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I too had been looking at purple drives, meant for 24/7 use and all plus using less than the normal cams amount dont see why bw would be an issue

Here it is thursday night almost 9pm eastern time and still on 3rd pass of preclear, so far all looking ok.

UPDATE: finally recieved the drive yesterday, its been preclearing all night. I put it on 3 pass. its much noisier than the other drives in my tower. im going to try moving it to my other hotswap trays after preclear is done to see if its vibration causing the more noise. It is a 7200rpm drive and my cache drive which is not screwed in either runs at 10,000rpm and its much quieter. Well after first pass of preclear the drive has quieted down, not sure why the first hour or so it was noisy causing vibration in my tower.

I've been using this for a long time to migrate os drive to ssd, or just backup OS drive or other partitions. I use 2009, for my first time today I tried making an image strait to the cache drive on UNRAID it executed pretty quickly. I made a bootable dvd and now im in process of restoring and all seems to be great. I tried it once before but didn't have enough space on server for all my homes pc's. Now I have space as well as gigabit in all rooms now. My question is now could I get any benefit from using network bonding? My brother and father were also streaming on my network at the same time. I tried bonding once before and didn't notice much but was before I read that it wont make my network fast as it, is like adding another lane of traffic on a road, still capped at same speed limit. Correct me if im wrong please.

Thanks for your guys input I just ordered one up to see how it is. Thank you Garycase. I didn't want to cross post. I know many forums frown upon that. UPDATE: finally recieved the drive yesterday, its been preclearing all night. I put it on 3 pass. its much noisier than the other drives in my tower. im going to try moving it to my other hotswap trays after preclear is done to see if its vibration causing the more noise. It is a 7200rpm drive and my cache drive which is not screwed in either runs at 10,000rpm and its much quieter.

I did indeed email them. Im legally blind since birth. I tried enlarging myself but was not able to read. I'll chance and order one. Next month i'll get a WD red so I mix it up some 2xseagate already in server so 1 of these and next a wd red should split things up enough so they dont all start failing around sametime.

Thanks I got it working now. wow it shows a few of my drives way past warrenty hours but otherwise look fine.

I understand that. Just my point on warrenty is in 4 years if my drive fails and I loose my data, I dont have to buy another drive, I send it in and get another with short remaining warrenty is why I like to pay for the longer warrenty. AS for seagate i bought 2 last month and got only 1 year of the drives usual 2 year warrenty is y im paying more attention this time. Alos in 25+years of building my old pcs seagates have been the most pron to failure for me. Yes wd's like to slow down with age but they keep going. My most reliables have been IBM/hitachi. Thanks for your quick replys. I keep looking myself to find for sure if this toshiba does really have 5 year warrenty. I'll keep my eye on the REDS I find on ebay marked as new with a reputable seller. Heres link to the drive I emailed seller to see http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hitachi-Toshiba-4TB-7200RPM-3-5-SATA3-6Gb-s-64MB-Hard-Drive-HDETR11GEA51-/281424405058?pt=US_Internal_Hard_Disk_Drives&hash=item418633a242

Hello guys I have been searching hard for another 4tb or 2, I want the longer warrenty so I was looking at wd reds or hitachi, then I stumbled upon this toshiba drive. It says it has warrenty till 2019 so I am very interrested to see if anyone has tested them on UNRAID. Toshiba 4TB 7200RPM 3.5" SATA3 6Gb/s 64MB Hard Drive HDETR11GEA51 Factory sealed . Direct Toshiba Warranty till 2019 I picked up two seagates last month 4tb stupidly not paying attention to warrenty. When I got them I seen 1 year warrenty. im not happy but for now one is parity and the other is just a tv drive so I will replace them over the summer. My movies are all on old out of warrenty drives on my unraid. They are also on my older windows 7 pc as well on drives out of warrenty.

Its built into unmenu, but its erroring saying I not have the directory when I click on the smart history If you wonder why writing so big on my screen is cause im legally blind and I have font set that large so I dont have to lower resolution.

Hello im running 5.0.6 and I have unmenu installed I just clicked on smart history and I got this error. Sorry: cannot run smarthistory. The /boot/smarthistory directory does not exist. How do I correct this so I can keep track or make sure my drives are healthy without running full parity checks daily? I thought I could just login via windows and make the directory, but am not positive where to put it? Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Ok thanks for your reply i'll fix the small unit for dads pc and I'll get myself the cyberpower 1500 model, think this 1500 model is enough for 2 pc's or just the server since my server is right next to my brothers gamer, my old server [my current backup server]

Finally figured out pics on this page Heres an older pic of my server when it was in my bedroom hooked up as a media server

Thanks for your replys first and foremost. mine still needs battery replaced or it just beeps so I cant set it up. My friend/cousin lives in PA im in CT so I cant look on his atm.

I have been told noone knows for sure about the model I mentioned, but I set it up on friends and it indeed does work. This model CyberPower CP1500AVRLCD UPS 140$