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Cant find anything in the Wiki, so think ill turn off the disk shares and then just use User Shares as then I'll have more control. Am I right in thinking only write speed to User Shares is slow compared to disk shares - and read speed is pretty much the same?

OK I can confirm it was my fault! Only happens on the machine thats using the proxy. It must be messing with the request somehow!

OK this may be a false alarm, I've remembered that I have my webbrowsers running via a proxy that handles adblocking etc. Firefox however does not go through the proxy, Safari and Chrome do. So chances are it is my proxy. Will confirm tonight after work. Sorry for the possible false alarm!

Have tried using 4.4 and 4.5. After setting the root password I was no longer able to access the web GUI using a webkit browser. This was the case with Google Chrome and Safari. Firefox and IE worked fine (prompted for password). The error I get is a java EOF exception (at work currently, so dont have the exact error text),

Quick question (hopefully). I have Disk Shares, no user shares. Can I set, on a disk by disk basis, the security on a disk. Basically I add DVDs/Music to a disk until it is full, I would then like to set it to read-only to protect it. Is this possible?

OK, so at stage 4 Resolved my network issue, turns out one of the two NICs on the motherboard is a bit rubbish and cant support Gigabit even though it should, so swapped over the cables to the second port an now have Gbit connection to the 'tower'. Getting a "Network Utilization" of around 30%, which I read is good for Gigabit, I'm guessing im writing over the network at around 30 - 40MB/sec (or are my calculations wrong? ) Step 5: Adding a second HD Step 6: Adding a Parity drive Step 7: Buy my UnRAID license and add another couple of drives!

Not to worry Rob, there is plenty of airflow! When I designed my silent HTPC i spent a lot of time and money on not only making it quiet, but ensuring there was plenty of airflow. I've taken the lessons learned there to build the UnRAID box. I have a cupboard designed for AV equiptment, there is no back and all the shelves are full of holes to allow airflow. I have an Antec AV Cooler on my AV Receiver (http://www.hometheaterinfo.com/antec_av_cooler.htm), and one of those laptop fans under my XBox etc. I have a thermometer in there too to keep an eye on the temps. My HTPC has been in there for a couple of years, and on 24/7 and it runs nicely,no heat issues. I say "silent" but as the cupboard quietens a lot of the noise I can actually turn up the fans and make the pc a little noisier. The Antec Mini p180 has not only a 120mm fan on the rear, but a huge (200+mm?) fan at the top. Currently its blowing out cold air, which is rather amazing! I guess once my other HDs are put in the case it may warm up. The HD in there at the moment goes from 20(ish)degrees when idle to a max of 33.

A bit more googling brings up quite a few mentions of my NIC and others with problems getting it to work at Gbit speeds. Nice to know its not just me! Guess i'm lucky the motherboard came with two different NICs (different manufacturers/chips)

Its a patch cable between the two PCs,, no switch, one of the NICs must be doing the auto-crossing I've done some digging and driver updating, and I have a feeling its the drivers or NIC on the HTPC. There is a second NIC with much newer drivers, so I'll reconfigure the PC and give that one a go and hopefully sort my issues. Away for the weekend though, so will have to wait! Update: Updated drivers but still no joy. I have noticed however that in the speed/duplex properties of the card it only lists things relating to "100", no "1000" mentioned. Whereas the 2nd NIC in the machine has many mentions of "1000", so I think that when i'm back (currently changing it remotely with logmein) I'll swap the cable between the cards so the UnRAID machine is connected to the NIC listing 1000 and the other one can just connect to the rest of the network where 100 is adequate

All running as it should, except for one big issue - my network between the UnRAID machine and HTPC is only running at 100Mbit, not gigabit. I have a HTPC connected directly to the UnRaid server with a Cat6 cable. THe network is fine, I can transfer files etc, but only at 100Mbit, not Gigabit. Is there anything I need to do/configure on the UnRaid server? Is there a way to check that it has the right driver etc? (Assume its ok as the NIC works)

OK, stage 1 complete - PC is built. The Arctic Cooling fan installation is terrible, so I advise against this exact model (ive had other AC ones that have been fine). It has some silly plastic clips to attach the heatsink to the motherboard. Not very impressed, broke one, nearly snapped the motherboard etc!! Other than that its all good. One HD in at the moment, just getting to know UnRaid and have yet to add a parity drive. Data is copying over, but the connection is only 100Mbit/sec (direct link between two PCs). It should be gigabit, but assume my cables arent good enough, so will buy a Cat6 cable tomorrow and see. I don't have a gigabit router, so am going to directly link my HTPC and UnRAID box for now. The Antec case is very nice, but could have done with decent instructions so that I knew what everything was, keep finding new screws/panels!

Thanks, i'll keep that in mind, as I'm tempted to buy one more drive.

I'm a bit weary of the 1.5TB drives at the moment, have read a few times about them dying. I'll wait a while! I'll try and remember to take pics of the build, and document what I can.

[updates at the end of the thread] Finally, after lots of decisions over what to buy, my UnRaid Components have arrived! I will hopefully be building the machine tonight. My requirements were: A case that fits inside a 45cm*45cm*50cm (w,d,h) AV cupboard A silent case Most drive bays possible Low power Cheap, but quality components The UnRaid server will be used to store DVD copies (Video-TS) and TV Recordings, standard and HD recordings. Also some music. The server will be directly connected to a MediaPortal HTPC for now via GigEthernet. Once my Router is upgraded to Gbit, then it will go directly into that. The spec chosen was as follows: Case: Antec Mini P180 SATA Cables: Plexus Serial ATA 2.0 (SATA) 7-pin Cable (Red) 46cm / 18" - Qty: 3 SATA PCI Card: Extra Value Serial ATA 2 Port PCI Card - Qty: 1 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L iG31 Socket 775 onboard VGA 7.1 channel audio mATX Motherboard - Qty: 1 RAM: Extra Value 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz PC2-6400 240pin Extra Value Ram - Qty: 1 PSU: Corsair 450W HX Series Modular PSU - 7 Year Warranty - Qty: 1 CPU: Intel Celeron 430 1.80GHz Socket 775 FSB800 512kb Retail Boxed Processor - Qty: 1 CPU Fan: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Low Profile Socket 775 Processor Cooler - Qty: 1 Flash Drive: Lexar 2GB USB Flash Drive JumpDrive FireFly - Qty: 1 Hard Drives: Western Digital 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 32MB Cache - OEM Caviar Green - Qty: 2 I already have another 2 x1TB HDs and a couple of 250GB ones. The only real risk I took was with the cheap SATA PCI card, its generic with a SiL3512 chip, so hopefully OK. Oh and the RAM, but it had generally favourable reviews. I have 2x 1TB drives already 95% full of data in my existing HTPC that need to be added, so my plan is to build the UnRaid server with the 2 new 1TB HDs and then copy across 1TB of data from the HTPC at first, and then move that HD into the UnRaid server and wipe it, then copy across the remaining 1TB of data and then move that HD into the system. So all in all, 4TB drives, 3TB usable. 2TB of which will be used. Once everything is running nicely for a while i'll probably add a few more 1TB drives. Pictures and review will be posted later on once the machine is built!

Didn't think that would be the case Right, so unless anyone comes up with somewhere I can get the P5B-VM DO, i'll end this thread here and post again in the Hardware section when I'm about to pull the trigger on my build!