nightanole

I run sabnzbd/sonarr/PLEX server. I noticed a performance increase going from 4 gig to 8 gig. Im not sure if its worth spending the $90 to go from 8 to 16 gig since its basically just me loading server. Its not like there are 4-8 people hitting the server at once.

So my question is, if somebody is using a cache drive in their unraid server like I am and just have mover run nightly (transferring anywhere between 1GB and 50GB in various file sizes per day), will I see issues with having this 8TB drive as my parity? You would have to write for 15min about 25 gigs of random writes to have poor performance. Sequential data is written to the drive itself in one big lump, only random stuff is written to the persistence cache, and then put on the real drive once its ready. So yea as long as; everything is done via mover, or you are writing directly to the array for less than 15min for random, you are good. Just dont make a mysql server and dump a huge database to it and you will be good.

Well it takes 2 revolutions to do a write, so in stock unraid a 7200rpm would run at 55megs a second, and a 5900 would run at 45 megs a second. Density and raw speed doesnt matter.

Dumb question, but i just updated to 6.0. We now have "plugins" that can download directly from the gui, and we have "dockers" that we can download from the gui. And they both look like they do the same thing. So what is the point of each? I just run phaze and dynamix, maybe thats why im safe from all this stuff. Maybe phaze will start making dockers, but from what im reading, a docker needs to be updated by the owner, not from a github update. So if your "guy" is asleep at the wheel, you will be behind on updates of sonarr etc, or am i wrong?

Dumb question, but i see a microcenter order. If you have one locally you can save $30-40 off the mobo/cpu combo. PS: i have that case, it rocks, you might want to make or get an inline sata cable. http://www.ebay.com/itm/SATA-15Pin-male-to-5-X-SATA-15Pin-Female-Power-Connector-SATA-Splitter-Cable-/161550889738?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item259d2ef30a

Well you convinced me, its the same price as a 3tb hgst nas. Ill just beat on it for 2-3 week and not shuck it till i have to. http://www.perplexer.info/samsung_d3/samsung_d3.html

The enclosure looks exactly like Samsung D3 Station 4TB, which I opened a pair of just yesterday. There is no sticker per se, but the sides of the enclosure are not only screwed together (two screws at bottom, under the small rubber feet), but also are glued together, inside, at places were the screws are. I'm not sure I could open it without leaving visible scratches. Besides, why bother? It can be precleared/tested at reasonable speed via USB 3.0 without opening. Because seagates dont insta-kill. They take 6 months-1 year before mechanical issues start, most dont die of bit rot or bad sectors. Yes this is $130 cheaper than the hgst nas version, but if warranty is void as soon as you open the case...

I assume its the same drive as the $30 seagate external deal, however this drive has a 3 year warranty. Wonder if you can shuck it without have a warranty void sticker broken.

You can get a lenovo ts140 server new on ebay for $200. COmes with 4 gig of ecc ram and a i3 socket 1150 cpu. If you need more hp later you can upgrade to a $250 xeon.

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=36543.0

Just got mine upgraded from 5.0.6. Duked the array from orbit and started over wth xfs and bart for the cache. I got the haswell bug with a c226 chipset and a G3258 celeron. It stays at 3.2ghz, but hey its passively cooled with a heat sink the size of a childs head, and still stays at 30c. One thing i did notice is i cant seem (or at least it doesnt tell me) to spin down drives outside of the array, array drives spin down just fine.

Yea dont care about data loss. I think its easier to use the backup set vs spending the time to move everything off each individual drive, format to xfs, and then move the data back and move on to the next drive. I have never built an array with out precleared drives before so i wasnt sure if i could just make an array with drives with random stuff on them, as long as i trusted the drives.

I have my entire array backed up on another pc. I would like to convert my existing array (5.0.6) to xfs while doing some house keeping (removing a few 2tb drives and adding a few 3tb drives from another array). If these hard drives are "trusted" (been precleared in the past and have been opperating in arrays for the past year), what is the quickest way to get a new array up? Can i just throw it together and hit format and just come back in 12-24 hours?

Just got mine up an running, idles at 40 watts with 5 drives spun down. Still cant get any sata cards to work. tried a siliconimage and a Asmedia 1061.

As an update to myself: It looks like this RAM, though compatible with the motherboard, is incompatible with the processor. It looks like in order to utilize ECC RAM with this board, I'll need to go with the Xeon E5-1650 V3 or the Xeon E5-2650 V3. The 2650 is very expensive, and probably overkill for my application. Thoughts? It also looks like the ASRock X99M Extreme 4 is basically the same as the X99M Killer but with a different secondary LAN port, so I'll switch to the Extreme 4. I dont understand this, why would a E5-2650 v3 work, but a E5-2630 v3 not? They both support ECC.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-ThinkServer-TS140-70A4-Core-i3-4330-3-5-GHz-4-GB-0-GB-70A4000FUX/301528584683 All you need is a 3 in 2 rack to make a 5 disk box. Hell it even as ECC and a platinum rated power supply.

Possible to disable head parking with a go script with hdparm in in?

35watt high temp dual core with hyperthreading? If you can even find one it would be a system pull from a slot machine or a bass machine lol.

The thinkserver TS410, TS140, and the thinkstation E32 workstations all have the same mobo and small platinum rated power supply. You are just paying for case size. You can use the mobo from any of theses with a normal atx powersupply using a $5 14 pin to 24 pin adapter. I just got in a thinkstation E32 mobo for $50, and popped in a 20th anniversary celeron and a antec powersupply. You can run any haswell pentium/celeron/i3 if you want low power. Be warned they can not be put into sleep mode.

They came in non retail packaging?

6TB Red = $247.99 5 TB Red = $209.59 4 TB Red = $133.59 3 TB Red = $103.99 2 TB Red = $87.99 store.westerndigital.com and look for the link to the Education Program in the upper right. Gotta have a .edu email address.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.2206542

Well that only took a page of back and forth to solve that mystery. Still i thought "turbo" mode was frowned appon since it required all the disks spun up, and it got less and less effective with each disk, i think the break even point was 5 disks.

Id never get a brown box from newegg, retail box only from them, all the reviews are from them playing cardboard kickball.

Thats rather funny considering unraid is the only flavor i know of that does spin down the drives, zfs etc have them always turning.