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This is what I did: [*] Installed 3 drives, one parity, two data drives. No cache drive. [*] Created two shares, movies and tvshows, and fill the shares from another server. [*] Run a parity check

Currently running a parity check, so far 12.8% completed in 3h42m. At this speed it's going to take almost 30hrs... Parity speed jumps between 300KB/sec and +70MB/sec. No dockers, no VMs, only 2 data drives with no cache and all 3 drives are WD Red 3TB. Attached is dianostic zip file. Thanx! gaia-diagnostics-20160729-2015.zip

Btw, are you using the serial cable that came with the ups? It's not the same that a standard one Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk

My advice: just try it. I have it configured in 5.1, and not planning to move to 5.5, so I'm afraid I can't help you. I do remember though, that for the life of me, i couldn't make it work through usb Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk

Could this be added to the road map? Maybe for v 6.1? Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk

So do I. I checked back snapraid and looked promising, especially the multi parity drives. What put new off however was the lack of webGui Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk

This looks promising ;D

You could run 'virtual full desktops' (guests) from within a hardware server (host). In plain terms, you could run for example Windows, Linux and OSX from one simple box. And of course one of these guests could be pfsense ;-) Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk

As I said before - if it doesn't work for you, use the alternatives - there is no need to keep telling/asking me to change the current design. Bonienl and others offer their services with no compensation to help enhance the unRaid product. Based on the professionalism I see in Dynamix, I'd say bonienl knows what he is doing and is doing an excellent job. Continuing to hammer him on a feature you may not appreciate does nothing to further the cause of enhancing unRaid. As he said, if you don't appreciate the features he has built into Dynamix, find an alternative that does things the way you want. Bonienl - keep up the good work. Dynamix is an excellent enhancement to unRaid and I like it just fine the way it is. +1 Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk

A simple comment that you weren't going to participate in the discussion anymore due to the attacks would have perhaps been a more appropriate response than just deleting the entire thread. "Taking my ball and leaving" is not a particularly mature response ... that's twice now that this has been done in these virtualization threads (remember ddeeds ?) That's easy to say now, but (verbal) violence was escalating. Mods (I believe you are one) , or even Tom, should have anticipated and stopped it, but they didn't. And ironic locked the thread, only to have it unlocked by a mod (I think it was NAS). I'm sure NAS meant well, as did ironic, but coming now to say it shouldn't have been deleted is, IMHO, a cheap shot. Ironic, grumpy and others are doing this for free, they don't have to take any bs. They have taken certainly more than I would have. And bs is defined per their terms, there is no absolute value on this, this is one of the few perks of doing this for free. Finally, if this forum is not the place to discuss this thing, which I believe is a valid argument (although I don't share it) it's up to tom and the mods to say so. Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk

I'm certainly nowhere close to be a linux guru , but, can you set up a not-stripped raid? IMO, this has 2 advantages: [*]I do not have to spin up the whole array to open a small word file (for example) [*] if parity+1 drives fail, I only lose the information on those drives, and not the whole array. This might seem unlikely, but it happened to me one month into unraid, with brand new drives, that have been precleared. What are the odds!

donated, hope not being the first and certainly not the last ;-)!

Why would you? You will be going back in time to a read only file system, plugins and solely dependent on one person for everything. Does openSUSE have 10,000+ developers, testers, innovation, updates, patches, testing, package maintainers, etc. or does unRAID? You need to think of unRAID as a NAS storage device utilizing a very "stripped down" Linux to do it and not a Linux Distro. I doubt it will ever evolve into that. As Fx stated before, unRAID is something more than raid 5. Their jbod application is pretty useful when adding new drives. HOWEVER, if I could get this with other distro/solution, I'd have a go at it. The thing is that I haven't found it and so far unRAID is the NAS solution that better fits my needs. That's not really what I'm trying, I might have not make myself clear. Virtualization, IMHO, is the way to go. Right now I have a VM for media storage (unRAID), a VM for VMs storage (NAS4Free), a VM for mySQL, another for a Plex Server, a testing VM, usenet, etc. My next goal was to install pfSense and maybe untangle. Bottom line, I'm not trying to accommodate my set-up to unraid, but rather unRAID to my set-up, because it's the best media storage solution I could find.

I was hoping this will move forward during the x-mas break to migrate from ESXi, but it seems like it's not going to happen. Grumpy if I were to use your opensuse and kvm guide, how easy would be to move the setup later on to this new unraid version (if it ever happens). I also wanted to take the opportunity to install pfsense, will this make things more difficult? Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk

And in Spain? Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk

You need at least vtx for Virtualization. Vtd is needed if you also require/want pass through Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk

Well shit, never gonna make it through this project now.... :-) :-) Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk

Well shit, never gonna make it through this project now.... :-) :-) Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk

Looking forward to try this! Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk

Make sure the disk tray closes fine. I had some trouble with the 4224 because of loose trays. Make sure you push them tight! Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk

Unraid doesn't support a second parity drive. It's been in the roadmap forever though. I believe it was called p+q. What you could do (I think) is to raid1 your cache drive, easier said than done though. Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk

Why not? You can share the pendrive, why not the host drive, or especifically a part of it? Maybe create a partition that will act as cache for unRAID. This way, if I have a RAID1 of the host hard drive, cache will also be protected, does it make sense?

Makes a lot of sense

I do a bit of lightroom and photoshop, plus my Dropbox share. These are continuously writing files, without a cache my array will be up and running recalculating parity way too often. With cache is just once per day. Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk

I have a couple of points in which I'd really appreciate your input guys. Just bear with me for a sec. I'm running an ESXi hypervisor and one of the VMs is a NAS4Free zfs server. I keep there the VMs and the cache drive. I'm happy with this setup because: a. My cache drive has some level of protection b. My other VMs not only are also protected but also have daily snapshots (which have come handy in a couple of occasions) c. I'm getting very good speeds with spinners When moving to unRAID-extreme (man i hope this does actually happen!) my plan is to set up some kind of raid through the motherboard, which will keep the hosts and datastore 'protected' and daily snapshots with LVM saved in unraid shares. This will keep the host/VMs side covered, but what about the cache drive? I don't really want to lose the advantages (speed / redundancy) of my current setup. So my questions are: 1. Overall, what do you think? Does it make sense? 2. Would it be better software raid, in case the mb dies? 3. What do you recommend for the cache drive? Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk