MB/sec), but now I'm just always slow. It's not a killer problem for me, but it is annoying. parity checks seem to be reasonable (60-95 MB/sec). What should I be looking at? How do I check to make sure my drive is jumpered correctly (ie, could the juper be faulty), and is there anything to configure for the Supermicro card or is that just plug and go? thanks for any help. c+h

it's surprisingly hard to find a cost effective source of jumpers if you don't have old computers lying around. not many people sell them, and they usually come in a large parts kit. our local recycling center takes electronics, including computers. They were more than happy to let me scavenge the older ones.

i love the idea of a mini-itx board with a bunch of SATA ports. wish one of these MB companies would make a simple board with rows of ports (or a few SAS ports) specifically for large storage boxes. i'd pay a bit of a premium for one given all the stuff you wouldn't need and the potential for an ultra low power solution.

Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 253 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 171 171 021 Pre-fail Always - 6441 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 12 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 10 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 8 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 10 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: SMART Error Log Version: 1 Dec 31 17:27:56 lionfish preclear_disk-start[7080]: No Errors Logged After.... Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 171 171 021 Pre-fail Always - 6441 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 12 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 20 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 10 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 8 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 14 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: SMART Error Log Version: 1 Aug 2 11:38:45 lionfish preclear_disk-finish[29294]: No Errors Logged No, the preclear did not take 7 months....my clock got reset when putting in the new drive, and in the meantime, the clock got updated. Looks good to me unless somone tells me otherwise.

thank you once again, Mr L.

I have a newbie question. I ran preclear on a new 2 TB western digital (ears with 7+8 jumpered) from the console on the unraid box itself. there are SMART differences listed, but most of the report is off the top of the screen. are the results written anywhere that I can look at them. I usually run it from a terminal window on my linux desktop where I can scroll up, copy/paste, etc. i don't want to have to run this again. thanks, c+h

i'm curious.....if the drive cages you want run about ~$100 a piece, why not get a norco 4220 right off the bat and have an easier setup? No additional cages needed. not a critique, just a question.

Just a week? I'd expect more.

i wonder if the USB stick could be bad. Have you contacted limetech directly? Tom seems like he's pretty good at supporting direct purchases (and not bad at stuff that doesn't directly generate $ either). I can certainly understand the paranoia over potentially losing data.

i got that error once when i copied all the files from the unraid.zip archive onto the USB stick, i apparently had missed one (and it was one of the main ones that was missing).

the PRO key file will only work with the USB flash drive it is constructed for, namely the preconfigured flash you bought. using anything other than the flash drive will result in an error in terms of licensing (not sure what it will do given your setup is still within the three drive limit, so it might just boot as the "free" version). you might want to list which motherboard you have so anyone with that motherboard can tell you what they used for their BIOS settings.

thank you. didn't get a chance to snag one of the good 2TB deals. this is close enough for me.

3 in stock as of this post.... http://www.provantage.com/supermicro-aoc-saslp-mv8~7SUP918N.htm

it's a ~50 mb operating system, so it's a breeze to setup. put it on a flash drive, boot, and access the web page interface from another machine. i wouldn't say there is much more to it setup wise than a standard NAS box. preclearing the disks will take the most time of anything. building it will definitely take more time than a ready made box, but the expandability is huge. i think i had maybe 5 minutes of time involved in setting it up once i had it built. but i read about unraid for hours before hand. I highly recommend it.

Yes it is. Helps dummies like me. For the next update, I'd suggest adding the cache_dirs to the package list (if it makes sense for that one to be a package).

Updated to the new version to get the power management setup setup correctly. Worked like a charm. Joe L, if you are ever in the Raleigh, NC area, you have a free dinner and beer of your choice waiting for you if you are so inclined as payment for your seemingly endless efforts here.

nope. the DCHP of the router will assign all the computers on the network with IPs, but the switch will get traffic from one computer and send it directly to the target computer. If you didn't care about talking to the outside world, you could ditch the router altogether. The switch goes by MAC addresses. I have all my computers fed into a $25 8 port DLink gigabit switch and can move data at over 100 Mbs between them even though my netgear router's wired ethernet ports are 100 Mbit. Best $25 I ever spent on my netwo

Provantage had them in stock. don't need one this second, but bought one since i will reasonably soon. odd thing is it's been priced at $106 when it's backordered, but drops to $99 when in stock. not complaining, just not expected. now to grab some cables and a pro license.....

it would be so nice if one of these motherboard manufacturers saw the increase in high number drive systems that are just running low end stuff and put together a small microatx board with very little features other than an absolute farm of SATA connections. the new ion boards are great minimal systems for HTPCs (like XBMC), but the large number drive systems still rely on multiple add on cards.

5% discount relative to a new unit at Newegg, i'd recommend spending the $10 to get a new unit from a reputable dealer. (sorry, not trying to thread crap at all, just a suggestion as I am looking at buying this exact item...just been waiting for a sale from the egg).