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For the number of drives you can fit in that case it is overkill but it'll also give you some future proofing as well in case you decide you need more storage and upgrade to a bigger case and more drives. I would order it right now if you get this at the time of my posting because it's on a shell shocker deal plus there is a $10 rebate bringing the price all the way down to 38 bucks after rebate.
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Do you have your IP set manually in the unraid settings? If yes, did you make sure to add DNS servers?
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Seagate Barracuda 3TB (ST3000DM001) 7200 119$ (freeship)
mrow replied to bsim's topic in Good Deals!
My green drives love having this guy as their parity drive. -
The 2GB RAM limit of the N2600 could be limiting. The N2800 that spec sheet lists as optional would be a better choice since it supports 4GB like the D510 in the X7SPA. The N2800 is also 1.86GHz vs. the 1.6GHz of the N2600 or 1.8GHz D510 while still being half the TDP.
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Another user on here posted about wanting to use that motherboard before but never posted back about whether he did or not. That hardware should run unraid fine as long as you don't plan on needing to do any on the fly transcoding of video or plan on running anything but basic plugins. Also, I'd recommend paying the extra few bucks and getting a 4GB stick of RAM in case you ever do decide to run some plugins. It's only $3 dollars more. (http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145322) Also make sure you are running the latest release of version 5 to ensure compatibility with that LAN chipset.
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There is a difference between illegal and illegitimate. Even just violating the software's EULA would be an illegitimate, while not illegal, use. Additionally, to install OS X on ESXi you need to use a tool to bypass or remove the routine the OS X installer and operating system run to verify that it is being installed and run on Apple hardware and prevents you from doing so if you do if it is not. Bypassing this check is a violation of the DMCA in the US. Doing so is not only an illegitimate use under the terms of the EULA, it is also illegal.
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That's not legit. Only way to do that is to pirate OS X. The OP said he doesn't want to do that. You can get a legit copy of lion by calling apple Phone Sales 1-800-692-7753. No, you can't. Lion is not longer the current version and the only way to purchase a copy of Mountain Lion is to purchase/download it from the Mac App Store.
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That's not legit. Only way to do that is to pirate OS X. The OP said he doesn't want to do that.
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<RANT> Well, constant spinning beach balls, constant spotlight re-indexing, constantly having to force load webpages every time you open one. Feel free to search the web for "Lion Sucks" or similar phrase, I'm sure you'll find ample descriptions. I never had one problem with Snow Leopard. Just to be clear, I have had a Mac since my first 128K Macintosh in 1984, so this comes as a rude surprise for me. I don't want my Desktop to look like my iPhone, either. </RANT> I'm glad it worked for you, I just don't have the time to invest right now to reinstall Snow Leopard, especially because the Mail format has completely changed and downgrading has been made nearly impossible (well, a complete PITA anyways). Have you started from a fresh install? I know that's a pain the the ass and a very 'Windows' solution but it can make a difference. My 2007 MacBook Po was dragging ass even in Snow Leopard (having upgraded from Tiger to Leopard then SL) so when Lion came out I wiped it clean its been great, even after the ML upgrade. I think some of that legacy PowerPC stuff baked in caused some of the issues and Lion was the first version without it. But desktop looking like iOS? What is iOS about it at all? There's Launch Center but I never use it and its not necessary.
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For some reason last night my DNS host was deleted from dyndns. I had to create a new one and the old domain I was using is no longer available on the free service.
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Don't know what happened to you because Mountain Lion runs great on my late 2007 MacBook Pro, my Late 2011 MacBook Pro, my Late 2010 MacBook Air and my girlfriends Mid 2009 MacBook Pro. Sounds like you have some other type of issue...
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I don't use wifi for streaming.. Nice utp cable hidden away makes sure I never have any issues with playing.. Guess you are all set then. I have two AppleTV 2s but I've thought about picking up a first gen on eBay to play with some time.
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Problem is for HD playback you have to open it up and replace the wifi card with a CrystalHD card so you lose wifi capability.
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Is there any brand new SOLID/STABLE motherboards available?
mrow replied to opentoe's topic in Motherboards and CPUs
There was a comment on the Newegg feedback for the Supermicro board with a guy saying he used a Celeron with it. Also, remember, the Supermicro requires ECC RAM so unless that 12GB you have is ECC it won't work in the board. -
Well like I said, not possible since the only way to buy a copy is off of the Mac App Store on Apple hardware. Pick up a used Mac Mini or something if you want to play around with OS X.
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Didn't even notice he said software RAID. You're right, you can't.
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Is there any brand new SOLID/STABLE motherboards available?
mrow replied to opentoe's topic in Motherboards and CPUs
Do you need the hardware right away? In the past two months there have been three sales on the Supermicro board, bringing the price down $30 bucks. If you can wait a little bit you might be able to catch another sale on it. The other thing I'd say is if you even think you might want to do virtualization, as seems to be becoming more and more popular on here these days, in the future you're better off going for this board. Then all you'd have to do it buy the processor and pop it in, with the AMD you'd have to buy a whole new setup. EDIT: I should also mention this board is picky about power supplies. The one you are using now may not work. If you weren't planning on upgrade that too right now, and yours doesn't work with it, you may be better off with the AMD. -
Based on you naming 256GB and 512GB disks I'm assuming you're using SSDs? Why don't you just use a large standard hard drive for very large files like the one you've mentioned. What you're proposing should be possible but if one of those drives fails you'll loose the data on both of them. Seems like just using one larger disk would make much more sense.
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You can purchase a 3 year warranty for a hard drive of this price on SquareTrade for $18 bucks
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This looks like a better option in terms of cooling potential and air flow if you're looking for a really small case at around the price point you listed. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119258 Looks like it comes with a power supply but it's almost certainly a piece of junk so you'll want to replace it.
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Is there any brand new SOLID/STABLE motherboards available?
mrow replied to opentoe's topic in Motherboards and CPUs
Weird it doesn't support i5's and i7's because it does support Celerons and Pentiums. I use it with a Core i3-2120. It is more than powerful enough to run many plugins including on the fly video transcoding plugins. I am running 15 different plugins at the moment. And yes, these are server motherboards so they require ECC RAM but it is not much more than standard desktop RAM these days. IPMI is as simple as plugging an ethernet cable into the IPMI port and connecting it to your router and letting the Supermicro IPMI software detect it. It is very useful as well. It allows for complete hands off, headless management. Here is a thorough overview of it: http://www.servethehome.com/supermicro-ipmiview-review-remote-server-monitoring-management-ipmi-20-kvm-over-ip/ -
So what, $20 or $30 dollars more for a tier with 10 disks and AD support? At that price point you might as well just pay the extra money for the pro license... I think the current pricing scheme is just about perfect. No reason to add a bunch of different tiers and confuse people. It'll end up looking like Windows with a million different versions. Not to mention the price of a pro license is about the same cost as a single large hard drive. I think it's a pretty good deal.
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Don't wait too long before getting the UPS. From reading the board, it seems that power interruption is a major source of all user problems. (I am not really sure why this should be the case.) Plus, it will trigger a parity check on restart which limits access speed at the very least and some users report problems accessing shares until the check finishes. I consider using unRAID without a UPS like crossing an ocean in a twenty foot boat without a life raft or a life vest. Buy one that you know will be a bit too big. A UPS that is a bit too small is a total waste of money as it will provide zero protection as it will shutdown 30 milliseconds after the power fails. +1 Had the power go out during a storm before I had the UPS and it killed a hard drive. It was under warranty so it was replaced but I got my UPS right after that.
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They don't sell it anymore. And he said legit. What you're running is not legit since it is not on Apple hardware.
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You can't get a legit copy on non-Apple hardware. Apple doesn't sell physical media anymore (not that you could legitimately install it on non-Apple hardware when they did). OS X is purchased through the Mac App Store.