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I wish I could help. I'm looking forward to the finished product. Which version of xbmc did you use ?

I've setup XBMC on a windows based htpc and a couple of pivos Xios decvices. MySQL db is on unRaid. What protocol should I use to connect to unraid ? SMB or NFS ? Any recommendations of is it all much of a muchness ? I should I ask in the xbmc forums ?

Using the glass half empty view, the 5.0 could be released live, with these new features, but only certified to work on the new servers Tom is selling. There certainly isn't enough time for a proper community beta(RC) test cycle that includes these proposed new features.

I'm now looking at other solutions. I really want a single box to handle storage, media downloading, web server, and anything else that takes my fancy. Bu I don't hae the room or the understanding wife to have multiple boxes. I'm currently tossing between FreeNAS, going bareback on Ubuntu or investing in HW and building an esxi box where unraid only handles WORM type storage for me. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have considered a different platform if I felt unraid was a professional product that I could rely on beng around and relevant in 2 to 3 years time.

I'm in the midst of preclearing new 4TB drives which will replace my current 2tb drives. I think the first 3 cycle preclear went fine. Log attached. 90+ hours. I think I'll use this one for parity and run the other 4 drives on a single pre-clear as I'm hoping to have the system backup by Christmas. preclear.txt

I had a Quick search without much luck. I have a server running the latest 5.0 release with 4 x 2TB drives (1 parity, 3 data). I want to replace all drives with 4 new 4th drives that have been acquired. What's the easiest way to replace all all drives with new ones. I don't have another unraid server that would allow me to do a full copy and then just swap the drives. I'm assuming I need to replace 1 at a time starting with the parity and letting unraid rebild. Is that the only way ?

If that's really what Tom is doing then Version 5 will never be officially released if he keeps up with that sort of release management.

Great review. I'm looking at moving to 4tb DMs from my 2Tb DLs. I live in the tropics and the server is in a room where there is no regular Aircon so to see disks at idle sitting on 40+C is normal. I wonder how the DMs compare heat wise to the DLs.

Yup. Hmmm, how about the MySQL plugin ? I'm about to setup an xbmc htpc and want a cenalised do from the get go.

Could these boards handle unraid with simple features, sabnzbd, sick beard, couch potato, transmission, flexget and AirPlay as plugins ? I might move my current servers mono into a htpc setup if these little server boys can handle what the server is doing now.

f5 doesn't help. I've nearly worn out that key over time trying to sort it out. I haven't tried the txt file trick. I normally just do something else until the file appears.

Plugin manager that provides a consistent and well integrated way of managing plugins. Some thing that will stop the race conditions, allow unraid to boot even if a plugin hangs on install, allow unraid to boot with no plugins and my favorite, allow automagically stop all plugins when a parity check is being run.

How old is the creator of Flexraid, 15 ?

Bootstrap sites are everywhere these days. It's very handy for throwing a page site very quickly. You can even make it quicker by buying a custom bootstrap theme which I think your example has done. Plenty here: https://wrapbootstrap.com/ I'm not sure if the web server in unraid can handle css3 though.

I installed RC11 and for the same thing earlier this evening. I ended up removing all the plugins and it booted. I manually installed simple features, sabnzbd, sick beard and transmission and they are working. I haven't rebooted the server since then nor added all of the other plugins. Il do that later this week.

Plenty of ways to skin a cat but Tom needs to work out which way is best for him and his plans for unraid. The fact is the support numbers and type of support will increase with a more BDU friendly frontend.

Double edged sword though. More users means more revenue - good thing More users means more support issues - not great A More sexy frontend with a well designed and implemented plug in manager will attract more non-techy users which will the level of support needed will increase. In the short time I've been an unraid user I've seen the type of support questions move from the more technical to more how to type questions. I'm worried limetech won't be able to cope with both support and development if there is an effort to sexily the GUI and make it easier to install non-core plugins. But without the ability to install plugins I would probably have moved away from unraid already.

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Ran some very rough and nasty tests.. A 650Mb file, writing from my ws's SDD to a user share on the unraid. with vm.highmem_is_dirtyable = 0 3 Writes: 32MB/s, 29MB/s, 32MB/s 2 Reads: 73MB/s, 68MB/s with vm.highmem_is_dirtyable = 1 3 Writes: 40MB/s, 50MB/s, 50MB/s 2 Reads: 69MB/s, 72MB/s While I wasn't overly concerned with the speed previously, I am happy to see some significant performance. I might kick of a parity check tonight to see what speeds that gives me

Apologies for the noob question but where do we make this change ?

This might be better in the customisation forum but is there a way that simple features could suspend all stats gathering / health checks plugins when it realises a parity check is running ?

Without trying to be smart or making it a bitch session, I don't think it matters which option you choose as long as there is a steady stream of communication updating the paying customers of what's happening. You're obviously working to address to address the known issue while the current RC10 caters for most people so it doesn't really matter what it is called as long as those affected by the bug know how that's progressing.

I'll have a look at this, thanks. It's doing exactly what I was after by the sound of it. Have a share set to spin up on directory access. I'm not sure if you're still developing cache_dirs but if this solution could be another option in that, it would be lovely. Chose which shares to ignore, which to cache only, and which to cache and spin up. I'm still trying to work out what xaminder found so funny though.

Joking ? No. But if please feel free to explain the humor. If i disable cache_dir then moving through a directory tree will be slow. Slow enough that my cheapo media player will timeout and I need to start from root again. It's also a matter of having the best of both world. Fast directory searches witot a lag for disk spin p when a file is needed. Its not often is I start looking for a file without actually opening a file.

I run cache_dirs and it's made life a little better. I was wondering though if there is a way for cache_dirs to trigger a spin up of the disks when I start browsing through the directories. It's rare for me to be browsing without eventually opening a file which is when the delay kicks in. It would be great if the disks started up in anticipation of a file being opened.