tarataqa

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  1. Never seen 6TB disks this low! (limit 5) http://www.neweggbusiness.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9B-22-236-797 and $244 if you prefer the Seagate 6TB http://www.neweggbusiness.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9B-22-178-520
  2. I got the Tyan S5510GM3NR after John recommended it for an ESXi unRAID server. I've been running it 24/7 for the past eight months. Everything is smooth and sweet. All the nics are easy for a virtual newbie like me to set up. No start up or shutdown issues either. Right now I'm running an unRAID VM, a Win7 VM, a WHS VM, and an OpenVPN appliance using the M1015+expander. It's a beautiful board.
  3. NewEgg has the 240GB Agility3 SSD for $269.99. There is a $20 mail-in rebate and they give you a $30 gift card after purchase. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227727
  4. The Petrol is cheaper because it uses async NAND. It's still faster than your old HDD, but you might wanna look for a synchronous SSD: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/08/07/nand_flash_faces_off_synchronous_vs_asynchronous/
  5. I just got one of these as I was running out of ports. It's working great so far, but I miss the dual lights of my old Netgear that showed me which device was connected at 1000BT. The Zyxel does run at 65F while the Netgear was 95F. LOL
  6. I was running one MV8 on 5beta11 beautifully. Later I moved the MV8 to another box and migrated the array on to my new virtual ESXi (passing thru M1015 with expander thx to John's tutor). Kept unRAID at beta11, and it works great. I hope the LSI issues are resolved for beta15+.
  7. This reminds me that I better sell my Asus Atom-Ion board before the coffin gets nailed shut.
  8. Do they have cheap hardware now that allows passing HD audio over HDMI? That was one of the reasons I left HTPCs for PCHs and PBOs.
  9. desktop RAM with 1337 heatsinks. These aren't your grandma's Ripjaws...These are RipjawsX http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231428
  10. Did you read the Tech details? Seagate 2 TB Speed:5900 rpm Seek time: 5.1 ms avg micro-hard-drives 80GB 2.5" SATA Drive WD800BEVT
  11. I'm also cobbling together an ESXi build after scoring awesome BF deals. I tried ESXi on a little HP microserver and found it fun to get VMs running. But with no pass-through ability, time for an upgrade!
  12. Use promo code MIMKB2BACYB25 at checkout for -$50 off when you spend $250 or more. http://www.neweggbusiness.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115070 I'm not sure what it takes to get a business acct. But this cpu is too rich for my blood any way.:-p
  13. I don't see the 2500k you mentioned. Just the 2400 at $150......still a good price on the 2400.($40 off Newegg) http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0354590
  14. I just had a bracket from another card that I used. I'd be interested too in another way to mount it. I just got my Ebay M1015 and expander in. Followed the easy RAID-->IT flash instructions. I tried doing it on an Asus motherboard (didn't work), but my old Gigabyte board worked fine. Hooked them up to my low-power ASUS AT3IONT-I system and ran parity on about 16 drives using 1 fast connection from the M1015 to the parity, cache, etc. and the other 12 using the expander via the other M1015 port. (still gotta buy one more SAS cable for the expander as I needed 7 total for 24 ports) Parity check speeds for my green drives weren't horrible, about 40-50MBps on average. I'll have to check it later about how file transfer speeds are over gigabit. EDIT: just transferred 30GB in 19min. DUmeter was between 300-500mbps. So far so good!
  15. Buy a $40 NewEgg credit for $20 special from Google Offers (limited avail) https://www.google.com/offers/ Nov 28, 2011 - Feb 26, 2012 Terms Limit 1 per person and 1 per order. Offer is $20 for $40 to spend on products at Newegg.com ($20 customer paid value and $20 promotional value). Offer must be redeemed in one transaction. If you redeem less than $20 in one transaction, Newegg.com will refund you the difference between $20 and the amount you redeem. If you do not redeem any portion of the offer by February 26, 2012, then the promotional value of offer will expire and Newegg.com will refund you the paid value ($20). Offer valid only at Newegg.com. Offer not transferable. Not valid for prior purchases. Not redeemable for cash, except as provided herein or where required by law. Will not be refunded/replaced if lost or stolen. May not be combined with affiliate cashback/points.
  16. Black Friday SSD special (limit 5): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227726
  17. yes, i'd love to get this for a 4224 das, but i'd come up short 4 drives there's also a nice bargain at http://www.provantage.com/intel-res2sv240~7ITSP0V8.htm This must be used in conjuction with a host card like the m1015. You'll get 24 ports. 20 with this and 4 with the m1015. Provantage is good too, even with shipping added.
  18. Refurbed computers like this company sells are probably old corporate leases. Meaning they will be very used. My guess is the the hard drives will have a lot of wear and/or tear. If you only need one disk, get it brand-new from Officedepot for $69 (limit 1): http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/875542/Seagate-Barracuda-720012-ST31000524AS-1-TB/?cm_mmc=Mercent-_-Google-_-Data_Storage_and_Media-_-875542-%7Bcopy:IQ_PE%7D&mr:trackingCode=39AD0BA0-5900-E111-BAE2-0019B9C043EB&mr:referralID=NA
  19. Exactly what John said. I read his and fade23's posts about this card and I debated about whether to get 3 M1015's + cables (69x3+9.49x6+5shipping= $269) or 1 M1015 and this card (69+202=$271). Then I debated about whether to use the M1015 + RES2SV240 as 16 fast SATA ports or 4 fast+20 slow. Since I'm using all green drives on the unRAID side, I'm taking fade23's point in thinking the rotational speed of the drives is the real limiting factor. If I hate the speed, I can get another M1015 to have 24 fast disks on 2 PCIe slots (albeit more expensive than just returning it and getting the 3 M1015s on 3 PCIe slots)
  20. Buy.com just lowered this card $10 more. Since it's a retail box, it should also come with 6 cables, but I couldn't find that in the description. Buy.com's 45-day return policy is nice if there's trouble. http://www.buy.com/pr/product.aspx?sku=217284266 I just got this to go with a server-pulled IBM M1015 card http://www.ebay.com/itm/150690592470
  21. Well Stacey was right, the 3TB Hitachis work fine with my Asus Atom board. But there seems to be a problem with the 3TB as parity and 5.0beta12a in my box. I had upgraded to 12a in prep for the new drives and everything worked fine using Asus with old 2TB Seagates and WDs. After clearing the new 3TB disks, I added two of them to the array (1 parity and 1 data). After the parity check completed, I started copying files from an old 2TB to the new 3TB using Midnight Commander. The system froze.(I've never seen that before) After some troubleshooting, I found that everything works normally as long as the 3TB parity disk was removed from the array. Once added in, reading is fine, but copying with CLI or MC will freeze the system. I tried beta11 and everything works again with all drives present.
  22. I wanted to start buying 3TB Hitachis for use in my unRAID server so I asked Asus if my mobo would allow it or if the BIOS would need updating. This is their response: LOL
  23. Want to build an unRAID server, but you have old hardware? NO PROBLEM Don't have SATA, USB, or NIC connectors onboard? Add appropriate PCI cards Can't get your BIOS to boot off USB? Add a floppy drive or CD-ROM Here's proof that unRAID works on virtually any PC (as long as it has PCI slots to make up for what it lacks) This is my 2nd major unRAID build. (my new 1st build) I upgraded my 1st one and this is my leftover/don't-wanna-throw-away/Frankenstein build. Previously, I'd understood that the hardest minimum req. for an older unRAID box was "Boot via USB". Then I saw people posting that they could use alternative booting, so I tried thequinox's recipe to make a PLoP boot floppy that hands off to the USB drive. It works beautifully! Antec recently had a sale on b-stock cases for 50%off. I totally love the 200v2. It's a beautiful, chilly case with 9 bays and a hot-swap SATA bay if you wanna slap in a extra disk. It can hold 10 drives max.(11 with the CM 4-n-3) I used the swap bay for the floppy since it was the only external 3.5. And yes, the poor floppy drive sticks out and it's loose. Very ghetto. This will live in a closet that (if it's like mine) will be 45F-100F through most of the year, so cooling is important. The Antec case has a nice 140mm exhaust fan on the top of the case that works great with the HDD fans so drive temps all stay under 45C. Best of all, it's very quiet. OS at time of building: unRAID 4.7 Pro CPU: Intel Pentium IV 2.4gHz (rosewill fan controller needed to keep the noise down) Motherboard: MSI 651M-L (circa 2003) RAM: Generic DDR RAM (2 x 512MB) Case: b-stock Antec Two Hundred(v2) Black ATX Mid Tower ($47) Drive Cage(s): Cooler Master 4in3 HDD Module (STB-3T4-E3-GP)($25) Power Supply: Rosewill Green Series RG630-S12 630W, 80 PLUS Certified, Single 12V Rail, Active PFC($50AR) SATA Expansion Card(s): Two Silicon Image 4Port SATA PCI Cards($17x2) NIC: Even though it has a built-in nic, I wanted to add a gigabit PCI card for more speed. SATA Power cables: 24inch 4pin MOLEX Male to (4) 15pin SATA II Female Power Cable (Net Jacket) Fans: used both fans that came with Antec case and Rosewill RFX-120 120mm Case Fan w/controller($9) Total cost (w/o disks): $165 since everything else was leftovers I splurged on the case, but I always recommend a namebrand Single-Rail power supply(yes, Rosewill is a namebrand now). Parity Drive: Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARS 2TB Data Drives: Hodge-podge of 7 old IDE/SATA disks, plus the parity WD20EARS. Cache Drive: don't have a need for one Total Drive Capacity: 8.25TB total, 6.25TB usable Primary Use: Movies, TV, concerts, documentaries, fitness vids, mp3s, photos, Acronis backups, e-books, audiobooks, PC Apps, & general digital hoarding. Likes: Surprisingly quick boot off the FLOPPY, Very quiet, low power, unRAID Dislikes: I could only get 1 IDE channel to work. Since I like the gigabit PCI card more than 4 extra disks, I'm limited to 10 disks, but my case is limited to 10 disks too. Add Ons Used: unMenu, rsync, mail notify, monthly parity Future Plans: Replace disks as these decade-old ones fail. Keep spare boot floppies on hand. Boot (peak): 183w Idle (avg): 49w Active (avg): 89w Light use (avg): 75w Closing comments: I could've left it in its ugly, beat-up beige case, but I had the extra case. And the cooling in the Antec is awesome, even with my lame cabling. So a new case is optional for your old junky machine, but never skip on a good power supply.(unless you like the risk of ruining your precious drives) It's amazing that such an old, low-end PC(that was gonna be thrown away) is still viable as a NAS. After being stunned at the ATOM cpu in my other build, I was even more shocked that an old P4 could stream full Blu-ray isos in 1080p w/DTS-HD MA simultaneously to 3 devices(maybe more). (I know, I know...the P4 isn't doing any decoding, just passing the files to media devices, but still!) This build was partly a test to see if it was viable, and as a gift for my non-techy sister's house. Granted, it won't win any speed contests, but it's a great working build if you have parts but no cash. Although, I'm still worried the old MSI board will pop a capacitor and die.(good news: then it'll be time for another new build ) My next build will be a nice MicroServer N36L thanks to Neil and Tim for showcasing how cool they are.
  24. wsume99's right. If you want a 24-disk machine, a Norco would be best. And if you got the money for it, it'll be fun to build and impress your friends. Let us know when you fill it up.
  25. I'm a fairly huge unRAID fan in my neck of the woods. I love to proselytize about the joys of unRAID and make new converts. This is a recent upgrade to my unRAID build. After building a small HTPC back in '07 and finding it lacking(no HD audio & 1080p's would stutter in Vista MC), I moved to a Popcornhour. But then I got tired of trying to get the PCH to see all my Windows-shared harddrives in my increasingly-hot desktop. So, I took the various parts and built a test unRAID box(and grew to love it). My first build was using the cannibalized HTPC parts: old AMD 5000+ with Gigabyte board, DDR2 RAM, multi-rail Thermaltake PS. After I noticed my power supply was chugging pretty hard and needed upgrading so it didn't kill anything, I got new parts. This set-up was fairly adequate, but the new parts below were nice as an upgrade and a lower electricity bill is way better!(the old AMD would IDLE at 150w) I re-re-purposed the slower components and made a great low-class 2nd unRAID build(ya gotta support Lime Tech by buying more PRO keys!). I'll post it soon. I chose this setup since it was going to sit on a closet shelf upstairs. The Norco case seemed too big,loud,expensive. And every backplane or Icydock box I looked into was also overpriced for use in a home data server. So I ended up with this: OS at time of building: unRAID 4.7 Pro CPU: Atom 330 Motherboard: ASUS AT3IONT-I refurb/openBox ($120) RAM: Kingston ValueRAM (2 x 1GB) DDR3(PC3 8500) DualChannel Kit ($26) Case: Antec Twelve Hundred ATX Full Tower Case ($95AR) the huge fan on the top vents hot air beautifully Drive Cage(s): none added Power Supply: CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W ($75AR) 80Plus & Single Rail is the only way to go! SATA power cables:24inch 4pin MOLEX Male to (4) 15pin SATA II Female Power Cable (Net Jacket) SATA Expansion Card(s): Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 8-Ports SAS ($105) Cables: 2x 3ware SAS CBL-SFF8087OCF-05M ($18x2) Fans: all fans came with Antec case. I don't use the 2 rear fans as it doesn't need 'em and having them off saves a few watts. Total cost new(w/o disks): $457 Parity Drive: Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARS 2TB Data Drives: 10xSeagate Barracuda LP ST32000542AS 2TB Cache Drive: cheap 160GB 7200RPM for SABnzbd/SB/CP download & repair Total Drive Capacity: 22TB total, 20TB usable Primary Use: Movies, TV, concerts, documentaries, fitness vids, mp3s, photos, Acronis backups, e-books, audiobooks, comic books, PC Apps, PC/PS3/Wii games, & general digital hoarding. Likes: Very quiet, Very low power, unRAID Dislikes: no pins on Asus board for a PC speaker; tiny Asus ATOM board only allows 12 drives max, but 20TB is alot for only 60w Add Ons Used: APCUPSd, unMenu, rsync, mail notify, monthly parity, SABnzbd, SickBeard, CouchPotato Future Plans: Web server, find a way to use unRAID as a security camera DVR. Boot (peak): 191w Idle (avg): 53w Active (avg): 99w Light use (avg): 63w Powered On: adding the drives: Not quite headless...Since I'm short on space, I use an old VGA-to-composite box(remember in 1998 when lots of gadgets were made in that aqua iMac-G3 color?) that runs off the keyboard ps2 and a refurbed 2006 Toshiba portable DVD player.: Closing comments After my HTPC woes, I was shocked that an ATOM cpu could stream full Blu-ray isos in 1080p w/DTS-HD MA simultaneously to 3 devices(maybe more). (I know, I know...the ATOM isn't doing any decoding, just passing the files to media machines, but still!) IMO, I over-bought on the full-tower case and power supply, but both had nice rebates, and I was worried about overheating(yearly closet temps range from 45F to 100F). I guess if I ever need a 20-drive monster, I'll be ready. (don't think that'll be an issue)