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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

I am using an AMD X2 at 3Ghz and I never have any issues with transcoding and Plex. The only time I ever see much buffering is when I fast forward a 1080p movie that has just started playing. Generally I hit play, see slight loading screen while drive spins up and transcode kicks off, and then never see it again. You shouldn't have any performance issues with either of those cpu's. I'm not sure how Plex handles anything greater than 2 cores, but i know from watching the process on my server that it will utilize a dual core cpu. Always see the process using 180+% cpu.

Yeah, i had a notify setup for this and got the email today. Gonna order one before they sell out again and hope its at least visually the same as the two i already have.

Awesome! Can you update this when you get them and note any differences there may be please? I need to get one more to fill my Antec 900 and hoping they are the same as the old ones (atleast visually).

If you can wait a few days, Norco told me last month that the SS-500 would be available Dec. 20th. I have a notify set on newegg and can post again when they have it.

I looked at the smart section in unMENU and noticed something interesting. I added two seagate drives (the ones that were on sale at best buy ~6 weeks ago) that are showing strange behavior. They both have over 3000 power on hours shows which isnt really possible. I checked last night and again this morning and the number increased by over 100 in 8 hours. Im at work now and didnt have time to grab an ss of it, but can if needed. Is this a known issue? or anything i should be concerned about?

I haven't seen that one, but I have been looking into a few different options lately for backing up off-site. I have seen other offers that seem too good, such as the backblaze service $5/mo unlimited backup. http://www.backblaze.com/ They also have a couple of interesting blog write-ups about their custom storage solution. http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets/

Is there a way to do this? I searched and didn't see anything. I am able to manually do it, but wasn't sure if there was a way to get it to spin down after inactivity the way the array drives do.

I can't speak for the other apps you want to run, but I do use Plex. I primarily run plex through an Apple TV 2 which Plex pretty much wants to transcode everything for. The only issue i would see with viewing multiple movies at once using plex would be how the client handles the media for each device, but it may not be of any concern. When i play a typical 720p movie (4-5GB) for example, I have watched the behavior on my server and seen the transcoding use almost all of my cpu. The transcoding is generally complete by the time im 10-15 minutes into the movie though, which is why it may not be an issue as the transcoding is much faster than the playback. I have had movies playing on Apple TV 2, Iphone, and Ipad at the same time when i was first testing out Plex, but i didnt check to see if the iphone and ipad were transcoding the content. If you plan on using a modern dual core or better CPU, i cant see you having any issues with the media streaming. The cpu im using is an older Athlon 64 X2 (3.0ghz) and it performs well.

So are you just restarting it every time this happens or did you find a way around it? Does yours happen at the same time? Interesting that it always happens Sunday morning at 4:40am.

I'm using 5.0beta13 and the APCUPSD 3.14.10 Plugin.

Alright, got this again, this time without the "segfault" portion. Happens Sunday mornings at the same time. Nov 20 04:40:01 Tower apcupsd[1701]: apcupsd exiting, signal 15 Nov 20 04:40:01 Tower apcupsd[2502]: Valid lock file for pid=1701, but not ours pid=2502 Nov 20 04:40:01 Tower apcupsd[2502]: apcupsd FATAL ERROR in apcupsd.c at line 285 Failed to acquire device lock file (Errors) Nov 20 04:40:01 Tower apcupsd[2502]: Valid lock file for pid=1701, but not ours pid=2502 Nov 20 04:40:01 Tower apcupsd[2502]: apcupsd error shutdown completed (Errors) Nov 20 04:40:01 Tower apcupsd[1701]: apcupsd shutdown succeeded

I saw that 88 drive unit, too bad its 2.5" drives. Unless you have a need for the smaller drives anyway.

I saw this today on ebay. May be in your price range. 36 hot swap bays. http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/847/SC847E26-R1400U.cfm

Not sure how it tried to start when it was already started. I guess we'll see if this happens again. Thanks

I searched and saw similar error's posted here, but not quite the same. Anyone know what this error is? I was able to restart apcupsd and it was fine, but im worried this could happen again at the wrong time. Nov 13 04:40:01 Tower apcupsd[1702]: apcupsd exiting, signal 15 Nov 13 04:40:01 Tower apcupsd[8208]: Valid lock file for pid=1702, but not ours pid=8208 Nov 13 04:40:01 Tower apcupsd[8208]: apcupsd FATAL ERROR in apcupsd.c at line 285 Failed to acquire device lock file (Errors) Nov 13 04:40:01 Tower apcupsd[8208]: Valid lock file for pid=1702, but not ours pid=8208 Nov 13 04:40:01 Tower apcupsd[8208]: apcupsd error shutdown completed (Errors) Nov 13 04:40:02 Tower kernel: apcupsd[1702]: segfault at 0 ip 0805e204 sp bf9e8240 error 4 in apcupsd[8048000+38000] (Errors)