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Hah! My server lives in the closet in my 2 year old's room. It's locked so he can't get in.

5.0.5? Not 5.0.6? Edit: post title has been fixed

Yeah I was really pleased with the price I found. As for the cooler, my original cooler was overkill already for the 65w TDP of my E5200, and the 95w TDP would have been fine, so I could have reused it, but 5 year old, heat soaked plastic tends to crack rather than bend.

I also completed my surgery - I found a Q9650 for $70 on Craigslist. I attempted to re-use my existing CPU cooler, but one of the pins cracked when reinstalling. Luckily, I have a Fry's nearby and could pick up an LGA 775 compatible cooler in a few minutes. Went with a $20 Coolermaster one. Temps look good - I did a few Handbrake encodes and it peaked about 55°C. I haven't had a chance to test it out with my kill-a-watt to see what the power draw is. For about $100 I went from 1487 passmarks to a CPU with 4236. That'll buy me another couple of years until I replace the entire cpu/motherboard combo.

Got alerted to this while making coffee this morning. Nice job!

Wow, are you me? I'm considering the same stuff! 2.5 GHz Core 2 Duo in a Socket 775 system - transcoding for Plex is where the age is starting to show. I've been trying to decide if a Core 2 Quad, modding a Socket 771 Xeon is right, or just holding out for another year and replacing the entire motherboard/CPU/RAM. I've still not made any decisions. Keep updating on what you decide and I'll do the same.

OpenVPN on my router that runs Tomato USB.

ffmpeg has a metdata tag adjustment parameter, so do some searches on that. I believe setting metadata to "-1" clears it.

Agreed on all points. I also tested it on my person VPN and was successful (as I expected).

There was discussion of using this on a WAN where the unRAID server is exposed to the internet - that's not a very secure method. Behind a VPN? That's secure enough (at least the security is as good as your VPN's security is).

I just bought and configured. Looks great!

Unfortunately even if the OP wanted to, it wouldn't be possible. Apple doesn't have any system to discount App Store purchases for certain customers and not others.

D'oh! I updated on the work machine, but forgot my home machine isn't automatically updated. Looks like exactly what I wanted.

I'd like a slight tweak. On the main display of free space, some more precision is needed. Margarita reports "2 TB Free" on my array, but I have 2.93 TB free - a margin of error of nearly 50%. Preferably, I'd like to have at least two decimal places of precision, but even one would suffice. I'd also like two place precision on the "Disks" pane as well. One of mine reports "2 TB" free, where it actually has 2.55 TB.

I bought it a day or two ago. It's nice! Clean, and unobtrusive. Very Mac-like. I'd like to see perhaps the last 50 lines from the syslog as an option, and a click to view the entire syslog at http://towerip/log/syslog in your browser.

Havoc, I'm getting the same thing. Quick googling shows that zlib or glibc is at fault. I'm going to investigate, but I'm a bit over my head at this point :-)

Glad to hear it's working and faster than previous versions!

I think I found a working solution. Since Alien did a great Slackware 14.1 build, I just used his package (compiling this on unRAID is a pain - though it's very doable on Slackware 14.1 full install), and sat down and found every dependency that would be needed for unRAID 5.0.4 (probably 5.0.5 but I don't have that in a VM yet). I'd like a few people to test and then I can set it up as an unmenu .conf file for easy install. wget http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-14.1/slackware/x/fontconfig-2.10.93-i486-1.txz wget http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-14.1/slackware/l/freetype-2.5.0.1-i486-1.txz wget http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-14.1/slackware/l/libogg-1.3.0-i486-1.txz wget http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-14.1/slackware/l/libsamplerate-0.1.8-i486-1.txz wget http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-14.1/slackware/l/libtheora-1.1.1-i486-1.txz wget http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-14.1/slackware/l/libvorbis-1.3.3-i486-1.txz wget http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-14.1/slackware/l/libxml2-2.9.1-i486-1.txz wget http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-14.1/slackware/l/zlib-1.2.8-i486-1.txz wget http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-14.1/slackware/l/glibc-2.17-i486-7.txz wget http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-14.1/slackware/l/glib-1.2.10-i486-3.txz wget http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-14.1/slackware/d/gcc-g++-4.8.2-i486-1.txz wget http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-14.1/slackware/l/libpng-1.4.12-i486-1.txz wget http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-14.1/slackware/a/xz-5.0.5-i486-1.tgz wget http://slackware.org.uk/people/alien/restricted_slackbuilds/handbrake/pkg/14.0/handbrake-0.9.9-i486-1alien.txz installpkg fontconfig-2.10.93-i486-1.txz installpkg installpkg freetype-2.5.0.1-i486-1.txz installpkg gcc-g++-4.8.2-i486-1.txz installpkg glib-1.2.10-i486-3.txz installpkg glibc-2.17-i486-7.txz installpkg libogg-1.3.0-i486-1.txz installpkg libpng-1.4.12-i486-1.txz installpkg libsamplerate-0.1.8-i486-1.txz installpkg libtheora-1.1.1-i486-1.txz installpkg libvorbis-1.3.3-i486-1.txz installpkg libxml2-2.9.1-i486-1.txz installpkg xz-5.0.5-i486-1.tgz installpkg zlib-1.2.8-i486-1.txz installpkg handbrake-0.9.9-i486-1alien.txz HandBrakeCLI -u Let me know how it goes!

Current versions of Handbrake are tough to compile vs. previous ones. I just simply haven't had much time to mess around with it, but I know Alien has set up a SlackBuild for Handbrake recent versions. http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/handbrake/build/

Are you familiar with Plex already or are you new to both Plex and unRAID?

It was a while ago, so I'm doing this from memory. Once I figured out it was SickBeard, I just launched it manually and instead of redirecting it to /dev/null or some kind of hidden output, I launched it and just read it in stdout. It was pretty clear that it was attempting to index some kind of Apple metadata folder and it was hanging up on it.

Just a standard troubleshooting technique - half splitting. Once I isolated that it was some plugin causing the issue by disabling all plugins, I then proceeded to add half back in, and seeing if the issue continued. If it did, then I knew my issue was within those group that was turned on - so I disabled half again and kept going until I isolated it to one specific plugin. From there, I looked through sickbeard's logs carefully. Half split is useful for single variable troubleshooting - and it's fast, but it's a bit less accurate if you have multiple variables causing your issue.

I had similar behavior for a little while a few months ago. I kept focusing on Plex because it wasn't responding. I finally went back to 100% stock, and *only* added the Plex plugin back. Everything worked OK. Slowly added plugins back until I found it was SickBeard that was choking on a .AppleDouble in one of its directories. Removed it and things have been solid since then. Not sure if it directly applies, but certainly removing all plugins/non-stock addons, and just running Plex is a good place to start troubleshooting. Reduce variables wherever you can.

Only one cycle though - personally new drives get 3 cycles if I have the time. I've never had a brand new drive fail on cycles 2 or 3, but I did have a repurposed one increase in the reallocated sectors until cycle 4 when it leveled out.

JackBauer, that looks like the preclear_start or preclear_finish report. At least in my experience, the real useful stuff is in preclear_rpt, as it's the comparison between start and finish, and is a good summary.