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I think I see the problem. /mnt/disk3/Movies/Handbrake/2do/* should be /mnt/disk3/Movies/HandBrake/2do/* according to your working directory.

Could you try: mv `ls -t /mnt/disk3/Movies/Handbrake/2do/* | tail -2` /mnt/disk3/Movies/HandBrake/test Otherwise, perhaps this will work: cd /mnt/disk3/Movies/Handbrake/2do && mv `ls -t | tail -2` /mnt/disk3/Movies/HandBrake/test

Price: $350.07 Weight: 3.00 KGS Shipping: $49.21 (Fixed shipping cost) Do you see the currency converter on the right hand side? That should allow you switch to USD. The pricing seems to default to Euros as I'm in the US and got the Euro pricing same as you. Anyhow, looks like a very nice streamer/HTPC. $400 is a little more than I'd care to drop on one though since I'd only use XBMC and I think it'd be overkill just for that. Also, what's the HDD support? I'm assuming it supports an internal drive but I can't find any specs on it.

It's more like unRAID for VMware. Or specifically, running unRAID in a VM under VMware. The reasons are mostly so you can take advantage of virtualization without having to dedicate a machine to unRAID.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HDHomeRun

I dunno about WMC, but 2GB is plenty on my Revo w/W7 and XBMC. Does it? I know some models do but this one lists only one slot per the specs and user feedback.

Yes but anything on the cache (besides the hidden directories of course) is moved every 24 hours by default. Depending on your usage patterns, that could be a couple of gigabytes to a couple of terabytes. That's why it's important to do manual backups of any data that is permanently kept on the cache drive.

Yes, you can use a cache drive but it is outside of the parity protected array. That's how you get the speed benefits. Any new data you add to the share will actually be written to the cache drive and then later moved to the protected array. Anything in a hidden directory on the cache drive will not be moved (and thus not be protected).

but if you are using the cache drive, you don't get any parity protection, right? At that point, what is the point? no you don't so you need to have a decent backup plan in place. Should be easy enough since you just have to copy to the array.

exporting a hidden directory on the cache drive may very well be viable. I'll have a go at that also when I get a few minutes. It might make a nice, occasional use extra datastore.

Have you tried turning off auto-negotiation on both sides and using fixed speed?

I'd still separate the datastore from the unRAID array if at all possible. Use the unRAID array as a place to backup your VMs.

Actually, due to the nature of unRAID, you can take a data disk from the array and mount it in another machine if need be. The filesystem used is ReiserFS so most any linux distro (or I suppose Windows if you have the right driver) can mount/manipulate it.

I don't think it would matter a whole lot. Both will load to RAM and I doubt you'll want to reboot much once you have everything set up. In fact, I would almost suggest giving the faster key to ESXi. Passthrough USB takes a performance hit so the unRAID key is rather slow to boot (roughly USB 1.1 speeds). Not a real big deal since I usually don't reboot it too often and once it's loaded, there is very little r/w from the key itself. There are other things you can do such as clone the unRAID key to a VMDK and boot from that instead, but you'll still need the key for licensing purposes. I think that method is outlined on the first page of this thread. Of course, YMMV so I would experiment till you are satisified with the performance.

On my setup, reading/writing directly to the protected array yields roughly 35-40MB/s. With a cache drive (I'm using a 2TB Hitachi as a warm spare/cache drive), you can easily double those figures. Although I'm sure it's trivial to dual-boot ESXi and unRAID from the same key, if you wanted to use unRAID as a VM you'll have to give it exclusive access to the USB controller that they unRAID key resides on. I'm fairly certain ESXi doesn't allow the primary install device to be shared. I have ESXi installed on a 4GB key while unRAID resides on a separate 2GB key.

Can you? I know you can use iSCSI as a datastore destination, but I didn't know you could do it with NFS.... With NFS, yes. Samba/CIFS, no. Of course iSCSI and FC are also supported.

You could export an unRAID share via NFS and use that as a datastore but as has already been pointed out, performance wouldn't be so great not to mention I didn't find it all that reliable (at least with unRAID running as a VM).

I agree. I'd separate the datastore from the unRAID disks. My datastore is a RAID-10 that unRAID never sees. unRAID is simply a VM with other controllers passed through to it.

I think the guy in that link had a large datastore from a Raid controller (much like I would like UR to be) and he just smashed them together within ESXi. But I am new to this arena, so I could be way off mark Sounds like he created multiple 1.9TB datastores and combined them within ESXi to create one large datastore. i was hoping the 960 would help it suck less or would at least be better than my current 100Mbit connection on the Athlon xp 2500+ unRAID doesn't use much processing power at all. ESXi would certainly benefit from an i7 but wouldn't see much performance increases in unRAID. I wanted to to make all of the drives UnRaid controlled. Otherwise I forsee a situation like this: I have a 1TB drive (at $50, why buy anything smaller) and have 3 VMs, suppose they take 300 GB total, I'd have 700 GB unused, that would otherwise be put to good use if they were part of the UR Array. A virtual disk, at least from my experience, doesn't work too well in unRAID. I really need to experiment more with this though. Basically, you lose temps, smart data, spin down control etc. I can technically do that, since my mobo has raid 1,0,5, 10. But same scenario, don't wany any "unused" bits layin around. I guess at the end of the day what I am looking for is something like a Drobo type array that would protect all my VMs. I suppose I can do Raid5, but i'd be limited to the 4 ports on the board, but still run into expansion issues, and be locked into this particular config. I was hoping UR coupoled with ESXI would allow me to do this. Almost like replacing the HW raid on the mobo with a SW raid powered by UR. Be aware that ESXi will not utilize a software RAID. You can only use individual disks. Some notable exceptions to that are pseudo-hardware RAID adapters like common LSI 1068e HBAs.

That is sweet!!! I wonder if a Norco 4224 case could be installed in one of those. I suspect so. The LackRack link has a pic of an RPC-3216 mounted. The RPC-4224 is the same dimensions just 2" taller.

I don't know if it would or not, but that model is an 8 port card and not a 12 port as the picture implies. http://www.3ware.com/products/pdf/9000_DS_012605.pdf The picture is actually a 9500S-12MI.

I have a BR10i working through VMDirectPath on an Asus 890FX board. Temps work in the latest 5.0 betas (at least from the main unRAID menu -- not unmenu) but spindown is still an issue. I have spinup and spindown disabled on the drives attached to the BR10i although it is possible to manually spin down the drives with hdparm.

attrib -h [/s] *.iso should do it. Did you set the hidden attribute in Windows?

If you can get to it, unraid web is listed in the pkg manager page on unmenu.

Have y'all considered using memdisk to boot a DOS floppy image directly from your unRAID USB key? http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/MEMDISK You should be able to find a suitable DOS image from http://www.bootdisk.com/