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Nope, from Belgium as well.

Guys, his father passed away. Is it too much to show respect, stop the nagging and give him the time he needs? He'll come around and resume work.

But great work has been made by user ikosa: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=28873.0

Joe, I'll try that block size you recommend. The lenght of time it will take is of secondary importance. My wife does not understand why we can't watch a movie while I'm expanding the capacity of the server. She just wants it to work without other fuss around. I know I'm limited by the PCI bus, but I don't feel like spending 350€ on new hardware when all I do is usenet and watch movies from the server. I'd prefer to spend that money in buying new disks, that's 6TB I can buy for that amount. I have 2 onboard sata ports and they are being used by the parity and the cache drive. Thanks for the advice, I already considered it.

My server is rather old, a P4 2.4Ghz and my drives are connected to a Promise TX4 PCI SATA controller, my parity on the onboard SATA port. When I preclear a drive I can't stream HD movies anymore as the system is saturated. For instance it takes me 30 hours to preclear a 1.5Tb drive. I would like to know if setting the write and read block size would allow me to watch movies while preclearing and what size would optimal for my system.

Well that depends. Any sectors pending reallocation is not good. But it's ok as long as there not thausands of them and they do not increase over time. So what you should do it to run a few more times the preclear script and check if there will be an increase in "5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct " and the pending sectors. After you run the next preclear, the 17 pending sectors should have been reallocated and appear in "5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct ". If there is no increase in pending sectors, you'll probably be fine. Just keep an eye on it from time to time by running some SMART tests while it's in use in your array.

Looks good, I don't see any reallocated sectors or pending reallocation. Those are really the two lines (196&197) you want to keep an eye on.