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  1. So 50% of the time the server will be on. I would say that it's best to leave it on. You can add an UPS if you are worried for power failures.
  2. No sure. Icy Box black vortex has a regular one and a hot swap. I have the hot swap. A bit more expensive but not that much. The R2 comes std with 2 hd cages for 4 discs. But they are side loaded and not frontal. Easy plug in. But not hot swap. One icy dock can go in top. The other one maybe between the internal hd cages and power supply. But you will have to check that. The fan based in the bottem you'll have to move to the side. But the case is pre designed for that.
  3. Fractal design R2 XL. At the moment 8 disc's in the std cages. I also have 3 in the IcyDock. With some adjustments you can add another 4 disc's below but you need to buy another cage. I'm using the 3 standard 120mm fans that were included and added a 4th. I also have the one in the icydock.
  4. Room isn't that hot. Around 23-24 degrees. In my previous case, an old CM stacker, all my disc's were hitting the high 40's during parity check with a top of ~50. Since my new case I don't have these issues anymore.
  5. I have the hot-swap. Temp of the disk was around 34 during a parity check. I just put in a new HGST 6TB disk in that cage and during the preclear the temp didn't go over 34-35 degrees.
  6. I have the Icy Box black vortex http://www.icydock.com/goods_cat.php?id=142 This one has a 120mm. The leds can be turned off
  7. Looking good indeed. But I don't like the 80mm fan. Maybe a bit small and smaller fans tend to make more noise and the cage can get hotter. Especially if you have 5 HD running in it..
  8. Yes. Sorry. Wasn't clear. So the old parity will be used as data drive. But I was thinking to start using xfs for that drive. All others ones are still reiserfs. After beeing used for a few years a preclear on the old parity isn't needed? I think the drive has been tested enough during the parity time. It's a WD red.
  9. Hi I just replaced my old server with a new one. I am taking the old drives from previous server. I have also bought a 8TB disc. This will be my new parity. At the moment I'm doing a preclear on it. When finished I select the new drive as parity. My old parity will be a new data drive (4TB). I think this is also a good occasion to gradually move over to XFS. What's the best way to proceed? After preclear I format the new parity as XFS. When new parity is selected I do a preclear. Later add the old 4tb disc and format as XFS. I add the drive to the system and tada. All finished? Apparantly there are no issues that you have a mix in file formats. So over time all drives will be XFS when replaced... Am I missing something? Or can I proceed like this.
  10. OK. I have done a copy of the newest unraid version to my stick. Just plugged it in and it works.. No settings/apps lost because those files weren't overwritten. Thanks for the help everyone.
  11. I use the USB 2 port for my unraid stick. USB 3 isn't used at the moment. My external HD will have more benefit on the faster speeds I have been running memtest last night. No errors found. I had multiple runs. My new server was running all night. So hardware looks OK. I have now eliminated that my RAM is the problem. Next possibility is the software on the old unraid stick. So next test I will be doing is creating a new USB stick with a fresh unraid install.. Let's hope this fixes the problem...
  12. So if the memtest is OK I just create a new stick? I don't need copy any data from the old to the new stick? I once had a update gone wrong. After that I copied the new unraid version to the stick and had a fresh install. I didn't lose my data and my top folders were still present. I will have to reinstall the apps I presume. But that's not that worst that can happen
  13. You have an excellent point. Will do a mem test. Different stick/fresh install. I am still using my HD's from previous unraid. I don't want to lose that data. How can I be sure that I won't lose my shares and data created?
  14. My motherboard, cpu and memory has been assembled in the hardware store. Bios update done for the board and they claim everything is tested. So also the memory. But to be sure I can do a test myself. The USB stick is coming from my previous unraid server. That one worked without problems. I just plugged this usb stick in my new server. My server boots. I see the unraid screen with options. Unraid boots and I see an OK and a 2nd one. After that one my server reboots. So unraid doesn't start up.
  15. Hmm. This isn't working for me Tried to boot with and without my screen. Same error. After a while a reboot. With my screen on it was with the same timing. So after 2 OK's... Could there be another problem? I suppose it is still software related...