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Forgive my ignorance, perhaps I've just read it wrong but that statement seems to imply that parity is updated when data is read from a data drive within the array, I thought parity was only updated when data is written to a drive (excluding during forced parity checks of course) due to the fact my parity is usually spun down whilst data drives are still spun up which would make that particular scenario you describe impossible to occur wouldn't it?.

Have a look here for an explanation for this behaviour http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=974.0

Innotek has been behind the scenes in virtualisation for a few years, I believe they actually developed the initial linux extensions for early versions of Microsofts VirtualPC. I've been using VirtualBox for some time now and find it a great alternative to the other options out there. I'm not sure how the acquisition by Sun earlier this year will effect it's development but hopefully it's a good thing.

I'm using the following 8 SATA + 4 PATA motherboard currently (unRaid 4.2) http://www.motherboardpro.com/DFI-LanParty-UT-NF4-SLI-DR-Expert-Motherboard-Socket-939-NVIDIA-nForce4-SLI-Chipset-p-310.html Obvioulsly the SLI is a little OTT for an unRaid box, but both the nVidia SATA and SIL3114 SATA (4 of each) appear to work fine + I have another SIL3114 based PCI 4 Port SATA Card giving me a total of 16 drives maximum.

I've used this product for backups for a while now and have found it pretty good overall, I was wondering if anyone here uses it too, and whether anyones had a crack at installing it on their unRaid box? Currently I have the server side of StorGrid running on a local Windows box and it stores it's backups from multiple client PC's to the unRaid server via a mapped drive. Obviously this isn't the most network friendly with traffic going from client -> server -> unRaid so was curious as to whether anyones looked at running the Server portion directly it on their unRaid http://www.vembu.com

They're usually what you'd call "enthusiast" boards, but they do have a great deal of features on them, and aren't too overly priced. If it wasn't for the fact I live over the other side of the world, I'd quite happily send you one to play with. I'm considering just putting 8-10 drives in and just creating one large Software RAID5 array assuming unRaid isn't likely to work in the near (2-3 months) future with these. I presume, it's only the chipset support in the Kernel version you currently use that would stop it working,

Has anyone tested UnRaid on an nForce4 Chipset? Specifically thinking of something like this DFI Lanparty SLI-DR http://www.ascent.co.nz/ProductSpecification.aspx?ItemID=339609 The nice thing about this board is it has support for 12 drives (4xPATA, 4xSATA-I, 4xSATA-II) so no extra expansion cards required (assuming it would work). I realise official SATA support isn't yet in public builds, but thought I'd check now before embarking on assembling some hardeware to migrate all my data onto an UnRaid setup.