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Hi guys, I recently acquired a replacement case which supports dual ATX power supplies. I'm currently at 14 drives and a few months ago my original single 12V rail 550 just wasn't holding up every boot anymore. I swapped it out with a spare 750 I have and it's been OK but the new case got me thinking. I'm at a place in terms of drive count where it's hard to avoid using power adapters in one form or another. I was curious about how much difference (in terms of power draw from the wall outlet) would make, so I ran some tests before my case transplant which is currently underway, to determine if it may be worthwhile. The difference is surprisingly negligible and would give me the benefit of ditching a number of molex-sata adapters I currently have in use. I didn't think it would be worth the extra power, but I think I may actually go down this road after all. Since I'm certain someone will ask, you can power them on together using one of these The wall outlet power draw was measured using a TP-Link HS110 Smart Wi-Fi Plug I'll be posting the actual build log (case transplant + upgrades) shortly with photos of the new case but I'm still waiting on some parts and it's not finished yet... so stay tuned if you are curious Results are below!

Bumping this thread again to see if there are any plans to implement in the near future. I've had my server running extremely well for around a decade now (pre-4.7) and as a result, have some smaller disks I would prefer to phase out completely, reducing my disk count, rather than replace. I'm aware there are ways to do this but I'd currently require some assistance from the forums to make sure I don't break anything (i.e. rsync/move data on to alternate disk, remove, rebuild parity). The idea of being able to 'decomission' a disk seems like a great idea.

I'm actually in a similar situation in terms of drive numbers and trying to find a replacement case. I currently have 11 data, dual parity and want to add a cache disk for a total of 14 X 3.5" disks. I'm currently using a custom modified case (old server case very heavily modified) which supports up to about 17 disks but several of them are incredibly difficult to swap out. I was looking at potentially the Fractal Design Define XL, though the current revision (the XL R2) supports one less disk than the original. Edit: I just jumped to another post after writing this and found someone who built one of these with 17 disks. You can buy an extra 4-bay drive cage from FD as an optional extra. This means 12x3.5" and 4x5.25" even without getting creative for those last couple disks. Add the fact that I live in Australia, cases like the Norco 4224 or even the 4220 are super expensive to ship from the US and/or hard to find.

Regarding using 'external storage' to set everything up, would i just first create an unraid share (e.g. named onecloud) then use the SMB/NAS instructions from that guide? Easy as that?

Thanks gfjar, appreciate the prompt and detailed reply! :-)

I know its christmas but can anyone shed some light? :-)

Hey guys, I'm currently running 5.0.6 and thinking about moving to 6.0b12 to take advantage of docker & in particular owncloud but I have a couple of questions.. Is it possible to create an OwnCloud user share for the data? In this thread, people were mentioning "slow sync" etc. If data is stored locally, what is there to sync? Does the plugin have updated documentation on getting everything setup since the testing in this thread? Is the mySQL plugin suitable for use with OC? Has anyone tested this? Is it better/worse/buggier than the alternatives? I have limited linux knowledge & solid IT knowledge, how time consuming & difficult would you say everything is to setup? I don't really want to spend weeks configuring everything if I can avoid it, I just don't have much spare time right now (study/new job, etc) Sorry for all the questions, just trying to decide if this is the right option for us. Looking for a cloud solution as an alternative to OneDrive/DropBox etc. for photos and I think OC is going to be the way to go.

There's a lot of viruses out there now that also target system restore files so often this won't solve the problem. It can even leave you in a worse state then before you tried to recover. Also a system restore won't modify your "personal data and files" which is another place nasties like to hang out. System restore certainly has its place but I personally wouldn't rely on it as a solid fix.

I've messed around with heaps of different AV/IS suites over the years and my "favourite" definately changes as the years go by; Kaspersky 7 was fantastic but the newer versions are bubbly and bloated. AVG is in the same boat, the older versions used to be great and is now way too bloated, has ads, uses too many resources. My personal pick for a free setup at the moment is a hardware router + Windows Firewall + Microsoft Security Essentials although I do agree like anything, having common sense 1.0 installed beats ANY software. Haven't used ESET/NOD much but Avira AntiVir & Avast are also quite good as far as hit rates & resource usage go. Stay away from Zone Alarm/McAfee and Trend Micro seems to be very hit & miss over the years as well. If you want a little extra protection you could also setup a smoothwall box. I'll probably do that down the track when I'm not feeling so lazy