kizer

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  1. Are the stock fans that come with the Case pretty quite of did you have to upgrade them to a quiter fan? I'm guessing since the case comes from Cool master they would be of decent quality, but I figure you never know. 2. People on a budget use the cooler master 4in3 cages with the front fan. They are pretty cost effective. (I personally prefer re movables). What exactly do you mean by removable? I know what removable means as in the dictionary, but do you have an example of what that is? LOL
  2. How are you transferring the files? Are the drives full?
  3. I was looking at the Cool master 590 since its recommended in the budget build. 1. Power supply mounted down low and pulls air from bottom then back thru power supply. I'm guessing you don't want this sitting on your carpet. Normally I've seen power supplies pulling air from within the case to cool components, but I'm guessing this is to be a dedicated cooling source for the power supply? Maybe mount power supply upside down or is that a bit overkill? 2. Other than their internal cage I don't see a way to mount an additional fan unless you use an ICY 4-in-3 or a Coolmaster cage. Am I the only one that thinks that strange? Anyways would you recommend putting the parity drive in one cage and your other drives in another to give the parity maximum cooling or is that overkill? Im looking at using the BioStar A760G from the budget build, but I was wondering about using a fanless heat sync maybe something like this http://www.amazon.com/Thermalright-Fanless-Aluminum-Copper-Cooler/dp/B0036GAUWI The 120mm case fan would sit right behind the CPU and I figured it would suck air across the heat sync and make for a silent fan at least as far as the CPU goes.
  4. Thanks Joe, Yeah I've been in the control panel several times with a few old drives and it even appears one is trying to fail, which is kinda cool seeing the errors. I just have a box here and its not my dream setup so I wanted to get a jump start on getting things ready until I'm ready.
  5. I'm so close to taking a few real drives and prepping them for an array. My question is I'm sure silly sounding, but I'm going to ask anyways. Since this all boots from a USB. Can you prep and zero out 3 drives and build your array and then take the 3 drives out and drop them into a new machine without any issues? I'm not planning on using any GigaByte hardware. I'm planning on going from an Intel mother board to the Recommended BioStar board in the wiki. I have the drives here and I'm planning on picking up the new motherboard, RAM, CUP ,PSU soon, but I was trying to see if I make a short cut or two. Or would you recommed I wait so there is less of a chance of messing thing up.
  6. Toaster for drives and put the PSU in a coffee maker. Heck with a coffee maker you could even water cool it. LOL
  7. kizer

    Clone Drive

    Thanks BRit and everybody else. I did check out Ping and honestly it was high on my gotta burn a copy and try list. I've seen Clonezilla in the past, but haven't tried it as of yet. I think I might grab a few cds and try at least those two for starters. I have a spare Sata disk so I might try and clone my desktop in my office and then slap in my spare and see how well and how I can restore the image.
  8. I was sorta skeptical about unRAID until two nights ago. I threw in 3 old junky drives on a machine that is questionable. Did the following and I was sold. Built the array Created a mapped drive of G to my unRAID server Placed a 720p quality file on disk1 which was G for all practical purposes Played the file and it worked very well. I then disconnected Disk 1 from the array Clicked on G and played the 720p file and it played just fine. When I saw that I was giddy as all could be. I mean I used some junk I had laying around the house and more or less built something that can/will protect TB's of data for free. Like you I only brought down the Free version and I do require user accounts so I will be picking up the Plus version for starters. I put the removed drive back in and it rebuilt the array and I was right back where I was before I pulled the drive. Simply amazing.
  9. Wow, thanks for the internal pics. That thing is super classy. Man now you got me thinking. I was going to build something in my Utility Room near my washer and dryer to keep it in the house and away from any of my rooms, but now I'm thinking why build something when I could recycle something. Maybe put something in my Utility room that looks well like it belongs there.
  10. kizer

    Clone Drive

    In the past I would use Norton Ghost and make an image of my machine and when that machine had an issue I would just reload the image and I would be off. Ok, that was heck 10years ago. I would like to clone my PC (XP), wifes laptop (XP) and my laptop (XP) and possibly a linux machine and store the clones on a unRAID setup. Anybody have any recommendations?
  11. Funny thing I still have one of those DeathStars in a P1.7 I use now and then for a MP3 Jukebox. Don't worry I've long backed up my music on to a larger drive and my network. Drive still works to this day, which I'm always the one that buys the thing that has issues and dies. 75gig and still rockin it now and then.
  12. Sorry guys. Looks like I'm an idiot. It was plugged in and it looks like I had a bad splitter. I was snug enough to read at first and then started giving me errors. Ran through fine after a reboot. Looks like these two IDE's I'm messing with our Dinosaurs anyways I'm guessing one might even be a 5400RPM LOL. Sata ripped through the preclear around 40-49MB, but these things are taking forever around 19MB. Like you said Joe L these drives are probably not even worth the effort, but at least I get to tinker with your script some which works pretty well and get lost in the settings for a bit until my other hardware arrives.
  13. Of course I just tried to run fdisk and well it says it can't read the disk. OH boy...... root@Tower:/boot# fdisk /dev/hda Unable to read /dev/hda root@Tower:/boot# Sorry for clogging up what seems like a great thread and I know this is trival since its a tiny drive and all and maybe its just a bad drive, but I could of sworn this ran fine the last time I pulled it out. As soon as my preclear of the other drive I have running finishes I'll give the machine a reboot and take another look.
  14. Ok, I ran this on an IDE drive at the same time a Sata drive was running. I noticed the heat spiked on the Sata Drive so I grabbed 80MM fan and placed it right in front of the SATA drive. Shortly afterwords I could of sworn the IDE drive was making a clicking sound, but I wasn't sure if the drive decided to die of it was my stupidity of messing with things while it was running. I stopped the pre-clear on the IDE and then decided to give it another run. This is what I see when I try it. =========================================================================== = unRAID server Pre-Clear disk /dev/hda = cycle 1 of 1 = Disk Pre-Read in progress: % complete = ( bytes of read ) = = = = = = = = = = Elapsed Time: 0:00:00 ./preclear_disk.sh: line 550: 1+( 580059647)%() : syntax error: operand expected (error token is ") ") ============================================================================ == == Disk /dev/hda has been successfully precleared == ============================================================================ root@Tower:/boot# I know that isn't right since it really hadn't had much time to run. It is only a 12gig disk, but I was using it as a test gineau pig just so I can do some parity stuff and see what damage I could do to the array. I figured I'd beat up a 120 Sata, 12gig IDE and a 40gig IDE. Well that was the plan at least. My 120gig disk seems to be still going strong.
  15. Ok, thanks This is just a bizarre setup, but I'm finding it to be a bit of fun. Kinda like Playing a game you haven't played in years to find out the rules have changed or your just getting old and forgot the rules. LOL I'm trying to get some hunkly, clunky drives pre-cleared so I can play around before laying out the cash for some gear and really go for it. Your Preclear script is pretty cool I might say.
  16. I did find this thread and I was trying to figure out what the heck is going on. LOL http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5976.0
  17. In the go script would you use something like this? cp example.conf /etc/
  18. version: 4.5.4 Just playing with a fresh memory stick last night and parts are being gathered I figured I would start to figure out the need for security for a build. I'm aware of a few things so I'm asking because this is a bit different than a stand install since things are not installed after a reboot. 1. First notice there is no password set at console. I'm guessing you would use the command "passwd" to establish a root password or is that setup from within the http://tower login? I'm guessing you could change tower to something else as well just to confuse somebody. 2. FTP is enabled by default does it use the same password as the root login? Also how do you go about disabling it. Would you edit /etc/inetd.conf/. Would you simply comment it out? Looking at the files on the USB stick that one doesn't exist. LOL. As well I'd rather use sFtp via WinSCP 3. Disable Telnet and install SSH. I really like SSH over Telnet any day of the week. As well you would think normally you would edit the /etc/inetd.conf file, but then again its not on the USB stick, but I though I saw it in Midnight commandar so I'm guessing its within the compressed bzroot file. 4. Normally I have SSH setup with deny and allow so that would be another thing to figure out how it works 5. Also a common practice of mine has always been not to allow root to login via ssh without loging in as a regular user first. Now even thou those are set how to insure they are configured so when you preform a reboot they are well the way you left them? I was thinking you would tinker with the go script, but I haven't got that far figuring out exactly how it works. Did I miss any? I don't plan on having my unRAID server haning out in a bad part of my network or anything, but I'd rather lock it down some so if some Yahoo got past my router or heck somebody on one of my own machines on a guest account knew what I was running decided to tinker with things I could at least deter them some what. I guess all of this nothing stays until after you reboot has my head spinning some. LOL
  19. XBMC for the win. MY wife loves it. I mean WAF was a HUGE decision when I built mine and she loves it. Of course there are things to overcome like finding all the fanart, thumbnails and a few other things, but apps like "Ember" will do all that for you as long as your media is stored in a manner it can scan it and build it for you.
  20. Thats a nice little server you have there. I was checking out your contents and it appears your running with the budget mobo, which is kinda cool becasue I was considering doing the same thing. I did see there is a mention of the AsRock ION 330 mobo. I have that little board in my HTPC and man it runs great and is really quite. Of course mine was the black box that AsRock sells, but none the less it works very well for watching HD content via XBMC.
  21. kizer

    Rack Mount Case?

    After I saw your post on my request for a rack mount I started looking at some of those cool master cases. Some of them are pretty nice. Anybody think there would be a problem with laying one on its side after mounted or do you think that would change the dynamics of the air flow. You know hot rising at the wrong place or the drives being on their side. Then again doesn't some of those 5 in 3 gizmos put the drives on their side anyways?
  22. Thanks Joe. I think I'll let this thread die since You've answered every question I can think of so far and well made the leap sorta speak. I do have some security concerns, but I'm sure they are addressed somewhere either in the wiki or in a thread. I will give that HP tool a looksee to see if it solves my boot issues since I really wanted to use one of my Cruzer drives. You maybe right about the BIOS on the machine I was attempting to boot. Since I'm going to go with the recommended BioStar board I'm not going to tinker to much with this machine since well it's not the inteneded machine.
  23. Plugging in directly to the mother board via a small cable Freaky. I used a Sandisk Cruzer and I made sure the U3 software was gone. Set it up on 3 different PC's. Tried Fat32 and regular FAT. All the same results of a "Boot Error" I just tried a Lexar Jump Drive and it fired right up. Of course the Cruzer is a 2gig and the Lexar is a 1 gig drive so I technically loose the fun of having that extra gig, but at least I can get in and play a bit. For the record I'm on a Intel D945GTP version: 4.5.4 Logged into http://tower and blam I have access. My reason for wanting in so bad was so I can start reading up on: Main Users Shares Settings Devices I'm guessing the minimum configuration is 3 disks correct? 1 parity and 2 data drives
  24. Sad thing is I followed the howto build a USB flash drive and well I'm getting a "Boot Error" talk about feeling a bit stupid. LOL. I figured why not get into the thick of it some and see what future questions I have before committing to a new machine to run this. Tried to create one on a Cruiser on two different machines and I'm pretty sure the Bios is setup correctly on the intended test machine I want to play on. I'm going to try and format it to Fat opposed to Fat32 and see if that makes a difference. Its a P4 and from looking at the Bios it appears it should support it since there is a Boot USB option.