aaronwt

With the My Movies Add In you can only select a local drive to store the content. I think you can select a shared drive when running My Movies with the Collection Management on a PC. But I have not tried it since I use my WHS for my Movies and any PCs are set as clients so they store the BD ISOs on the WHS if I rip it from a PC.

I saw that this morning. I'm glad I didn't place my order yesterday when they were $79.99. So this morning I ordered five of them as well as another external enclosure and a PCIe x4 SATA card with port multiplier capability. I plan on using three of the Seagates for data in the array, one as parity drive and one as a cache drive. And the other seventeen drives in the unRAID setup will be my old WD 1.5TB green drives that I replaced in my WHS.

I should get mine next week, but now decided not to use it in my Rosewill case. I changed out the stock power supply this morning which leaves less space. Plus the new Power supply is providing better cooling for the box. So I decided to just go with another external box and also get a PCIe x4 card with four port multiplier ports. Then I can just keep the current five drives in my case and add seventeen drives with three four bay and one five bay enclosure. Which should take me to the max of 22 drives since I am using a cache drive.

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What happens when the cache drive gets full? Does it start writing directly to the array? I currently have a 1.5TB drive for my cache and want to change it to 500GB, but there might be some times when it gets full since I will be copying over several terabytes of data. I want to use the 1.5TB in the array. Sent from my HTC Incredible using Tapatalk

I just ordered one of these to go in my Rosewill case. it will allow me to get six drives in my case instead of the current five. That along with my external multi bay enclosures will give me 19 drives for my first unRAID box. And best of all I used my AMEX reward points on Amazon for it so my out of pocket cost is nothing.

Do you say that from experience? I've never run into a board that couldn't run a PCIe x1 card in the PCIe x16 slot save for those few that can only run graphics cards in the PCIe x16 slot (which are typically older boards). Not experience, just been checking motherboard manuals of various motherboards. I guess those motherboards support video cards only in the slot when it says it doesn't support 1x. The manual doesn't explicitly state that it supports video cards, just that it doesn't support 1x. The Zotac board I just got last week says that in the manual, though I didn't actually test it. The ASUS M2N68-AM PLUS I got for my unRAID build says the same thing. But when I tryed my sil3132 port multiplier controller in the PCIe x16 slot it worked the same as the PCIe x1 slot. So I plan on putting another one in that slot along with a 3 in 2 cage and another multi bay external enclosure and increase my build to 19 drives. Instead of the 13 I initially planned.

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I put maybe because it would depend on how much work is involved. I know the current Beta testing I'm in with other devices takes up a fair amount of time to do the testing properly.

I think it slightly funny that you post here. You have 6 posts (including this one), have used unRAID for 1 month, and never had a problem with unRAID. You fit the critieria of the type of user that would: - decide to load a beta, - have problems, - try to fix it yourself, - have a 30 post thread where users are trying to help you understand what happened / why what you did in response was the wrong thing / and what to do now to try to salvage your data - have a weeklong recovery extravaganza, fully editorialzed in your thread, complaining all the while that no one told them that they could lose data with the beta. Forgive me for picking on you, because I don't know you and this may very well not be what would happen to you. But there are some new users, LIKE you, that will have this experience. The question is, how to stop it. I just set up the unRAID box last week. I already have around seventy terabytes of storage available on my home network and with my unRAId box I will add another fifteen or so with my initial build of thirteen 1.5TB drives. I would never install beta software for my stored content since it is too valuable to me and don't want to risk problems. I want to be able to use it and not have to mess with anything Just like my current boxes run with no issues like my WHS and other NAS devices. If I did use the beta I would take one of my boxes gathering dust and use that to test the bea software. At least it would give me something to do with the dozens of sub 1TB drives I have lying around.

All you have to do is mention CD and it becomes a pain. Cds were fine back in the 90's but not in 2011.

It's a Beta. That should be understood. It's up to the individual user whether to run a beta and they use at their own risk. It's not a final product. People aren't babies. So no need to treat them like babies.

I have the Rosewill version and am getting some good speeds from the two, 4 bay enclosures attached to it. I need to figure out what I can do to add two more enclosures. I only have five internal drives and the PCIx16 slot on my ASUS MB supposedly only supports video cards. I guess I need to check it out to make sure.