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Success!!! That was set to no and after changing to yes it works auto. Thank you so much!!! :D

When I started my unraid up, I always had to go into the webui to click start array...always. I don't have that option at the moment because I can't get into the webui, bc of no router, to check it or turn it on. I have my mac > switch > server. Router is downstairs and I can only access it wifi, which my server does not have option of doing. I am trying to start the array so that when Tower comes up in my share, it shows more than "flash." IF I could get into webui to start array, it would work no problem but I can't. The array does not start auto for sharing for some reason.

Is there a way to start the array and mount the array (if they are different) for sharing without using the web gui? I have a monitor hooked up to my server, I don't want to access the server elsewhere. Just to start the server using command line so that I can see my files. I am not talking about an automated process. My router is downstairs and I have my server (no wifi) hooked up to a switch and my computer is hooked up to a switch. I can see the tower in my computer but there is only the flash drive listed. I can NOT hook up either computer to a router at this moment as it is downstairs on the other side of the house. I tried the cmd: cd /boot/unmenu/ ./uu but did not have any luck with being able to access my files.

The last 3 were my drives. The previous 10 or so were quotes from another thread. So, I guess I have very fast drives lol. I installed a Supermicro raid card and added some files and my speeds started out at 140 MB/s for both read and write and went down to 40-90. I just copied the same 2 gb file back and forth renaming it about 5 times and running the test about 5 times. Sometimes it would go down to 40 and other times it wouldn't go below 90. I'm not sure what would cause such a huge difference. I ran ifconfig again after the entire test and this is the result: for eth0: RX packets: 5792902 errors: 0 dropped: 663 overruns: 0 frame: 0 TX packets: 6284489 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0 Sorry, I'm not telnetted into it with the win laptop as the battery died so I'm just copying from the server screen after running the test. I looked at these number prior and there were never any errors, just dropped rx packets. I'm not sure what's causing but it might be the cable length to the switch. It's on a 75 foot cat 6 cable. The cables running from the laptop and server to the switch are cat 6 5 foot cables. The cables are brand new and the switch is brand new. The router is also newish (got it right after Hurricane Sandy wrecked my other stuff). edit//I just ran another ifconfig test and the dropped packets are up to 1162 now and I'm not even transferring files or using the server; it's just on so I'm assuming it's an app/add on in unmenu

So looking around the cache thread I came upon this: I'm wondering if below stats are normal: "all my drives are WD green 3TB. i don't have cache drive setup. i'm interested in knowing if adding a cache drive will improve this stats significantly or not. /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 11988 MB in 2.00 seconds = 6003.55 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 56 MB in 3.07 seconds = 18.25 MB/sec /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads: 12502 MB in 2.00 seconds = 6260.80 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 380 MB in 3.01 seconds = 126.14 MB/sec /dev/sdc: Timing cached reads: 12616 MB in 2.00 seconds = 6318.38 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 372 MB in 3.01 seconds = 123.60 MB/sec /dev/sdd: Timing cached reads: 12444 MB in 2.00 seconds = 6231.35 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 378 MB in 3.00 seconds = 125.86 MB/sec /dev/sde: Timing cached reads: 12482 MB in 2.00 seconds = 6251.29 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 368 MB in 3.00 seconds = 122.64 MB/sec /dev/sdf: Timing cached reads: 12460 MB in 2.00 seconds = 6239.76 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 362 MB in 3.01 seconds = 120.17 MB/sec /dev/sdg: Timing cached reads: 12446 MB in 2.00 seconds = 6233.11 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 378 MB in 3.01 seconds = 125.51 MB/sec /dev/sdh: Timing cached reads: 12484 MB in 2.00 seconds = 6251.94 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 376 MB in 3.01 seconds = 124.71 MB/sec" All of my drives are significantly lower than that when running the same hdparm command /dev/sda Timing cached reads: 3820 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1911.07 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 444 MB in 3.01 seconds = 147.41 MB/sec /dev/sdb Timing cached reads: 3904 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1953.69 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 428 MB in 3.01 seconds = 142.43 MB/sec /dev/sdc Timing cached reads: 3950 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1976.99 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 428 MB in 3.01 seconds = 142.13 MB/sec Could this be my entire problem? I am transferring files to the cache drive at the moment however so I don't know if that will affect the numbers.

Unfortunately, it's not the switch otherwise it would be an easy fix. I originally had it set up as follows: 1. mac to router & server to router = speeds of ~8 MB/s 2. I changed to win 7 laptop and did: laptop to router & server to router = speeds of 24-28 MB/s 3. I set up switch in room with all of them and did test of win 7 laptop to switch & server to switch = speeds of 24-28 MB/s then it went to complete shit and is at 11 MB/s currently. I did not change any hardware configs or anything within the /tower screen, or /tower:8080, besides manually doing the mover so the files on cache would go to the array. Not to mention switch is showing 1 gbps speed (the light on the switch shows what speed is current). My drives are as follows: parity: wd red 3 tb disk1: wd red 3 tb disk 2: wd red 3 tb cache drive: wd black 1 tb All those drives were blank and were brand new up until the day I did the preclears for them. All passed 3 preclears.

Great.... You confused me when you reported earlier "it shows 10/100/1000" Ahh, sorry about that. Any tips on what to try next? I mean I changed all my cables to brand new cables i had lying around today in case it was a bad cable and no difference.

Those are potential speeds. What speed did it list as the current connection speed? As an example, on my server it says: ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: umbg Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x00000007 (7) Link detected: yes Same as yours. 1000 Mb/s and Duplex: Full My setup isn't that far away from each other atm since I'm just trying to put everything on the server. The mac, the windows laptop and server are literally all within 3 feet of each other. The switch is behind the server and they are all plugged into that. It's an unmanaged Gb switch.

I went on a windows laptop and my transfer rate is up to 24-28 MB/s. I'm not sure what the problem is but my mac was only putting out 100 mbiit even though it has a gb nic. Will try and figure out the hardware on my own since it's not a mac forum. Thank you for the help guys! I wish they had "reps" here so I could give some out edit// Well, was reading some more on the site and found this: Without a cache drive: unRAID 4.5.3 - average 20-30 MB/s, peak reported 40 MB/s* With a cache drive: unRAID 4.5.3 - average 50-60 MB/s, peak reported 101 MB/s* ***I'm on latest Unraid version*** So, obviously something is wrong Did this and it shows 10/100/1000 and all is working fine. I'm running mover manually and can't figure out how to see the speeds btwn the cache disks and other disks. edit 2// Well, server is back to doing 12 MB/s now. I don't get what is going since nothing has changed. The cache disc was freed up after mover ran and I'm still getting 12 MB/s. The 2 drives in the array are WD red 3 tb with no data on them before yesterday's move.

I only have 4 gb ram in the unraid machine. I'll double check everything and add a new machine to the mix tomorrow. There shouldn't be any reason it's not working properly though; especially, the wd black drive itself (passed 3 preclears with last one today and was put online today). Thanks for quick replies and things to look up.

What are other users getting speed wise with that type of file size? It seems very, very slow to me. I'm using a cache drive (1 tb WD Black) on a gb network with cat6 cables. Both computers have 1000 lans so I know it's not the computers themselves. For copying the file, I'm on a Mac OSX Mountain Lion, using AFP. I tried using SMB and the speeds were even slower.

cheaper to get a norco 24 bay brand new than to buy the case + cages....that case looks a lot better tho haha

I decided to go with unraid after a friend's advice. I'm kind of lost as to what the requirements are for me to run it though. I checked out "the cheapest unraid builds money can buy" and some other links but do I need a motherboard that supports JBOD? This is the mobo I have: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138366 I have a tower that will support 12 bays and would like to fill that....over time with all 3 tb. At the moment i have 3x3 tbs and 2x2 and 2x1.5. I'm going to buy 2 or 3 tbs to help transfer data and for parity.