christuf

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  1. That's a good course of action - I suspect you'll be joining the OCD club in no time at all!
  2. It seems you just need one user share (perhaps called "Media") - you can leave out the included/excluded disks (it will use all available disks by default). Most people use the "High Water" allocation method, rather than most free. Only remaining item is the split level - this determines how UnRaid splits data between disks. If you can give an example of the way your data is organized and how you would prefer it split over disks, I can tell you what level setting you need (prob not 4).
  3. Bad memory can often be the cause of sync errors. Reboot the server (cleanly!) - at start-up, you can choose between booting into UnRaid, and running Memtest. Choose the latter and let us know the results
  4. This seems to be a perfectly good strategy. I wanted to be a little more cautious when I moved over, so I bought enough storage to take all my current and near-term future data needs. That way I could fully populate the array and start to use, keeping my original data intact. Now that UnRaid has "earned my trust", it can have the older disks! You might also want to consider 3TB drives, as the newly released 5.0b7 supports them. Two 3TB hard disks would contain all your current data (2.5TB) and give you some more growing room before needing more HDDs (or using the old drives). Usual cautions about being careful given the beta status/ few people who have tested it, but just something to consider.
  5. Does this do it for you? http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Manual#Add_user
  6. Don't know of you used a Mac to put the files on the drive, but recently someone had an issue as a result of a ."_pro.key" file being created. If so, find and rm this file.
  7. Watch out in the Announcements section. Upgrade instructions will be given in the Release Notes, like here (for 5.0b6)
  8. UnRaid currently doesn't support "sub-shares". Therefore you either simply create your MP3 and CD directories under music (using Windows Explorer or Finder for example), or if you want them to themselves be shares, then you just create them as shares (and you won't be able to put them both in a "Music" folder).
  9. There is the option to buy two keys at checkout, so you can have a backup. Also, Tom (the developer) is generally very accommodating if your USB drive breaks... if you email him and explain what happened, he will usually kindly send another key file. Can currently be up to 2.2Tb if you do some clever formatting tricks on a 3Tb drive for example. There is however no benefit to having a larger parity drive in of itself. It must however be at least as large as the largest other drive in the array.
  10. Allows the apps to run on the cache drive which is always spun-up, and the data drives to remains spun-down. Make sense? and, when writing to the cache drive the parity drive does not need to spin up, therefore, saving a bit of power. Hadn't thought of that... nice bonus
  11. Allows the apps to run on the cache drive which is always spun-up, and the data drives to remains spun-down. Make sense?
  12. Please provide details of your system setup and UnRaid version - very difficult to assist without this information. Nevertheless, if it worked on a different laptop, it sounds like a Windows issue to me.
  13. People are very fond of AstraWeb - they have a good price point compared to Giganews
  14. That's very kind - thank you. I think I may get one of the new ones and see if it stands out too much (I've got a Antec 1200, so got three more bays to fill!). If it looks bad, I'll probably sell the old style one and get a new one... then hope that they don't change them again before I complete my setup! The new ones do look better designed I have to say. It's ridiculous that Norco's own website is still showing the old version!
  15. Of course... here you go: http://pcdirect.com/noss5baysasa.html
  16. SS-500 is a great product. Currently available for about $90 with free shipping. You will have to bend the tabs as you note, but it's pretty straightforward with a C-clamp. No additional connectors required - it uses 2 of the standard molex connectors from your PSU (see good pictures here)
  17. Yes - that drive isn't looking to healthy. I'm not sure how wise it is to put a known bad drive into the array. I think if I were you, I'd copy the data from the bad drive to a new one first to make sure it doesn't die with all your data on it. Then go into building parity with known good hardware. Honestly not sure what is causing your slow parity build speeds... unlikely to be the drive I would have thought, but perhaps it's a hint from a "higher power" to replace the drive.
  18. That's fine, but it's worth finding out what the motherboard is and doing some research before committing data to it. For instance some Gigabit motherboard have a "feature" called HPA that needs to be carefully disarmed before bowling in with UnRaid. It may work off the bat, but unless you check up, the could be future issues that won't be obvious when you first fire the computer up. Sorry, I had misread your initial post. You're planning of buying some sort of caged drive connected via SATA to the computer? I can't think of a problem with this approach, although I've never seen it done. Probably not very cost or space efficient either, and arguably somewhat dangerous to have loose drives (to get knocked about). Most people even put their USB flash drive inside the computer to protect it!
  19. What motherboard is in the system? Hardware incompatibility could be an issue... Also depending on your plan for number of drives, you may need a better PSU
  20. Have you tried reseating the SATA cables? Maybe one is loose and slowing down data transfer speeds. Did you preclear your new drive? Can you check the SMART reports of the drives to see if there are any issues? Sorry - I'm not expert here, so these suggestions might be useless... just trying to use what I've learned so far
  21. Have you got another computer you can try this with? It sounds like a problem with that computer rather than UnRaid, but an independent check would help. Any interesting entries in the syslog?
  22. @speeding_ant - awesome package! Thank you so much. Any chance of slightly changing the disk stats page to exclude the cache drive from the calculation of "Total Array Size" and related statistics? It isn't part of the protected array, thus I'd don't consider it useable space.
  23. Not wishing to contradict you @dgaschk - perhaps I've misread the question... Are you asking if the /mnt/cache/.custom directory is protected by parity? If so, I'm certain the answer is no. In order to protect myself, I have a cron job scheduled daily to copy the content of the .custom directory to a disk in the protected array. If you're doing doing that, then that copy is protected (although the original isn't) Only files that are moved off of the cache drive by the mover script become protected... anything that remains on the cache drive (like your .custom directory) isn't.
  24. Errr.... those are USAS cards, not USAS2. Oh - well spotted sir!
  25. Raj/ anyone else - When did Norco change the design of the SS-500? I bought one of these a few months ago... but now they seem to look like this Very irritating not to have a consistent look to the front panel