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Without the application ''S.N.A.P'' i don't think you will pull that off. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5904.0 Makes a drive accessible outside the array. But for best performance install the SSD on a sata port on your mainbord. Maybe you will have to swap some drives around and play with the ''initconfig'' command a few times but the write/read and accesstimes will be much better for your purpose.

I succesfully read out 2TB and smaller Unraid formatted drives in Windows with some help of Reiser-FS tools. In case something happens like a 2 drive failure, i only lose the data on that 2 drives, but not the rest. Is this still possible with 3TB drives?

Nice Build Rob, you did study the forum very well and took the best out with the parts available over here. Just love those Supermicro Atom Boards !! Calling yourself a Newbie and starting like this !! :-) Keep on going with those 3TB (or more) disks in the future and it will give you 14 -1 parity = 13 x 3 = 39TB minimal in your setup. And that in a normal midi-tower : WOW I will stick to the 2TB models for now , just personally think the price difference is too big at the moment. (Also because i don't fully need it at the moment) Do you also have pictures of the inside? just curious !!

Hi Roscoe, I think your main goal of adding a SSD to your Unraid system is to give it some more speed in reading and writing 8GB of config-files you use a lot. am i right? Do you have some free SATA ports available on your mainbord for connecting that SSD, because adding a fast SSD on a slow PCI based sata controller is not the best idea i think. 1) Would you suggest having the SSD as part of the UnRAID array? 2) If not, how can I attach the SSD to the controller card and NOT have it be part of the UnRAID array? 3) Are there any pitfalls/problems I may not have thought of? Can you give total specs of your server?

Thnx, Prostuff but that setting can't change by itself can it? if you reboot/reset the bios of your mainbord, this setting would not be changed? or do i misunderstand ?

Yeahhhh ,, Great Mr Londen has got it working again. +10 for Cyrnel is that a enable/disable function in the mainbord's bios,, or in the bios of those supermicro cards?

Update ,, Mainbord gives error beeps while booting with one 8 dollar ebay China Pci-E SaTa Card with (JMB360/363 chipset) in the PCI-E x16 slot :'( :'( Will try with other cards

It's possible that it's broken ,, but then in most cases no power at all of anything trough a usb. does your USB stick have a led ? does it blinks while it's booting? is it with every usb port? but i you only flashed the firmware of a samsung drive and took the unraid stick out,, put it back,, did not change anything , and it would not boot? ,, i'm out of idea's

Yes it was empty. It had been part of a ZFS RAIDZ array from a previous test setup, but was dd'ed with zeros prior to being used. correct me guys over here when i'am wrong,, - but when it was in a previous ZFS raid setup and zero'd ( you also get rid off the partions,, and the old filesystem?) than UnRaid is correct,,, showing this disk 13 as unformatted in Unraids filesystem. It needs to be formatted to the unraid filesystem and while there is nothing important on it,, Unraid only want's to format the unformatted disks present

You can still try to create another usb-stick with a free 3 drive licence to see i it will boot with that one, with you current (seems to be right) bios-settings

Thnx,, more if if 's i see,, too much chance of not working when you don't have the right controller. the wikipedia links answers almost every question i had. sharing the bandwith,maximum 15 drives on 1 onboard sata port,, etc etc i wil keep it in mind for a drive upgrade-solution when there is no other options to upgrade trough pci-e x1 , x4 ,x8 or x16

More info would me nice,, now it's just guessing which version of unraid do you use? ,, if you use the free version.? try a fresh clean install of the 5.08d with another usb stick? just trying to check some thing so we can rule them out, and locating the orginal problem

did you format the stick again? named it right ? or just changed the bzroot en bzimage?

If you're sure you didn't change anything on that usb-drive. Maybe a stupid question , but the boot order is right ? ( boot device priority) and the stick is nicely recognized? like 2 GB usb stick brand XYZ ?

I think i got this also one time in 4.7 stable, is the new disk number 13 empty? and never been used in Unraid?

Hello MrLondon, does you bios looks like this? (its from the P7H55m-PRO)

;D When i read about you having that type from Brennenstuhl i checked the test on hardware info again. just check that line with ''Desktop PC soft-uit'' , you see that it measures 31,46 watts I also know that Brennenstuhl is a very good and reliable brand with normally accurate equipment. but this specific model has only problems with lower wattages. Higher wattages are pretty good. The Kijkshop Cresta is a €10 piece of toy with way too small digits and definitily would not buy normally , until i read about the multiple good reviews for it's low price.

Just after reboot i followed these steps 1 ------------------------(this step is not nessesary but only to get a overview of current status over here) root@Tower:~# hamachi version : 2.0.1.15 pid : 1241 status : offline client id : address : 0.0.0.0 nickname : lmi account: 2------------------------------- root@Tower:~# hamachi login Logging in .......... ok 3------------------------------ root@Tower:~# hamachi set-nick DC7700 Setting nickname .. ok 4---------------------------- root@Tower:~# hamachi attach [email protected] Sending attach request to [email protected] without networks .. ok 5------------------------------------ root@Tower:~# h2control save (this command took about 7 sec) root@Tower:~# 6---------------------------------- (this step is not nessesary but only to get a overview of current status over here) root@Tower:~# hamachi version : 2.0.1.15 pid : 85xx status : logged in client id : 086-404-xxx address : 5.xx.xxx.xx nickname : DC7700 lmi account: [email protected] (pending) 7------------------------------------ then i go to www.logmein.com and log in with my credentials and accept the pending request. 8------------------------------------- root@Tower:~# h2control save (this command took about 7 sec) root@Tower:~# --------------------------------------- everything works perfectly as long i don't reboot the server, every setting is lost and i am back at step 1 i'am using UnRaid 5.0-beta8d with Hamachi http://gfjardim.googlecode.com/files/hamachi-2.0.1.15-i686-unRAID-up1.tgz this my GO script #!/bin/bash # Start the Management Utility /usr/local/sbin/emhttp & installpkg /boot/packages/hamachi-2.0.1.15-i686-unRAID-up1.tgz installpkg /boot/packages/simpleFeatures-0.7-unraid-speeding_ant.tgz unraid_notify start did i forget something ? or missed a step? update: i followed exactly the same steps on my other UnRaid server with 4.7 and hamachi-2.0.1.15 and after reboot , i login to see Hamachi status ,, it remembers everything. works just fine!! :-)

Exactly my question also ( about the auto-logon after a reboot) just as russel said,, every time you logon - set nick - attach , you get a different ID. / can we script this? keeping the same ID? Running hamachi on a test-Unraid server 5.08d with hamachi-2.0.1.15-i686-unRAID.tgz and working just fine - very happy with it

If only i also have had the V2 ,, we could make sure you're not the only one or maybe more people would have this issue :-)

@Joe - could not write it down better,, if you al count that ''standby'' usage together in a today's household most people will be surprised what the yearly cost would be. @Rob I just did the test with my CX430 (non V2) server turned off : power supply button on = between 1 and 3 watt server turned off : power supply button off = 0 watt this is weird comparing with your test results

@Rob , seems to me there is a power leakage somewhere or a faulty measuring. 30 watts, even with the power button from the power supply off? that seems not normal to me. I have the CX430 (before v2) and a cresta RC-1106 watt-meter http://www.cresta.nl/index.php?Itemid=2&option=com_zoo&view=item&category_id=25&item_id=138〈=nl http://www.kijkshop.nl/product/21159/295-1276/merkenshops/cresta/cresta-energiekostenmeter-rce-1106/ My Un-Raid server is just having his montly parity check,, but will measure mine with power button off and come back to you on this tommorow. What kind of measering device / watt-meter do you use? i read that there a lot low budget watt meters on the consumer-market which have huge differences in measuring wattage comparing actual usage. especially with lower wattages example actual use 50 watts ( by an professional labo device) Brand A says 70 watts ,, and Brand B says 25 watts. Reading from your e-mail adres you're from NL , so you can read this. http://nl.hardware.info/nieuws/14165/testresultaten-energieverbruiksmeters English: http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.hardware.info%2Fnieuws%2F14165%2Ftestresultaten-energieverbruiksmeters&lp=nl_en&btnTrUrl=Translate

If that controller works than you could have an 5 drive external storage housing (10TB) extra for a fairly good price,, (total of 14 drives ) and changing your current case into a antec twelve hundred http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129100 with 4 coolermaster 4 in 3's http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817993002&Tpk=coolermaster%204%20in then you get a total of 16 drives with a normal sized tower case but not at 140 Dollar like that Sans Digital

I do think so ! but when i read about that RR622 Dual-Port eSATA 6Gb/s PCIe 2.0 x1 RAID Controller i'm not sure That RR622 seems to be a Highpoint product http://www.compumusic.com/highpoint-rocketraid-rr622-dual-port-esata-6gb-s-pci-e-x1-raid-controller-retail-i622297.htm is your case too full or too small to expand your current UnRaid tower? like with a Norco SS500 ? maybe a too expensive guess to just try? :-) This controller is not on the compatibility list , but then it's a new Sata 6G card http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hardware_Compatibility#Recommended_Builds

Nicely done!! i think everyone who has a little knowledge of traditional RAID setup's and then get's to know UnRaid is nicely surprised with the capabilities: (i know i am) you said it just right - UnRaid-aholic Rajahal wrote a guideline for UCD : ( unRAID Compulsive Design ) http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=9928.0 please read the edit's down below!!