mrow

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  1. That is because 99% of hard drive manufacturer's are not in the USA, hence the standard is metric. You can easily spot the Americans because we are to lazy to learn how to convert from the Imperial system, or maybe it is just stubbornness. But 102F is the highest I have seen any of my drives, and I have 6 packed into 1 side of a Micro-Atx case, I did upgrade the stock fans for some better airflow, heat will not be a factor for my drives. It was the rolling brownouts until I put on APC unit online. Actually most hard drive manufacturers (Seagate and WD) are based in the US, their factories are just based overseas. Maybe this has changed but when I start getting into building PCs and later servers around 15 years ago temps were always quoted in celsius unless the user changed it, and I'm from the US. When I see temps quoted in fahrenheit I'm totally thrown off because 99% of people online, including Americans, use celsius so I have no idea off the top of my head whether those temps relate to.
  2. SAB for 99.9% of everything I download. I use the SickBeard post processing script to handle TV shows and for movies I set a category up to extract them to the directory I have CP monitor. Downloading stuff with torrents is something I do so rarely I just download the stuff to my default download directory and sort it manually.
  3. Archive drives are best used for data that does not change. An archive is written once, and never changed, not updated or deleted. A large amount of the data on most unRAID installation is media which is not being changed, updated, or even deleted. This is a good match. Image backups which are updated weekly/monthly are less of a match. The results of testing and user experience here conclude the opposite. These drives work well even as parity disks. I personally plan to run one as parity and one as a storage disk in my array until the new non-shingled Seagates come out in the coming months. Then I'll move the parity disk to the array and replace it with the new Seagate.
  4. I personally use Blue Harvest for this purpose. Instead of deleting these files after the fact it prevents them from being created in the first place. http://www.zeroonetwenty.com/blueharvest/ It's not free but a single $15 license covers up to three Macs. It has the added bonus of preventing these files from being created on USB connected drives as well.
  5. That's one reason why I use the ignore_unrar_dates special option in sabnzbd. It sets the extracted files date/time as the local time. Unfortunately this occasionally leads to something getting moved before the extraction is complete.
  6. You set it to check every X number of minutes. I set it to every 30 minutes to give a the movie a chance to extract. If you download stuff outside of CP's Wanted feature it has no way of knowing when something it's actually completed extracting and will move the incomplete extraction. I'm sure there's post processing scripts out there that would make this smoother but I haven't bothered to look into them. If something downloads and I want it moved right away I just log in to the CP web interface on my phone and hit "Manual folder scan" under the "Wanted" section.
  7. Yeah, that's easy, and how I use CP 99% of the time since I usually search for and download my movies manually. In the CP settings click "Renamer" and set the "From" field to where you want CP to watch for new movies. Set the "To" field to where you keep your movies. Set the folder and file name fields to the format you want them to be named. Turn on advanced settings and set the "Run Every" field to how often you want it to look for movies in the "From" directory.
  8. In for two. Ordered from Newegg and submitted a price match request so I can get the free 2-day ShopRunner shipping and 2% cash back from a cash back portal.
  9. Why not buy a cheap USB 3.0 card if whatever you're using to preclear them doesn't have it? With USB 3.0 they'll preclear at the same speed as a direct SATA connection.
  10. Nice price. In for one. Got an extra 2% back by going through my credit card portal to Newegg.
  11. Not sure if this is the best place to post a suggestion/bug report or not but you may want to add a rate limit on notifications for the Mac version. I had a disk fail during a parity check and the app threw a notification for every single error. The flood of thousands of notifications locked up one of my older Macs. This is probably something Apple should prevent in the notifications API but in the mean time it's something soeeding_ant could remedy from the app side.
  12. These are great drives. I've had two in my server for a while, one going in 2 years now, without a hiccup. If I wasnt in the process of phasing my 3TB drives out I would have grabbed another one.
  13. Any idea how long that MasterCard code is good for? I actually have a new MasterCard credit card in the mail right now.
  14. They did. Price still needs to come down more now that 5 and 6 TB disks are out.
  15. Gotta read the f'ing manual the manual.
  16. It does support Notification Center notifications, so you will get notified if a disk is overheating or has errors. Awesome! As far as I'm concerned email notifications are no longer needed then. Hmm, I'll be the first second to point out it's not truly a replacement for email notifications. It's not server side, so it relies on a client machine to have Margarita open with an active network connection to unRAID. With the iPhone app, I will support local notification centre notifications (like the OS X app). However, due to the design of the iPhone OS, I cannot guarantee that the app will not suspend and stop working if it's in the background. There is the option of setting up a notification server, then having a servlet plugin available for the unRAID server you wish to monitor. This would post the notifications to the notification server, which then could potentially send to your phone via an APN. This would not be included in the first release. Because it requires a server continually running (aka sitting on my host), I would need to see how viable this would be as a feature. I skimmed over that and read it as push notifications on the iOS app. I'd be willing to pay extra for the iOS version if it supported APN.
  17. Price is showing as $199.99 for me. Would have been in for one for a new parity drive otherwise.
  18. WD refurbs just give you what you had left on the warranty of the drive you're replacing. You don't get another year.
  19. It does support Notification Center notifications, so you will get notified if a disk is overheating or has errors. Awesome! As far as I'm concerned email notifications are no longer needed then.
  20. Yeah you are right, my calibrated 27" Thunderbolt is a load of crap. Just add themes, let everyone decide for themself if they want the cool and professional white or the gay dusk theme. Btw, this is not a iPhone app... Err, it IS an iPhone app, did you even LOOK at the screenshots? eerr... check the topic title. NATIVE osx app. The screenshots are probably just from xcode's emu. I dont think you actually bought the app did you? I did. It runs on my mac. On OSX. He is previewing the upcoming iOS version of that app. Clearly. If you actually read speeding_ant's posts you'd know that. Try that next time before spouting off like a dickhead.
  21. The 5.0 upgrade instructions say to run the new permissions script.
  22. Any updates? I'm curious how other versions of Ubuntu or other distros went for you.
  23. Yeah you are right, my calibrated 27" Thunderbolt is a load of crap. Just add themes, let everyone decide for themself if they want the cool and professional white or the gay dusk theme. Btw, this is not a iPhone app... Jowi, that wasn't a direct attack on you. I don't care if you've got a calibrated 27" Thunderbolt display or a 12" TFT from the past. I was simply trying to get constructive feedback. This really isn't the place for hostility. It is not constructive, and it is not appreciated. Thanks. Guess you haven't been privileged to read some of his other postings around here. That guy is always a dickhead. Ignore the trolls.
  24. +1 Dude, you've got to cut that signature down. That is out of control.