adammerkley

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  1. That's the correct path. Note that you HAVE to replace parity first, because it needs to be at least as large as your array's largest drive Also, you should preclear both of the new drives before adding them to the array.
  2. Influencer is right. I used to have an unRAID server based on that same motherboard but switched away from it because the order would get change whenever a drive was added or removed. Major PITA.
  3. Maybe the template from this post can get you started: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=10452.msg99245#msg99245
  4. Why do you care? You're happy with unRAID right? Tom is free to run the business anyway he sees fit. This must be working for him, or he'd do things differently. Sure, it would be nice for the limetech site to get a refresh, but I'm not losing any sleep over it.
  5. That absolutely looks like the ticket! If I'm correct, this page shows the reverse of that board: http://www.corsair.com/blog/upgrading-the-800d-to-a-sata3-backplane Front: Back: I may think about making my own Backblaze-ish chassis...
  6. I searched a bit but couldn't find anything on this, forgive me if this has been discussed... My current unraid build is filled to capacity physically, meaning I can't add anymore drives unless I switch cases or add 5-3 modules. Eventually I'd like to go the Norco route, but right now I'm poor, so I had another idea. What would stop me from jumping a spare power supply so that it provides current, put it in a spare pc case, and run long SATA (or even eSATA) cables from my existing case to the spare where I could put additional drives?
  7. Over the years that I had WHS and now unRAID, I've seen my fair share of drives that need RMA'ing. Usually it's SMART data that tips me off, or I notice a drive clicking when I'm close to the server one day. Well, at 10:47 last night, unMENU sent me an automated email to let me know that a disk had been disabled. I logged into unMENU, looked at the logs, and saw the write error on the drive in question. I powered down the server(something I never do ) using unMENU's clean powerdown, and resolved to look into it further today. Powered up the server this afternoon. After a few moments I hear a buzz. Sure enough, this drive is TOAST. It's an older Seagate 1.5TB drive. Warranty is good until 1/2013, so I'll be RMA'ing it. Good thing Best Buy has 2TB Seagate Greens for $119 right now (can't believe I'm HAPPY to be paying $119! )
  8. Well that's good to know. I'm in Denver whch is pretty congested, so I can see them bugging me. I've kept it under the 250GB until recently where I've gone over 320GB in a month and they haven't bugged me yet. Hopefully they won't. I live in an older neighborhood in Salt Lake. I don't think the other residents use very much bandwidth, because I regularly blow the 250GB cap out of the water, and have never, ever heard anything from Comcast.
  9. Either PSU would work, but if it were me, I'd just go with the single 850. The most important factor is to make sure that it has a single 12V rail.
  10. Try plugging the model and serial into WD's RMA site. Maybe it even still has a warranty...
  11. Just a suggestion: are you sure the server isn't disconnecting from the network when being written to? I ask because unRAID will do a short beep upon disconnection and a boop upon reconnect...
  12. I'll have to look next time I pop the server open, but it's a 650W Antec. Not single 12V rail 4 green, 5 non-green. Those numbers will flip once the drive I'm preclearing is done.
  13. New script works BEAUTIFULLY! I had tried the previous gen script a few days ago, and was getting some nonsense about avahi d-bus in the syslog, and no Time Capsule destination appearing in Time Machine Prefs. Thanks!
  14. So with the new 4 TB drives, a run of badblocks then the preclear would take 2 1/2 weeks? :o Imagine not using screen and accidentally aborting THAT at the 2 week mark. Unless I'm missing something, I don't think badblocks takes 2 weeks on a 2TB drive. I've been running it on a 2TB WD drive that I just got from the RMA dept. It's been running for 24 hours, and is 20% into the 3rd pass. At this rate it will be done sometime tomorrow... root@Tower:/boot# badblocks-1.42 -svw /dev/sda Checking for bad blocks in read-write mode From block 0 to 1953514583 Testing with pattern 0xaa: done Reading and comparing: done Testing with pattern 0x55: done Reading and comparing: done Testing with pattern 0xff: 20.84% done, 24:46:43 elapsed. (0/0/0 errors)
  15. I guess I should have mentioned in the original post, no, there are no reallocated sectors... SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 118 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 181165264 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 093 092 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 75 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 061 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 1477444 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 664 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 22 183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 092 092 000 Old_age Always - 8 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 074 064 045 Old_age Always - 26 (Lifetime Min/Max 21/35) 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 13 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 75 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 026 040 000 Old_age Always - 26 (0 21 0 0) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 031 017 000 Old_age Always - 181165264 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 19091129630976 241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 2913237044 242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 3694510915
  16. Noticed yesterday that the Pending Sector count on my parity disk (2TB Seagate LP drive that I bought on Black Friday) was 24. This surprised me because the drive successfully passed 3 preclear cycles only 2 weeks ago... To troubleshoot, I did this (nevermind the risk of running without a parity disk temporarily...): Stopped the array Unassigned the parity disk Restarted the array without parity disk Stopped the array Reassigned parity disk Restarted the array, selecting that I wanted to rebuild parity. When the parity sync was done, I noted that the drive showed 0 pending sectors. Wanting to now read all the sectors on the drive, I ran a nocorrect parity check. The parity check is complete and the drive still shows 0 pending sectors. Thoughts?
  17. If you go to grc.com and run Shield's Up, you can scan all of your IP's service ports, and see which ones are coming up as replying (ie open).
  18. I was a cable monkey for a summer about 10 years ago. My entire job consisted of terminating cat-5 onto patch panels and location drops. I have "orange-white, orange, green-white, blue, blue-white, green, brown-white, brown" forever burned into my memory thanks to that job.
  19. My unRAID box has no ports open to the Internet. CouchPotato, Sickbeard, SAB etc are all running on my MacPro. I had been toying with the idea of moving those over to unRAID, but this thread has me thinking twice about that.
  20. That's exactly what I did. Works great connected to the rear of my Zotac, with the receiver sitting neatly net to my AppleTV.
  21. Most of us run a script called preclear_disk. You can find more info about it below. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2817 http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Configuration_Tutorial#Preclear_Hard_Drives