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As replacements for the rear, middle or both?

Describe your server to help size the ups needed. How many drives, what kind. It might help to know what motherboard but they all take about the same for our purpose. What CPU? That can make a diff. How many fans? Graphics card or onboard? Monitor?

No UPS, its a 6 month old Seasonic PSU that I'm using. :o Get a UPS. Brown outs kill more equipment than black outs and you won't even notice them happening. I don't need a UPS we never get brown outs where I live, and the sudden failure of my HD's has nothing to do with the quality of the electricity coming into my house. Its either poor quality from WD or something else, but not the power because I barelly use my unraid server it doesn't run 24/7 i use maybe a few hours a week to watch stuff or to load more data onto it. I'm calling this a case of denial. Drives don't fail like that by themselves. Something is going on either in the power or the psu. On the other hand, maybe you are one in a billion and you should buy a lotto ticket right away.

No UPS, its a 6 month old Seasonic PSU that I'm using. :o Get a UPS. Brown outs kill more equipment than black outs and you won't even notice them happening.

That many drives dying at once points to something else. Are you using a UPS battery backup? If so then start thinking about a new PSU.

Do you really believe that? Of course neither of us are in a position to know for sure, but I'm certainly not basing my business around the assumption that HDDs will rule the market for the next ten years. I see no reason to assume that SSDs are exempt from Moore's Law. Granted, HDDs aren't either, but if SSD's speed increases at the same rate as their capacity, then HDDs are going to feel awful slow in just a few year's time (in fact, they already do to me). This leads me to the thought that perhaps you haven't spent a lot of time with an SSD as a boot drive yet. Worlds of difference, my friend, especially on a laptop where boot time, battery life, heat, and shock resistance are critical. I wouldn't even consider building a computer (desktop or laptop) without an SSD as a boot drive these days. That said, I also love the Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drives and use one as the boot drive in my digital DJ kit. I can't wait to build my first SSD server? In fact, I've already started. Got em lining up to buy an SSD based media server? Using a single SSD or hybrid drive in a computer really doesn't substantiate an argument that SSD's will replace high capacity hard drives any time soon. Try again.

Thanks for being a breath of fresh air in this silly argument.

I'd like to know if you get around to test a sata adapter in the 16x pcie slot.

yes I do.

Sale on 24 bay 4224 based server

Good job. I've made changes to the buttons for the next version but that technique to identify the latest file is what I'm going to stick with.

If you look into the unmenu buttons you will see some code that shows how I get the latest version. That method will continue to be used.

Why not use the unmenu buttons I created?

I'm guessing you mean copying the files from your laptop to an external drive, then connecting it into the unRAID server? Well, 60G isn't really huge so whether it's faster or easier would include how convenient the external drive is.

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Mine arrived today. I'm only putting in two 5-in-3s, but it looks like it'd be simple enough to take off the top IO panel for the 9th 5.25 bay. The metal and guides were originally meant for a 9th bay and only the face is in the way. The sloped plastic bezel would take a careful touch, but nothing too advanced. All in all I'm blown away with it for the $39 deal. Yes it's pretty nice case especially for the price. I use it in several of my builds.

I'm a long time Seagate fan. Do you see an improvement in writing to the disk over non-hybrid?

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

Thanks for the tip. I've never used the Norco so I wouldn't have known that.

That Norco will be tight in that case, especially tight with that MSI motherboard. I wouldn't advise that combination. Please post pictures IF it fits. The case has 8 5.25 bays. You will be able to put in 2 of the 5-in-3's and have 2 5.25 bays left. Any internal drives will require 3.5 to 5.25 adapters. I'd either use a couple of single hotswap bays or a 3 in 2 cage. You will need to use straight sata latching cables in the motherboard ports. You can't use right angle cables because the ports are stacked. Monoprice has sata cables. You could use 10" cables for the motherboard connections because they are so close to the drives. Use 18" for the sata card ports.

It has 8 5.25 bays. 13 hot swap hdd bays is the most you can get from it, but it's possible to have a 14th if you use a 2.5" cache drive.

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

Maybe now Samsung will be able to better focus on the SSD business they so badly want to dominate.

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.

It's working in an AZZA Helios 910 with Icy Docks. Why these motherboard companies come up with goofy stuff like this when it's not necessary is a mystery. But the board is worth working around the two 90 degree ports.