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I thought about picking up a couple, but I just need one for my MediaPC for some local diskspace. I had moved it from the PC into the UnRaid machine, but UnRaid cannot handle the demands of HDTV streaming so I needed to get a new drive for the local machine.
I figure they will be cheaper in the future so I'll get more then
Especially with the 1TB drives coming in the near future. Imagine 12 of those in an UnRaid box
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I just picked up the $89.99 version from Fry's here in Austin. This version has a 16MB cache instead of the 8MB cache, they both come with a 5yr warranty. At the store it was limited to supplies on hand, but not per customer. They had a pallet of them
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My syslog if full of these also. I was hoping the new code would fix it.
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Hmm, how to hear the harddrive over the fan . . .
Maybe this will work. I have done a similar thing when trying to find an odd noise on my car engine as I don't have a mechanics stethescope.
Take a screw driver and place the metal end on the cage with the "spinning" hard drive. Then . . . I know this sounds wierd, but trust me . . . put the handle against your ear. This will transfer the vibrations from the drive to your ear. Then touch the fan momentarily to stop it from spinning. Maybe you can hear the drive spinning now?
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Just some basics, please don't be offended.
- hooked up the short IDE cable, and power cable inside the tray to the harddrive.
- left the drive set for cable select.
- installed tray into computer
- turned key to locked/on
- hooked IDE cable from MB/IDE card to tray
- hooked power to tray
- turned on computer
Can you hear the harddrive spinning so you know for sure it got power. I'm not sure if the power LED lighting on the tray guarrantees that the drive is also getting power.
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I know on my Cremax trays the key lock can be turned to two different locations. I have to turn mine all the way to the second location, not the first.
Not sure if this makes sense.
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Does anyone know of a program you can run on XP to check the samba disk IO performance? I just a program called HDTach to check harddrives on my computer, but can't find something similar for samba drives.
thanks,
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Take a look in the annoucements forum.
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I figured this one out on my own
There is no ftpd shipped on the flash drive, only trivial ftp. hmm -
From what I've read it is recommended to compare Samba performance against FTP. Can we enable the ftp daemon temporarily to get some comparison numbers? They should be close in performance and is a good way to identify Samba issues.
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Joe,
My settings are the same as yours 66535 vs 65535
dave
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I was looking at the samba settings that come with UnRaid. They do not match what is "recommeded" for max performance. Some of the differences are:
SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUF are recommended to be 8kB looks like we have 4kB.
read raw and write raw are also recommended and I don't see those at all.
What about setting MTU size or is that set elsewhere? My network can handle jumbo packets.
I'm hesitant to change the settings as I don't know if UnRaid requires these settings in order to work. Has anyone changed any of these?
thanks,
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Any performance enhancements in this small release? I have my DMA problems worked around by doing the HDD shuffle. But I still cannot simultaneously record and playback a HDTV stream file without glitches.
thanks,
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Before releasing all the source code to the world, I would highly recommend that Lime-Technology go talk to an IP attorney in Sunnyvale who is familiar with the GPL. It will pay big dividends, as many GPL watchdogs do not understand the true requirments that ensure compliance with the GPL.
My $0.02
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I has some success in moving the drive with DMA errors from the promise controlled to the motherboard controller. If you happen to have a slot open on the motherboard controller you could try moving it.
You are supposed to be able to transparently swap drives around the UnRaid system, and have it recognize them and continue, but I don't think this works currently.
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I would like the samba log files to be handled with log rotate as wells the syslog files. My ram drive is at ~52% utilization after reboot, a week later it is at 65%. The samba log files are huge foreach of my clients. At this growth I expect the system to crash in about 3 weeks time when the ram drive fills up.
I get tons of sysquota errors in all log files, if these errors went away, the log files would almost be empty.
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If I have a drive in my array that I want to remove completely, and not replace. How do I do this?
thanks,
Extra ethernet card
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Yep, your going to have issues with this. I bought it for the same reason and now only use it for backup storage. I've had to go and buy more disks to put back into my HTPC in order to get good playback. I'm hoping one day this will get fixed so I can use the big box in upstairs for what I bought it for
A single gigabit network connection is plenty fast enough to support 4 feeds, even at HDTV resolutions. Currently the bottleneck is the UnRaid software.