aaronwt

I've also installed this on my unRAID2 setup. I've finished pre-clearing three drives in both systems and everything seems to have worked great.

Thanks.. I just loaded this on my unRAID1a setup. It seems to be working fine so far. I picked up six of the Seagate 3TB drives for $75 each from Newegg last week. In the past I typically just loaded my drives without testing them and didn't have any problems. But it seems like the drives today are less reliable than in the past. So I wanted to start using the pre-clear script. And this plugin certainly makes things much easier. Thanks!

Change Tunable (poll_attributes) (Settings -> Disk Settings) to something like 180 (3 minutes) or 120 (2 minutes) or 60 (1 minute). (See Configuring the Settings -> Disk Settings -> the note about Tunable (poll_attributes)). Thanks.

I did a parity check recently and it finished this morning around 2AM. I have my spindown timer set for 3 hours so around 5Am all drives spun down. Around 8:40 Am the drives spun up when I was looking at the share. It's now been over ten minutes since the drives spun up and on the main page it still isn't showing any Drive temps. If I go to the dashboard and click on the individual drives, it will show the temps with the SMART info, but the temps are not showing up in the main page. Is this normal behavior? EDIT: The only drive not spin up was the parity drive. When I hit the "SPin UP" button the parity drive did spin up and then all temps showed up on the main page. But I wouldn't think I should need to hit this button for the temps to show up since the 23 data drives were previously spun up.

Yes. Logs are working here in Chrome too in Windows 10. Also in the Edge Browser. And in Internet Explorer.

Yes I upgraded all three of my unRAID setups to 6.1.1 without issue Sunday night from the UI. I really like this upgrade feature. So much easier than before. I am glad I upgraded all my unRAIDs to version 6.1.0 Saturday from version 5.0.6.

doh!!!! I don't know how I missed that. Thanks!!! And it had my settings from before. It was already set to move every hour. Thanks again!!!

I just upgraded my three unRAID setups to v6.1. I only run one setup with a cache drive and I can't find the mover settings. With the 5.0.6 version I had it set to move content every hour and there was a menu to enable this I think in the share section. But I can't find anything in v6.1. Am I missing it? Where is it please?

I'm getting this "avahi-daemon[1829]: Invalid response packet from host" from my Windows 10 machines. I tried disabling IPv6 in the network card but it made no difference. Is there any news on a way to stop this? It shows up from any Windows 10 machine that is on my network with all three of my unRAID 5.0.6 setups. Is this an issue with unRAID 6? If not this might be the push I need to upgrade.

I hope you put it in maintenance mode first. I'm running v5 unRAID and earlier this month I ran a rebuild Tree on one of my drives. But I forgot to put it in maiantenance mode first. So I lost everything on that drive. I'm still in the process of re-ripping those BD titles. next time I won't be in such a rush.

For films/photo storage you can also use cloud storage. I get unlimited storage with MS One drive. And with my Amazon cloud drive I get unlimited storage for photos. So while I keep multiple copies of my photos at home on unRAIDs and NAS devices, I also keep copies on multiple cloud storaege sites since it is so inexpensive.

Not sure why you think that. 24TB isn't really all that much these days ... on 4 6TB drives. A small 2nd UnRAID server with that much (or more capacity); and it takes ~ 5 minutes of "your time" to backup your entire collection [Clearly the copy would take a few days cross the network, but that doesn't require any action on your part except to initiate the copy.] He's talking about backing up onto actual DVD's. Would take forever. Beyond that, its actually cheaper to back it up onto other hard drives. How could you even back up to DVDs? Even BDs only have a paltry 50GB of storage and are very slow. But DVDs are pathetic with only 8.5GB of storage and even slower. Even back in 2001/2002 that wouldn't have been enough for me to store my HD recordings. I recorded 40GB to 60GB every week back then.

Just use external enclosures. I am currently using four external enclosures with my N54L. Each enclosure has the capability to have four drives. And I can add a fifth enclosure to house more drives. I am currently using five drive in my Microserver and thirteen drives in the fours external enclosures. I have a Rosewill RC-218 port multiplier PCIe x4 in the Micro server that gives me four ports that can be used with enclosures that are port multiplier capable. I only wish I had jumped on the N54L deal last week that Newegg had for $200 for the 4GB version. With another $30 off by rebate. I would have liked to setup a fourth unRAID server and eventually have it replace my second one which uses more power than I would like.

WoW!! I am way behind. I'm still using 5.0 final from last year. I'll need to upgrade my unRAID boxes sometime to this version. From what I read there shouldn't be any issues right? Just a straight upgrade by copying the three files in the instructions? I need to remember to backup my drive list and the flash drive files first.

I din't realize there had been a flurry of activity with unRAID. I'm still on the 5.0 Final on my three unRAID setups. So is it safe for me to upgrade all of them to unRAID 5.0.4?

Where can I find out more info on what I need to do to add this script to my N54L?

Yes. Resulted in quite an increase in transfer speed, mainly when copying data to the microserver. Reading was fast enough without the "fix". So what are new speeds now? With my N54L even copying content to my parity drive is limited in speed. I think it's only around 50MB/s. Where can I find more info about this script?

I went ahead and tried it again. It seems like the first few minutes after the GUI upgrade that it is unresponsive. I waited several minutes and then tried to access it. This time the pages came up properly with the new GUI. Hi, you using the swap page plugin from THEONE ? in both my servers i have to wait till the swap page is p before i can access the gui... guess it needs to compete the complete plugin circle before the GUI is ready ... you can test it by disabling mounting the swap during boot the gui should be much quicker accessible I don't use any plugins.

I went ahead and tried it again. It seems like the first few minutes after the GUI upgrade that it is unresponsive. I waited several minutes and then tried to access it. This time the pages came up properly with the new GUI.

Is there an issue running the new GUI on a single core CPU? I have a 2.4Ghz AMD LE-1620 that I upgraded to unRAID pro 5.0 but when I tried the new GUI it became unresponsive. I was never able to access it after the upgrade to the new GUI. I had no issues with my unRAID2 and unRAID3 which both have dual core CPUs. So with a single core at 2.4Ghz is thsi a problem or maybe just an isolated incident. I went back rc16c and had to do parity check. But now it's back where it should be and I have upgraded again to 5.0 butI'm not sure if I should try to use the new GUI again.

Newegg had a sale on the 3TB Seagates for $110 this past week. I picked up five of them and like usual they were packaged well by Newegg. They were in styrofoam withgslots designed to hold hard drives. Which is how Newegg has typically shipped me my drives. Although when I did the clearing process in my unRAID I was having issues with one drive. So when I attached it to my PC and transferred some files it initially transferred at 160+MB/s but then quickly dropped to almost a zero transfer rate. So I ran Seatools diagnostic on the drive and it failed. I need to ship the one Seagate 3TB drive back to Newegg for an exchange. And least Newegg pays for return shipping.

I have my cache drive set to move the content every hour or every two hours. At the top of the hour. run every two hours at the top of the hour 0 */2 * * * run every hour at the top of the hour 0 */1 * * *

That card looks just like the Rosewill RC218 card. Only four ports can be used at any one time. You use the jumpers to configure it for which ports you want to use. I use several of these RC218 cards in my unRAID setups because they support port multiplier capable enclosures. SO in one of my unRAID setups I have seventeen drives attached to one of these cards with three, 4 bay enclosures and one, 5 bay enclosure. I use four of these cards in total between my three unRAID setups. I've not run into a limit of the number of drives that can be attached to the motherboard and these cards, but I have run into issues with certain configurations with this card and other cards. I had to move the cards around to different PCI express slots and use trial and error to see which combination works. In one unRAID I use two of the RC218 pci express cards, two other two port pci express cards, plus the six on board sata connections. But in that setup I only use two ports on each of the RC218 cards with eight drives attached to each card since it is an older MB and an older version of PCI express so it runs at half the speed of my other unRAID setups. So I needed to put half as many drives on each card to keep the speeds the same as my other unRAID setups when doing a parity check.

For me, I always use the same test folder when testing copying. I have a small test folder with around 7GB or 8GB of files. Otherwise i will just use a BD ISO image for a large file to test with.

I've noticed with my three unRAID setups I get very fast writes to the cache drive when writng directly to it. I'm using 1TB cache drives in my three unRAID setups and writing directly to the cache drive I get between 70MB/s to 100MB/s writes depending on my unRAId setup. But when writing to a share that uses the cache drive those speeds drop to between 50MB/s to 65MB/s depending on my unRAID setup. Originally I thought I was having issues with my N54L unRAID but then I relaized that all my unRAID setups are slower in the same situation. Although my N54L still gives me my slowest transfer rates for some reason.