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  1. Thanks for the quick reply guys. I thought XFS would work straight away because snapraid's comparison page said so - http://www.snapraid.it/compare#note4 I am going to fiddle with OMV some more and see if I can get the sabnzbd plugin to work.
  2. Hi I am moving away from WHS on my HP microserver. Currently testing OMV but as I am facing isses with plugins I am thinking of also taking a look at UnRaid. I have my HDDs formatted in XFs and already contain data. Is it possible to add the drives to UnRaid without having to reformat the drives? If so how? I have UnRaid ready to go on a pen drive but not plugging in yet because I dont know what it will do to the drives.
  3. Here is the link for others ending up here via google -- http://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=113
  4. I think it just needs to be something Unraid does at the same time when the parity is calculated or data is copied over from the cache disks. The use case for this seems to be quite common - NAS full of movies, tv shows, etc taking 90%+ of the used storage space and one extremely crucial 'Pictures' folder. If Unraid had this I think a large portion of the userbase will be making use of it. I also like NAS's idea of adding version control (or snapshots) which will also protect users against accidental deletions etc.
  5. To me this was the only protection I had for my pictures for a number of years before I bothered with parity (via flexraid). I still consider this as my first line of defence if something goes wrong. I also have most of the pictures uploaded online but I can't do it very regularly as the internet speeds aren't great where I am located. Completely understand that there needs to be enough demand for developers to spend any time on this. True but that would require throwing another 3TB disk in the array to protect a couple of folders which are only ~150GB. With my current solution I can have drivepool duplicate the folders on every drive in the array (5 at the moment), giving me protection against 4x drive failures. If I really wanted protection against multiple drive failures I would like to do be able to chose which data actually warrants that level of protection and then do it as efficiently as possible. EDIT: Found a number of threads asking for the same feature.. Topic: The ability to mirror data shares/folders on UnRAID Topic: Mirror user share? Topic: Feature Request - Data/Disk Mirroring Topic: mirror a folder Topic: Create a new User-Share feature, copy across multiple drives Topic: Multi-disk copies of "important" data
  6. Yep, having this as a built in feature with Unaid automatically duplicating the data in the folders would be nice.
  7. Hi I am currently using WHS with Drivepool. It has an extremely useful feature that allows marking a few folders to be mirrored on multiple drives. I use this to maintain multiple copies of my family pics and videos folders on 2x data drives. This gives me raid 1 level protection for the really important data while leaving parity to handle the non crucial stuff (movies, etc). It will be great to have Unraid provide this additional level of security too. EDIT: Found a number of threads asking for the same feature.. Topic: The ability to mirror data shares/folders on UnRAID Topic: Mirror user share? Topic: Feature Request - Data/Disk Mirroring Topic: mirror a folder Topic: Create a new User-Share feature, copy across multiple drives Topic: Multi-disk copies of "important" data
  8. Found a solution in another thread -- The ability to mirror data shares/folders on UnRAID Doesn't seem like Unraid has this feature built in but still doable using a script.
  9. Hi I have been running WHS 2011 on my HP n40l for the last few years. I am thinking of switching to Unraid now as my server runs quite slow and requires RDPing into it to perform various tasks. Most of my data on the server however isn't very important and I only care about a couple of folders (pictures, home videos etc). I have marked these in drivepool to be duplicated on 2 drives simultaneously so that I don't even have to depend on a parity drive if one of the drives fails. Can I do this Unraid too? Can UnRaid keep copies of some specific folders on multiple drives? I have spent the last few days reading up on all the options(freenas, OMV, etc) and Unraid seems to be the only one that seems to fit my requirements perfectly. If someone can confirm I can do the above with Unraid I will be spending the next couple of days converting my drives from NTFS to ReiserFS or XFS.