sam_roberts30

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  1. Just an update on my progress. Out of the 10.5TB of data I have now got 3.5 recovered. Its slow progress but i am confident i will be able to recover more. I'll keep you posted.
  2. Yeah can send it to the us. I'll get a price for you. Can you pm your address so I can get a quote from Royal Mail?
  3. Hi every one, I'm splitting down my server. Built a new one and the wife wants the old bits out of the way. First off is a Supermicro X6-DVL EG2 server motherboard. This board features dual CPUs. (I'm including 2x xeon 3.2Ghz CPUs), dual gig LAN ports, dual serial ports, 2x pci-e x4 (in x8 slots), 1x pci 64bit and 3x pci bit slots. Also including 4x 1gb of Supermicro Ram. Looking for £50 plus postage. Secondly a Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 sata card. This includes the mounting bracket and 2 sets of breakout cables. £60 plus postage.
  4. I've not moved on this yet. Waiting for replacement drives to come in and a clear day (no wife/kids/pets to get in the way) and then I'll make a start. And keep you all upto date.
  5. I have talked to the company offering the fixed price recovery. They offer a no data, no fee policy so in that respect I have nothing to lose. They seem very confident that they can do it and their outfit looks respectable (all the right company numbers, VAT registration, an actual unit that they work from. I have visited the trade counter and it certainly feels like they mean buisness etc). My plan is to try them with the smallest fried drive (500gb) to see if they could do it. There isn't much on it and if they do mess it up then so what. Yeah I going to try it. There shouldn't be a problem with the swap. I have 2 drives that are same make and model, one dead one alive. I'm going to get the data off the good one and then try the PCB swap. Who knows, it might work...
  6. No they aren't, on of the 0v and 12v connections were reversed. Which is what blew the pcbs. The cables look the same in that they are braided and heat shrieked right up to the connectors so you can't see the colours of the wires. I'm taking server all things away from this incident. Namely:- Always have a backup. Even for the data you don't think is important to you. Mine wasn't at the time but as it turns out it is to me now. Never use modular psus. For the sake of a little extra clutter it's not possible to mess things up. Check check and check again. From this point forth whenever the server is opened up every connection will be checked. Fewer bigger drives. If this ever happens again it is cheaper to get one massive drive repaired rather than multiple smaller ones. What is a real b@#%h is that I'm an electrician and should know better. Thanks to every one for their help, I've come to terms that ill be spending a fair bit of time re-ripping some 2000+ movies (or paying some kid to do it for me)
  7. So the drives are fried. Out of the 8, 3 drives are ok. Looks like I put -12v across the drives and pop! Managed to get most of my iTunes. Looks like the majority of what is lost is bluerays. Going to pull the data off, put it on some new drives in a new rig and get each failed drive recovered one at a time as I can afford it.
  8. I've nipped into the office and borrowed a windows pc. Just setting it up and after the young un' has gone to bed ill investigate. Fingers crossed it will be the controller. Ill report back. I've found a company that say they do a fixed price data recovery £120+vat. Might risk the one that had smoke coming out of it before trying the rest. I have my docs on a backup. I didnt think that losing my movies would be an issue, just re-rip it. As it turns out it is a real annoyance. Lesson learned and a second box offsite is getting commissioned.
  9. All being well ill be able to hook up a pc tomorrow. If they don't work it looks like I will be going down the data recovery service route. Any recommendations for companies on the UK?
  10. Thanks for the tip. I"m gutted. Literally hundreds of hours ripping DVDs and blurays seemingly wasted.
  11. Mods can you move this to general support? I didn't notice this was 5.0 specific. Cheers.
  12. I was putting in a larger PSU, upgrading from 550w to 850w due to expansion as a stop gap while I got my new esxi box up and running. The old PSU is modular and so is the new one. The cables got mixed up and I have installing some of the old cables and some of the new ones in the new psu. The looked identical apart from the new ones have some text on the heat shrink where the old ones don't.
  13. I'm running 4.7 on an Asus M4A78LT-M mobo with 8 drives (7data+parity) Tonight I changed my psu. I plugged the old cables into the new modular psu (not intentionally). Anyway I powered up the system and one of the hard drives sparked and started to smoke so I pulled the power to try save what I could. Now when I power the unit up with the one that was smoking unplugged it is showing 6 of the drives missing. Can any one recommend a corse of action? I haven't done anything yet. I don't want to make things worse.
  14. So after years of running Unraid I'm leaving. The lure of server essentials 2012 is too great for me. Anyway, I'd just like to say a huge thanks to every one has helped me out over the years and given me advice. All the best with 5.0 when it's finalised.
  15. Yes thats right, My apologies for the typo. I think I may have found the problem. The player installed new firmware on Friday. I found an email in my junk folder saying the update was not successful and requires a system restore. I am going to watch 9 again and see if the stuttering happens again tonight. Thanks for your help, I'll keep you posted. Thanks again.
  16. I know the network isn't an issue. I'm an electrician and do ALOT of data centre cabling. The network is all screened cat6a. The network map goes unraid -> HP Pro Curve switch -> media player. When I verfied the network using a fluke tester I am get consistent results of 104mbps. The media player is a DF Solutions Base media server. It's a high end home cinema source that runs its own proprietary OS which takes care of all the playback and the hardware is all custom too, sorry not much help on that front. I have quite a few 3d bluray iso's and never had a problem. The stuttering happened first on the bluray "9" and again last night on "up". Now this got me thinking, these films a really quite high in bit rate at times so could it be that the hard drives in the array aren't fast enough to keep up? I.E need 7200 rather than 5400 drives for blue rays? To be honest I have been thinking of changing out the desktop drives with enterprise drives anyway so it might be worth going with the faster drives if that could be a cause.
  17. I'm currently running unraid 4.7, a sempron 145, 4gb ram, 5400rpm drives and gig network. I got a bit of stuttering during playback of a bluray iso. Will uping the ram to 8gb or 16gb reduce the chance of stuttering during playback?
  18. Thanks for speedy help chaps. It's back up and running. The flash drive wasn't set as primary boot device, in fact it wasn't even on the list. How does that happen? Thanks again guys. Sam
  19. How do I get to it? I know I have to connect a monitor and keyboard but how do I actually grab the log?
  20. I upgraded to rc12a at the weekend, realised that it didn't play nice with my media server and rolled back to 4.7. (Not an Unraid problem, a problem with my media server- DF Solutions Base media server) I followed the upgrade procedure and everything worked as expected. Then I rolled back using the backup of the flash I made before the upgrade when everything was working perfectly. Now I can't get into the server at all. No shares on the network, no web GUI, no telnet and no chance of getting a syslog but i can ping the ip address and get a reply. Is there anyway to get in to find out what the hell is going on?
  21. Hey dude thanks for the reply. Just one question, rename them to what?
  22. So I want to put my unraid back to stock and removing all add ons. How do I go about reinstalling the OS while keeping the configuration (disks order etc...)? Cheers.