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Ditto for me as well. I rarely restart my dedicated Crashplan box so it is not a huge deal for me but it is a little annoying.

Yes, you should be fine using more than 8 in your system

Just updated my unRAID crashplan machine to unRAID 6.2.1 and the crashplan docker. I was able to get it installed and running without to much issue. I am having one problem however. Whenever crashplan is running and I try and do a parity check it is ungodly slow. I go from 127 to about 30 for a full parity check. As soon as I stop the Crashplan docker from running the parity speed will pick back up. I am running this on an older HP ProLiant N40L Microserver with 4GB of RAM. It use to be running unRAID 5 with a crashplan plugin and I did not have any of these speed issues with parity while crashplan was running. I don't want to go back to unRAID 5 and a plugin so any pointers or suggestions would be much appreciated. I will be trying the unRAID tunables tester script with the crashplan docker running and see what I come up with but figured I would through this out there in case anyone has seen this before.

Loves me some HGST drives. When a customer purchases a server and wants 4TB drives in it I always suggest going with HGST drives over any of the others. It is ultimately up to the customer but providing my opinion can't hurt.

It is an iStar knockoff Monoprice in the US also sells these in black.

I went ahead and added a 2GB option.

1. An ESXi build that has 12GB total in the box, 4GB of it to the unRAID VM 2. Crashplan backup server (HP N40L) with 4GB 3. Dev/Test/preclear server also has 4GB in it I seem to have a thing for 4

Agreed on the space behind the motherboard tray. If they would move it forward a half inch or so it would be so much better.

There are no cases I know of that do not need modification to accept 5-in-3 cages. 4-in-3 cages will fit fine, but 5-in-3 will not. What needs to be modified? The tabs that are in the cage to hold a DVD/Blu Ray drive need to be bent/cut off

There are no cases I know of that do not need modification to accept 5-in-3 cages. 4-in-3 cages will fit fine, but 5-in-3 will not.

Not sure if anyone has seen this case as of yet but it looks like an interesting option for those that want something HP microserver like but want to build it themselves. http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1371-page3.html

Just about anything from Corsair of Seasonic will be perfectly fine. The Corsair you linked should be fine for your purposes.

not to sounds like a jerk but are you sure you installed the fans so that the air is blowing out of the cage and not in. Getting the fan backwards can be an easy mistake to make.

I am a fan of trays in my cages also. The 4 screws I need to remove do not bother me in the slightest

Those look like iStar cages. The iStar cages are what LimeTech uses in its build and people seem to like them. I am not a fan of the icybox cages, did not like the way they "felt". I much prefer the Norco cages over them. I have not used the iStar cages so can not speak to there quality.

It is not so much Tom's job to port the other things from simple features over to the new GUI. The new GUI is essentially a CSS skin on what existed before to make it look prettier. I'm not saying there was not a lot of work that went into it but the new GUI Tom put up on github is a CSS skin. It will be sppedingant's or whomever picks up where he started to move the remaining features from simple features over to the new GUI. He has already stated that he is busy doing other things right now and that it would have to wait.

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I agree with this

Why does aluminum matter? It is a larger case, but not a whole lot.

The MS800 is the best case I have found as of late. There are actually 10 5.25 bays in the case.

There is an updated VMWare Tools plugin for the new WebGUI.

unless you plan on mount some inside the case the MS-800 will only allow for 3 of the 5-in-3 and then a single host swap at the top for 16 total hot swap bay.

I like the idea but I think you need to: 1. Keep the front page a static image - so load time on the front page is as short as possible. 2. Move the slider to the click through page 3. Allow much larger image sizes on that clicked through page. I so badly want to "zoom in" on those pictures but can't.

I believe the newer versions do. It is the backplanes that need to support it and I think the newer ones will work just fine with SATA III. I have the the 4220 in my build for the space up to where a slim drive back can be added and a SATA drive can go. I use it for ESXi and run unRAID through a VM.