Robert Simandl

Hello all, First time back in many years. I just built a new video editing PC and am thinking about re-purposing my ten-year-old former editing rig into a NAS with UnRaid and Plex server. It has a FIRST generation Intel Core i7 920 CPU and an Intel DX58SO motherboard. State of the art at the time I built it, but nowadays the new OFFICE machine I just built with a Ryzen 3400G doubles its Geekbench 5 scores. Also has six SATA ports, though two of them are intended to feed the eSATA ports at the back. Can I use those for internal SATA drives? Is this CPU and chipset suitable for Plex hardware transcoding (video card is a Zotac nVidia GTX 1650 if that makes any difference)? Or are new Celerons and Pentiums in prebuilt NAS’s from Synology, Qnap, etc., better for this sort of thing now (after all, it’s been 10 years)? Usually only need one stream at a time. Any other things I should note? Thanks!

Just checked again. Disk 4 disabled. This is after I changed the drive (4 times), SATA cable, SATA port, power cable, and power connector on the modular power supply. Think it might be time to throw in the towel and just get a Synology or WD NAS unit.

Checked in 2 hours later and fired up the WebGUI, data rebuild speed is 486kb/sec.

Ah, did not know that. WebGUI now closed. I'll report back later today. Wouldn't it be hilarious if that were the entire problem in the first place? EDIT: Nah, couldn't be. This problem first occurred when copying a file from my desktop PC to Disk 4 of the Unraid, and the WebGUI wasn't open at the time.

So far, not good. Zero percent complete, estimated speed of data rebuild already down to 294kb/sec with estimated finish of 168410 minutes.

Tested two of the "failed" drives with WD Lifeguard Diagnostic, both tested fine and dandy. Just put one of those two drives back into the Unraid server as Disk 4, with a new power cable, connected to a different connector on the modular power supply and rebooted. We'll see how it goes....

Currently on vacation out of state, won't be getting back to the server til Tuesday at the earliest. Will post updates then, thanks!

First of the three drives finished all the WD Lifeguard tests, no problems. Second drive is halfway through, also no problems so far. So when I reboot the Unraid, it will be with one of these drives, different port, and different power connector and we'll see what happens.

Drive failed and rebuild aborted, just like I figured in my last post. One of the drives is doing the extended test on another PC, and I'll try a different port on the Unraid server (along with a different power connector) when I swap drives again and fire it back up.

Tried swapping out the data cable. Data rebuild is going about 1 mb/sec, so I suspect that's not gonna be any help and rebuild will fail again. If/when that happens, I'll swap out the power cable to that drive.

I just had my third WD 3TB Red drive get disabled by UnRaid in the space of three weeks. All three were "Disk 4," with the second being an intended replacement of the first, then the third intended to replace the second. But the second and third drives never made it through the data rebuild process. Data rebuild would start but immediately slow down to a crawling 195mb/sec or less, and after a while the data rebuild would stop and the disk be disabled bu Unraid. I get the feeling it's not the drives that are the problem, but maybe the controller, or something wrong within my Unraid itself? I've attached my most recent system log. Ideas? Thanks! Tower_System_Log_2014-2-12.txt

Ended up renaming the super.dat file in 4.6, which solved the "too many missing disks" problem, then following the recommended upgrade path to 4.7, then to the newest 5rc. And the digital moving van is now throwing files into the new server. Thanks!

My UnRaid system with v4.6, a Pentium 4, and lots of IDE drives got a fried motherboard quite a while back, and I'm just now rebuilding my server with a new motherboard, new CPU, new 3TB SATA drives and new SATA controllers. Basically starting from scratch with only the UnRaid USB key carried over. Nothing else. Can I just put v5 on my USB drive and fire it up like a brand new system (which it is, except for the UnRaid USB drive)? If not, what else do I need to do? Thanks!

I notice the prebuilt MD-1510 systems are all showing out of stock, none can currently be ordered. Any estimates when they'll be available for ordering again? I don't have the time to collect the parts and build a system myself anymore. Thanks!

I know most people were using the Asus P5B-VM DO mobo to build their UnRaid systems with a few years back. Is there a motherboard that has that same universality with UnRaid system builders nowadays? Thanks!

That's the answer I was looking for... thanks! BTW, the $30 deal I'm getting on this is not generally available... if it were, I'd post it in the great deals topic area of this forum...........

Looking to build a second server with that second copy of UnRaid I bought way back when... Already have the P5B-VM DO on the way. I have a chance to score an Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180 ridiculously cheap, as in less than $30. Is this chip powerful enough to run UnRaid and stream HD movies to my HTPC? Or on the other hand, is it complete overkill for an UnRaid server? Since I'd be getting it so cheap, overkill doesn't bother me... but just want to make sure I won't be UNDERpowering the thing.... Opinions welcome, thanks!

DirecTV advertises its HR20 and HR21 HD DVR's can stream music, photo, and video files from an Intel ViiV PC. But they can actually stream those files from any uPnP server, including plain ol' WMP11. Getting WMP to share a folder from a different PC on the network requires some extra steps, detailed here: http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=114861 (specifically the "problem #1" section). Those extra steps unfortunately assume the remote PC with the folders to be shared is also a Windows PC. Anyone got suggestions how to do this with an UnRaid server? If I could figure this out, it will be like instantly having HTPC's in two more rooms of the house. Thanks!

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp;jsessionid=XLK4IQHOJS3PZKC4D3JFAGQ?skuId=8492026&type=product&id=1186003685416&AID=10474050&PID=227502&URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Folspage.jsp%3Bjsessionid%3DXLK4IQHOJS3PZKC4D3JFAGQ%3FskuId%3D8492026%26type%3Dproduct%26id%3D1186003685416 Time to replace my parity drive!

Wouldn't be surprised if the employees bought 'em all.............

Here's what pops up: root@Tower:~# cat /etc/samba/smb.shares [disk1] path = /mnt/disk1 [disk2] path = /mnt/disk2 [disk3] path = /mnt/disk3 [disk4] path = /mnt/disk4 [disk5] path = /mnt/disk5 [disk6] path = /mnt/disk6 [disk7] path = /mnt/disk7 [software] path = /mnt/user/Software read only = yes [Photos] path = /mnt/user/Photos read only = yes [Video] path = /mnt/user/Video read only = yes [users] path = /mnt/user/Users read only = yes [Music] path = /mnt/user/Music read only = yes root@Tower:~# BTW, the share is definitely there... because when I first got the UnRaid server going, I entered the music share as a folder in my MediaPortal settings on my HTPC. MediaPortal has no trouble whatsoever accessing the share even though it doesn't appear in My Network Places on that same PC. Also, just now I entered my video share from My Network Places (\\tower\Video), backspaced over "Video", typed in "Music", and the music share popped up fine and dandy. So I backed out to the main My Network Places screen, clicked "add a network place," typed in "\\tower\Music", and I now have a Music share in My Network Places again. Still don't know why it disappeared in the first place, but I apparently have it back again. So until or unless I post here again, we at least have a workaround.

Ditto, I'm on 4.0 also. The SATA improvements in 4.1 weren't a big incentive to upgrade since I don't have any SATA drives in my server yet. Might 4.1 fix this?

I have seven disks in my UnRaid array. All seven have five main folders at the top level: Music, Photos, Software, Users, Video. EVERY file on EVERY drive is in one of those folders. Photos, Software, Users, and Video all show up quite nicely in My Network Places on my Windows PC's. But Music does not show up at all, no matter how many times I hit rescan in the UnRaid web page or refresh in My Network Places. This is a fairly recent development, as my MediaPortal HTPC still accesses the share (I programmed that share weeks ago) in MediaPortal even though that PC's My Network Places no longer sees it. This is more of an irritant than a huge real issue, since almost all of my music files are on one drive anyway. But I'd like to know how to fix this if it were to happen to my Video share... which would be catastrophic for me. Thanks!

Hmmm, on the other hand, I just read that Seagate will stop making IDE hard drives by the end of this year. Since I buy almost exclusively Seagate drives, the 454 controller might not be as useful down the road as I thought?

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070725-seagate-plans-to-stop-manufacturing-ide-drives-by-the-end-of-2007.html