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What is the model number? I noticed many 8 port SM cards out there. Newegg.ca seems to only have the 4internal/4external ones Is it this one? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101224R 143$US Plus Cable?

GigE limit...hmmm... I'll have to do a disk to disk transfer and see what I get. I could swear I used to get more when using AIX. What kind of speeds are the rest of you getting when transferring from XP to Unraid cache? Are you in the same range? Anyone getting better? If GigE is the limit, then there is no point in getting an SSD device to help out the write performance. So then network Teaming would be the next step. Has anyone done this? I am constantly moving files 8-12GB about 10-15 files a day. It would be nice to see them move over faster... without going nuts and using 4Gb/s HBA's ...grin. 10 GigE is out soon right! Just checked, at 1500$ for 1 single port nic...I guess I might have to live with it.

What software are you using for checksums? I would like to test my setup as well.

It all boils down to performance. First I want to get off my pci Promise cards, and I would love to have a raid parity drive and cache drive if it were possible to increase overall performance. The best I get right now is 25-40MB/s. Hence the need for speed! If I hit 80-90MB/s I would be happy with that as write speeds to the cache drive.

The card is pretty cheap for a 16 port, running about 489$ right now. I am not sure it includes the cables (50$ or so worst case).

I noticed that ADAPTEC had the following on their website: Does that mean that UNRAID which is based on a newer version of "Linux 2.6.14 kernel or greater includes a driver" would also support RAID controllers?

Does anyone know if this is compatible with unraid? Adaptec RAID 31605 16-Channel Storage controller PCIe 8x I can get one for around 500$ Not sure if it includes that 16 cables or splitter.

Joel, If you were to do Hardware Raid 5 for the cache drive, then do you still need the MD command?

If you want to add raid Drivers, where in this process would you do it? Where in the process would you create your say raid 5 or 10 drive for the Cache Drive? Any chance unraid could also be used as a htpc?

Any chance of making an Unraid module for slax, that you could add to : http://www.slax.org/build.php Think of the publicity...and how much easier it would be.

Keep up the good work guys. I had a hard time with this as well. I gave up as I had a time crunch and a raid 5 server crashing... I like the idea of unraid running in a vm. Then you can have multiple test unraids... grin.

I have been using sabnzb on my windows machine, getting email notifications when files are downloaded, those rss feeds are amazing! I think I will have to install a full unraid distro with raid drivers and sabnzb!

Any plans on having two or three staple raid card drivers built into Unraid Pro? I think we are seeing many people who would love to transfer files at full GigE bandwidth to unraid cache drive (running raid 1 or 10). My system has been very stable (have not rebooted it in a long time 2 months), and I am constantly adding content to it. But I would like to upgrade it to a faster system (raid card wise) as I am using two promise sata II 4 port controllers plus on board controllers for 7+TB of space. I do plan on buying the norco case is the Canadian dollar would just come up! If you tell me you would support adaptec 4/8 port pcie cards by default, I would go out and buy one right now. I do not have time to play with kernal everytime unraid goes up a version. If you need a beta tester, let me know. I cannot wait to see unraid with 20+ drives and some support for 1 or 2 array card.

So I just got two RMA disks back due to failures and the new disks, they shipped me the disks with the old firmware SD15! DOH! So I upgraded it to SD1A 1TB Drives. Cheers...

« on: January 21, 2009, 06:21:26 AM » Seagate offers free data recovery for faulty drives Data recovery firms believe 30% of Barracuda drives are failing Lucas Mearian January 20, 2009 (Computerworld) Seagate Technology LLC today is offering free data-recovery services for customers who purchased the company's Barracuda 7200.11 desktop hard drive through December 2008. A firmware bug in those drives has produced a high number of failures. According to users on Seagate's online support forum the drives tend to freeze for about 30 seconds during I/O transfers of streaming video or when reading or writing files at low speeds. "We're offering free data recovery because the information on the drives is not deleted. It's just rendered inaccessible by this suspect firmware," said Seagate spokesman Michael Hall. Owners of the Barracuda 7200.11 drive can contact Seagate through its support Web site. Seagate also offers support by telephone at 800-SEAGATE (732-4283). The company is offering data recovery services through its i365 data recovery subsidiary. On Friday, Seagate issued a statement saying that a firmware bug has been causing drive failures or freezes affecting not only the Barracuda 7200.11, but also several other models manufactured through December 2008. Those include the DiamondMax 22, the Barracuda ES.2 SATA and the SV35. The Barracuda 7200.11 is the eleventh generation of Seagate's flagship drive for desktop PCs and comes in capacities of 160GB to 1.5TB. Seagate manufactures hard disk drives in China, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia. Hall said he didn't know what percentage of the 7200.11 drives are failing. "The best information we have right now is that it's a pretty small population of our drives," he said. "I'd say this is certainly one of the more highly publicized cases." Duncan Clarke, managing director at U.K. data recovery firm Retrodata, said he and his colleagues in the data recovery industry believe that failure rates on Seagate's Barracuda 7200.11 drive are upwards of 30%. "We've been aware of this problem since November. I was getting 30 times the number of those drives than any other drive," he said. Hall said Seagate isn't seeing anywhere near a 30% failure rate and hasn't decided whether to issue a recall on the Barracuda 7200.11 drive. "At the moment, we're really still looking into it," he said. "It's an issue that's ongoing for us at the moment. "This is something that crops up now and then," Hall said. "Obviously, when you release a drive the firmware is refined over time. There are times when the firmware is at a point where there may be some issues that cause these problems that are undetected when the drive ships." Clarke said he is disturbed that Seagate has not done enough to address the issue. "First, they're shipping rubbish products. Second, they're not taking responsibility for the problem. They actually own a data recovery company that people go to to recover data from these drives, and they charge a lot of money for that," Clarke said, referring to the period before Seagate began offering free recovery services. "I hope Seagate is taken to the cleaners over this." Jeff Pederson, manager of operations at data recovery firm, Kroll Ontrack Inc., said his company has received 100 Barracuda 7200.11 drives, 50 in the last two weeks alone. He said that is a 90% increase over what the company would normally see with a Seagate Barracuda-model drive. "People are getting perturbed with having to deal with the drive," he said. As far as Pederson can tell, the firmware issue is coming from Seagate's Thailand manufacturing facility. "The firmware is corrupted. It doesn't interface correctly with the drive and causes it to fail. But, it's failing at the electronics level and not the platter level, so it's not destroying data," he said. Kroll Ontrack is offering a free diagnosis and close to a 50% discount for recovery services to owners of the Barracuda drive, which amounts to $850. Hall said Seagate is still considering whether it will reimburse customers who took failed drives to i365 or other data recovery services before the larger issue came to light. He acknowledged that this isn't the first time in recent months that a Seagate product has had firmware problems. In November, Seagate's 2.5-in. SATA drives with firmware Version 7.01 were failing. The drives, which included model numbers ST96812AS and ST98823AS, are commonly used in laptops such as the MacBook or MacBook Pro. Complaints about the drives have not been limited to Seagate's online support site. Users have also weighed in on other forums. The complaints involve drives running Linux, Mac OS X and Windows Vista

Does nzbget do RSS feeds? I just started to use sabnzb and I love those rss feeds. It is saving me tons of time. Has anyone done a comparison out there, feature for feature? Bubba any chance that sabnzb might become a standard bubbaRaid in the future, assuming everyone votes for it?

Have an ssh server built-in.

So far bubbaraid works well for me with .11 (minus slimserver...) Gonna try ssh and friends (ssl) soon.

Running 442 here, will try Bubba raid shortley.

No, I mean sshd, which depends on ssl. Taking my cue from WeeboTech, I think it was, I'm currently doing the following in my go file, with <authorized_keys> containing my public key and <ssh*key*> taken from </etc/ssh> from some run of sshd (to not have security alerts after each restart). # # ssh # installpkg /boot/custom/packages/openssl-0.9.8h-i486-1.tgz installpkg /boot/custom/packages/openssh-5.1p1-i486-1.tgz # public key mkdir /root/.ssh cp /boot/custom/etc/ssh/authorized_keys /root/.ssh # server ID keys cp --preserve=timestamps /boot/custom/etc/ssh/ssh*key* /etc/ssh chmod 600 /etc/ssh/ssh*key* # ssh start /etc/rc.d/rc.sshd start The purpose is not security, but easy-to-use remote shell (and, probably, tunelling). My main application is for unison. Can you send me the links to the two packages: installpkg /boot/custom/packages/openssl-0.9.8h-i486-1.tgz installpkg /boot/custom/packages/openssh-5.1p1-i486-1.tgz I want to make sure I get the right ones.

Why raid 5? I like the speed and temporary safety when transfer files to unRiad cache. Right now instead of move commands, I do copy/sync, make sure the files are off the cache drive, then delete them at the source. Takes extra time and effort. I ofter transfer 8-12GB files on a daily basis to unRaid.

Which ipkvm model are you looking at and How much ? (Optional: AOC-SIMLC-HTC) (Optional: AOC-SIM1U+)-KVM-over-LAN support

Adaptec 1430SA 4 port sataII. Is this natively supported in unRaid? Is there an 8 port card that is also supported?

I was looking to do raid 5 for both performance and security as a cache drive. Raid 1 would not cut it. Any other options? Are there and riad 5 hardware cards supported right now? If I do a full islax nstall, will unraid recognise a software raid 5?

Is there any way to have a raid 5 (software or Hardware) cache drive? Are any raid cards supported? I am looking for the best of both worlds! Speedy transfers with (SPOF) security.