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Remember if you copy disk to disk you bypass the share fill settings. If you know exactly which disk your data needs to go to then off you go. If you'd prefer tolet Unraid decide via Fill Method and Split Level Settings copy to a user share. Also, as I proved in my thread on the new 8TB Seagates just a few weeks ago, using Teracopy I averaged ~40MB/s* to a Parity protected Array copying share to share over a Gigabit Network. *For Files 400MB and above. Note: copying to an unprotected Array is going to be quicker. But, it's not protected and given you have so much data and no Backup I wouldn't advise it.

THAT is really nice. Guess I'll have to buy a bunch of NUC's ... just about any other system takes longer than that just to POST I clearly got carried away when I was typing that last post! To the end that I am full of shit! I just stopped watching latest episode of The Arrow to reset and time for you. 9 seconds. Still light speed AFAIAC!

I can't sing the praises of Openelec and Kodi enough. I just love the default Kodi skin and it goes down so well to the non tech user. Smooth, intuitive, pretty, snappy *running out of superlatives*. Plus I like that I can "add" items on the menu *with 1 little tweak* which allows me to have the following: Weather - Videos - Live TV - Television - SD Movies - HD Movies - Kids - Music - Radio I use "Collections" which is essentially a set of search parameters for the overall library to delineate between SD Movies and HD Movies and then link them to the main menu with a custom name. Same with Kids which is a collection of Television and Movies. PLUS you can add so many nice little video add ons to it as well - like Netflix which are available in Videos. Like I said above too - with some decent Hardware it runs my Media collection of HD content from BD's so well! Passthrough to the receiver in the Living room means I get the best audio too! And Openelec - love it too. A tiny linux distro built with one purpose - run Kodi (and they are always spot on up to date with latest releases). A true appliance - its as if there is no OS on there at all. It boots in 3 seconds (on an NUC with an SDD) and more importantly if there is ever an issue (which does happen from time to time) the instructions are always "just reset it" - in 3 seconds boot time all is well again and people are watching away! Love it!

@dmacias & @ysss : Thanks guys, some good info! I "feel" another project coming on though with this little nested Virtualisation setup without GPU to my TV's straight from the Server. If it comes to a dead end or costs too much (which is a reasonable possibility) I will be straight back to your posts to look for a good deal on units to go at each TV.

Just picked it up - had to get in today to get my sweet 10% off. Whoa! You can soooo tell the increase in quality over other units just by the packaging!!! I haven't even removed it from the box yet! Decided to pick up my CPU when I went to get the PSU. Rang ahead and they had the E3-1231v3 in stock - when I get there, nope. So they offered me the E3-1241v3 for a mere AUD $15 more (normally AUD $30 more). I figured I would spend AUD $15 in fuel and not to mention time anyway so I just went for it. Just checked and compared them both. the E3-1241 is "slightly" more powerful but I doubt that it will be even close to noticeable. For those who read this thread and are interested, here is the CPUBoss comparison link: http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Xeon-E3-1241V3-vs-Intel-Xeon-E3-1231V3

There is but the process isn't documented. It will be eventually. Hi Jono - even if it's not officially documented is there a post/thread on the forums you could point us to?

You gave me pause for thought on the PSU. I did some more reading and those Corsiar HX models have excellent write ups and are supposed to be VERY quiet. That along with your recomendation and that my vendor had 10% off PSU's today made me buy this one: http://www.corsair.com/en-au/hxi-series-hx850i-high-performance-atx-power-supply-850-watt-80-plus-platinum-certified-psu-au I went with the 850W mostly to give myself headroom - and with what I am discussing in the Lounge thread about Video Cards and centralising my appliences in VM's etc I felt it safer to spend a little more on a higher powered unit.

Looks like a nice unit! Thanks. BUT .... Where on earth do you find those for ~USD $60?? It might be that I am in AUS but the prices I am seeing are more in line with the Celeron NUC and in some cases even MORE expensive!?

Here is the setup I am talking about ...... No criticisms of the drafting needed! I know the diagram is not perfect!

Thanks Guys! I know that Plex seems to be the Goto for most people these days BUT I just hate it. I don't think you can get past Kodi. Plus the family are used to Kodi and know how to work it so it is VERY family friendly. I also like how I can customise the UI which helps everyone out which I can't do in Plex. People seem to push low spec devices (and I am sorry I consider the Amazon Fire TV Stick to be one of them) BUT I have experienced that these don't work well with my Media Collection. All of my Movies have been ripped RAW from my BlueRay Disks with no compression in Video and Audio @ 1080p which results in a VERY big file (e.g. Matrix Revolutions ends up being ~39GB). As soon as I throw that at a lower spec'd device the device struggles (I've tried a Pi, Pivos Xios, Pivos DS and a unbranded Android box). However put it on a Celeron powered box with an SSD, 4GB of memory and a Gigabit LAN port running Openelec and Bob's your uncle! Flawless! In addition - I HATE with a passion the whole apps running on an OS thing - like Android running Kodi (where you have to mess with startups and where a bad keyboard press can get the family back into Android)! I want an Appliance. Something that will boot up in seconds, requires NO interaction to run the Media Player software and more importantly with a reset or problem it all just comes back up! Which running Openelec just does! Anyway - I am going to see if I can explore centralising if not - back to an NUC at each TV!

Nah, I know it doesn't. Sorry, I might not have been clear in my post - In my nested VM example I was more "moaning" that I had to install Windows on top of KVM (and then if it works OpenElec on a HV on the Windows Host ( KVM Guest) to get the divice to work) otherwise I would just install Openelec on KVM! But alas no! I am going to put the design together in a diagram and post it to see what people think!

@johnodon - that is indeed a nice setup and I sort of wish I had thought about the need for additional PCIe slots when I was designing the server BUT I would need more CPU power too - but never mind. I was thinking though - the ONLY thing stopping me using something like this .... http://www.scorptec.com.au/product/Adaptors/USB/44360-J5-JUA-350 ... to add HDMI ports to my server without the need for Video Cards is the fact that the drivers for this device (as I mentioned in my initial post) don't exists for Linux. Soooooo ...... I was thinking about a nested Virtual Machine Setup. Run a Windows VM (which I will do anyway) with the above device passed through and the drivers installed and then utilise the video cards (as the drivers allow windows to interpret them) on separate VM's (running Openelec)! I "could" then use this (which don't require drivers) .... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AQDVKZK/ref=s9_simh_gw_p23_d1_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-3&pf_rd_r=1JN9AGCB5BSFPSTT6N70&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2084660942&pf_rd_i=desktop OR http://www.techbuy.com.au/p/231627/SWITCHBOXES_VIDEO/ATEN/VE803-AT-U.asp .... to send the HDMI singnal over ethernet (both work with a switch and single CAT6 as they grab IP addresses from the DHCP server) to send to the TV's. I like the Aten version of the HDMI over IP adapters above as they extend USB too allowing me to plug an IR receiver into the usb port on the device and plug into a usb port on the Server which the nested VM running Openelec could use! thoughts thoughts thoughts ..... Total cost of setup would be AUD $89 + AUD $170 = AUD $259 (minus HDMI cables) which is cheaper than putting together an NUC or even a Pi2 and get the benefit (if it would work) of centralised Appliance VM's on my server. And without Video Cards for each VM!! Wonder if it would work!!

Glad to hear. You could do that. You could also use mc or just use cp from the command line. If you are uncomfortable on the command line and or just want a simple way of doing it I'd just do what you are doing (eg map each drive on your Windows box) and use Teracopy (which can pause, resume, retry etc) with verify copy set (to ensure successfull copy) and set the copy and walk away. Once done, delete from source drive (I like to do this two step copy / delete method just in case I made a mistake and or something happens).

I believe that is so as long as there hasn't been anything written to the 3TB drives then you could initiate a "New Config" using the old 3TB drives and be where you were before you started the upgrade. You would then just re-build parity. EDIT: Actually that is almost exactly what Gaz said above.

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May 13 03:02:28 Unraid emhttp: reiserfs: resizing /mnt/disk2 The re-sizing of the partition on the disk? I am assuming this was re-sizing from build source 3TB (old drive) to build destination 8TB (new drive)? I just did a quick Google Search on re-sizing RFS partitions of large sizes and they all reference "Several Hours" to do a large re-size!?

Yeah, sounds about right. The only think I don't agree with in your statement is that my UseCase is unique. I think that the only think that makes it unique is that there might not be many people have thought about it. I think of it this way - if a cost effective solution was available - then IMHO people would JUMP at being able to run their Media Servers this way! Anyway - moot point - because as you mention there isnt really one at the moment! Needless to say, it would be good if there was!

Hi Guys, I just thought I would post some musings that I have been having about VM's, appliances , Media, TV's etc etc The advances in Unraid are nice. The virtualisation work is good and it starts to open up possibilities. Like many people I have a central Unraid server which holds digital copies of my Media and I use end points (e.g. NUC's) at each TV running something like Openelec for displaying that Media and providing a nice User Interface to do so. I have just invested in a Powerhouse server and thought .... I wonder if I can centralise all the instances of these media players on the server. Wouldn't that be great. Then I hit the snag - how do i get the instances displayed on the TV's around the house??? I have looked @ HDMI extenders around the home. Nope. I need to pass through a video card per instance. No room in the server for all those graphics cards (5) and its not really efficient. Plus HDMI cables around the home is not feasible or cost effective. USB3.0 to HDMI (instead of Video cards). Nope. Not only do they require allot of server resources as they do much of what they need to in Software BUT the drivers for those devices don't seem to be available on Linux (e.g. Openelec) and I think running Windows Vm's with the cost overhead of that OS is not worth it either. If I did manage to get a solution to any of the above working I would have the same issue as the first one. How do I get the signal to the TV? HDMI over ethernet? Once again there are driver issues for those devices on Linux and also none of them seem to perform well or are unsupported using a switch (even a dumb one) even though I have Cat6 around the home and a network point at each TV (plus these tend to require 2 Cat cables rather than 1 expect those which do require 1 and cost lots of $$$). So here I am. A power house server sat in one room, TV's all over the joint at Network points and no easy way to get the signals to those TV's. I read about Steam having a gaming solution for casting the games from one PC to a TV using a dumb box (of around $70) available November BUT this is likely to require windows too on the host machine. I wish there was a simple way to just "Stream" a VM's display to a TV with minimal cost and additional H/W BUT there just doesn't seem to be one available yet. You know, just turn the TV on and it displays the VM Openelec appliance running in a VM on the Unraid Server. Seems to me there is a real need for a cost effective solution there. Until then I am stuck with boxes at each TV running such software connecting to my Media on Unraid shares across the network! Wish I was better @ developing things as I would be a rich man if I could develop a solution to this I think! Oh well! Daniel **ranting in the work canteen**

Just remember Bad News about the 8TB Seagates is just not allowed!!!

This is PURE speculation (because I don't know) BUT I was always under the impression that the most "risky" time with Unraid was when rebuilding a data drive because ALL drives are working at the same time. So to me I'm wondering if Unraid makes simultaneous reads to all drives and writes to the replacement drive? I am not sure if that is the case when building Parity does it do something different like read 1 disk at a time and write to Parity? I guess where I am going with this is I am wondering if there is a bottleneck on the card? Also, have you checked the S.M.A.R.T data of the drives? If one or more of the drives is having an issue maybe the inconsistent speed could be a drive struggling to be read?

Are both the Parity and the new Data drive on the AOC-SAS2LP-MV8?

Why wouldn't you think it's possible? It's common to replace a drive with one that's larger. The only requirement is that you can't use a drive larger than your parity drive. "I stand corrected said the man in orthopaedic shoes" ... I always thought it had to be a like for like size drive replacement. Anyway, happy to be corrected - would like to see some speed stats on the rebuild. As you asked above, how slow is slow?

Have I read this wrong - its rebuilding a 3TB drive on an 8TB drive? I didn't think this was possible!?

Interesting, do you have a reference for this? I ask only because this is not my experience as I have seen the reported read speed change very frequently.

Hi Guys, I am looking at the feasibility of running OpenVPN Server in a Docker on my MainServer once I upgrade to v6.x as I don't want to use my router. I am concerned a little about the Dockers especially with things like this which use OpenSSL etc (which might need updating due to exploits etc) so my questions are: - Has this Docker been thoroughly tested; - Is it regularly maintained / updated and if so is the maintainer part of the Unraid community; - Is it part of an Unraid supported repository or similar? Any information would be appreciated Thanks Daniel