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Oh yeah. I have one of these in the unRAID that should still work. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002KGLDXU? Any other tests I should run ?

My unRAID was damaged by a flood. After getting some great advice in another thread, I think it's mostly a lost cause for most of the hardware. I have 11 data drives and the parity drive which I need to get back online asap and see if any of the disks were damaged. I'm thinking I could just use my desktop PC components and move them into the sever case that I have. But I'm not sure if it will work. So 1, will unraid run on these parts and 2 is it a good long term solution. Meaning, could I keep all those components in the unraid and rebuild the Windows machine. I can probably get work to pay for the new PC components, so I have that going for me. Here is my current Windows desktop https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xTkHwz

this is a great trick. thanks

This is awesome! Thanks

Well the PSU from my other machine didn't boot. So I guess the MB is toast, and probably the PSU I really need to see to get my array back up so I think I'll just get new parts, ie MB, CPU, and PSU. I checked out the recommended build section but it has not been updated in a long time except for a few builds. The MB for the 20 drive setup is out of stock on newegg. Where else can I look to find recommendations?

Sorry if this is a dumb question but, Is it compatible? this is the PSU in my current windows machine Antec Basiq 550 W 80+ Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply

Ah, ok. That makes sense. thx

No, Unfortunately I don't have any spare parts. I just have my windows machine. That's a good thought though.

Here is my current hardware. CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 250 3 GHz Dual-Core Processor Motherboard: ASRock 880GM-LE Micro ATX AM3 Motherboard RAM: Corsair 4 GB (2 x 2 GB) DDR3-1333 CL9 Memory Power Supply: Rosewill Green 630 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply Expansion Card: Supermicro PCI Express x4 Low Profile SAS RAID Controller (AOC-SASLP-MV8) CASE: Rosewill RSV-L4412U 4U Server Chassis Rackmount Case Hard Drives: 12 drives of various size, make, and models adding up to about 25 TB My unRAID was hit with floodwaters but not submerged. I managed to get it out of the rack and to safety but it definitely got a little wet at the bottom of the case. I quickly took out all the drives and wrapped them in paper towels and let rest for two weeks. The machine doesn’t boot. It seems to power on, the CPU and case fans spin, but no lights on the MB. And plugged in a monitor and nothing is displayed. So, I plugged my unRAID OS usb drive into my windows desktop and it booted to terminal. Since I use a static IP I was able to get to the GUI via my network. My windows machine doesn’t have many SATA and drive power ports so I just plugged in the Parity drive to check. It did see the Parity drive but the message said ‘invalid array, too many drives missing” So what should I do next? Is there more testing I can do or should I just assume the MB is toast and buy a new MB and CPU? Thanks

Will these be good for our unRAID builds? http://www.pcworld.com/article/2100347/wds-new-purple-hard-drives-optimized-for-24/wd-says-its-new-purple-hard-drives-are-optimized-for-24.html#tk.rss_all

is there a big difference in the cables? for instance what's the difference between these two? http://www.amazon.com/3WARE-Cable-Multi-lane-Internal-SFF-8087/dp/B000FBYS2U/ref=pd_cp_pc_1 and http://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-Internal-SFF-8087-Forward-Breakout/dp/B005E2XTO8/ref=pd_rhf_ee_p_t_1

I’ve been running my rig for over a year now and I’m looking to upgrade from Plus to Pro, add a drive cage, and controller card. unRAID Ver.4.7 with one 2TB parity drive and 5 data drives ( 4 - 1TB, 1 - 500GB) my case is an old Alienware Area 51 tower and here is what’s in the box MB: ASRock 880GM-LE AM3 AMD 880G http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157199 PSU: Rosewill Green Series RG630-S12 630W Continuous @40°C,80 PLUS Certified, Single 12V Rail, Active PFC http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182200 CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 250 Regor 3.0GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core Desktop Processor http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103903 here’s what I’m thinking of getting cage: COOLER MASTER STB-3T4-E3-GP 4-in-3 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817993002&Tpk=STB-3T4-E3-GP now the question is which card to get? SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101358 or Syba SY-PEX40013 PCI Express http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124029&Tpk=SY-PEX40013 seems like a lot of builds use the MV8. What’s the benefit of using a SAS as opposed to a SATA card? Also is there a good walkthu in the forums? Or is it as simple as - stop the array, shutdown. Build it. Restart?

ok, so could i also just move 'staging' to the root of V:\? that way my other individual movie folders will stay on one disk. i added the 'staging' dir to 'Queue' recently and that is where i guess i went wrong. now i better understand how the split level works

i use sabnzb and the completed folder path is "V:\Queue\Staging" 'V:/' is my movies share

I’ve been running 4.7 for about a year now and I definitely set something up wrong with the shares. i have a few shares (movies, music, pics, misc,) and at first I specified the disk using include and exclude, but later abandoned that method. The problem is that everything in the ‘movies’ share is still being written to ‘disk1’ and it’s full. It reached zero bytes available and I started getting ‘No Space Left On Device’ errors. i deleted some files to make room. I have since re-read the wiki and I have min space set to ‘40000000’ and I’ve even tried excluding ‘disk1’ from all shares. and anything copied to ‘movies’ still goes to ‘disk1’. I’ve stopped and rebooted the array since making the exclude disks and min space changes. Syslog and some screen shorts attached I don’t get it. What am I doing wrong? syslog_2012_05_22.txt