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Love the GUI/Skin - what official pkg should've been really. Thanks so much for the good work! Or put it in flash/extra.

K, did a parity check and seems the temp stables at ~44C with only rear case fans - will play with heat zone now and report back.

Agree - will definitely try heat zones (seem to be an intelligent way of cracking the temps). What temp would be considered optimal btw? ~<40?

Nice! lovely G4. A further exam shows the gaps between the HDs are prob too small for further perforations - I'd prob try recycling the rest of fans from G5 by mounting them on top of the seagates pulling air up.

WOW thx - Just did & ref-ed exactly insanelymac - talking about psychic thinking & timing! ;D

UPDATE: Had 2 G5 rear case fans hooked up to molex @ 5V (quieter mode) now - seagates showing ~+/- 45C and IDEs showing ~<40C _____________________________________________________________________________________ Wow thanks everyone for the comments - I wasn't really aware the temps being a big issue now certainly do! drive layout besides the clearance & misc consideration when laying out the HDs at bottom in a row, one thought also is that this does avoid the thermal stacking effect (11 stacking HDs prob would easily cook the top HD to be 5C hotter than bottom) and the heat from individual drives rises up affecting little to one another. the rational is: heat rises from HDs at bottom, get pulled out by rear case fans; residual heat passes mobo/CPU cavity rising to top compartment where it gets sucked in by PSU belly fan then shoot out by PSU rear fan. air flow one big factors that contributes to the high temp is the 2 rear G5 case fans are in fact yet to be hooked up (been slacking off - stock G5 rear fans need to be rewired to work - having the seagates right under the CPU certainly doesn't help either), hence there is next to none active air circulation so far (as a temporary measure the case side panel is left open with a big room fan blowing air away and it seems to bring the seagate 1.5TB temp down to ~47C). after reading all the wonderful comments, I plan to implement 2 measures to see how it goes: 1, wire the G5 rear case fan to work (duh.) - done 2, to add rows of perforation holes in between the drives to allow air intake from bottom I'll report back with results hopefully around end of week... Thanks very much again everyone - happy unRAID-ing!

Thanks - a week on/off gutting/dremeling/drilling and the result is not too bad! Specs (free donor PC from a friend - I have to admit it's kinda lame, was testing AirVideo last night OMG u can imagine... ): System: ASUSTek - A7V400-MX (2 IDE connector for 4 IDE HDs) SATA add-on Card: Syba PCI-3114-4IR-01 PCI SATA Controller Card 4-PORT CPU: AMD AthlonTM XP - 1.916 GHz Cache: 128 kB Memory: 1 GB - Generic Network: 100Mb/s - Full Duplex Enclosure PowerG5 (free donor Mac from a friend... again ) HDs (k these are not free but all loose from the past): IDE: 120GB, 300GB, 320GB, 320GB SATA: 160GB, 1.5TB, 1.5TB, 1.5TB, 1.5TB Drive Temps: IDEs (Maxtor & Hitachi) are around 35 ~ 45C SATAs (SEAGATE 1.5TBs! gotta look into firmware some day but so far they been running okay) ~50C Packages: AirVideo iStat YAMJ Transmission

I encountered a similar situation couple days ago and it turned out its not Transmission but in fact the router. - worth a check.

My humble rig: 11 Drive Bays: okay I promise better quality pics to come - blame it on iPhone 3GS @ 2am!

UPDATE: It seems for me that simpleFeatures doesn't stick and my system reverts back to default after every reboot? Did I do something wrong?