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Thanks, I was using a combination of the search box in the upper right and google to pull out links

Thanks, the links I kept seeing were to: Temperature based fan speed control? - http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5548.0 Supermicro X9SCM-F PWM fan_control - http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=22393.0 Temperature-based fan speed control for unRAID - http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5583.45 etc... etc...

Is there currently an easy way built into unraid to control based on system temps? Currently the fans fin full speed making it exceedingly noisy. Looking through the search on threads about this, they all seem to be a few years old so was looking for an easy way to possibly get the fan noise under control. I currently have a Supermicro X10SL7-F with the following fans connected to the headers: CPU Heatsink - Stock PWM Front intake, 120mm PWM Rear exhaust, 120mm PWM Side exhaust, 120mm PWM Top Exhaust, 200mm non-pwm

I would think a 500W PSU would be fine. Im running a xeon, 4 wd reds, 2 hgst 7600rpm drives, an ssd, and 4 case fans and my UPS reports im using only about 150W after boot. During boot you will spike higher but 500 should be fine. Im using a Corsair CX500 that I got on newegg for 25$ after rebate.

I got lucky and managed to grab 2 off of newegg on cyber monday for $209 out the door. Apparently there was some glitch with the mobile site but they honored the price.

I'd like to get 2 keys, one for a stagin area and one for my production box. Is there any sort of package deal like this or just need to get 2 licenses separately?

Thanks for the tips. The last of the hardware arrived today so hopefully Ill be able to do the build tonight.

1000w seems like overkill, but since you are recycling it from the earlier rig I get it.

http://lime-technology.com/setting-up-your-file-structure-and-user-shares-on-unraid/ I read this article on user shares, and i think i get the idea. How would a disk share differ? So none of your user shares are set to be cached?

So you are suggesting just using the SSD as the cache drive but not actually caching anything there? Just use it to hold the vms and any app data needed, such as the plex database? When I am orginally setting up the server I will have well over the 250GB of space that the SSD holds. Can I copy directly to the array if there is a cache disk present? Or does it only get cached if you copy data to the cache, then the mover will move it at a later time?

It was designed, and marketed, as a MEDIA server. This. Even in the wiki it states http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Configuration_Tutorial#Security

For my build I have: 4 x 3TB WD Red drives 2 X 4TB HGST NAS drives 1 X 250GB Samsung EVO SSD 1 or possibly 2 2TB WD Green I believe the proper setup would be: Data drives: 4 X WD Reds 1 X HGST Parity drive: 1 X HGST Now, I would ideally only like to use the SSD to run my virtual machines, as it is small but fast and I would be doing all of the plex transcoding to this drive. I would then probably use a 2TB Green drive, assuming they pass preclear as I want to stress them since they are pretty old, as the cache drive. Does this seem like a proper way to set this up? Would I then setup the SSD to not be managed by unraid in anyway since it will not need to copy information to the array?

Another odd thing I noticed was that I have 2 new 4TB HGST Drives with what seem to be very slow read speeds on the initial pre-reads as reported by my update emails. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145912 HGST Deskstar NAS H3IKNAS40003272SN (0S03664) 4TB 7200 RPM Both drives report calculated read speeds between 88 and 95 MB/s. Think this is any cause for concern?

What specifically did you not like about the CX500? I just purchased one from newegg for 25$ after rebate for my new build. Edit: Added my build specs. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1241 V3 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For $294.64) Motherboard: Supermicro X10SL7-F Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (Purchased For $249.99) Memory: Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (Purchased For $127.48) Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $83.75) Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $83.75) Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $83.75) Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $83.75) Storage: Hitachi Deskstar NAS 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $105.00) Storage: Hitachi Deskstar NAS 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $105.00) Case: Antec Nine Hundred ATX Mid Tower Case (Purchased For $79.99) Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $24.99) Other: SanDisk Cruzer Fit CZ33 16GB USB 2.0 Low-Profile Flash Drive- SDCZ33-016G-B35 ($4.99) Other: LimeTech Single unRAID® Server Plus Registration key ($89.00) Other: iStarUSA BPN-DE110SS-BLUE 1x5.25" to 1x3.5" SATA/SAS 6.0Gb/s Trayless Hot-Swap Cage - Blue Handle (Purchased For $4.99) Other: iStarUSA BPN-DE110SS-RED 1x5.25" to 1x3.5" SATA/SAS 6.0Gb/s Trayless Hot-Swap Cage - Red Handle (Purchased For $4.99) Other: iStarUSA BPN-DE340SS-BLACK 3x5.25" to 4x3.5" SAS/SATA 6.0 Gb/s Trayless Hot-Swap Cage - Black Handle (Purchased For $19.99) Total: $1446.05 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-05 17:12 EST-0500

I'm using the original preclear.

That it was doing random vs sequential access for the post read portion was my guess but I wasn't sure. I'm not really concerned about the duration, I still have a bit before the rest of my servers hardware shows up on my doorstep. Thanks for the clarification.

Been preclearing a few 3TB WD Red drives with 3 cycles per drive. On every cycle on every drive so far I get about half speed post read speeds. Pre-read average: 110-120 MB/s Zeroing disk average: 120-140 MB/s Post-read average: 55-65 MB/s Is this normal? Why would the post read take longer and run so much slower?

So I think there is something funky going on with my other SATA connections. Once I hooked up the other two drives to exactly the cables that were used for the previous preclear the drives were recognized. A problem to sort out for another day, on to preclearing!

Syslog from the last boot is attached syslog.txt

Here is what I have tried so far: Reset BIOS to default Moved drive to another sas port with the same result Added drive to windows 8 machine and did a quick format on it, drive was recognized and partioned. Ran crystal disk info to get information on the drive (screenshot attached) and it all appears correct. Added drive back to unraid machine and get the same results as my original post. Ran fdisk - l and it only shows my usb stick which was used to boot into unraid

Upon closer examination, bios is reporting the wrong model numbers during POST. I'm going to try these in another machine and see what happens. Otherwise is this probably an RMA for these drives? EDIT: This was a misreading on my part. It is reporting the correct model number like I thought, but when I looked at it quickly when I got home, I was thinking I should be seeing the serial number. So post shows the correct model number. These are the correct model and serial numbers. Dec 2 08:48:43 CrystalPalace2 kernel: ata3.00: ATA-9: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0, WD-WCC4N4JPZZE6, 82.00A82, max UDMA/133 Dec 2 08:48:43 CrystalPalace2 kernel: ata4.00: ATA-9: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0, WD-WCC4N4JPZL7Z, 82.00A82, max UDMA/133 Why these model numbers are not lining up is the question. Dec 2 08:48:43 CrystalPalace2 kernel: ata3.00: model number mismatch 'WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0' != 'C WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 €' Dec 2 08:48:43 CrystalPalace2 kernel: ata4.00: model number mismatch 'WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0' != 'C WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 €'

I'm away from the machine until tonight but I'm pretty sure that is the latest BIOS for that motherboard. As I noted, BIOS sees the drives correctly with the correct model numbers during POST. It is just unraid that seems to be confused. I'll try to hook them up to an external bay I have on another machine tonight and see if they can be recognized.

Diagnostics attached. Looking through the syslog I noticed this but have no idea what it means or what would cause it. WCC4N4JPZZE6 and WCC4N4JPZL7Z are the correct new drives. Dec 2 08:48:43 CrystalPalace2 kernel: ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Dec 2 08:48:43 CrystalPalace2 kernel: ata3.00: ATA-9: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0, WD-WCC4N4JPZZE6, 82.00A82, max UDMA/133 Dec 2 08:48:43 CrystalPalace2 kernel: ata3.00: 5860533168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) Dec 2 08:48:43 CrystalPalace2 kernel: ata3.00: model number mismatch 'WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0' != 'C WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 €' Dec 2 08:48:43 CrystalPalace2 kernel: ata3.00: revalidation failed (errno=-19) Dec 2 08:48:43 CrystalPalace2 kernel: ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Dec 2 08:48:43 CrystalPalace2 kernel: ata4.00: ATA-9: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0, WD-WCC4N4JPZL7Z, 82.00A82, max UDMA/133 Dec 2 08:48:43 CrystalPalace2 kernel: ata4.00: 5860533168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) Dec 2 08:48:43 CrystalPalace2 kernel: ata4.00: model number mismatch 'WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0' != 'C WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 €' Dec 2 08:48:43 CrystalPalace2 kernel: ata4.00: revalidation failed (errno=-19) crystalpalace2-diagnostics-20151202-0851.zip

I am having new hardware slowly trickle in from black friday sales etc, so I have been getting drives cleared as they come in. I just finished 2 WD Reds and wanted to start the preclear on the other two. Bios recognizes them when the machine starts but unraid does not see them. I am using the trial version of unraid for now until I get my server all put together. I unhooked the sata and power cables from the two drives that I cleared and hooked up cables to the two I want to clear. Running preclear_disk.sh -l shows no drives to preclear. The webgui does not show the drives either. Running dmesg|grep SATA|grep link shows 2 SATA links up at 1.5Gbps I'd like to get these preclears running because they took almost 72hrs last time and I feel like I've lost 24 hours so far with no clearing running . Is this some sort of weird issue related to the 3 drive license of the trial version of unraid? Some other issue that I haven't discovered yet? Any other things I could try to fix this or to tryto diagnose the issue? Thanks.

Thanks, sounds like I'll be fine then. I'll be putting this in an Antec 900 mid tower case.