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Have you checked to see if they're on the same spinup group? Go to the Main page and click on the parity & disk1 links. You can also disable it in Settings.

I might have to uninstall cache_dir in the future, I only have like 9 minutes of backup battery power.

Thanks for taking a look, I didn't know it has already passed level 1 testing. I've update the wiki. I didn't know that cache_dirs is causing a problem with my array. Hopefully the author will find a fix soon cause I have no idea how to tweak the script myself.

No, but I recommended you do.

Updated Components, Part 2 with pics of the network gear I ordered. Updated Building My Server, Part 2. Has anyone taken a look at my level 1 syslog? Would like to know if it passed.

I don't think you can stack this with the other $10 off one. The other code is for new customers. This is a general code for anyone to use.

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Updated my first post, attached my level 1 syslog.

Thanks, I figured that it might help others set up there servers but it will also help me if something goes wrong with my server and I need some sort of reference to help to troubleshoot. I've added a link to the perl addon in Components, Part 2 and also updated Building My Server, Part 2. Created my own MySlots image and attached the file I used to create it.

The bracket doesn't help with the noise but the fans you buy for the brackets might. Most of the noise comes from the 2 rear fans. They're very powerful and loud!

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Updated Building My Server, Part 2 with my first power consumption test.

Updated part 2 of my component list, had to buy some networking stuff and Building My Server, Part 2 Thanks, I haven't posted an update because I was waiting for preclearing to finish. I was going to test how much power my server uses today but parity-sync is going to take a long time.

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Take a look at J. River Media Center: Media Network Wiki. It might do what you want and more. This is a windows only software.

Just copy the preclear_disk.sh file to the directory.

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Thanks for taking a look, got a little worried when I saw the errors.

Try the Nexus line you wont be disappointed. I just looked at the Nexus 120 Fan and it seems like it wouldn't do the job. I would think I need a fan with at least 47 CFM to equal the air flow of the ones I'll be replacing. I found the specs of the stock fans from here. Mid Fan: Model (Part #): AFB0812H Model (Function): -R00 / -F00 Size: 80 x 80 x 25.4 mm Rated Voltage (VDC): 12 Operating Voltage Range (VDC): 7.0 to 13.8 Input Current (Amp): 0.16 Input Power (Watt): 1.92 Speed (RPM): 3000 Maximum Air Flow (M3/min): 1.000 Maximum Air Flow (CFM): 35.31 Maximum Air Pressure (mmH2O): 4.04 Maximum Air Pressure (IN H2O): 0.159 Noise (dB-A): 31.0 PWM: No Rear Fan: Model (Part #): FFB0812EHE Model (Function): -R00 / -F00 Size: 80 x 80 x 25.4 mm Rated Voltage (VDC): 12 Operating Voltage Range (VDC): 7.0 to 13.8 Input Current (Amp): 0.90 Input Power (Watt): 10.80 Speed (RPM): 5700 Maximum Air Flow (M3/min): 2.270 Maximum Air Flow (CFM): 80.16 Maximum Air Pressure (mmH2O): 20.63 Maximum Air Pressure (IN H2O): 0.812 Noise (dB-A): 52.5 PWM: No

Here's the SMART status Info for /dev/sdd smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: ST2000DL003-9VT166 Serial Number: 6YD05AZD Firmware Version: CC32 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4 Local Time is: Tue May 17 20:37:29 2011 EDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 612) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 255) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x30b7) SCT Status supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 111 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 40757696 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 096 096 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 4 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 253 030 Pre-fail Always - 843294 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 28 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 4 183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 069 069 045 Old_age Always - 31 (Lifetime Min/Max 27/31) 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 3 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 4 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 031 040 000 Old_age Always - 31 (0 25 0 0) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 036 027 000 Old_age Always - 40757696 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 273142740156444 241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 3060199144 242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 2321341914 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

I think you should do both, 2 core and more RAM.

Since your array is STOPPED there is no harm is powering off your server with the power button. But try the "reboot" commmand first.

How are you preclearing the 2 disk? You should be able to use your array while preclearing. And you should be able to preclear both disks at once. Take a look at How To preclear your hard drives for use in your unRAID servers Mod edit: Fixed broken link to Greenleaf Blog - Raj

I decided to check the SMART status of my drive and found 1 to have errors: SMART status Info for /dev/sde smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632 Serial Number: ML0220F30VX40D Firmware Version: ML6OA580 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4 Local Time is: Tue May 17 10:22:05 2011 EDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity was suspended by an interrupting command from host. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (23645) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 255) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 016 Pre-fail Always - 0 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 132 132 054 Pre-fail Offline - 109 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 100 100 024 Pre-fail Always - 328 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 7 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 146 146 020 Pre-fail Offline - 29 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 87 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 7 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 7 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 7 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 30 (Lifetime Min/Max 22/32) 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 2 SMART Error Log Version: 1 ATA Error Count: 2 CR = Command Register [HEX] FR = Features Register [HEX] SC = Sector Count Register [HEX] SN = Sector Number Register [HEX] CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX] CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX] DH = Device/Head Register [HEX] DC = Device Command Register [HEX] ER = Error register [HEX] ST = Status register [HEX] Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes, SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days. Error 2 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 79 hours (3 days + 7 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 84 51 00 80 7e 99 0f Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- 61 a0 28 d0 d6 99 40 08 10:08:00.290 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 61 00 20 d0 d2 99 40 08 10:08:00.290 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 61 00 18 d0 ce 99 40 08 10:08:00.286 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 61 00 10 d0 ca 99 40 08 10:08:00.286 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 61 00 08 d0 c6 99 40 08 10:08:00.282 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED Error 1 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 79 hours (3 days + 7 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 84 51 10 70 7f 99 0f Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- 61 a0 28 d0 d6 99 40 08 10:08:00.290 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 61 00 20 d0 d2 99 40 08 10:08:00.290 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 61 00 18 d0 ce 99 40 08 10:08:00.286 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 61 00 10 d0 ca 99 40 08 10:08:00.286 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 61 00 08 d0 c6 99 40 08 10:08:00.282 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.