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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.

ZFS is...OK. It doesn't have the expansion capabilities of unRAID. I tried the whole Solaris 11 situation before, and didn't like it. No point in complicating things when you just need cheap, efficient, expandable storage. Unraid is king in those departments. On top of that, ESXi on SATA drives has the worst freaking disk performance ever. I was using a Perc 6 with 8 freaking 1TB HD's in raid 10, and the performance was 40MB per sec (terrible). For people that want to play and don't care about performance, sure, go esxi. For everyone else that wants the best OS for storing media files, UNRAID. UPDATE: I guess if you only care about encryption, then unraid isn't for you. EDIT: Truecrypt?

Thanks Joe!

I'm having some trouble with unMenu. It works fine if I manually start it up via command line, but I can't get it to startup automatically on boot. I think somewhere along the line of my uninstalls and re-installs of it, something got goofed. Anyone have any idea on how to re-implement the auto-start?

Yep, although this does require some slight knowledge of bridging wirelessly (not terribly difficult, but not plug and play-does require some knowledge of IP's and gateways etc.) If you're looking for a decent bridge without custom firmware, I've used and like the D-Link DAP-1522. Stay away from trying to stream over the air, it sucks.

I use WDTV Live's as well. I completely agree, the path to get to your unraid network shares via SMB isn't ideal. I've always considered other options (XBMC probably the best), but I just keep coming back to how cheap, quiet, and painless the WDTV live is to have. I've never had trouble with them, and quite honestly, for the amount I use them, it seems worth the savings. As for Endisky mentioning it takes 3-4 minutes to browse through a list of files, that seems really strange to me. If you just hold down the up or down arrow, you can fly through the list in seconds.

Don't use WiFi with the WDTV Live. Wi-Fi is terrible for streaming. If it works wired, you know it's the wireless connection. Just run some cat5!

I have two WD TV Live's. They are awesome little streamers, but they do have a few drawbacks, and your question hits on one of the points. Now, I can't speak for the PLUS version, but I'm going to assume they aren't much different. My WD TV Live's will absolutely NOT stream uncompressed Blu-Rays. I believe the largest file I've successfully streamed (and this is over wired gigabit) is 17GB. I think it has something to do with the bitrate or something, but there are a few forum posts on other sites that go into detail. I believe this can be overcome with B-RAD's custom firmware for the WDTV Live. It's not terribly hard to flash, but configuration isn't exactly *easy* so I just stuck with the stock firmware from WD. Another bad thing about the WDTV Live, is the interface. It's not flashy by any means. Although, it is functional. It may sound like I'm not recommending the little device, but that's not true. I absolutely love both of mine and wouldn't use anything else (way cheaper than building a quiet XBMC). They are super small, super quiet (no fans), and stream MKV video flawlessly. Granted, you will want to compress it some before streaming, but I compress all my Blu-ray's, otherwise my storage would be used up in no time. Hope this helps.

Just thought I'd let people know that the ASRock G43Twins-FullHD ($69.99) motherboard works just fine. Had no trouble getting everything installed on it, using a Core 2 Duo LGA 775 cpu. The memory I went with was Kingston HyperX 2X1GB PC2 8500 ($49.99). Just wanted to give the heads up that this board works very well for LGA775 cpu's and is cheap (onboard vid).