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Good points on temperatures. The 50C temperature was when loading data and building parity simultaneously. While playing music, the temp of the one drive running is stable at 35C. Room temperature is 24C, in part due to the three other computers running within one meter of the unRaid machine. Right now the outside temperature is about 16C. I'd like to lower the temperatures of the computers, but don't have A/C. The powersupply I am using also controls fan speed and does not seem to think that the fans should be running very quickly. I can barely feel the PSU fan exhaust though it is clearly there. It might be useful for unRaid to be able to report the Motherboard temperature as both an indicator of case temp and the added heat generated by the drives. After one week the system has run flawlessly and continuously. The only bug I dealt with was user-induced. Itunes could not find the music after the drives were spun down. I believe I fixed it by mapping the drive with the music instead of making Itunes find it on the network. I'm very pleased with the unRaid functionality and ease of installation. Kudos to the team.

Here is a combo that seems to work well (It's only been running for 36 hours, so YMMV): MB: Intel D101GGC (on-board video, 100Mb NIC, no BIOS reconfiguration required) CPU: P4 3.6MHz 2x512 Crucial RAM 1x Promise SATA300 controller 3x 500MB Western Digital SATA drives 1 Gig Kingston DataTraveler U3 unRaid 4.0 The speed appears to be better than the IDE-based dual P3 900MHZ PC with XPpro that used to store the data. Data migration went well except for some user errors: Don't reconfigure the unRaid server while copying data. Reloading the unRaid OS interrupts data transfer. In full x-fer mode to both disks the temp rises to c. 50 degrees C. At rest they run about 35 degrees C. I'll post an update if any interesting problems pop up.