superderpbro

I have aboot $1200CAD to spend on drives, eh? Can anyone tell me any pros and cons to either choice?

Thanks for the info. I am going to risk it though. I have been running all my HDDS mostly suspended or on grommets for about 11 years now. Knock on wood.. not a single problem yet (other than a seagate that died in 2 days). I am just about to give up looking for a rack mount case that makes me want to buy it. Normal desktop case it is! hehe

There are plenty of 2u cases that are exactly what i want... They just don't have HDD vibration dampening. I have run the equivalent hardware in much smaller than 2u boxes (that just aren't rack shaped). "As for hard drive noise, a case-inside-a-case with baffles is the only way to deal with that effectively." I am running 4 HDDs right now in an Antec SOLO using just the grommets (not suspended). It's pretty rare that i ever hear them. I can't remember the last time i heard them actually (box is 3 feet from me). I don't need silent. Just very quiet. I hate hearing the sound of a vacuum cleaner mixed with the slow hum of opposing HDD vibration resinatng through the entire case (or either on their own). Hehe

- 2u (maybe 3u) - Inexpensive - Short - At least 4 x 3.5 inch HDDS - HDD noise dampening<-- I am thinking about building a cheap network rack out of an ikea rast nightstand. Would love to put the small unRAID NAS i am also planning in it. It will need to be quiet.

Great.

So, since i cant test unRAID i tested out Transmission in OMV. That combined with Transmission Remote GUI does everything i need. Is the Sonarr docker for unRAID able to use torrents instead of NZBs? If so i wont need to run windows

All flawless server offers is a bunch of auto downloading apps that i don't want to use.

Yea. I am rethinking the need to not download into a dedicated download folder. Hehe I dislike having things auto renamed mostly though. I use Sonarr for non Bluray ripped TV but that's about as automatic as i want to get. I like to do everything else manually. I am pretty anal about keeping my ISOs (And other stuff) in original rars. I was with video until recently. Nowadays all "scene" video files must have a checksum file created immediately after unrar (or after a recheck in utorrent if non "scene". Mostly Awesome-HD internals). Then deleted and unrared again to make sure they match the checksum before i will delete the rars and keep the file + checksum. I had a problem with files not extracting properly (with no notification from winrar) due to bad RAM years ago. That started me double checking unrared files i plan to keep heh. I hate having terabytes of files with no way to verify the files are the same years later. I have bat files that do all the checksumming and stuff. Double click winrar-unrar> create sha1 checksum>delete extracted file>7zip-unrar>check new file>rename file and nfo to match directory>delete rars. Wish i could make it download the srr file from srrdb but i cant figure out how. I need to have md5 or sha1 files for each file (or set of files) or it drives me crazy. My cheksum free Sonarr dir really bugs me! Its just how i role hehe. Been playing around with ubuntu server/mdadm and stuff like OMV in virtualbox. Haven't been able to get any torrent things working right. The more i think about it, if i end up running a separate NAS, the more i like my original idea of just running unRAID with Win7 in a VM running Sonarr/Deluge and uTorrent. I really don't know what to do.. this is all alien to me.

No, not really. Cost maybe. I used to use Usenet years ago. Just havn't in so long. Looks like you have to pay for nzbs now to EDIT: I guess i could just run uTorrent on the gaming pc and save over the network to the correct share. Either run Sonarr on the gaming PC or in a Docker. Iduno. I was just thinking the point in having a server (for me) is not having to run everything else 24/7. Guess i'm leaning towards SnapRAID/Drive pool now. One box for everything.

Thanks. Yea, i am considering SnapRAID + Stabblebit DrivePool as well. If i do i am just going to build one computer and not have a separate NAS. I mean i live in an apartment and i really have no need to have another box running just for storage. Just thought it would be cool and i have multiple terabytes to store. I could build the gaming PC i am planning and just add 5x4TB + SnapRAID + Stabblebit DrivePool and be done. What about multiple torrents downloading to the pool when it tries to make the snapshot though

Is it a bad idea to just have one huge share using all disks? /mnt/user/share /mnt/user/share/Not Movies /mnt/user/share/Legal music /mnt/user/share/Games So on?

Makes sense. I like to DL directly into the folders the files will stay in for.. well.. ever. Like i don't want to DL a movie Linux ISO in downloads Linux ISOs. I want it to be in my main Linux ISO directory/s. Same with every other type of file i DL. I also just like the idea of adding a torrent and being able to decide to put it anywhere i please. Or, being able to use uTorrents advance>set dl directory to move the torrent anywhere else whenever i want. I think just running a windows VM would be the easiest way to do this, no? I can just do everything exactly the same as i do it now only using the shares as destinations. Iduno, guess im gonna have to build it and find out.. sucks that you can't test in virtual box first.

Thanks aptalca.

Thanks guys "The dockers can write wherever you want in the array as long as you map that path correctly to the container." So if i added a torrent and wanted to save it in say, folder1 (on the pool or array or whatever its called) with the label folder1 THEN added another torrent and wanted to save it in say, folder2 with the label folder2.. so on and so on. As long as I set all these folders up before hand this is possible with dockers? I ask because it seems that most torrent clients on NAS devices seem to want to put everything into the same one download directory.

Hey guys, I am thinking about building a new PC. Currently i have an i3-4170 / MSI CSM-H87M-G43 / G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600. When i build the new PC i would like to use the above + 5 x 4tb HDDs to create a file server / torrent box. These are the only 3 things i want it to do. - Have a large pool of storage on the network (with some parity) - Have a full featured Torrent client that is managable from any PC on the network - Sonnar for TV shows Now, when i look at all the options (FreeNAS, OMV... so on) i see they all have some torrent options. They all look really limited to me though. I want to be able to add a torrent and choose where it goes in the files system not just have one torrent download folder where everything goes. I want to be ale to use labels for different trackers. Basically i want all the options that uTorrent currently offers me on windows. I'd love it to be headless.. but im thinking i might want an OS with a GUI so i can go in and futs around when needed. That made me think i could only use windows to get what i wanted. Which limits me to FlexRAID, SnapRAID + Drivepool, and Storage Spaces. After a bunch of reading FlexRAID and Storage spaces are out. Then i came across the Linus Tech Tips vid about multiple gaming OS's on one computer. Can i run unRAID to set up the storage / parity part and then run windows 7/8.1 in a VM? Yes! Will the windows VM be able to see the storage pool and save torrents there? Do i even need windows? I see there are Sonar and some torrent client dockers. Can any of the torrent dockers save where ever they want in the storage pool? Sorry this is so long. Thanks for any help