bigdog66

Will Do ...Thank You for the info!

cpu and ram is not too bad to upgrade to get a little more muscle any suggestions? Thanks!

Version 4 and 5 have done me quite well would def love to add the option for dual parity with version 6 so wondering if I will have any issues with my hardware I only use it as a NAS ...at this point I am lost between the differences between plugins and dockers lol my hardware was a pretty standard build in 2010 when I put it together mobo- Asus M4A785-M CPU - AMD Sempron 140 Ram - 2gb Sata - Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 I don't know yet if everything can be done through plugins or if anything is now built into unraid but the things I use are UPS Comms Clean Power Down Unmenu Pre_Clear Email Notifications would like to add Sab Sonarr Plex Server - No Transcoding Does anyone see any potential issues hardware wise because im not caught up on current issues the would like to add items are currently running on another pc so its not vital but would be nice to add to my server if you guys think the hardware can handle it It's been a while just because it just runs so Hello to all the new well new to me people lol

well after a few years of rock solid use and just upgrading the size of my six on board disks I decided to finally break down and buy a controller card thought about the dell card but found the issue where you have to tape over certain pins and didn't like the idea of that and decided on what I thought was a old trusty supermicro card by now the AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 It has already shipped so hopefully I didn't screw myself over with this decision as I didn't see the possible issue with it until now crossing my fingers lol

i didn't find any preclear reports but did run a smart report and all looks good what command would I use to run the shortest preclear to have it write the signature

thanks for that extra emphasis... Appreciate it!

Thanks everyone! that's why I love this place lol

so unless it finished there wouldn't be any record of what happened so even if I run it again and have no reallocated sectors for example I will have no idea if there were any before?

you do mean for YOU that is best

I have been running 3 preclear cycles on a new 4tb drive I know early yesterday afternoon it was on 10% of step 10 I believe and I lost power sometime after 4:47am this morning so I would think it would have finished but the power was out long enough for the battery backup to run out of juice I had it running on an old pc that I was only going to use to do this so like an idiot I didn't setup a clean power down I have always been able to look at the results right after so I can't remember if it saves a log auto or if you have to tell it to save....or is it saves after every cycle or just at the end basically I'm wondering if there is anyway to tell how it went or if it finished considering it died this morning Thanks!

I would say my Linux knowledge has to be less than anyone here lol but as far as no-ip is concerned all it does is resolve a domain name you create to your external ip address so instead of having to know your ip you can just use the domain name that is all it does....you still have to setup some other kind of remote software to connect with no-ip in itself doesn't open any up also I think what Joe was mentioning is that yes you have it installed and running but whenever the server reboots what tells it to start up again?

It can be a tough decision..... I had the same decision to make....sure the Norco in the long run will definitely be cheaper overall but you have to put that money out all at once and considering I didn't have 20+ hard drives to fill it up with the need for right now was not there The Antec 1200 is an awesome awesome server case...wish there was a little more space on the right side for all the cables but plenty of room where it counts Then i got lucky and caught a pricing mistake on Newegg and Amazon and picked it up for $90 or $95 before the mistake was caught so it made my decision easier lol 10 years is from now is hard to predict but at least in the US considering the areas that still don't have high speed and all the areas that don't have fast high speed thinking that you will store and stream your 60+ tb's of data from the cloud is still a long ways off not that i helped at all lol.....but all things considered either way you are looking at 2 solid cases

I have not had a need to set this up yet but will in the future just want to say THANKS for keeping this up! and hopefully you will get all the help you need and knowing this place i have no worries about that

I see the server you guys got is sold out...do you guys see any reason not to get what they have left looks like only difference being intel rather than amd I am perfectly happy right now with my sempron 140 setup but I bought some things to allow expansion like my case is an antec 1200 but my board only has 1 port higher than a pciex1 so i figured I could buy 1 supermicro expansion board and eventually change out the mobo saved me money initially but would cost me more in the long run seems like this would give me immediate results and save me some in the long run

I would say that the directory structure for your media at least is probably best suited by how your media readers want them to be at least for me I use XBMC.....so for my media I just have a movie directory with all of my movies in individual folders (doesn't have to be that way but it is easier for me to manage that way)...tv show directory with each show in it's own folder and inside of each contains a separate folder for each season...pictures directory....personal movies directory....music directory with a separate folder for each artist and inside of that a separate folder for each album you can have hidden directories for some info you don't want actively visible on the network but you can get into

take your time and let us know.... I am not an apple fan and would have never even thought to use this but the wife just bought an ipad 3 so i guess i need to look at this lol although i dont know how much my low power sempron 140 will transcode

finally....not exactly the price i was hoping for but at this point i gotta take it lol ordered an hour or so ago and it shows shipped already....hopefully it arrives in functioning shape....im running out of time to use up my bandwidth cap for the month lol

would have been good if it included any internal drives...nothing earth shattering in the way of price but decent for todays prices nothing will go on sale while i need to get a drive though....just my luck lol

I have the advantage of using Acronis at my job....we pretty much deploy it with every install Although I use a version that is a couple of versions ago because they stopped providing licenses to dealers it works great even the universal restore has worked fantastic....I don't know how often you would need to restore an image to different hardware in a home environment but if you do it works

nah....i got the same code..the key word is "SELECT" products didn't figure that out until i tried checking out a hard drive.....if you got the email then you will see that there aren't any internal hard drives as one of the select product OP just left out 90% of the email....still today i think the OP would have finger marks on their neck for getting my hopes up lol

quit bumping this up and getting me excited because i need a 2tb drive like yesterday lol

in all my noobness I am jumping in to just offer my opinion and all of you who know more feel free and disagree if you see fit...lol sounds to me like patseguin has a lot of data to copy over but more important sounds like there is enough room to copy everything over and still have the original files I would think it would prob be best to let the parity check finish (which as stated whenever the pc is just shutdown without shutting down unraid will kick in a parity check) I would disable parity which would allow full write speeds so all of the data can be copied over a lot faster...then when that is done turn parity back on and let it build main point to patseguin write speeds are going to be a lot slower with parity in place...no lying about that but with the current situation doing what i think would probably lead to a happier new user again all of the experts feel free and elaborate or please tell me im wrong...dont be mean though as im probably bigger than you hahahaha

I wanted to chime in until I think that I read you are ditching xbmc for boxee box...I think my eyes have to be playing tricks on me so i must move on lol

it is too late for me to catch if it has been said already but if memory serves me correct I remember reading somewhere from Joe L that with the filesystem unraid uses that you need to leave at least as much space as the biggest file on that drive.....basically every file being read needs the same amount of space avail and if im totally off then what can i say....its late lol

I was dead set to get a 590 till they vanished from everywhere....lol i went with a Antec 1200.....got lucky and got it at a steal of a price.....but even at reg price to get to that 15 or 16 drive case then all it would take is 4 of the cm 4 in 3's and your still cheaper than the Norco just have to be realistic on how many drives your gonna expand to......we would all love to have a 20 drive beast but those 20 drives are expensive....lol and now with movement on getting support for 3tb drives means more space with less drives happening soon so like i said....it is much better to bang your head against the wall now and really figure out what you need than to find out later you wasted a bunch of money....lol