bluesky2006

Great, I thought as much for both but figured I'd check just to be safe. Many thanks.

Noob questions here, bear with: Firstly, do I need to perform a parity check regularly to make sure it's up to scratch (and if so, how often?) Secondly, does the parity drive update itself at the same time as the drives, or do I need to make it do that manually every so often? Thanks!

Will give it a crack, thanks greenythebeast

Recently I downloaded Goodvideo for my iPad so my girlfriend could watch Blade Runner in the passenger seat on a long drive. I noticed that Goodvideo instantly recognised my Synology NAS thanks to UPnP, and I was able to browse and download Blade Runner from it very simply via that method. Sadly I can't seem to browse via SMB or NFS or anything else in the app. Thing is, I'm retiring my Synology for media purposes so I can move to unRAID - but I noticed unRAID doesn't use UPnP natively. What's the best way of setting this up? I had a look at the UPnP options I could try, but I'm not sure which is the best for setting up a generic UPnP - in other words, I don't really feel it should be necessary to set up a PS3 Media Server when I'm not trying to get it to work on my PS3. What would people recommned I try?

Have you tried installing unMenu? There's a tab called "Disk Management" where you can mount or even share disks that are not in the array. Point-and-click interface. Sigh, I wish someone had told me this before I wasted so much time trying to get SNAP to work...

I found I couldn't mount an ext4 drive via USB with SNAP, so if either drive is ext4 you may have problems with that method (unless I did something wrong (I'm a rookie)).

I get the "Transport endpoint is not connected" message whenever I have Plex running and try to do anything too adventurous at the same time. I'm hoping this is something that will get ironed out in a future build!

Just to update on this... I did indeed mount my Synology directly in the CLI by NFS, initiated the transfer using the cp command, and my copy speed went up to about 10MB/s! I've finally finished moving my data onto my unRAID server and can initiate the parity disk at last (not that I had to wait but I wanted it to be as quick as possible and I had the old data as backup if anything did go wrong). In the meantime I've ordered that gigabit switch and some cat6 cables ,so hopefully things will improve for general network use in future now too!

Ok so looks like I need to procure a gigabit switch then! My IT chum has also suggested I mount my Synology drive via NFS more directly to my unRAID server and copy the files over in the command line, so that I bypass my Windows 8 PC altogether, which certainly sounds like it would help cut out a lot of the speed loss. Does anyone have any experience/success with this in unRAID? Is it a fairly basic solution? I tried mounting the drive using SNAP directly via USB but it didn't recognise the filesystem (my Synology uses ext4).

I've been transferring files from the 2TB on my old Synology 110j to my new unRAID build for just over a week now and it's still not done. I've been doing it on Windows 8 and my transfer speeds peak at about 2.8MB/s, using all wired connections. Is this slow? I'm aware that it won't be as fast as transferring directly to/from a PC - and I know nothing about this sort of thing - but I did some quick reading around and most people seem to be doing better than this! Those of you curious as to my network devices, this is what I have in order from source to destination: Synology 110j (Gigabit X1) Thomson TG585v7 router (10/100BaseT HD/FD) Via TP-Link TL-PA211KIT (200Mbps) Windows 8 HTPC with a GIGABYTE GA-A75N-USB3 A75N-USB3 Motherboard (Gigabit LAN) Back through the TP-Link TL-PA211KIT (200Mbps) unRAID server with Asus C60M1-I Motherboard (1 x Gigabit LAN)

Thanks lionelhutz. I'm confused though - I set up a share called "buffalo" through the cmd line while trying to mount an external drive with Snap (it didn't work in the end because it was formatted in ext4). The share doesn't appear in the unRAID web GUI, yet it's there when I look at my TOWER on my network (through Windows anyway). I don't think I've rebooted my server since I tried this though so perhaps that's why it's not gone?

Thanks gfjardim! And thanks for the command suggestion. So does the ls -a command not list hidden files properly? Cos I tried that in both shared folders and they came up empty (well, they showed "." and "..").

Thanks trurl - no I don't have a cache disk.

I had two shares I no longer wanted but unRAID refused to remove using the suggested method (ie, clear out the share then delete the share name in the Web GUI). I tried using rm -r * in the terminal in the correct folder, which appeared to work as once i'd listed the directory's contents (and hidden files) it showed nothing - but still in the Web GUI the share wasn't listed as empty. So I went ahead and deleted the share in the command line using rm /mnt/user/deleteme (or something like that - I'm a bit of a trial-and-error noob) rebooted my server, and the share is no longer listed in the Shares list. So I appear to have done it... but I have a niggling feeling that this wasn't the best way of doing it. Might I have cocked something up, and/or are there likely to be any other files left behind I need to tweak to remove all traces of the shares I deleted by this method? I notice in the /boot/config/shares folder it still lists the deleted shares' cfg files...

Thanks trurl