Kosti

Hey All The 4TB drives finally finished Please see attached files and let me know if I'm good to go Side note - In the original preclear sticky being a noob I have been reading to understand the commands I needed to extract the file to post up and found one listing in there that didn't work for me until i changed it - A very simple typo error This thread http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2817.0 states I assume in this syntax log locations was missing for the finish file - no big deal, but it took me a few minutes to figure out why i couldn't get the files, LOL Again, thanks for the support team, here are the logs for the 2 x 4TB HDD attached. Now on a side note, I was reading for a cache drive, i found a spare WD Black 500GB drive, should I use this or should I use a spare 600G SSD drive? I will need to run preclear on the 500G since it is an older drive so will power down the VM and insert it into the caddy as I am not sure if they are hotswap capable, so don't want to risk it Also do I add this 500G HDD to the onboard SATA or in the Caddy connected to my HBA card to get the best performance for the cache drive?? Cheers Kosti EDIT - OK i'm curious with the following statement Why do i need to add it quickly? I ask as I am not ready to add it as I want to power it down to install the 500G WD Black drive and do another preclear. Side note - I went back to the main screen in unmenu and I'm seeing double and I'm not even drunk yet. Why does this need to occur - see picture All of my drives are duplicated?? Thanks again Kosti smart4TBHDD.zip syslog_mod.txt

Happy New Year All, wow 2015 already!! Wellit is in Sydney AUS. The 3 X 3TB have completed and I have posted the before and after results, I see nothing that stands out to suggest these are not good for data. Temps are a little high, so i will look at reversing the FANS on the caddys and have them blow are from back to front instead of sucking are in from front to back and see it that reduces them. Please let me know how these 3 drives look and I should have the 4TB results in about a few more hours Now I am not sure I have attached the correct syslog EDIT - found the correct syslog via unmenu Cheers Kosti SmartLogs.zip syslog-2015-01-01.zip

Yep, thought it was a little fast too! Still going at 13+ hours, when looking at the drives, the 1st 3TB seems to be the slowest as it was the 1st one I kicked off and it's about 1-2% slower, I notices the speed shows it moving from 112MB-140MB in that area where as the others a llittle more 120-140MB/s. WOW I never realised it would be that log, checked power usage which is around 300Watts, todays temp will be around 25Deg C but tomorrow will be in the 30Deg C so it will get pretty warm in my house, no aircon. Well I may just go a mow the lawn since its a waiting game! Thanks for the feedback and I will look at generating the SMART results and get them up for inspection Cheers Kosti

G'Day All! As a total Noob so taking baby steps and learning/reading as I go! So now that I've finally got my system up and running, I've installed unRAIDbeta6 via a vmdk on esxi O/S I kicked off the preclear on 5 drives simultaneously. I used the command preclear_disk.sh -r 65536 -w 65536 -b 2000 -A /dev/sdX where X=(a-e) for each of my 5 drives (3x3TB & 2X4TB WD REDs) what I didn't do is set for additional passes just only 1 pass. Now that I am 3 hours in with another 4 or so hours remaining, should I run another 2 passes after it has finished or does that defeat the purpose of this soak in test? These are not new drives, so I am not sure what to expect the results to come back with as the plan is to use the 3x3TB as storage use the 1x4TB as Parity and the other 1x4TB as a parity/backup, then later increase the array as I buy more HDD (I've got room for upto 13 HDD) I will post the results of the single pass once complete, so figures Crossed! Cheers Kosti

Awesome, thanks for sharing mate! Just fired up my Server and Esxi and saw this was a quick way to get it up and running so dnwld it and bam it worked straight away! As I'm new to UNRAID & VMW I assume it's safe to run unRAID as a guest right? Do I need to load/add the VM tools to this virtual setup? Thanks Kosti