Mopar_Mudder

Thanks that is exactly what I am looking for.

Is it possible to back up an UnRaid server directly to a USB drive? I want to plug an external USB drive into the server and have files automatically back up to it. Trying to get around having to plug it into a PC and doing it over the network.

My drive came today so I hope to stick it in tonight and run preclear. I have been reading this whole MBR deal and it get a little confusing to say the least. But if I am correct and I have Unraid 4.7 and set the Defualt Partition to MBR: 4K - aligned. Then I don't have to do anything else. No jumpers on the drive or specail flags in preclear correct?

Well I have one coming, I agree the price is really up their from what it was. I am not out of room but probably will be in the next couple of months I don't see them coming down any time soon. This drive will keep me going for another year I figure, so $140 a year not bad.

Sounds like I should pick one up. Do you happen to have a link to setting up the MBR

Are their any known isues with these drives and UnRaid? So far I only have Seagate and Hitachi drives

Well I thought I had this solved, I completely erases the unmenu folder and started over. UnMenu seems to work fine for a couple of days, now I am getting the same thing again. Right now I can get into the main page, but the bottom 1/2 says it can't be displayed, I think that show the last part of the syslog? I can't get into MyMain or anything else. syslog attached syslog.txt

Just wanted to update that I did get into UnMenu this morning, was able to go into MyMain and a couple of other things. Now again I can't get into anything UnMenu again.

Just updated to latest UnMenu and UnRaid 4.7. I can get the Main first screen to come up in UnMenu but it I try to go to MyMain or anything else I get the message "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage"

Just came to post and you beat me. Just put in 4.7 and it shows up now, thanks for the thought. off to preclear.

Would rather not go to the Beta's, 4.5 does anything I want. Can anyone confirm that it sould work with 4.5?

Just put a SASLP board in my Biostar TA785G3 board with a new Hitachi 2tb drive. I can't get unraid to see a drive that is hooked up the the SASLP. Going into the Bios (ctrl+m) the Hitachi drive shows up in the list of drives. I disabled INT13 also. on the Unraid disc assignemnt screen the drive doesn't show up in the drop down list to add. Unraid version 4.5

Is HPA only a problem with Gigabyte boards? My Unraid has a BIOSTAR TA785G3HD and the computer I will use for updating the Bios is an Asus P5Q-EM

I guess that answers that question. For some reason I was thinking that you could.

I currently have 4 1.5tb 7200rpm drives in my array. I have a new 2tb 5400rpm drive on the way. My plan was to make the new 2tb drive the parity drive and move the old 1.5tb parity drive to data. I know that the 5400rpm parity drive will slow down the 7200rpm data drives, figure down the road I would replace the 5400rpm drive with a 2tb 7200 rpm drive when they get cheaper. But then I got to thinking why go through all the trouble of changing parity drive just to have to change them again down the road. Am I just better off making the new 2tb drive a data drive and only using 1.5 of it, I gain the same space either way. Then when I do get a 2tb 7200rpm drive for the parity would the remaining .5tb just show up or would it have to be formatted or something again?

Is the 5900rpm going to hurt performance, when used as a parity drive, when all of my other drives are 7200rpm?

They already have this one for 79.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152245 So it might not be that great of a deal, but tomarrow will tell, I too need to add another drive.

I don't think it works that way. I have 5 - 1.5TB drives (one it parity) and it takes about 8 hours for a parity check

Yea I will wait untill I get everything squared away. I am copy from IDE drives in the server to SATA drives in the server. I have all the data moved, just have to verify it all and they get rid of the 2 IDE drive and renumber the SATA drive and they run a parity check.

I am coping files from one drive to another right now and Windows says it it about 6 MB/Sec. I got about 4 with the old 10/100, but I don't know if the Windows numbers are acurate or if that is a good way to judge speed. When I get all the data moved around and the old drives gone I will look into this harder. Another good thing is that I dropped about 30 watts with the new server!!

Just ran a Preclear on a disk and it has been a year or so since I did one. Could anyone take a quick look at the smart findings and see if their is anything to worry about? I will start to copy a bunch of data to the drive tonight. =========================================================================== = unRAID server Pre-Clear disk /dev/hda = cycle 1 of 1 = Disk Pre-Clear-Read completed DONE = Step 1 of 10 - Copying zeros to first 2048k bytes DONE = Step 2 of 10 - Copying zeros to remainder of disk to clear it DONE = Step 3 of 10 - Disk is now cleared from MBR onward. DONE = Step 4 of 10 - Clearing MBR bytes for partition 2,3 & 4 DONE = Step 5 of 10 - Clearing MBR code area DONE = Step 6 of 10 - Setting MBR signature bytes DONE = Step 7 of 10 - Setting partition 1 to precleared state DONE = Step 8 of 10 - Notifying kernel we changed the partitioning DONE = Step 9 of 10 - Creating the /dev/disk/by* entries DONE = Step 10 of 10 - Testing if the clear has been successful. DONE = Disk Post-Clear-Read completed DONE Elapsed Time: 15:35:43 ============================================================================ == == Disk /dev/hda has been successfully precleared == ============================================================================ S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem 54c54 < 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 006 Pre-fail Always - 11591 --- > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 120 100 006 Pre-fail Always - 243374677 58c58 < 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 253 030 Pre-fail Always - 65018 --- > 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 253 030 Pre-fail Always - 76213 63,66c63,66 < 188 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 < 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 < 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 070 067 045 Old_age Always - 30 (Lifetime Min/Max 29/33) < 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100 000 Old_age Always --- > 188 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 4 > 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 069 067 045 Old_age Always - 31 (Lifetime Min/Max 29/33) > 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 066 061 000 Old_age Always 69,72c69,72 < 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 < 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 78683800862731 < 241 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 < 242 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 2755 --- > 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 244491013324821 > 241 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 2924575149 > 242 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 1565195389 ============================================================================

Come to think of it I the file I copied was on one of the only older IDE drives that is left in the array, maybe that is the limiting factor. The rest are 1.5TB Seagates, I will be getting rid of the 2 IDE drives and adding another 1.5TB tonight. Now I wish I would have tried a file on one of the SATA drive before the switch, oh well.

Got everything put together and running last night no problem. Ran a parity check right away to compare speed to the last system, these are all the same drives no change in data. OLD HARDWARE: Time 15.75 hours - Speed 25,843 K/sec NEW HARDWARE: Time 6.10 hours - Speed 66,764 K/sec I am pretty happy with that!! Transfer speed I am not sure, going from a 10/100 NIC to a Gigabit NIC. I should have taken more time testing the old stuff to get a feel for time. I copied one file from the server to my PC, took 50 sec on the old and 40 sec on the new. I was expecting a bigger increase then that but may be a used too small of file and it really didn't have time to get to full speed. My switch does show it as a Gig connection now where it showed a 10/100 with the old system. Running a PreClear right now to add another drive tonight.

But for us buyers it is a great deal that they can pass on. For instance because I couldn't get the RB-1200 and had to buy the parts I had to skip out on the hot swap bays to save some money. So I am getting less for my money. Granted they are not making a ton of money at the great price they offer. But remember that selling 10 of these things and making $10 each is better then selling nothing and making nothing. (just nember out of the air)

I am going to replace 3 smaller drives in my array with one bigger one. The Disk that I am removing are 1,2, and 3. I have already moved all data from disk2 to disk6, unassigned disk2, shutdown server and unhooked disk2. Started server and hit restore then started the array which did a parity resync. All worked out just fine but now it still says that disk2 is not installed, which it isn't. But then I am going to be done I am going to have disk 1,2&3 showing as not installed. So the question is can you just reassign disks to different numbers whith out causing problems? What I need to do is move disk 4 to 1, 5 to 2, 6 to 3, and 7 to 4