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Can someone who understands these look at it and tell me if you think this drive is ok? I replaced the disabled drive and it is rebuilding now and if i need to I will RMA this one. But if its ok I will preclear it a couple times and put it back in use. Thanks smart_report_disk9.txt

Hello everyone, This morning I woke up to a drive disabled on my server. I did some searching here and based on what I read, i shutdown my server, switched cabling, powered back on, and the SMART report says it passed. I am at work right now and cant post the report but can if needed. Should i trust the drive is fine? My other option, I have been meaning to pick up a new drive anyway. I could get a new one and replace it and then just RMA this drive to be sure.

Isn't WD producing Hitachi drives under the HGST brand now? I have seen these all over on Newegg and Amazon. Not sure if they are exactly the same manufacturing process but they look the same as the Hitachi drives.

If I had the money to burn and wanted a solution where I could really avoid data loss I would probably go RAID 60 with thirty or so 3TB disks. No data loss until the 7th disk. Then just keep a couple of spares on hand and your set.

Anything that I can't afford to lose or really would rather not be without is uploaded to google drive at least and maybe dropbox. 99.9% of what is on my server can be recreated rather easily but would be a hassle. And with bitcasa being as awesome as it has become, soon I will probably have backups of even the replaceable stuff in the cloud. It worries me some though still that it has so many great features that can be abused. We'll see. I currently fill drives and dump a listing of each disks contents to text and upload that to google drive. This way if i do lose data on one disk, I know exactly what it is.

I recently (past couple days) had been looking at Synology products. If I were to make that move, the DS1813+ was the one I was looking at. It can do everything I currently use my unRAID server for and has some added benefits. The downside is the price. I used an old PC I had when I built my unRAID and it has been running pretty reliably for over 2 years. It cost me less than $500 to build with a capacity of 15 disks. If you want that kind of capacity in a Synology it will cost you $2k. The DS1813+ has 8 bays and you can expand it to 18 with two additional 5 bay devices. The price difference to me is the biggest thing. The only big difference I see for switching to Synology would be the speed.

Thank you! Im not sure what this did, but I ran it in rc11a and it appears to have made a world of difference. So far navigating around the shares is night and day compared to what i experienced before. Transfers are moving much better, higher than 60MB/sec for the entire transfer now.

I downgraded to rc11a and seems to be a little better. Started transferring the same folder (35GB or so) and started at around 100MB/sec and was at around 40MB/sec when it finished. Browsing the shares seems to be a little quicker also. Not sure what the deal was with rc12a. I should also note that before i downgraded, I tried the copy directly from the disk and not through the share, that made no difference.

Can you provide more info on this? What setting am i supposed to change?

Hello, hopefully someone can help me figure this out. I have been experiencing extremely slow read speeds, sometimes it gets down to below 1MB/sec. Right now I have a copy going and is getting 5.29MB/sec. I was on 5.0rc10 and upgraded to 5.0rc12a. This did not resolve the problem. Sometimes copy's completely fail and say there was a problem and give me the option to try again or skip. Sometimes I can stop a slow transfer and start it again and it works great, even getting 100MB/sec or more, and other times i have to cancel and restart the transfer 5 or 6 times before it goes at a decent rate. I have a gigabit network so that should not be the bottleneck, not quite sure what is causing this. Attached my syslog but it wouldnt let me upload the whole thing back to my last reboot, let me know if the bootup is needed. syslog-2013-05-25.txt

Quick question... I just added this to my unRAID install. It is working perfectly except for one detail. I have some files that are more than 5 folders deep. Which numbers in the go script do i need to edit? Both of the 5's or just one of them? My current structure is below, I just need to up it to 6 i believe. Media>TV>Completed>Show>Season>Episodes The 'episodes' is the actual video files within the Season X folder, not another folder. I thought that would technically be 5 levels deep but the drives were spinning up when i got this deep. I added the line listed in the wiki to my go script so it looks like.... /boot/cache_dirs -d 5 -m 3 -M 5 -w Thanks guys!