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  1. Yeah they look really nice. I however can't lay out that much money as of now. I might later after I'm really sold on unRAID. Honestly I have a bit of time in console and the webclient. Heck I haven't even prep'd my drives yet. I have a full size rack sitting in my office given to me by a friend, but I've got mixed feelings if I should relocate it since I only have a few things on it that can move else where. I can't at the moment because my garage isn't insulated, which I've been working on so its an oven in the summer and a freezer in the winter. So my immediate goal is to try and keep the heat and noise down. Heck in the garage id let the fans make all the racket they want.

  2. You could get faster transfer rates if you logged into console and used the "mc" command which is for midnight commander.

     

    What you are doing is transferring files this way.

     

    Server -----switch----pc-----switch-----Server

     

    Midnight commander would go from drive to drive directly in the machine.

     

    That's of course assuming you are wanting to transfer files from one drive to another drive within the same Server. If you are transferring files from your PC to your server it would depend on your network setup and if your transferring. Don't forget you have to account for your Parity drive if you have Parity enabled.

     

    If you are transferring files from your machine to your server you could try this program to see if it helps any. http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php

  3. 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

  4. 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.

  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. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.  :P

  9. 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?

  10. I think plugins would continue to promote how simple and useful unRAID is. I have a rather decent background in Linux, but its been a while since I've had to type a command and man I've been rusty lately since I tried this a few days ago and I'm sure Joe L is wondering who this wack job is.

     

    The one thing I think would really benifit a plugin system would almost be the same approach this particular forum software uses. Approval. The way SMF aka Simplemachines.org does it they have a team of mod reviewers that takes a mod aka package and installs it or reviews it for security or problems in general before allowing it to go public on their site. You the user then downloads the package and install it. Am I saying that the users here should take their time to do it for free or should the Staff at limetech do it for free? Well NO, but at the sametime I'm sure there are some good volunteers here that would probably donate a bit of time now and then obviously time permitting.

     

    How I would approach it is establish a good baseline of existing members here that can look at code and determine more or less what its trying to do when ran. Some Plugins could/would be complicated, which would slow down the approval hours, days, weeks. Heck I've seen mods on SMF take a month or more because it was rather complicated and delayed. After a group is established allow Plugins to be moved or posted in an area in the forum or the site as "Certified" or "Trusted". If need be have a section for "None Certified" or None "Trusted"

     

    Am I worrying about something that is probably nothing? Honestly data is data. When its gone its gone and honestly trusting your data to a script or a plugin that is nothing more than "rm -fr *" kinda freaks me out.

     

    I guess the only draw back to Certifying a plugin is how you do up the disclaimer. I'm sure limetech doesn't want to assume responsibilty for anybody's lost data. I mean a lost rip of Transformers is nothing compaired to the loss video or pictures of your kids birth or wedding.

     

    Just food for thought. I'm sure somebody already has the stick on this or has a better idea, but just throwing it out there. ;)

  11. I know I'm very late to the game and I would 100% agree with the use of torrents.

    I personally would gladly offer up some bandwidth as a mirror on my site but, the only problem with a mirror is you never know if the person your trusting on the other end hasn't tampered with their file.

     

    With a torrent if all the bits don't match then well they don't hash out.  ;D Lord only knows how many torrents I've pulled down and let my machine sit idle for days/weeks until I remembered hey I should delete that.

  12. XBMC - AsRock ION 330 Living Room - BigScreen

    XBMC - XP SP3 Office - 26" LCD TV

    XBMC - Xbox Guest room - 27" TV

    XBMC - XP SP3 (2) Laptops floating around the house - 15" or so screens

    XBMC - Xbox sitting in closet because I killed it.

     

    I have a thing for XBMC as you can tell. I've tinkered with Boxee, Meebos or whatever it was called and a few others, but honestly I guess I just couldn't be swayed. ;)

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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 )
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    =
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    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.

  16. 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.  ;D

  17. 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

  18. As I'm piecing my unRAID server together since I just stumbled upon this site I currently use and will be retiring a couple of toaster style NAS's for my.

     

    * Media collection.

    - DVD Rips

    - Music Rips

    - Home Videos

    - Tons and Tons of Photographs

     

    * Personal files

    - Tax information, wife owns a little side business

    - Applications I download for one reason or another and I realize I don't want to half to download them again.

    - Backup's of drivers for various computers we have laying around the house

    - Website file backup. I have a website and I often backup and store files for emergency restore

     

    Most of the time I use my setup to stream to a Linux based XBMC install in my living room and sometimes I watch XBMC in my home office on a XP machine. Might as well since all the files are centrally based on a server huh? ;)