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LOL, I got my whisper-quiet Antec 1200 on sale for $95. How is a loud $400 Norco cheaper?? If your library grows 1TB/mo, it sounds like you just started collecting. I'm currently at 1006 HD movies and I'm working on watching the ones I haven't seen and deleting the ones I didn't care for.(it's a never-ending job ) @Rajahal, Hot swap bays "sound" like a cool idea, but when do you REALLY need to hot swap anything? Don't most people just: 1) install a harddrive 2) run the clear script on it 3) add it to the array 4) never touch it (until it dies)

There's always a trade off between power comsumption and speed. If you leave the server on 24/7(sab/sickbearding), a faster CPU will unrar and repair faster, but you'll pay for it in higher electric bill.:'( I have a little Asus Atom cpu and sab works pretty well(while I'm off at work or asleep). Repairing rars while you stream a 25mbps bluray will choke it up. I don't really understand everyone's infatuation with Norcos. They're $400(USD) and then you gotta replace all the stock cooling to get it quieter(more $$). I can see using them for commercial servers in a chilly rack storage room, but not in my media closet. I used to dream of a massive 21-disk 42TB Beast! Then I woke up and discovered that even with all my data-hording, my collection maxes at about 20TB.(and that's WITH several desktop backup images) And YMMV, so plan for the future, but don't overkill it.

15% off with promo code SEVMEM15, ends 5/31 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16859105905 not as good as the UK rebate, but nice for us Americans who've been waiting to build a server jr. $325 + 15.31s&h - 48.75discount = $291.96

Don't do like I did and over-buy for your power supply. Get a Kill-a-Watt http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882715001&cm_re=kill_watt-_-82-715-001-_-Product and determine how much peak power you REALLY need. I bought the Corsair 650TX and barely use it's horse power on my 15 drive UnRaid system.(non-gaming-PC of course). Use NewEgg's Advanced Search feature: under "Energy-Efficient", pick "80-plus cert" then under "+12V Rails" pick "Single" Any of those should work great. Unless you're made of cash, don't spend over $60 for a PS. IMO, adding Modular would be a nice touch, but I care more about a single rail and low cost than pretty case design.

This sounds great! I just ordered a couple of 20EARS since NewEgg has them for $70 after rebate.

Thanks alot for this recipe! It's works brilliantly! Floppy relays to USB & boots quick. Now my old P4 box is no longer worthless trash!!!

Wow, I didn't think I was doing something no one else has ever done...so I went and solved it myself. Here is my solution for anyone else who wants to do it.(there's probably a more graceful way to do it) UnRaid users you make in the UnRaid web GUI can't ssh or telnet into UnRaid. This is because when UnRaid makes the user they have the default shell set to " /bin/false " You can change this by telneting in as root and typing " usermod -s/bin/bash <username> " To save your changes, copy " /etc/passwd " to " /flash/config/passwd " But I looked in the default passwd file and saw " operator::11:0:operator:/root:/bin/bash " (that's a colon-separated list of username, password, userID, groupID, description, home dir, default shell) so I just decided to use operator since it was not the root user, but was still a member of group root. Telnetted in as operator and made the backup folders so I wouldn't have permission trouble later. EDIT: I skipped an important step. Since unRAID defaults the mounted disk shares to "700" permissions, you need to allow Group RWX permissions on whatever disk you use (e.g. disk7) " chmod 770 /mnt/disk7 " " mkdir /mnt/disk7/My_Backups/<each folder for my Windows machines> " Installed cwrsync client on all my Windows machines. Generated ssh key without passphrase " ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048" naming the keyfile "ssh_operator_key ". (the name required ssh* and *key* for the other scripts) This made ssh_operator_key and ssh_operator_key.pub. Put the .pub one in " /flash/custom/etc/ssh/ " and put the other one in " c:\program files\cwrsync\ " I thought this would be the last step of the keys, but it seems linux also wants all pub key file contents in another file named authorized_keys per frigging user! Ran " cat ssh_operator_key.pub >> $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys " and copied it to " /flash/custom/etc/ssh/authorized_keys " so it's available every boot-time. Then I needed to add this authorized_keys file to the auto_install copying: Edited file " /flash/packages/openssh-5.1p1-i486-1.tgz.auto_install " Changed the 2nd THEN to be: "# public key for root mkdir /root/.ssh cp /boot/custom/etc/ssh/authorized_keys /root/.ssh mkdir /etc/ssh 2>/dev/null cp --preserve=timestamps /boot/custom/etc/ssh/ssh*key* /etc/ssh 2>/dev/null cp --preserve=timestamps /boot/custom/etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh 2>/dev/null chmod 600 /etc/ssh/ssh*key*" Copied sshd_config file to " /flash/custom/etc/ssh/ " too. Here are the changes I made to sshd_config : LoginGraceTime 30 PermitRootLogin no MaxAuthTries 2 MaxSessions 2 PasswordAuthentication no PermitEmptyPasswords yes Example of my backup.cmd file for backing desktop's d: drive to my unraid server (named UNRAID) " rsync -aP --stats -e "ssh -i ssh_operator_key" --delete --exclude "pagefile.sys" /cygdrive/d/ operator@UNRAID:/mnt/disk7/My_Backups/Windows_d_drive/ " For over the Internet, use your router to forward internal port 22 to another port (like 2222). Exposing port22 will get too much attention from hacker bots.(trust me) " rsync -zaP --stats -e "ssh -p 2222 -i ssh_operator_key" --delete --exclude "pagefile.sys" /cygdrive/d/ [email protected]:/mnt/disk7/My_Backups/Windows_d_drive/ " PS I did have to give operator a password for this to work smoothly, but when using the key, it'll never ask for it.

I'm currently using rsync on a LAN to backup files from a Windows box to the UNRAID 4.5.6 server. With my current plain setup, only the root user can sync and requires a password typed in. What I want to do is setup a non-root user and use rsync with ssh keys to allow the user to remotely start an instance of ssh and rsync files over the internet to the UNRAID with an automated batch file without typing in a password or passphrase. I guess I don't understand how unraid users and ssh users work. It looks like I need to modify /boot/config/etc/ssh/sshd_config. Does anyone have a great unraid-friendly config example they recommend that I can look at? Thanks in advance!

I don't mean to hijack this conversation, but...I tried this exact recipe after using UnMenu to install Perl. Everything worked fine until I tried starting the server. It just tells me that the server started without giving errors or messages and immediately returns to the prompt. But checking the processes, I don't see it running. I also verified that the slimserver user is in the /etc/passwd file. Do I need to add the user in the Unraid user-manager screen too? Thanks for your help on this thread. Hopefully getting squeezeserver running on unraid will mean one less computer running.

I'm glad this thread is still around. My love for solid-cap Gigabyte boards has lead me here. All my Seagate drives were "infected" with the HPA issue.(for some reason Hitachi and Samsung were immune) Thanks for this thread and thanks to Joe L. for his unraid_partition_disk.sh file. It was the only thing that could re-partition the fixed drives to Unraid standards after I had disabled HPA using HDAT2. And not sacrificing my TBs of data was a true blessing!

I just got the SY-PEX40015 card from Monoprice. It worked in my Intel machine, but not on my AMD GA-MA78GM-S2H board. Even tried flashing to the latest base bios. no joy. I'll hafta RMA it