Blofeld

this has to be the beastliest rig out there....much respect!

nice build, with room to spare (grow, that is ! Should run cool & quiet, I reckon, right?

Nice build! Jealous of your cable routing, too. What kind of processor are you using?

Sure ... I'd love to stop by Berlin ... I've never been there. Is airfare included? First Class Travel shall be provided

Zip ties and zip tie anchors are an absolute MUST HAVE for any PC build. jmos1277, beautiful build...wanna stop by in Berlin and help me out with cable management? Mine's a mess, and yours is a thing of beauty....

yeah, Drobo just can't hold a candle to unRAID, right? I like Fractal cases, pretty happy with mine - and I like your pictures by the way...

...cool, thanks!

so, three times is a charm, I guess - it finally completed preclear. It must have stopped for some reason the second time around. Here's the result, I hope it looks good! =========================================================================== = unRAID server Pre-Clear disk /dev/sdd = cycle 1 of 1 = Disk Pre-Clear-Read completed DONE = Step 1 of 10 - Copying zeros to first 2048k bytes DONE = Step 2 of 10 - Copying zeros to remainder of disk to clear it DONE = Step 3 of 10 - Disk is now cleared from MBR onward. DONE = Step 4 of 10 - Clearing MBR bytes for partition 2,3 & 4 DONE = Step 5 of 10 - Clearing MBR code area DONE = Step 6 of 10 - Setting MBR signature bytes DONE = Step 7 of 10 - Setting partition 1 to precleared state DONE = Step 8 of 10 - Notifying kernel we changed the partitioning DONE = Step 9 of 10 - Creating the /dev/disk/by* entries DONE = Step 10 of 10 - Testing if the clear has been successful. DONE = Disk Post-Clear-Read completed DONE Disk Temperature: 37C, Elapsed Time: 20:25:14 ============================================================================ == == Disk /dev/sdd has been successfully precleared == ============================================================================ S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem 54c54 < 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 113 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 53148975 --- > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 120 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 1920904 58c58 < 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 065 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 3222666 --- > 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 065 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 3379418 64,66c64,66 < 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 069 069 000 Old_age Always - 31 < 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 062 052 045 Old_age Always - 38 (Lifetime Min/Max 19/38) < 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 056 040 000 Old_age Always --- > 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 059 059 000 Old_age Always - 41 > 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 063 052 045 Old_age Always - 37 (Lifetime Min/Max 19/40) > 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 058 040 000 Old_age Always 70,72c70,72 < 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 240032837271999 < 241 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 2868307976 < 242 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 1510481113 --- > 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 38560216383956 > 241 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 1543831579 > 242 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 187566324

strange...preclear is indeed in /boot. when I run "preclear_disk.sh -t /dev/sdd" via telnet, it just goes down one line, but doesn't give me any information.

strange, why didn't it show? if I run preclear_disk.sh -t /dev/sdd I get "command not found" - is that because I put the server to S3 sleep in the meantime, and that I have to do it all over again, for a third time?

drive #4 (a 7200 1.5TB Seagate) has just finished preclearing....from what I gather, it seems ok, but is anyone interested in having a quick look? I hope it's complete, it sort of seems like there's something missing..but I may be wrong. The telnet session reports the drive has cleared. Thanks in advance! Sep 22 14:56:44 Tower kernel: sdd: sdd1 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: smartctl version 5.38 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] Copyright © 2002-8 Bruce Allen Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Device Model: ST31500341AS Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Serial Number: 9VS141QF Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Firmware Version: CC1H Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: User Capacity: 1,500,301,910,016 bytes Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: ATA Version is: 8 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Local Time is: Wed Sep 22 14:58:34 2010 CEST Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: SMART support is: Enabled Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: General SMART Values: Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Offline data collection status: (0x82)^IOffline data collection activity Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: ^I^I^I^I^Iwas completed without error. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: ^I^I^I^I^IAuto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Self-test execution status: ( 0)^IThe previous self-test routine completed Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: ^I^I^I^I^Iwithout error or no self-test has ever Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: ^I^I^I^I^Ibeen run. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Total time to complete Offline Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: data collection: ^I^I ( 617) seconds. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Offline data collection Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: capabilities: ^I^I^I (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: ^I^I^I^I^IAuto Offline data collection on/off support. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: ^I^I^I^I^ISuspend Offline collection upon new Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: ^I^I^I^I^Icommand. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: ^I^I^I^I^IOffline surface scan supported. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: ^I^I^I^I^ISelf-test supported. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: ^I^I^I^I^IConveyance Self-test supported. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: ^I^I^I^I^ISelective Self-test supported. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: SMART capabilities: (0x0003)^ISaves SMART data before entering Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: ^I^I^I^I^Ipower-saving mode. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: ^I^I^I^I^ISupports SMART auto save timer. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Error logging capability: (0x01)^IError logging supported. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: ^I^I^I^I^IGeneral Purpose Logging supported. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Short self-test routine Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 1) minutes. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Extended self-test routine Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 255) minutes. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Conveyance self-test routine Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 2) minutes. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: SCT capabilities: ^I (0x103f)^ISCT Status supported. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: ^I^I^I^I^ISCT Feature Control supported. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: ^I^I^I^I^ISCT Data Table supported. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 114 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 80368931 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 096 092 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 327 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 064 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 3034086 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 450 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 4 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 78 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 184 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 188 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 081 081 000 Old_age Always - 19 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 073 052 045 Old_age Always - 27 (Lifetime Min/Max 26/39) Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 042 040 000 Old_age Always - 80368931 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 268448340902310 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 241 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 4112256113 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 242 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 3069564223 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: SMART Error Log Version: 1 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: No Errors Logged Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 1 0 0 Not_testing Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 2 0 0 Not_testing Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 3 0 0 Not_testing Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 4 0 0 Not_testing Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: 5 0 0 Not_testing Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Selective self-test flags (0x0): Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. Sep 22 14:58:34 Tower preclear_disk-start[17262]: Sep 22 19:23:42 Tower kernel: md: sync done. time=26980sec rate=72406K/sec Sep 22 19:23:42 Tower kernel: md: recovery thread sync completion status: 0 Sep 22 20:05:35 Tower kernel: mdcmd (4001): spindown 1

oh ...so I've got to run it again, right? I was trying to take the array offline to look if I could "see" the drive, and the server crashed on me, forcing me to do a hard reset. It's booted up again, and doing a parity check - should I cancel that, and wait until the new drive is cleared and added, or should I let it do its thing?

I started a pre-clear routine yesterday, it was chugging along, and then I turned off my desktop from which I telnet-induced it. I thought I could see the results in the syslog, but apparently that isn't so. Is there a way to find out the results of the pre-clear after the fact? Here's the last messages it gave me before I logged out (and for some reason, a monitor connected to the server is not giving me a signal): Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Device Model: ST31500341AS Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Serial Number: 9VS141QF Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Firmware Version: CC1H Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: User Capacity: 1,500,301,910,016 bytes Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: ATA Version is: 8 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Local Time is: Tue Sep 21 12:33:55 2010 CEST Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: SMART support is: Enabled Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: General SMART Values: Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Offline data collection status: (0x82)^IOffline data collection activity Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: ^I^I^I^I^Iwas completed without error. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: ^I^I^I^I^IAuto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Self-test execution status: ( 0)^IThe previous self-test routine completed Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: ^I^I^I^I^Iwithout error or no self-test has ever Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: ^I^I^I^I^Ibeen run. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Total time to complete Offline Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: data collection: ^I^I ( 617) seconds. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Offline data collection Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: capabilities: ^I^I^I (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: ^I^I^I^I^IAuto Offline data collection on/off support. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: ^I^I^I^I^ISuspend Offline collection upon new Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: ^I^I^I^I^Icommand. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: ^I^I^I^I^IOffline surface scan supported. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: ^I^I^I^I^ISelf-test supported. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: ^I^I^I^I^IConveyance Self-test supported. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: ^I^I^I^I^ISelective Self-test supported. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: SMART capabilities: (0x0003)^ISaves SMART data before entering Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: ^I^I^I^I^Ipower-saving mode. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: ^I^I^I^I^ISupports SMART auto save timer. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Error logging capability: (0x01)^IError logging supported. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: ^I^I^I^I^IGeneral Purpose Logging supported. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Short self-test routine Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 1) minutes. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Extended self-test routine Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 255) minutes. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Conveyance self-test routine Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 2) minutes. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: SCT capabilities: ^I (0x103f)^ISCT Status supported. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: ^I^I^I^I^ISCT Feature Control supported. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: ^I^I^I^I^ISCT Data Table supported. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 115 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 89889091 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 095 092 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 325 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 064 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 2876303 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 424 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 4 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 77 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 184 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 188 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 086 086 000 Old_age Always - 14 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 066 052 045 Old_age Always - 34 (Lifetime Min/Max 21/34) Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 055 040 000 Old_age Always - 89889091 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 108456514158987 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 241 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 1090825743 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 242 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 3122341491 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: SMART Error Log Version: 1 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: No Errors Logged Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 1 0 0 Not_testing Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 2 0 0 Not_testing Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 3 0 0 Not_testing Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 4 0 0 Not_testing Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: 5 0 0 Not_testing Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: Selective self-test flags (0x0): Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]: If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. Sep 21 12:33:55 Tower preclear_disk-start[4750]:

oh dear...I can see my next project on the horizon...

Thanks everybody! I'm fine with internal drives, so I guess I picked the right case. And @ Kizer, you're right about the side-loading drives - it's very convenient - and with the expansion mentioned further up, I can fit about 12 drives, which should do for now (famous last words...). And I'm curious about your AsRock ION 330 + XBMC Live setup...seriously considering a setup like that, but I've been waiting for the Boxee Box, as I really want the thing to be usable as a consumer electronic device, as it were - per remote control, as a couch potato. But it's not ready yet, and XBMC is very fine...

I do but they look much worse than the thing itself - so here's their websitehttp://www.fractal-design.com/?view=product&category=2∏=34. It's a Swedish company, and they're good I think. It's a well thought-out case, and I just saw that they have a successor out now, the R3. The drives run real quiet, as the white drive plates hold the drives with rubber.

nice idea, thanks (I had no clue sth. like that even existed...). I hope I won't be running out of SATA ports or power connectors by then, but we'll see!

...that's a great idea! That would mean I could have a total of 12 drives in there, which should be good enough. I'll see about air circulation and temperatures once I cross that bridge, but I doubt I'd have 12 drives spinning at the same time anyway. I'm already almost out of SATA ports, so a PCIe SATA card is next on the list I suppose.

So here's my first unRAID server build. I live in Germany (where unRAID, for some strange reason, seems unknown - that must change!), so I'm not entirely sure if you can get the same components elsewhere. I paid about €600 for the following: ASUS M4A785TD-M EVO 785G AM3 mATX mobo AMD Athlon II X2 245 2.90GHz AM3 2MB 65W BOX 2x 2000GB Samsung HD203WI F3EG ATX Enermax EPR425AWT II 425W Pro 82+ 2x 2048MB Kingston Value DDR3-1333 CL9 Kit ATX Midi Fractal Design Define R2-SI case 4GB SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB 2.0 Note that this is the first time I've ever built a computer, so I was pretty proud when I saw the login screen… I disabled Express Gate from the start, and it hasn't come up again (afaik you need to install it separately). I've downclocked the Athlon II from its stock 2.9GHz to about 2 GHz, as it's good for temperatures, power draw, and it's a little overpowered for my setup anyway. At idle, it draws in the mid-fifties, writing to it with 3 spun up drives I get about 76 Watts of power draw. I've added another Samsung 2TB for parity, and they're staying nice and cool at about 30-32'C. The older Seagate I've just added runs quite a bit warmer, at 40-42'C during pre-clear (which is happening as I write this). I chose this case because it looked ok (which isn't exactly evident on this picture though), but I'm wondering whether I shouldn't have gotten a roomier CM590 to begin with (I have it sitting in my living room though, I don't have the space to tuck it away in some distant room, so design was a consideration). As it is, I can fit 8 drives in the white snap carriers (it's a well-designed system I must say), and another two or three in the 5,25 slot above. I hope I'll be fine for a while, but then again, what's a Terabyte these days, eh? A TB here, a TB there, and pretty soon, you're talking real storage! The USB stick housing the beloved unRAID system is a little ghetto, what with it just hangin' there, but my aim was to have it on the inside, so no curious kid can pull it out during a parity check. I know, the cables are a bit of a mess, and I have to see what to do about that eventually. My main machine is an iMac, unRAID mounts fine over samba (apple-k > smb://tower/ or smb://unRAIDtowerIP/ (I had to edit the hosts file for it to resolve to tower). I'm getting good transfer speeds, writes in the mid-30's. I went for a Pro license, and I gotta say I totally love it. unRAID such a great system, they way it's designed & set up, the pricing structure (I've never felt better paying someone for software, ever), the amount of help you get in the forum (here's to you, Joe L!), the fun people seem to have with their rigs, the DYI aspect, and so on. I'm curious to see more builds - bring it on! (I admit that this here thread must be my fave…) (edited picture links)

OK, thanks, that seems to have worked. However, I screwed up on something earlier (at least I think so): I've put two disks (-60 and -62) in without pre-clearing them, used them for some testing, realized my error, unassigned them, and ran the pre-clear on those two and another third added disk. Of course, it now gives me this error (see attached screenshot): Stopped. Invalid configuration.Too many wrong and/or missing disks! I thought I could just format them and start from scratch, but I guess that's not the case. There's nothing on them save for the pre-clear check, so is there a reasonable way to proceed from here? Thanks again for your patience, Joe L. ....

I just realized one thing: after pre-clearing, and before assigning the disks, can I swap the SATA cables for host 1 and host 2? i.e., as of now, I have sata 1 connected to disk 2 and vice versa, and I wanna get that in order before I start, just for organization's sake. Or will it mess with something if I do that?

Thanks for your input, Joe L.!

I found this in another thread, I guess it answers that one part of my question..

Hello there, here's the result of my 3 drives after one cycle pre-clear (all Samsung F2 2TB green). I hope it looks alright, as I wanna get going with copying my stuff over to my unRaid box Anyone wanna take a glimpse at the log? And another question, is it necessary to keep the Telnet window on my main computer open, or can I kick off a pre-clear, and log out (and later back in)? Or is it enough to just monitor it off the syslog? (Probably a stupid questions, but bear with me, I'm a newbie) Thanks for the great script, Joe L.! sdb Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: == Disk /dev/sdb has been successfully precleared Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: == Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: == Ran 1 preclear-disk cycle Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: == Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: == Using :Read block size = 8225280 Bytes Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: == Last Cycle's Pre Read Time : 7:40:08 (72 MB/s) Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: == Last Cycle's Zeroing time : 7:22:08 (75 MB/s) Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: == Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 16:36:40 (33 MB/s) Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: == Last Cycle's Total Time : 31:40:21 Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: == Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: == Total Elapsed Time 31:40:21 Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: == Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: == Disk Start Temperature: 30C Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: == Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: == Current Disk Temperature: 32C, Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: == Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: ============================================================================ Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: 55c55 Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: < 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 252 252 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: --- Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 68 Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: 67c67 Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: < 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x003a 252 252 000 Old_age Always Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: --- Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: > 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: 72c72 Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: < 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x002a 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: --- Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: > 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x002a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1 Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: ============================================================================ Sep 16 03:55:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[26249]: sdc Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: == Disk /dev/sdc has been successfully precleared Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: == Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: == Ran 1 preclear-disk cycle Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: == Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: == Using :Read block size = 8225280 Bytes Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: == Last Cycle's Pre Read Time : 11:00:36 (50 MB/s) Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: == Last Cycle's Zeroing time : 7:30:56 (73 MB/s) Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: == Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 16:44:40 (33 MB/s) Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: == Last Cycle's Total Time : 35:17:38 Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: == Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: == Total Elapsed Time 35:17:38 Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: == Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: == Disk Start Temperature: 29C Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: == Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: == Current Disk Temperature: 31C, Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: == Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: ============================================================================ Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: 55c55 Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: < 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: --- Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 64 Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: ============================================================================ Sep 16 07:37:45 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11816]: sda Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: == Disk /dev/sda has been successfully precleared Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: == Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: == Ran 1 preclear-disk cycle Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: == Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: == Using :Read block size = 8225280 Bytes Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: == Last Cycle's Pre Read Time : 11:07:59 (49 MB/s) Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: == Last Cycle's Zeroing time : 7:42:48 (72 MB/s) Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: == Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 16:57:28 (32 MB/s) Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: == Last Cycle's Total Time : 35:49:40 Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: == Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: == Total Elapsed Time 35:49:40 Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: == Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: == Disk Start Temperature: 29C Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: == Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: == Current Disk Temperature: 30C, Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: == Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: ============================================================================ Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: 55c55 Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: < 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: --- Sep 16 08:02:18 Tower preclear_disk-diff[12872]: > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 47

hey funbubba, nice rig (and good writing I might add, an entertaining read!)...I'm slightly jealous, too. I'm in the process of building mine, I've got almost the same mobo as you do (except for "evo" at the end of the name, for what it's worth), but unfortunately, the graphics seems screwed, I can't get into the bios, so it's in the shop for now..and those sweet, empty hard drives are just sitting there in the rig, for now...