ShawnFumo

No reallocated sectors on any of them or anything else that seems like a real error. There's tons of Hardware ECC Recovered, but it sounds like that is relatively normal for the larger drives these days. Looks like I'm golden. Thanks!

Thanks purko and Joe. I'm running the dd command for the three drives right now (all in screen!). Will there be any way to know if it marks a sector for re-allocation?

This looks like a good time of night to post! Thanks guys.. Hmmm.. they do all say they are precleared using the -t flag.

Is there any way to do just the post-read and smart comparison? I have the unusual situation where it was on the post-read step for the three drives but my vista machine (with the telnet sessions) rebooted due to a windows update. In /tmp there is mdresp, read_speedsda (b, c), smart_start2268 (2989, 4044), zerosda (b, c). I was able to do my own smart scan and compare the results (only real difference is ecc which I've read is always huge for samsung drives and the temps which stayed at 24-25 throughout). There's a chance it completed before the reboot, but then there should be smart_end files right? Not sure if I should run the preclear scripts again or just assume they are fine. Just hate to wait 20 hours again. Thanks!

I wonder if the ASUS M4A78L-M would be more sensible. It has less SATA (6), less PCI and no firewire or eSata but it is cheaper and has on-board video (so I don't have to buy a video card and won't take up a pci slot).

Whoops! Sorry about that.. MB is GIGABYTE GA-770TA-UD3. The rest was a COOLER MASTER Centurion 590 case, single Icy Dock 4 in 3, AMD Sempron 140 processor, Kingston 2GB RAM and some Samsung EcoGreen F2 1.5TB drives. Thanks, Shawn

Would anyone have any thoughts on this hardware? The MB isn't listed specifically on the MB list but seems to have good reviews on NewEgg and has 8 SATA ports, two regular PCI-E, etc. And sounds like the processor should be enough for unRaid. Case and Icy Dock are same as the RB-1200. For the RAM, I saw someone mention that having one at 2GB would be ok since it'd let me upgrade to 4 later if needed and the dual channel won't help that much? For a PSU, I do have a spare Corsair 750 from a project that never happened, or I could buy a 450 since the 750 is such overkill. Any thoughts? I'm thinking the 3TB of actual storage will last me a bit and can throw in some older 500GB drives I have later on if I need more. Or just get some more 1.5TB ones. And this way I can start with the free unRaid before upgrading.. Thanks, Shawn