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You should clarify that this theoretical limit is only during parity checks, and not regular usage.

Ok, which one of you is filling up your new unRAID box? http://www.geek.com/articles/news/telenet-isp-one-of-our-customers-downloads-2-7tb-every-month-20100820/

This is not rocket science ... it is the same procedure with anything you try to install which fails because something is missing. 1. Download application (in this case, vbox/vmware) 2. Run the install. If it installs, run the program itself. 3. Note what the install or the program complains you don't have. 4a. go to http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/ 4b. check PACKAGES.TXT to find the location of what you are missing 4c. download what you are missing 4d. installpkg what you are missing 5. Go to step 2 and try the install again For example, this is what I needed to add, to compile the kernel (I am on Slackware 13.1, so they have .txz packages) binutils-2.20.51.0.8-i486-1.txz libx86-1.1-i486-1.txz make-3.82-i486-1.txz gcc-4.4.4-i486-1.txz gcc-g++-4.4.4-i486-1.txz gettext-0.17-i486-3.txz glibc-2.11.1-i486-3.txz gmp-5.0.1-i486-1.txz kernel-headers-2.6.33.4_smp-x86-1.txz libpciaccess-0.11.0-i486-1.txz mpfr-2.4.2p03-i486-1.txz ncurses-5.7-i486-1.txz pciutils-3.1.5-i486-1.txz perl-5.10.1-i486-1.txz zlib-1.2.3-i486-2.txz and the xz package, of course, for the .txz packages.

hard drives won't make a difference.... the network will be the limiting factor.

Yes, easily, as long as you do wired gigabit Ethernet with certified cables and good switches, and stick to HTTP or NFS rather than Samba.

No. You just need a build environment.

How about one of these: http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=delete I like iconfinder.com, since you can filter by license type. It might be worthwhile to find an icon set, and then devs can have a little more uniform look-and-feel. Or I could remake the animated "X", and then you can use CSS to put a background image behind it in your <img> tag.

VBox always worked well for me with unRAID, bit I'm running on a full slackware distro. I hope to be able to move off of a full Slackware install after 5.0 has stabalized, and if so, I'll need to build an installable package for VBox.

Like this?

A minor nit....The images, such as the balls by the disks, need to have transparent backgrounds.

Just boot any PC... even a laptop... with a USB stick with unRAID 5.0-beta2. You don't have to assign drives in order for the UI to work, which will let you modify/test the CSS.

Wake on USB is not the same thing.... I'm not so sure that just "any" data from a USB device will wakeup from s3 like serial port data will. You need to test it (without the array loaded, obviously).

It depends on your BIOS. Set the BIOS to wake up on a serial event, so the UPS on the serial port will wake up the server when it reports the power outage. Unfortunately, some BIOS settings have left out the serial port in the PME wakeup events.

You have to also realize that bluray already uses lossy codecs, including H.264/AVC High Profile. You can rip blurays to MKV, without transcoding. But some people insist on recoding, and they often just muck it up.

Yest it is... doesn't make it any better. Yes, but what do you mean by right tool? I've seen someone take Lotus (the spreadsheet) and turn it into a word processor with macros the size of New York. I've been using depreciated php such as eregi... because the first incarnation of unRAID 5.0 did not have pcre. No, I understand them fine. But they are a useless tripe of compactness in an environment where there is no need for compactness, and they detracts from readability. Many code editors that do syntax highlighting don't support them. If you are editing code, you often have to convert them to normal syntax in order to expand the code. And if you have one level, pretty soon you'll nest them "just this onece" and it is a slipperly slope of code that is harder to manage. Oh that's no flame... it's true. But it depends on what code you are talking about. Most everything I've posted for unRAID has been just prototyping and proof of concept.... no comments either I use a RAD paradigm for such things, and then if the development foundation looks good, it will get put into a code version suitable for consumption by others. I don't think the source of anything I've posted here has been intended for public consumption.... it was all just proof of concept. I won't do any serious development until Tom's migration plans to Slackware 13.1 and the new kernel are done. I agree. Perhaps you missed my earlier posts about the impropriety of short open tags. But that's the style Tom uses, so I threw caution to the wind. But I won't follow his lead in bracketless codeblocks... yeuch!

Coding is not a guild where we exclude the proletariat masses with secret handshakes and disabuse novices with initiation rituals.

nth-child is not portable to IE (as you stated). for the love of all things holy, no *$&%^# jQuery crap! This is the epitpme of unreadable code. There is no prize for the shortest lines of code or undecipherable regexps.

Exactly. In fact, the mkv container is one of the most versatile, supporting multiple streams of video, audio, and subtitles. The only issue I sometimes see is as MKV is under active development, there are sometimes new features that an older player might not yet support.

Windows and NTFS is hard on SSDs... you should turn off a number of default settings in Windows when running an SSD. Check the Ocz forums.

You mean the black mesh covers for the 5.25 drive bays? I just gutted my older CMStacker case and put it back in the attic.... it has 8 of them.

I see. Too bad there is not a native Linux version of VSuite .... here is the benchmark I ran: Sequential Read : 3701.884 MB/s Sequential Write : 2917.564 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 3582.635 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 2855.466 MB/s Random Read 4KB : 749.280 MB/s Random Write 4KB : 625.422 MB/s That is not just fast... that's insane fast. I wonder if there is another vendor with a nonvolitile ramdisk like VSuite for Linux.

It has 6 onboard SATA, and AFAIK, the eSATA can be used as a 7th port. Check the Asus website, and d/l the manual. http://dlsvr.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5N-T_Deluxe/e3411_p5n-t-dlx_manual.zip

The ACARD is not much faster than a fast spinning disk. Have you considered adding more physical RAM to your machine, using VSuite Ramdisk to create a nonvolitile ramdisk, and having your images there? With VSuite, your ramdisks can automatically be saved to a spinning disk at shutdown, and restored at boot.

I use Handbrake (cli) ... it runs natively on unRAID. Maybe I'll get around to an unRAID 5.0 plugin as a frontend to it

Which tells you just how useful that "self-assessment" is.