BobPhoenix

I use 4 laptop drives attached to a 4 port MB controller passed through to my WHS v1 VM on my Norco 4224 OS drive shelf - yes they are loose because I have two SSDs mounted below them on the shelf too. They just fit in the space as they are 9.5mm or less (Toshiba 1TB model 2.5").

I use it (eac3to) to Rip my BluRays to MKV format. I wrote a GUI in java that uses eac3to to demux the files into their component parts and then use MKVToolnix to remux those parts back into MKVs. Most products that rip BluRays offer this too but I wrote my own to give me more control over how and what was in the final MKV.

Here are a few links that might be helpful for you (link is Google search): Chrome RDP Hope that helps.

Yes!

Hope @johnnie.black sees this. I cannot tell you.

Found post by @johnnie.black that tells you what the SSD needs to support to get trim on an SAS2008 based LSI controller:

Thank you!

Make sure your controller supports Trim. My IBM M1015's (LSI 2008 chipset) don't later LSI's like 2308 chipset (I think) do. What I want to try with ESXi is using a controller (can be just 2 ports) for the datastore drive and pass through the MB controller to unRAID. Hasn't worked yet but I didn't have time to experiment and see if I HAD a controller that would work like that or not.

2 PNY SSDs on 1 server and 2 Samsung on the other. Server1: Model Number: WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 Model Number: HGST HDN726060ALE610 Model Number: HGST HDN726060ALE610 Model Number: PNY CS2211 960GB SSD Model Number: HGST HDN726060ALE610 Model Number: HGST HDN726060ALE610 Model Number: HGST HDN726060ALE610 Model Number: HGST HDN726060ALE610 Model Number: HGST HDN726060ALE610 Model Number: HGST HDN726060ALE610 Model Number: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 Model Number: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 Model Number: HGST HDN726060ALE610 Model Number: HGST HDN726060ALE610 Model Number: PNY CS2211 960GB SSD Model Number: HGST HDN726060ALE610 Model Number: HGST HDN726060ALE610 Binary file (standard input) matches Model Number: HGST HDN726060ALE610 Model Number: HGST HDN726060ALE610 Model Number: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 Model Number: HGST HDN726060ALE610 Server2: Model Number: WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 Model Number: HGST HDS5C4040ALE630 Model Number: HGST HMS5C4040ALE640 Model Number: HGST HMS5C4040ALE640 Model Number: WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 Model Number: HGST HMS5C4040ALE640 Model Number: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB Model Number: HGST HMS5C4040ALE640 Model Number: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB Model Number: HGST HDN728080ALE604 Model Number: HGST HMS5C4040ALE640 Model Number: HGST HMS5C4040ALE640 Model Number: HGST HMS5C4040ALE640 Model Number: HGST HMS5C4040ALE640 Model Number: HGST HMS5C4040ALE640 Model Number: WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 Model Number: HGST HMS5C4040ALE640 Model Number: HGST HMS5C4040ALE640 Model Number: HGST HMS5C4040ALE640 Model Number: WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 Model Number: HGST HMS5C4040ALE640 Model Number: HGST HMS5C4040ALE640 Binary file (standard input) matches Binary file (standard input) matches Model Number: HGST HMS5C4040ALE640 Model Number: HGST HDN728080ALE604 Model Number: HGST HMS5C4040ALE640 Model Number: HGST HMS5C4040ALE640 Model Number: Hitachi HDS5C3030ALA630

You should be able to install the virtio drivers when you setup Windows 7 so if you haven't done that when you load up Windows 7 Setup then try to install drivers first. If that doesn't work then change the controller type to SATA or IDE to install Windows 7. Once you've installed and it boots then you can setup a dummy virtio drive and install the drivers then switch the boot drive back to virtio and delete the dummy drive.

This will be the reason one of my servers may never advance beyond 6.3.5. ESXi passes through a PCI card on the only PCI slot on my MB unRAID/KVM does not. I suspect the bridge chip used to provide the PCI slot.

This was originally why I put my servers in the basement - cooler down there until summer. That was back before I used unRAID and had Pentium 4s. Even in the basement I had to turn those off during the day in the summer time. In the Winter, Spring & Fall I left them on. It cut down on the amount of time my furnace was running.

Can we get the "Table view spacing" capabilities back in the 6.4 GUI. As you can see from the attached graphics there is much greater space between drives in 6.4 compared to 6.3.5.

Did you maybe go from /mnt/cache/dir to /mnt/user0/dir? That would work because user0 does not merge the cache files into the share but that is the ONLY way you can go from disk to user or user to disk shares with the same directory path. Any other combination will give you zero byte files. I found that out the hard way myself quite a while ago.

Then once rebuild completes run a check WITHOUT writing corrections to parity drive to make sure the drive rebuilt correctly.

Thank you. Knew someone would know answer.

News ticker reported this morning that Intel says there maybe "reboot problems" with their patches for OLDER chips - whatever that really means! Is that media fantasies or is their some truth to it? I ask because my Sandy Bridge CPUs certainly qualify as OLD. Assuming a Sandy Bridge CPU would be subject to either problem since I don't even know about that.

I have rails on my rack and the rack has wheels so I can move my 5 systems around my basement all at one time. To work on an individual system I just pull out a single norco case on the attached rails and remove the top cover to give complete access to everything in the MB compartment. I can get my 5 systems in the same floor space of two of my Lian Li V2000 full tower cases. So for me it makes sense to use a rack mounted norco over a tower. For a single system I would probably have stayed with my Lian Li's.

I would suggest you move your SSD to the MB in any event because it has been reported that Trim doesn't work for a 9201-16i controller unless the SSD supports some very special options usually not available on NON-enterprise drives. The -16e would most likely be using the same chipset so it will not work there either.

I don't like the Win10 UI either but the biggest thing is the mandatory updates. I've tried registry updates to make windows think it is on a metered connection and a few other things. They work but I've had everything I've done get reset when I manually update and then have to research how to turn everything off again and maybe have to include new ways. So no thank you. Much prefer Windows 7 UI and the ability to upgrade when I WANT TO not when MS says I have to.

It says the following on the pricing page: "For special orders, please contact [email protected]." So you might have better luck emailing directly rather than posting in the forums about this.

I always keep cold spares that have been precleared available. Then I can change out a bad drive instantly and order a new or RMA the bad as a replacement cold spare.

I bought this open post rack for my Norco's https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816215003 Naturally Newegg change their numbers. Mine was a 22u rack not a 15u like the link but it is from same manufacturer just 22 instead of 15 and looks the same

To be perfectly honest I'm using the unRAID supplied VNC server currently as I don't use my linux VM much now. Even when I was using it more I only needed to connect to it to configure/install/reboot - so the unRAID VNC server was ok for me. I ran software on it that served up media files to extenders so never needed to access the actual OS much.

Since the data is not STRIPED on the disks just use a bootable Linux CD and you should be able to access your data. Also you should email lime tech directly as you would likely get a faster response that way. But like I said if you use a bootable Linux CD/USB Flash you should be able get to your data while you wait for a response to the email.