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  1. If you're trying to minimize spindle count, as I am, then a very small power supply might suffice. Specifically, I've got a VIA PC2500E board and two WD10EACS drives on the way. The spec sheets say I should see 4-5 watts sleeping and 40 with the whole system running flat out. I have a clamp-on DC ammeter that I plan to use to measure each component's consumption from each power supply rail, and I can compare that to the Kill-a-watt readings to figure out the efficiency of the cheap ATX supply I'll be testing the machine with. If the power consumption is where I think it should be, and I have headroom for a third drive, I'm planning to use a Mini-Box PicoPSU for my unRAID machine. The nice thing about the PicoPSU is that, even with the external 12v supply figured in, the total efficiency is usually well above 80%, frequently above 90%. Again those are marketing and spec-sheet numbers, I'll post with some real-world measurements if I go the PicoPSU route.
  2. An awful waste, indeed! I'm trying to cut down on the number of processors and disks, not increase it. I understand why unRAID is a standalone product, but I really find it counterproductive in practice. I like your idea of running VMware on the unRAID box, but I don't get along very well with Linux so I'm taking the opposite approach: Running Windows on the physical hardware, then hosting an unRAID VM which gets control of the SATA disks for bulk storage. I've been toying with this on my laptop and it seems to work fine. UnRAID may like lots of RAM for caching, but it's been perfectly happy in 256MB, so the VM won't even chew up too much memory on the host. The only feature I haven't been able to test is whether the OS in the VM can spin down physical disks, since my test environment uses virtual disks. If not, I can just do that with inactivity timers on the host OS, no big deal. The server I'm replacing has been running XP from a Compactflash card for quite a while with no issues, other than the slow swap. The new box will have quadruple the RAM so that shouldn't be an issue, and I might be able to use the XP Embedded Toolkit to tweak some things too, though I have to check the licensing on that. I ordered the hardware this morning (Via PC2500E, two WD10EACS) and I'll post my progress in a few days.
  3. Heh. I failed to unpack the config directory onto the boot device. It works much better now! I've got the devices set up, disks formatted, array started, piece of cake! Now, to flog it mercilessly for a few days and see if I can break it...
  4. I've been fighting with VMware for two days now and can't get this to work. I defined an e1000 card as described here, which seems to be recognized just fine by the kernel. It boots to a login prompt, and I can log in as root, but ifconfig returns empty. No interfaces at all. If I run dhcpcd from the commandline, it creates eth0 and gets an address on my (vmware bridged) local network, and I can ping the world from the VM, and I can ping the VM's IP from the world, but it doesn't respond to the name "tower". ifconfig doesn't show a lo0 interface, and I can't even "ping tower" from the VM's commandline. I get a few errors during boot that look interesting: mount: special device /dev/disk/by-label/UNRAID does not exist /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf: line 18: /boot/config/network.cfg: No such file or directory /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf: line 19: /var/tmp/network.cfg: No such file or directory Now, if I'm interpreting that by-label line correctly, that means it's looking for a disk called UNRAID, which I have: C:\PROGRA~1\VMware\VMware DiskMount Utility>vmware-mount q: "c:\virtual machines \unraid\unraid-system.vmdk" C:\PROGRA~1\VMware\VMware DiskMount Utility>dir q: Volume in drive Q is UNRAID Volume Serial Number is 48F7-555B Directory of Q:\ 10/06/2007 10:17 PM 1,357,312 bzimage 10/06/2007 10:17 PM 29,611,058 bzroot 03/20/2007 03:45 PM 5,124 license.txt 01/03/2007 10:57 PM 99,256 memtest 06/10/2007 03:52 PM 33,404 menu.c32 10/06/2007 10:17 PM 2,093 readme.txt 08/27/2007 10:44 PM 196 syslinux.cfg 7 File(s) 31,108,443 bytes 0 Dir(s) 99,405,824 bytes free I'm fairly new with linux so I appreciate your patience and suggestions!