mexicanmike

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  1. DOWNLOADING NOW!!! Edit: Damn I just realized I need to get a life. I am like 2 minutes behind tom posting this...and its friday night.
  2. This is the one I bought: Custom Xeon Dual Core 1.86GHz 8GB DDR2 Internal 160 IDE 24 Bay SATA Server. Total w/ shipping to FL was $292. You can view my signature link for pictures & more details on my customization of it... but yes, shipping was just under $100... it is very heavy. This is the older one that was available. If new buyers are lucky the super micro ones are the ones they got in. The supermicro ones use 2 larger PSU's that are quieter and easier to mod for a standard PSU. The AIC case based one above is a fantastic unit for the price, if you can tolerate more lengthy modding, or the sound of the 20mm fan whining. I bought two of the above units, they run great. I also bought 6 of the supermicros. All of them run great, but are loud. I have a isolated space for them, so for me it is not a factor. Tamsolutions was great to deal with, but they do not have the supply currently to meet the demand generated by various internet forums(I dont talk to them, litlgi74 would know more). Be patient, as they seem to get various additional units at regular intervals.
  3. Yea, the super micro units without the trays, or really any of them without the trays, aren't really a deal. The trays cost too much too replace. If you were buying 5 or 6, and not stripping them down, it would be useful. Even then, if the innards fail, the hardware is so outdated you are better off just redoing the internals.
  4. I did find the rails for these units. They were however overpriced from all the sources, and they were no exactly smooth ball bearing rails or anything. I have one of the units on a shelf inside my racks. The other one I have placed on "Shelf Like Rails". These shelf like rails are similar to Apple RAID rails.
  5. The 2U servers are a steal, but def not as modifiable as the original 4U units. With the 4U servers you were looking at 120MM fans, and a standard desktop PSU. This set-up could be made to operate at very low volume levels, comparable to a Desktop. With the 2u unit it is more difficult, because most of the PSU with enough power to drive all the 3.5inch drives, in a 2u form factor, will be much louder. Most 2u PSU's are designed for enterprise solutions, where server rooms are used, and noise is not a factor. The Stock PSU's on either of these units could be modified to run quite, but you would need to get new fans, and the fans for 1u PSU's are generally 20mm which means they run at high RPM's and are LOUD. I have a few of the 4U units, and have not modified them at all, as I keep them in a rack in my garage. Happy to see so many people are finding these servers to be useful.
  6. I will be next week when I get it. Looks like my initial report was false. This unit does recognize with unraid 4.7 without issue. I will try to test with 5.0rc8, but if it works with 4.7, I imagine we are good to go. I have 6 HDD;s hooked up in a N40L and will report back as I transfer data from my other n40l.
  7. Has anyone used this in a n40l yet? Using unraid, did it require the script?
  8. 10 minutes??? You aren't trying hard enough.
  9. For the price of the 5N. Get a HP N40L and add two drives to the optical bay area. Still under the price of a 5N. The only feature that is nice on the drobo is the dual disk redundancy. Bad part on that is though, if 3 drives fail, your are completely hosed. VS unraid, you just lose the data on the failed drives. Although, if you let 3 drives fail on the drobo, you deserve it. Drobo would also be a lot harder if the enclosure dies. In the past, if the firmware version on your failed one was old, and they sent you a replacement with new firmware, your data was hosed. I owned one of the older ones, USB/Firewire model, and it was complete trash. I am curious to try the mini though, as it looks interesting. No doubt the addition of thunderbolt and the Msata made it faster.
  10. They had the drive for 89.99 on black friday. Yeah, I know. Like I said, I was on the edge, the price on the drive was the straw that broke my back.
  11. They ran this same price for the N40L this morning, and offered a 3TB 7200 RPM seagate at 89.99 if purchased together. I was holding out, and this pushed me over the edge. I don't need the 3TB, but I guess i wanted the N40L anyway.
  12. This deal is on new egg for anyone who reads this and was wondering.
  13. Have to second on the HP N40L. Currently I am running this and have a useable capacity of 15TB. 4 3TB drives in the stock bays, 2 in ODD area and a 2.5inch drive as the cache drive.
  14. Yea……If these are EMC specific drive with the appropriate sleds, firmware ext, they are going to be worth way more to someone looking for EMC spec'ed drives. I mean the initial price of 50 for 2TB is great, but you can resell some of the EMC stuff for 5-10x that, easily.
  15. Dang, just about the same price I paid for my hitachi's before the flooding. Prices are coming back down, but know I think I will wait for the 4TB drives.
  16. Just popped in to post this. Ordered one. Get the 8GB upgrade kit that costs 55 and you get a combo deal with a 39 dollar discount. 8 gigs of memory and this little guy on the cheap. I just ordered this so I can offload my daily accessed stuff to this instead of having my 24bay server on all the time.
  17. There are no "standard size server racks". Yes, 19" width is typical, but racks can range from 20-40" deep. The server itself is 26", so by the time your cables stick out the back, you better make sure the rack you use is at least 28" deep. The rails for the server are adjustable for 26-36" racks. You cannot use a two-post telecom rack for a server like this. Correct, I should have been more specific. I think most people who have common sense would realize a server with 24 drives is too heavy for a two post rack, but hey, maybe not.
  18. Here is the case that is used http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/846/SC846TQ-R900.cfm . The dimensions of the case are listed. I guess it doesn't matter though, because they are all sold out. I have heard they may be receiving more, but can not guarantee if they will be the same model/specs. This unit racks into any standard sized server rack. I am actually pretty excited to here more about the Lime-Tech developed solution. It racks in a 19inch standard telcomm rack if I have read correctly. Those types of racks are fairly cheap, and if done correctly can be wall mounted and sound dampened. For the average user, it looks to be perfect. I think I read 6 full size 3.5inch drives and an option for 4 2.5's. At current drive capacities, thats 28TB's, 24 of which is useable storage, pretty sweet if you ask me.
  19. Is the 3TB drive currently in a UnRaid config. If you answered no, you can not simply put a drive with formatting for some other OS into unraid and integrate the data. You will need to set up the other two drives in unraid, and then transfer the data from the currently full drive.
  20. This man speaks the truth. More important than the pure CFM of the fans will be where the air is coming from. The more you can create a complete wall where air is coming directly from one area and flowing to another, the better. My solution was not meant as a stand alone. I def plugged those wholes, I just didn't have metal, and the fan wall would not fit in the 4220 correctly. I ended up using the fan wall on my 4224, so not all was lost.
  21. Although it is not ideal, it is def possible to "string up" 3 120mm fans together without the wall. I did this in a 4220. I actually used zip ties to hold the fans together. Then I zip tied this through the holes on the side of the case. Because the fans are low RPM, it doesn't look like the sway too much. It is pretty ghetto, and it doesn't look good, but it works.
  22. Will this do 1080P MKV's. I understand this is a vague question. Does it Bitstream HD audio? Do you own one?
  23. The stock fans are very loud. They will however keep the device at around the ambient temp of the room. The PSU's are loud as well. If the device is going in a garage or basement, it *MIGHT* be passable in its stock config. I have done zero mods to this machine and have it running in my garage. The supermicro units where all sold out at one point, but they may be receiving more. They do still have a different 24bay server as well. The machine would require more modifications, as it uses 3 1u PSU's and you have to unmount the mobo tray and maybe do some standoff creation. If noise levels aren't an issue, they are a steal at 199. Call TAMS for more info.
  24. For a step by step on how to replace those PSU's. http://www.avsforum.com/t/1412640/are-you-looking-for-a-less-expensive-norco-4220-4224-alternative There are a couple different ways to do this, the best of which looks like cutting the Mobo tray and relocating.
  25. Read this: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#Min._Free_Space I have read that, In addition I have set all my shares to have a min. free space 0f 60GB (60000000). Was able to use cache drive yesterday for a move of around 100gb to one of the shares. Right after, I attempted to use the cache drive for about 250GB to a different share, and it crashed. Reboot, envoke mover, crashed again. I really dont think that it is the share, I have rebuilt these shares from scratch.I was on B14, copied all the data off, recreated the shares, and moved to 5.0rc-2, this same thing is happening. Tried to get logs, but it keeps dumping them, any suggestions?