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These guys do what you suggest: http://storagemadeeasy.com/personal/ I'm an idiot, see above post.

Interesting, it looks like they used to have the Realtek 8111E on the earlier revisions of this board, then switched to Atheros for revision 5. Guess I'll use the Intel NIC card I have.

Frank, I just ordered this board, in to deep to go back. How did you resolve? NIC add-on card?

I left for Synology. Higher up front cost, but the interface and features rule.

So, I'm having to rearrange some of my files at home, and to do this I need to pull two drives out of my unRAID array. The cache drive will be one, but the other is actually a part of the array. I know unRAID data is still accessible even if a drive fails (what's on the existing drives), so I was hoping there might be a way I can move all the data off this certain disk and distribute it to the rest of the array. Is this possible? And if it is possible, will I still be able to start the array with it missing a disk? Do I just use the midnight commander interface?

+1 crashplan

This scares me. But back on topic, as a user of unRAID of a few years, I've enjoyed using it and it's served its purpose. It was better than WHS, and power efficient, and fairly hands off. At the time, it was an excellent product. I don't blame Tom for lack of updates. It's his gig, and while I'd like more updates, it's not like you can expect them when it's just one guy. Regardless, once Windows Server 8 hits RTM, I will be migrating to Storage Spaces. Having unRAID-like features inside a Windows Server OS is a no brainer.

I like NOD32 AV if for some reason I have spare cash. Otherwise I use MSE.

Hamachi is a good free product for an easy to setup VPN between computers. Don't know if it would run on unRAID though.

Hamachi

Hey Joe, I've been having some quirks on my box and I wanted to troubleshoot a few things a step at a time. If I want to disable this script and put my unraid box back into it's default state, I can just remove it from the go script right? There are no cached temp files I need to worry about deleting?

I just read through that and my mind exploded. God I hope I don't have to go to such great lengths! UPDATE: The pass via unMenu seemed to have resolved it. Thanks!

Roger that, doing it now. Thanks Joe!

So I ran my monthly parity check (via the standard unraid web interface) and it finished with one sync error: kernel: md: parity incorrect: 472037736 (Errors) I didn't think much of it, but decided to run it again to make sure all was OK. Well I got the exact same thing: kernel: md: parity incorrect: 472037736 (Errors) Both times I've run it via the unraid gui and not unMenu. I notice in the Array Management tab of unMenu it says Sync Error 1 (corrected), but I'm assuming that corrected is probably always displayed, because I don't see it in the standard unRAID gui. Any clues on what I should do to fix?

Corsair and G.Skill have always been good to me.