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Either the user "bob" needs to be able to access the root directory or you need to mount your shares in the user "bob"'s home directory. i.e. /home/bob/mnt/tv_shows Mounting the shares in just /mnt/tv_shows would be mounting in the root directory and therefor the "bob" account would need permissions for that.

So do Ferraris. Maybe I should steal the engine from one and put it in my car since I can't afford one. If you can't afford the Mac you need, the answer is not to steal the OS. The answer is to save your money until you can afford it or use another OS. And to people saying well I bought Snow Leopard so it's OK. Give me a break, that OS came out 4 and a half years ago and you paid $20 or $30 dollars for it. That's not justification to continue getting every OS update from that point on. Is buying Windows 7 three and a half years ago justification to steal Windows 8 and Windows 9 when it comes out?

If you want to use your own router with FiOS you can call Verizon and have them change the port on your ONT to Ethernet from coax then change the setting on your FiOS router to use Ethernet WAN and just plug your FiOS routers WAN port in to a port on your own router/switch.

I think the new Mac Pros solves the horsepower problem.

802.11ac is not finalized just like n was called "draft n" for years. Just like most of the draft n products, any further changes to the standard will very likely only require firmware upgrades at this point, not hardware upgrades. I've running the 802.11ac AirPort Extreme since it was released and it's been great. I got better range even on my n devices. 1.3Gbps over wireless now on ac devices it pretty sweet.

Off topic but a little disappointed by the number of hackintoshes I see mentioned in here. Apple doesn't charge for OS X any more so all the money they make is from selling that hardware. If you're going to steal the OS at least buy a Mac Mini or something.

Cool, send me a message when you get around to doing that and I'll let you know.

Off topic but what CPU did the G5 have in it and do you still have it? If you're looking to get rid of it for cheap maybe I'll take it off your hands to upgrade the CPU in my G5 Xserve. I've got the 2.0GHz chip in it now.

You're obviously doing something else wrong. No, their drivers are just terrible. They really aren't actually, but don't let facts get in the way of a good sweeping statement. Clearly you have much more real world enterprise experience than I do and are obviously right.

I'm using the same thumb drive I've been using for the last 4 years. A little SanDisk Blade 2GB. My server has been up about 30 days since the last reboot and I have 7070 reads and 65 writes to it. To be killing your thumb drives so quickly you've either got to be using some really shit thumb drives or you're doing something wrong.

You're obviously doing something else wrong. No, their drivers are just terrible.

I think some of things people are asking for risk turning the app from a quick reference tool of the server into a full blown replacement for the webgui.

There is a way to disable it permanently but I don't know how exactly, I did a quick Google search but the results I glanced at referenced Windows so I didn't look at them because I don't have any Windows computers.

How about a case like this one: http://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=N82E16811165215 It's rack mounted and also has six 5.25 inch drive bays. That would allow you to store up to ten disks if you used 5 in 3 disk cages like this one. It allows you to fix 5 disks in 3 5.25 in drive bays. The disks go in hot swap trays which I'm guessing is what you like. http://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=N82E16817994155

I'm not sure you're going to be able to find an external enclosure with multiple eSATA connections. The closest thing I can think of that you'll find would be getting something like a 5 in 3 drive cage, some SATA to eSATA cables and a molex to AC power adapter, plus a card that has multiple eSATA ports, and cards with more than two eSATA ports are pretty expensive. Even then it's a pretty ghetto setup. In the end you're going to be better off just getting a case that better suits your needs. I don't know if you need rack mounted but this cheap $60 Norco 2U rack mounted case has mounts for four 3.5 inch drives plus a 5.25 inch bay you could fit another one in with brackets for a total of 5 drives. So unless your friend was going to sell you that Cineraid for ridiculously cheap, just upgrading to a better case will probably be cheaper. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219032

That enclosure looks like it supports JBOD but the controller your eSATA port is connected to on your motherboard has to support port multiplication for it to work. Also, the major downside is that all disks in the enclosure would be sharing the bandwidth of the single SATA connection so parity checks or accessing data from more than one disk at a time will be really slow. In my opinion it's not really worth it.

Awesome! Looking forward to the beta!

You got my reply before my edit. Also, any chance of an option for a flat black or grayscale menubar icon? I'm not really a fan of colorful menubar icons.

Without removing the disk from the server and connecting to to a machine that you can run the utility to change it permanantely you could add the hdparm command to your go file. You just need to reference the disk by ID because the drive letters can change across reboots. So just add a line like the following for each one of your disks you want to disable it on. hdparm -B 255 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3000DM001-XXXXXX_YYYYYYYY

Did you take an ethics class in college?? The refurbs don't have an extended warranty. That would maybe be unethical. They carry over the warranty of the original disk. Don't really see it as unethical considering they're getting to working disks they can then refurbish and reuse.

This is awesome! I've got 5 Macs of various ages and models I can test this on. Late 2007 MBP, Late 2011 MBP, Late 2013 retina MBP, Late 2010 MBA and a Mid 2012 MBA. All running 10.9.2. I noticed there is an "Array" switch. I'm assuming this just stops the array. Is there also a way to reboot/shutdown the server? After you're done with the Mac app, please build the iOS companion to it!

No issues with the NF-R8s on my X9SCM. Are you saying you have 4 fans plugged in to a splitter and attached to a single fan header on the board?

Highest I've seen my Reds go with my cooling setup in my Norco 4224 is 33.

Just an FYI if you're thinking about upgrading your drives to larger sizes. People still pay a good amount of money on eBay for used hard drives. If you don't plan on reusing your drives it's a nice way to help finance the cost if the replacements. I had two WD 2TB Greens that had a warranty that was about to expire. So I RMA'd them (you can make up a reason for the RMA, WD and Seagate in my experience never deny an RMA if the drive is in warranty) and received factory refurbs in return and turned around and sold them both for about $80 on eBay. Even non refurbs people still pay good money for. I sold a 4 year old Hitachi 2TB for $60. Selling those 2 WDs allowed me to get two WD Red 4TBs for essentially $80 bucks. If you sell the used drives remember to wipe them first. I use the preclear script with -W option so it skips the preread and goes straight to zeroing.

It looks like that case has 1 5.25 inch bay and 2 3.5 in bays. You could fill the 3.5 bays with 2 normal disks and then get one of these for your 5.25 bay and get 4 laptop disks in there for a total of 6 disks. http://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=N82E16817994095