jimwhite

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  1. Just because it was sold does not mean there will not be any more "Adaptec" cards. Unless I am missing something I would assume PMC-Sierra will continue making the chipsets.

     

    Why are you guys saying there will be no more cards?

     

    PMC doesn't have (didn't buy) the rights to Adaptec's ASIC.

     

  2. use quality sata cables.

     

    even without the latch a good cable will lock so hard that it will nto come off without considerable force, such as the cables that come with highpoint raid cards :)

     

    i have found the best cables are the ones that use the tiny sata connecor ends, no latch and therye no bigger (stick out more) than an angled connector, they grip like hell though.

     

    I find most latching cables usually oens with motherboards bundle the connector itsel fis poor and lose and relies on the latch to hold it in but that means they can still wobble left and right a bit.

     

    got any sources?

     

  3. Though your calculations are correct for a "resistive" load, a DC brushless fan is anything but... you're driving a 3 phase motor controller and a 3 phase brushless motor.  It will behave anything but linearly as you change voltage.  That being said, if it draws 90 milliamps at 12 volts , you can rest assured it WILL draw less than that at 5 volts  :D.

  4. I have a warm spare hooked up via eSATA in a small external case with fan.  It's always on and in the go script I send the htparm command to spin it doen in 3 minutes.... it's normally spundown all the time.  I can deselect a failed drive by selecting this ext drive with the array stopped, then rebuild onto it.  The nice part is that I can do it remotely by remotedesktop into my desktop machine and then log onto the unraid web interface.

     

  5. Cool... I've halted my efforts since she who must be obeyed has been a bit cranky lately - seems I love my computer more than... well, you get the idea  ;)

     

    Looking forward to your guide...

     

     

  6. With Total Commander I'm getting a write protection error... ...any thoughts?

    TeraCopy.

     

     

    Wow thank you! TeraCopy kicks serious butt over Total Commander...

     

    Total Commander has worked just *ok* for me in the past, so I didn't really use it, and switched over to FTP.

     

    I spent the day transferring many GB of data, using filezilla / vsftpd.. but it was very slow, only 4MB/s on my 1Gbps Lan. Additionally, I was trying to create an MD5 sum for the entire set of files, and it was slowing down disk access, and overall was going to take 10-12hrs+.

     

    TeraCopy is utilizing my network now at 95MB/s AND performing the CRC calc/check at the same time, estimated time now only 6hrs!

     

    This is the ultimate solution, thanks for pointing it out!

     

    It's humming away so hard, my case is rattling from the HDD vibrations, I've never heard it run like that before.

     

    It would be interesting to know HOW this is happening... maybe some of it can be used to Tune unRAID itself??