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Just a reminder: Don't forget to check for coupon codes on Queegtech servers.

A great deal! You beat me posting it by a couple minutes, heh heh.

Good price on 4GB of ram. I've used these in a number of different motherboards never having any problems. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231277&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL110111&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL110111-_-EMC-110111-Latest-_-DesktopMemory-_-20231277-L0B

Raj, you may want to check the link. It doesn't seem to go to any product page.

I have 5 of these drives. All have performed well. They do require steady power from the PSU. Make sure the molex connections are secure.

These are great - I know because I found them originally. I use them and never had any issues with a single one.

I use this case in some of my builds. It's an 8 bay case.

Installed b13 on a test box and running a parity sync. Good speed. ASRock 880GM-LE Realtek 8111DL AOC-SASLP-MV8 syslog-2011-10-29.zip

For PCI it's hard to get much cheaper than monoprice. I know that 4 port card works.

I thought the SYBA SY-PEX40008 failed to work with unraid. The price would be nice if it would work though.

Thanks so much for all the detailed pictures. I was actually suprised a bit by the Norco being so blocky in the rear. And it's trays are somewhat massive compared to the Icy Docks and the Supermicros. I hope they are aluminum? And the individual walls between slots are very interesting. I'm sure I'll be looking at the pictures many times during the next week as new questions pop into my head.

Nice. Fills a need.

Fry's does have some bargains at times. Lately they are matching online prices. Just took an Amazon price in and they would have matched it (if they had stock). Guess I'll call before I go next time.

That's an interesting way to calc Raj. Just subtracting 2 drives. That leaves 4A on the first calc and 6A on the second for overhead. The 4A feels a little bit tight to me. I'm shooting for 8A to 10A for overhead on a 15 drive server with green drives so I'd be choosing a 38A to 40A psu for that. Do you think I'm being too conservative? For a 13 green drive system I'd use a 34A psu. And drop down to the 30A for 12 green drives.

Joe, it would be great if the /tmp/precl* output filename could include the serial number of the drive. I copy the files to a central location and right now I have to edit the filename so they don't overwrite prior preclear logs. I don't even find the device shortname (sde) is useful but maybe someone else does. Something like /tmp/preclear_report_sde_serialNumber* where the serial number is enough to identify the device. Maybe an option to have the serial number instead of the device shortname would work. Thanks

It's a fan speed controller for the case fan. I slowed it down to make it inaudible. Still no effect on the cooling ability.

Dimensions(L x W x H) 15.00" x 7.50" x 13.80" It looks cramped but really it's not. It was easy to work inside the case. The camera doesn't show the depth of the case very well. The sata cables are above the cpu fan by 3 inches. There's lots of air movement, no fans are blocked. I haven't see the drives go above 36c in the Icy's. It's very quiet, quieter than the case I migrated from. I used the Biostar A760G M2+ (8.6" x 7.9" ) but I think my slightly bigger Asus M4A78L-M (9.6" x 8.8" ) might have fit.

I finally got around to using my TinyTen case. I migrated to the Biostar A760G M2+ motherboard so it would all fit better in the case. [/url]

Sorry - what would the benefit of that be from a speed perspective? Is unRAID a little slower or would I be able to use Dual Lan outside the array? I was talking about transferring any existing media you might have.

It might not be the bottleneck you are concerned with. How are you planning on using unRAID? For home use. As a general NAS and for use with a distributed Media centre. I am using LinuxMCE http://linuxmce.org/ and currently have 2 media directors that may be drawing HD content from it at the same time. That should all be fine with a single Gbit connection though. Mainly I wanted Dual LAN just to make transferring large files / ISOs across a little quicker.... If you have a collection of ISO files on one or more hard drives you can mount those drives in the unRAID system outside of the array and transfer disk to disk.

It might not be the bottleneck you are concerned with. How are you planning on using unRAID?

Thanks queeg. I noted that in the other post I referred to above, but assumed this could be turned off in BIOS. I guess I better make sure that is the case. If it was off in BIOS - this shouldn't be an issue right? I'm a big fan of gigabyte. Just not for raid systems. What happens if the bios battery dies? The best advice is avoid the problem altogether.

Gigabyte motherboards can potentially cause a big corruption problem. It's known simply as HPA and it occurs when they backup up the bios to a hard drive. The HPA is a small partition created by the motherboard on one of the data disk or even on the parity disk.

I wish Gigabyte would drop the HPA feature. I love their boards but too afraid of losing data to use one for unRAID. Here's a link to the board at newegg. http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128435

A little testing and here is what I see. It seems that even though explorer defaults to Tile it actually does request file info unless you manually set it to Tile. Open explorer browse top level folder: works browse any subdir: spins up drive. Open explorer Change view from Tiles to List browse top level folder: works browse any subdir: works change view from List back to Tiles browse other subdirs: continues to work. In any case, cache_dirs is working correctly with the added -a parameter so I'm happy and thanks Joe.