rich.bingham

Don't forget this one: 20% off all HDD Accessories EMCNBHG24 Looks like a good time to add a few drives and some hot-swap bays

Apparently Amazon has this same UPS for $99.99, so if your state has sales tax or you don't have a Costco membership you know what to do. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0034KO59U

It's been cheaper before, but still not a bad deal for this UPS. http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11623562 Price good through Dec. 18th.

I'm no network expert, but unless you plan to have more than 1000 devices in your network, I don't think it will matter.

I'd recommend checking out some basic linux books/sites that walk you through the essential tools to navigate, edit and manipulate files via command line. For what you're trying to do, putty should work fine. #!/usr/bin/env bash ^ This line, known as the shabang, it tells you and your machine what kind of file you're running. In this case it's a bash shell script. You won't need an extension on the filename, but it couldn't hurt so you can tell what language it is written in from the command line. ".sh" would be appropriate. mv prequeue prequeue.sh To determine the permissions of the file navigate into the directory where the script is located: cd /boot/folder/ then do a long list ls -l prequeue.sh On the left there will be a string of what appears to be gibberish, such as "-rw-r--r--" That gibberish is telling you what permissions various entities have for that file. In the example I gave, the "Owner" has read/write permissions, "Group" has read permissions only and "Other" also has read permissions. To change the permissions use chmod. If you can't remember the order of bits, try a chmod calculator and pick the permissions you want. It gives you a 3-digit hex number that signifies what bits are set. For this script I'd give Owner execute permissions and leave read permissions on Group and Other like so: chmod 744 prequeue.sh do a long list again and you should now see "-rwxr--r--" next to prequeue.sh and Owner now has execute permissions

If you want gigabit, stick with either the TEG-S80G or the TEG-S50G, the 16-port is 10/100. The way I understand your configuration: Internet--+--Router+ (Bedroom) | +--PC | +--Xbox | +-- | +--Switch+ (Living Room) | +--HTPC | +--unRAID | +--NAS1 | +--NAS2 | +--Xbox | +--PS3 | +--PC If the Wii can go wireless you could squeak by with an 8-port. To add the folding rig(s), you'll need either the 16-port switch or a second switch daisy chained. Switch-to-switch used to require a crossover ethernet cable, but these switches detect and adjust internally so a standard ethernet cable will work fine.

May or may not be the root cause, but it might be worth checking temperatures. I picked up two of these a month ago (one for a LP Win7 desktop and one for an XBMC frontend). I noticed the Win 7 unit had some stability issues so I put a temperature monitor on my desktop. It would start out fine, but after a few days of idling temps were up around 70°C. I swapped systems and confirmed the BIOS version/settings were identical. The second system idles in the 40-45°C range. My assumption is the heatsink wasn't seated properly, so I RMA'd the unit. Should have the replacement tomorrow. The good news is that the extra hot system helped to bring in a memory fail that 24hrs of memtest didn't uncover, so I got that replaced as well. Gotta love Newegg!

This combo was there before, but the Price on the ZBox just dropped from $249 to $219 making the combo deal cheaper than the ZBox itself was yesterday. Combo available until 5/4.

Missed your signature before. Supermicro is the main brand I've heard a lot of reports of being particular about memory. I'd recommend reseating your module and run a 24 hour session of memtest. Errors can be very intermittent and require particular conditions to occur. Memtest will try to expose these errors for you. If memtest passes, I'd also recommend checking all of your component connections. If memtest fails, people have recommended Kingston KVR1333D3N9/2G. Edit: you can also check the Supermicro C2SEE page for memory modules that have been tested with the board.

What motherboard are you using? That will affect memory suggestions. It would probably help if you could get the part number of your memory as well. Some boards are more finicky than others when it comes to memory module compatibility.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/17/how-to-pronounce-asus-video/ Good to know I was right

Happened to stumble upon this and though I'd share: NORCO RPC-4020 4U Rackmount Server Chassis w/ 20 Hot-swappable SATA/SAS 6G Drive Bay $299.99 - $30.00 + $9.99 shipping = $279.98 Promo Code: NTX10

I believe there are add-ons for TV guides

http://www.svc.com/stb-3t4-e3-gp.html Depending on where you are, shipping might kill it. For me a single unit shipped is still better than newegg (currently $24.99 + 3.99 S&H). If you're ordering multiple units their shipping costs don't go up much.

As Raj said, polarity on the power and reset switches won't matter as they just short one pin to the other when you press the switch. LED's are more finicky. Diode's are designed to only allow current to flow in one direction, no current=no light. If the LED's don't work, swap the wires on the motherboard.

They really need to make that something you can jumper

My user shares are: Music Movies TV Storage Storage is my catch-all for things like your recipe folder or system image backups. I know it's in storage\recipes\, I don't really need a user share for it. Music, Movies and TV however, I want user shares for so I can point a media scraper at them and know it's only going to find a particular type of media. I personally don't care what physical disk the data goes to, so I usually set each share to utilize all disks.

A thought on the 250GB WD. The "good" drives report 23°C and 25°C while the 250GB drive reports 58°C, the offset between these readings is ~32°C (32=2^5), makes me wonder if there's a bad bit in the register that is storing temp value. To test this you could kick the room temp up 5-10°F and read the temperatures. If for instance the "good" WD's read 26-28°C afterwards does the 250GB WD read in the low 60°C range? Not necessary, but could be interesting to find out. As bjp999 said, it's a malfunction but nothing to worry about especially since you confirmed that the drive is cool to the touch and not actually 58°C. With regards to the SMART spec, I was able to find a more recent document (2005) which indicates that "the placement, accuracy, and granularity of temperature sensors to support Table 19 are vendor specific." Table 19 spells out the meaning of the various bytes of the HDA Absolute Temperature SMART reading. There may be a more recent revision to this part of the spec, but it would explain slight variations in powerup drive temps between vendors (not to the extent reported here though). Yep, you're correct there. I found some volume data in Google's paper "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population" which indicates the temperature readings are generally consistent. Page 6 shows a fairly normal distribution of average drive temperatures recorded using SMART none of which seem to fall below 15 and few above 50. The data are a product of drives, drive utilization and environment, but if there were big differences we'd expect a multi-modal distribution (assuming they were looking at drives from multiple vendors).

I would suspect that neither the measurement method nor the sensor is very standardized across brands or even between generations within a brand. Your WD Cavair drives are reporting close together which makes sense, same manufacturer, roughly the same age so likely using the same design and implementation of temperature sensor. I'm guessing the 250GB WD is an older design so having a value so out of whack could be explained by using a different temp sensor design or measurement method (i.e. could be sensing temperature of one of the onboard chips instead of temperature of air within the drive). The Maxtor drive is probably a whole different can of worms. That said, while absolute measurement may not be accurate, relative measurement usually is. If you take readings under load you might see that the ambient to load temperature delta is comparable between drives. edit: Of course this is complete speculation. I'm not familiar with the spec (if any) that defines how this tempearture is measured and/or reported.

Glad to hear this worked, there may yet be hope of unRAID expansion with my current board. After hearing about Raj's troubles with this setup (multiple boards if I recall) I'm interested in what might be different. Perhaps Supermicro changed firmware or rev'd their hardware. If we can find a toggle that's easily identifiable such as a part number or board rev number change that'd be a big help to people with this board wanting to expand beyond the onboard SATA (*ahem* me ) .

If you're still interested in the Corsair 650HX Newegg has a promo code to bring it down to $89 after rebate (EMCKGHH22) good for another 14 hours or so

Yes it can, although not likely. I'd recommend running Memtest from a USB boot drive on all new builds to burn it in. well obviously I was skimming the thread I also forgot Memtest was on the unRAID flash drive, no need to follow my link.

I think that board may have an incompatible Atheros NIC. I'm not sure how unRAID behaves in that case, but if you have a PCI NIC handy that could be something to check quickly (disable onboard LAN first).

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If you plan on capping out at 6 you could get away with less (such as the Corsair CX430). If you want to reuse the PSU on a future server then it makes sense to go bigger. I can't speak to your CPU, but I've been running a Sempron 140 with no issues and I know others have as well. It depends on what you want to do with it. I think you'll be underwhelmed with the 10/100 on a media server. As long-term data storage and backup, it would probably be tolerable. If you can manage adding a Gb card, I'd recommend it. Yes, all of my drives are WD Greens and work great. Keep in mind that some boards don't support non-graphics cards in their PCIe x16 slots. If you go the PCIe route, have a backup plan in case it doesn't work when you plug it in. If a SATA PCIe works on that board I'd go that route and you'll be left with an open PCI slot for a GB NIC (You'll have to disable your onboard LAN) Check out the links in my sig for some good build ideas and some resources to help once you start working with unRAID.