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Well, with more data and bigger disks, I want to be able to tolerate 2 disk failures instead of just one....less stress? Not an immediate need either.

Hey All, Long time unraid pro user and I have a build from 2007 (see here) that still works for me (my use is basic NAS). I have an old Asus P5BVM-DO mobo, 8GB ram and have 10 disks using some athena power backplanes (supports sata II). I'm pretty sure my mobo does not support HDDs above 2TB so I am looking to upgrade mobo/cpu/ram since I need more space. My usage is still pretty much basic and don't really have use for dockers/vm/et. I want to setup dual parity though. Looking for a matx/uatx mobo. Looking to spend max of $300-$350 (lower is better ). Thanks

Hey, Updated from 5.05 to 6.1-rc5 with no issue (did have to remove the usb stick and run make_bootable). The only question I have is how do I enable disk shares? On 5.0.5 you would just click on the disk and be allowed to share the disk and set the security permissions for it...I don't see that in 6.1. Edit: I had to set "Enable disk shares" from "Auto" to "Yes" for me to see the disk shares Take Care

Added that to my go file, but even after reboot ulimit -a shows 1024 for Open Files. Here is my go file: #!/bin/bash # Start the Management Utility ulimit -n 20000;/usr/local/sbin/emhttp & echo nameserver 192.168.10.80 >/etc/resolv.conf echo 192.168.10.10 tower >>/etc/hosts while [[ ${LOOP:=10} -gt 1 && ! -b /dev/md1 ]] do (( LOOP=LOOP-1 )) echo "Waiting for /dev/md1 to come online ($LOOP)" sleep 1 done sleep 1 for disk in /dev/md* do blockdev --setra 2048 $disk done blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/sde # Parity Drive. Do I have it in the right place or do I need to move it after the last line? Edit: Moving it after the last line had no effect after reboot either...I can manually type "ulimit -n 20000" through telnet and it does update and shows the new value of 20000 when I do "ulimit -a". Take Care

Yes, one user is set to read/write, other is set to read only. I am logged in as user 'admin', the user with the ability to read/write. Tower login: root Password: Linux 3.4.24-unRAID. root@Tower:~# v /mnt/disk1 total 2 drwxrwxrwx 11 nobody users 360 2013-01-10 00:12 Backup/ drwxrwxrwx 40 nobody users 1912 2013-01-13 02:48 English\ Movies/ drwxrwxrwx 4 nobody users 184 2011-08-06 11:44 MediaBrowser/ root@Tower:~# Don't know if it's related to win8...I was on 4.7 and still using win8 and did not notice/experience these issues. Take Care

I do not, but I tested it from my iPad (by typing in the ip address) and it was not responding as well. I just tried accessing the web gui right now as I couldn't access a disk share "\\tower\disk1" from explorer and it was hung...tried again in 2 minutes and I had access to the share and gui....this is the first time I've had a share not accessible. Nothing new is in the logs since 9:42am...don't know what all it logs, but I copied over some files about an hour ago so don't know if something relating to that should be in logs or not. I am looking in the right place for the logs right? I'm just going to the web gui at http://tower/Utils/Syslog Edit: Yea I guess I am...I telnet into the server and typed "cp /var/log/syslog /boot" and got the same syslog (with 2 new lines showing the telnet login) Yes, I've run it twice already. There's about 25 or so files I cannot delete in various folders...I've deleted a bunch others (same type/extension etc) without any issue... Yes, I have created 2 users and setup all permissions for disk and user shares. All of my disk and user shares are set as "Private". I have rebooted all PCs that connect to the server. Take Care

Hey, I updated from 4.7 to 5.0b10 without any issues...I have access to all my disk shares and user shares, although, I only write to disk shares and user shares are set to read only. The issues I am having are the following: 1. Access to the web ui is sometimes very slow and does not come up. Type "//tower" or the IP address into a web browser does nothing but sit there. If I wait a few minutes and try again it will bring up the login box...and even after entering my credentials it will not go to the web ui. After a few tries it eventually gets there. During this time I have full access to all disk and user shares. 2. I am having permission issues deleting some files. I get the error of "Permission required by TOWER\Nobody". I have run the permissions utility twice but still the same issue. Syslog attached. Using windows 8. My go script is the default: #!/bin/bash # Start the Management Utility /usr/local/sbin/emhttp & I don't have any other items running. Take Care syslog.txt

Hey, Well I guess it wasn't a bad or loose cable as I replaced the drive and the errors went away. Thanks for the help. Take Care

Hey, Well I changed my sata cable and even the port but the log still shows those errors. Ran a parity check and it completed fine with it finding 1 error. I can access all files/folders fine on disk8 (which seems to be ata4 now in syslog). The disks are connected through a 5-in-3 enclosure, so maybe the connector for the enclosure is the culprit but I didn't have a chance to test with it directly connected to the mobo/pcie card, will try that next and see. Syslog attached. Take Care syslog-2012-05-23.zip

Smart reports for all drives attached. Thanks smart.txt

Hey, Thanks for the reply, your first except shows ata12, not ata1 (or is that ata1 2.00)? I will replace the cable and see if it fixes the issue, but how can I tell which drive ata1 is? Does ata1 = sda? Is there an easy way to find the disk which relates to ata1? Thanks

Hey, Had some rain/lightning last night and the surge protector triggered and turned off my unraid machine. On reboot it went through its parity check and found 18 erros, but am also seeing some error entries in syslog, so can someone more experienced tell me what it means exactly. Also, smart report shows the following: Disk 3 » current_pending_sector=2 » multi_zone_error_rate=484 Disk 6 » load_cycle_count=158590 » multi_zone_error_rate=3 Disk 8 » load_cycle_count=158213 » multi_zone_error_rate=1 Syslog attached, using version 4.7. Thanks for your help. Take Care syslog-2012-05-22.txt

Yeh just got the iPad myself and looking to set this up, will wait for the update to this package. Couple of questions. 1. In the package manager do I just need to click on the "DownloadAirVideoServerLinux.jar" button or do I need to download and place those files listed in the package links and save them somewhere? 2. What app on the iPad can connect to the AirVideo server to play the media? Thanks

Hey, Funny you should mention the PC-Q25B (cant resist how good it looks plus it has the hot swap bays), as I am currently looking to build a semi cheap, small unRaid box as well and have been reading these forums myself trying to figure out the hardware, esp motherboard + psu for this case. So far I've come up w/ the following: Newegg Parts Wishlist (mobo/cpu/case/etc) Sata2 Controller Extra Sata Cables My only real concern is the Zotac board, as I've never used that brand before but I see a lot of people here have been using it, so hopefully it will be ok for an always on unraid box. As far as PSU, the one in my wishlist is the only decently priced recommended psu i've found, although it is also not modular...other modular PSUs that might fit that case get expensive, hitting the $100 mark. To answer some of you questions, although note that I am no expert: With the cheap price of ram, 2GB should be the minimum you should put in your unraid box. If you are planning on live encoding/streaming (ie AirVideo) then it is recommended to go atleast 4 GB RAM and a cheap Dual Core processor (AMD Athlon II X2 255 Regor 3.1GHz would go fine w/ the mobo in the wishlist) The cache drive can be of any size, so you can use your spare 400gb HDD as the cache drive, just have to be careful that you don't fill up the cache drive by transferring more data than it can hold. Take Care

I'm experiencing some weird issues connecting through Windows 7 on all my machines.... This is for a User Share for Music which only has read access... Browsing my music folder, the folder "Music" appears fine, but then sometimes when clicking on the "Music" folder takes me to an emtpy folder and windows displays "This Folder is Empty", click on Music again, my folders appear. Same thing happens when I click on an Album folder, somtimes it displays the songs, somtimes it says the folder is emtpy, if I go back, somtimes it doesn't even list the Albums anymore either saying the "Folder is Empty"... I don't put my disks to sleep and it seems to happen if i don't access the unraid server for a while...i've attached the syslog Rebooting unraid fixes the issue and the actual disk share works fine.

Just upgraded from 4.4.2 to 4.5 final, just one quesiton, has the splitleve changed in this version? I don't want it to ever split any files i'm copying (i always copy to the disk share), so should I have it at 0 or 1? Thanks

How would I know that the hardware I have will support 1.5/2.0 TB HDDs? Mobo: P5B-VM DO (using all 7 onboard sata ports) Controller Card: Adaptec 1430SA A newegg review states that it does not support 1.5 TB drives, anyone using this hardware and have 1.5/2.0 TB drives working? Thanks

Just bought a new house and I'm going to be making some runs throughout the house from the basement and had a couple of questions. 1. Stranded or Solid cables for the runs? - These will be long runs throughout the house...i'm guessing use Solid cables for in wall runs and stranded for connections from the PC to the connectors? 2. Terminators/Keystones - I want to use the Punchdown type keystones to terminate in the rooms for the wallplates (i've read that the tool-less ones don't work as well)...but monoprice only offers the cat5e RJ45 110 Type 90...would that make a difference if i'm running cat6 cable? 3. Patch Panel - In the basement I want to install this Cat6 Patch Panel. My understanding is that you terminate the ends here in the patch panel, and then run normal stranded cat6 cables from the patch panel to the switch. Those are really the only questions I had...if i missed or overlooked something please let me know. I've never done this before so sorry if these are simple questions. Thanks

I just bought the 1430SA any my locking cables (from monoprice) fit fine in there, although a little tight...still fit

just installed it, disabled the bios, and it booted up fine my parity build/check speed is up to 70MB/sec! I also installed 4GB more ram (5gb total now), but in bios, it said usable was only 3.5, is there a reason for that? Is there way to check how much ram is being used/available to unraid? EDIT: typed "free -m" in telnet, said i had total of 4.5GB ram...does that seem right? Another thing i notice, the boot time has increased (im guessing b/c of the initialization of the hdds on the new controller) and the script for setra 2048 doesn't have any effect, as my read ahead speed was still set to 256...do i need to increase the sleep amount now? EDIT: this seems to be fine now, must have been the first boot after installing the new hdd controller Also, 4.4.2 has made everything a lot speedier! Thanks

just wondering, what's the difference/advantage of using this compared to the default unraid menu of stopping the array and then hit the powerdown button?

not bad, came out about $95.50/ea after tax if i order 2

While in the process of RMAing my drive, i noticed at the bottom of my WD7500AAKS drive is a little arrow pointing to a tiny hole that says "BREATHER PORT DO NOT OBSTRUCT". Then looking at my tray, it covers the entire bottom, and thus covering the hole....what affect does this have on drive temp? This is my bay: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817995001 This is the picture of the tray on their website, but my trays look different: http://www.athenapower.us/web_backplane_zoom/bp_satatryb.html. Mine has big cutouts at the end of the tray at the back, but the hole on the hdd ends up being up in the front, where there is no cutout.

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i don't think you read my post correctly, or maybe i explanation was confusing... I don't know if you want to specifically only telnet into your unraid box copy over the new system files BUT You can, from ANY windows machine (no need to go to your unraid box or pull the flash drive or anything), go to "\\tower\flash" (into your address bar of windows explorer and NOT a web browser) and it will show you all the contents of you flash drive. From there you can copy over your new files into your flash drive and then reboot the server from the web config of unraid (http://tower) Again, make sure you have write access to the flash enabled (option is found in the unraid web config http://tower). Also, in windows, uncheck the hide system files (tools->folder options) to see the actual files