kgregg

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  1. Planning a second unRAID build (for my son) and need your gently used 2 TB drives (aren't you moving up to 4+ TB drives now? [grin]) What do you have? Thanks, Kevin
  2. one might make the case that "enterprise grade" is the opposite of "mainstream"
  3. vexhold, if you ever sell 2TB drives individually, let me know. Thanks.
  4. do you have parity check running in middle of night? i do.
  5. i use the 3rd type of dongle in pic and have had no troubles.
  6. i will download a movie when i find one of interest. i'm at about 300 movies now. to build a 2000 movie collection seems almost impossible. how long have you been building your movie/tv show collection? i've been at it for only 9 months. (are there really 2000 movies worth watching?)
  7. many unRAID enthusiasts have 10+ TB arrays. I have a 9 TB array that still has about 6.5 TB free. I have 300 movies (most unwatched), tv shows (most unwatched), every digital pic I've taken since 1997, a whole bunch of MP3s and backups from laptops used by the family. If you have 10+ TB of data on your array, what do you have exactly ? I need to download more (and find time to watch it)
  8. your backup unRAID array is same size as my primary array (9TB). nice setup!
  9. how much for both 1.5TB drives shipped to 21046? dont have burning need for them but spares are good to have.
  10. 3! got it recently, works great
  11. i have all 2 TB WD drives in my array. if anyone moves up to 5 or 6 TB drives and has 3 or 4TB drives to sell, let me know. Thanks.
  12. +1 for ubuntu (but i am not a kid . what age are kids?)
  13. would you sell any of the drives separately? i could use some. thanks.
  14. All, Have recently spent too many hours getting unRaid 5.0.5 system with many plugins working exactly as desired. Thanks to those of you who post "how to " guides anywhere online. I've read most of them. How do I backup my server & plugins configuration/settings (NOT my movies and music etc)? I have already copied contents of server flash drive to my laptop. What else is there to backup? Maybe some files/folders from cache drive but not sure. Thanks.
  15. only somewhat related... I spent way too much time last night trying to get dynamix email notifications working with my gmail account (two factor authentication) before learning that an application specific password from Google was needed. Once I entered this pw in email settings page, I was good to go. Hope this helps others. Have learned LOTS from these msg boards in past year. Thanks to all for contributing. Kevin
  16. stchas, I followed your directions in the wiki and it worked perfectly. Thanks for writing the instructions. Kevin
  17. This is definitely NOT a good idea ... at least not economically. If you're planning to use UnRAID basic (free version), you're limited to 3 drives ... so 2 data plus parity means at best 400GB of capacity with 200GB drives. You can buy a NEW 500GB drive for ~ $50; refurbished units for ~ $35; and some used ones on e-bay for even less. If you want more than 3 drives, you'll need to buy a Plus or Pro license; and if you're doing that you'll almost certainly want to use higher capacity drives as well. For example, if you bought a Plus license and 7 200GB drives, you'd get 1.2TB of space. You could build a larger system than that by simply using the free version and 3 750GB drives. Ditto for Pro ... the economics simply don't add up. ... not to mention that newer, high capacity drives are MUCH faster than the older units. i already have unRAID Plus license on my 3.5TB ver 4.7 system. It runs flawlessly (and I don't want to mess with it). BUT I want to dabble with a ver 5.x system on the cheap. I don't need any high capacity drives to run a ver 5.x system. using 3 120 (or even 80) GB drives is more than enough to test a ver 5.x install. these drives can be had real cheap on ebay.
  18. dont tear apart all of those old, low capacity drives just yet! rather than attempt to upgrade my existing 4.7 unRAID system, i am planning to build a small unRAID 5.x system using old desktop PC and whatever small ( < 200 GB) drives i have on hand or can find for cheap. msg me if you have low capacity SATA drives to sell. thanks.
  19. i hope i win the contest for "ugliest unRAID build"! Here is "Frankenputer".... I had all the parts to make a server EXCEPT for the case so I made a "case" from 1x3 boards on hand. It gets good air flow , though.
  20. i'm with you, reefcrazed... i think warranty would still be in effect after enclosure was opened since no damage done to drive itself.
  21. i'm on unraid 4.7 and can't use this 3TB drive (to best of my knowledge. pls correct if i am wrong). will upgrade to unraid 5 at some point.
  22. what are the specs of the parity and data drives? are they 7200 RPM? what size is their cache? who else is using network while you are copying files? i am no unraid expert, btw. still learning.
  23. kgregg

    smallest build

    i think a LOT can be done with 3 drive (1 parity & 2 data) unRAID system. This would be good for a small office/business where they work with spreadsheets and word processing files almost exclusively. i MAY build one of these and surprise my electrician brother with it.
  24. kgregg

    smallest build

    6 drive bays is more (capacity and cost) than my brother needs. i had in mind something smaller ... 3 bays max and a case about 2/3rds that size. thanks, though.