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I would consider taping up some of the underside front vents on the case. Also a celeron 430 is not going to generate allot of heat. I'm not sure swapping the stock cooler for a ninja is even worth it. If you plan to do vmware or other jobs such as transcoding or md5/par2 checks, then you could use the ninja if you upgrade the CPU later.

I'm not sure 80mm vs 120mm vs how thick the fans are is an issue (other then sound). What matters is how much air they move under load. What model of fan are these? The specs for them would be interesting. For example, 9 fans which have the possibility of moving 20cfm each provides allot of air movement.

With the right rtorrent configuration, you can drop certain .torrent files in directory a and have them moved one place. Drop other .torrent files in directory b and have them moved to another directory. It gets a bit tricky, but it does work.

The mover script has protection against open files.

It would take a bit of time to get this to work. You can also look at the mover script in /usr/local/sbin/mover It's also possible with a shell script using find with -newer ${FILENAME} and rsync with the --remove-sent-files option. After the rsync completes, touch the file named after the -newer option and that will be your marker for the next run. mover might be an easier place to start.

Very Nice. I'm almost wondering if we should have a separate forum for pimp'ing and system layout. I love this thread and what we do with it. But it's long and when I want to refer back to some posts.. whooooo... hahaha. Almost feel like it's a car club show off or something! heh.. Thanks everyone! I love the participation.

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Nice! What do you do with the CDROM? Did you recompile the kernel to make it accessible? I had planned to put on in my machine so I could rip from it with vmware. I think I'm going with the external SCSI route.

Hey guys, this power stuff is great, can we move it over into another thread? I would love to comment on the staggered spin up, but I don't want to deviate to far in a new direction in regards to pimping a rig and the informative power discussion.

Speed is right there 100,970 KB/sec. Good speed

Heavy Man... whoa! There's a reason there's wheels on that puppy. Nice Setup!

Sweet Keyway, Let us know what your parity check speeds are. I have a similar build with a Coolermaster Stacker and the AOC-SATA-MV8's. (I choose them as the price was right for open box @70 each). I may upgrade to the SAS Controllers, but I'm not sure. I may fill the PCIe with an Areca for the parity/cache with SAFE RAID and use a bracket or two for floor mounting. My PSU is on top so that bottom PSU area is ripe for another couple drives hahaha! I like the look of the antec 1200 with Supermicros. I bet with the larger fans exhausting air, you might be able to get away with taking the loud sanyo denki's off the CSE-M35T-1B. I went with the GEILD from the recommendation @ newegg reviews. They are very quiet.

My thought is you might loose some of the "outer track" speed benefits when writing to the smaller drives. If I write to the outer track of a 320GB drive, it's going to be using the inner track of the parity drive. I would think a threaded approach to handling parity checks would be better. If drives on different controllers were handled via parallel threads, then it might alleviate some of the waits for a drive to finish.

which 4in3 modules are you using? also, as cool as your sig is, (and it is cool), I find it useful when people post their rig specs in the sig. It sorta helps anyone coming along to get an idea of good setups. I'm probably going to change mine too. heh, but my systems are constantly in flux.

Can you post the smartlogs on this drive. I would be interested in seeing how it calculates 4% health.

There is a way to have incremental rsync backups and multiple days worth of full backups. see my script here for hints. http://code.google.com/p/unraid-weebotech/downloads/list using -link-dest and a scheme for pointing to the most recent backup, you can have x days of archived backups and still only rsync over the changes. To discuss in further detail, start a new thread on the forum.

It's a conspiracy... it's destined to fail a few days after the warranty expires j/k

Thanks for posting. It's very interesting to see the results. After review I wonder how they came up with the 40% health and a target of 221 days. Somewhere there is a threshold to calculate this.

What a great tool. We should check into this more and post smartlogs on the lower level lifetimes to gather stats. It could help with automating checks later on. This looks like a great tool to be used in a cron monitor.

To write messages to syslog from a script or via file use the logger command. usage: logger [-is] [-f file] [-p pri] [-t tag] [-u socket] [ message ... ] add something like the following example to the power change script before it is enabled. (I don't have that answer, but the rest should help) logger -i -tsleepscript -plocal0.info "Switching power state to S3" Name -t or -p what fits your installation. -p must be a valid syslog facility. -t can be the script or program name.

That's a trip!! I've built machines that were parts all over the place. but that's the best one I've seen yet. Thanks for sharing.

Start a new thread for this please. I'm very interested. It's one of my pet peeves with unRAID.

Maybe the smbstatus program can be used to reveal open files and/orlocks on the smb share.

Didn't work for me either. Thought it was just me.. but it seems to affect others too.

That's a good idea. I usually just have a drive sitting on the shelf waiting. After I rebuild my server with 20 drives, then I'll do this. just got an X7SBE mobo.