kevinm79

Hi all It's not often I write in forums or express my opinions. But today is a day I feel I must. I have been using unraid for quite a few years now. I believe it's been over 5 years. But for the life of me cannot find the email from when I bought my licence. When I embarked on the journey of wanting raid like features but without actually using a traditional raid. I looked over loads of options and even bought and tried FlexRAID and thought it was working well until I had a drive failure that it did not warn me of and data lost because it refused to recover. Plus a few other issues but I do not like to badmouth other products. So I started looking again and saw the various offerings but none of them was really user friendly for a noob like me. Then I happened to stumble onto unraid and thought I would give the limited (I believe it was 3 hdd) trial a go. Oh it was everything I ever needed in a storage solution simple to use, can upgrade hdds down the line without a painful process etc. A short while later disaster hit and and I suffered a failed 3TB seagate hdd (I know plenty of us have suffered losses due to seagate). But I still had access to all my data until a new drive came. Popped in the new drive and it rebuilt and away I went again. Then one day I thought I really want to upgrade my array to handle 6TB drives and was not looking forward to it. Found it was just easy to do again. rebuilds happened and once again Unraid is just working, Last week another seagate 3tb failed (surprised it lasted so long) And as I am writing this a 6TB hdd has replaced it and is 1.5% into the rebuild. So really thank you Lime Technology for actually selling a product that really works well and kept active development adding items. (also adding more drives to the plus licence). Well done Kevin EDIT Just found my reg date Sat 04 Oct 2014 09:10:13 PM BST

Hi All So far for the last few years I have been running a hp n54l without any issues. However as my needs has grown the N54L is starting to show its age. So its time to move on. One of my main issues is as I have an extra 4 drives connected to the Esata is speed. My write speed sucks and the cpu at times tops out. So the plan is below and my reasoning behind it. But if anyone has any better ideas or a reason it will not work please let me know. So going to pick up a HP DL380e with space for 14 drives and a hp H220 as this can it seems be flashed to IT mode. It also does have a HP Smart Array B120i SATA Controller on board but I have not read much into that yet. The reason for going for a HP card is I have read a few places that with other cards the server likes to run the fans at 100%. The only thing I have noticed is it says the H220 has a 42tb limit Im guessing this is if you use the card as intended or it was just the drives available at the time? Thoughts?

4gb ram mem usage 25%. I hardly run anything its just a huge file server for me

Im sure I replied to this. I must of been drunk or asleep. anyway amazon had a special on WD drives so just picked up 2x 6tb for £84 each. Guessing they will be blues inside. I just hope I can make them do a pre-clear in the enclosure as I want to see if they have any issues or fail before I break them free from there cages. But yea they are all good choices and some of them meet my I like to do things cheap budget

Thanks for the suggestions. I did look at a few options. Rockpi however the support seems lacking and a few people have hit brick walls with no answers. I did look at the 4k fire stick however I thought with kodi running and how big my library is I would run out of space for the image library. I did see osmc at £100 that supported 4k. Going to look at the N2 now. The shield is a backup option as well if nothing else suits my needs... Wish they would just bring out a 4k rpi

Hi All Been a long time forum lurker never really felt the urge to post. Over the years I have used various solutions to backup my data and at one point was considering a DROBO (I know but I know better now) I wanted something where I could grow my storage as drives got bigger or just add another drive as needed. And other solutions just did not fit my needs. (I did try and pay for another bit of software that failed me hard when a drive failed). I decided on the n54l microserver after reading the forums and got a really cheap deal for it. (its running up to 9 drives and been fw hacked to allow hotswap etc) And its been running flawless for years I have never really needed to log into it and do anything with it. So I am onto my next stage of my Unraid journey going to finally update to v6. After finding a helpful guide online and then start changing a few of the tired 3tb drives out with 6 or 8 tb drives (prices are low). The community here is fantastic and I have just been looking though loads of items I can add to automate everything for me. As of right now I use raspberry Pi's with kodi for my 1080p needs however as things are moving more to 4k does anyone know of a device like a raspberry pi that can handle 4k. (sorry if someone has already posted something)