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I think if I were to sell my 2 Pro licenses, I should make sure to sell the USB stick with it. That way I wouldn't have to bother Tom. Best chance to do that is with 2 good quality not too expensive sticks like 4 GB Lexar Fireflys. Tom has always been very helpfull to me even when I killed two sticks in a row. I got a new key within a day.

I have these on my board: Kingston KVR1333D3E9SK2/16.

If it is still in warranty I would RMA, an unstable drive is even worse than pending or other sectors. It can breakdown any moment Can be a hardware defect. Did you try other cables?

Thanks, I want to optimize it hardware wise. Right now the user shares use disk 1-15 of my array, and my question is if it would be better to have my blurays grouped to gether on 5-6 disks, mkvs on 5 other disks and so on. My mediaplayers have some sort of videowall or jukebox system so they don't actually bother on which disk or in which folder the file is.

Have you tried without SF? I have had same problems with SF installed. Post this problem in the SimpleFeatures thread.

My movies collection consist mainly of Bluray rips, MKVs and DVDs, there ara also some AVIs and WMVs. Would it be beneficial, regarding speed of access and drives spinup, to have four separate user shares (Bluray, MKV, DVD, Misc) with their own included disks. Is this better than creating one user share with four subfolders?

If it was my disk I would check if I could RMA the disk. I wouldn't trust the disk anymore. My experience is that once a disk starts developing the bad sectors more will appear after some time. If you gonna use it, monitor it.

Even though unraid doesn't really support multiple partitions (They'd be useless), it's still good to know the limitations so later down the road OP isn't confused upon why his partitions aren't working/etc. I use 3 TB Hitachis in unraid, but these are the first 3 TB Western Digitals I'm gonna use, thats why my question in the OP.

I've never seen such a specimen in the wild, but it appears they really do exist. I stand corrected then. Western Digital has. http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Caviar-Intellipower-Desktop/dp/B004SBI2MU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362238622&sr=8-1&keywords=wd25ezrx But that was not my question.

How can I access the unraid webgui from a Mac running Mountain Lion 10.8.2 with Safari? When I type Tower I get a server not found message. Typing the ip-adres works, but accessing the various unmenu screens screens is troublesome. ip-adres:8080 gives me the main page of unmenu but accessing mymain and other screens gives me cannot find server.

The moment I saw the red-balled parity I powered down. Haven't touched it since. I try to reasign the disk and possibly set a new config without parity. I don't want the disk get cleared or formatted. After that I reassign the parity disk and rebuild parity. BUT first I do a long smart test on the disks.

General advice is to do one step at a time. It's easy to loose track.

I will start preclearing some WD30EFRX disks soon and have some questions. Should I use the -A option on this disk or not? I have set MBR: 4k-aligned in disk settings. Does it effect the performance of such a disk for streaming movies of it? Perhaps resulting in choppy playback? In other words: What is the best way to preclear these disks? Any advice appreciated.

Same for me.

The 1 TB drive I wanted to replace was NOT the parity, that already is a 3 TB disk. The disk I wanted to replace was a data-disk.

Thanks Bob, I already saw that Intel board too. The trouble is that it seems you have to buy an additional Remote Management Module. Don't know if Intel is offering a complete package.

Checked and double checked but parity is still red-balled. I guess parity must be rebuild and checked before a disk can be replaced by a larger one.

I started this just to find out if there a more brands and types of motherboards with IPMI besides Supermicro. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=26228.msg229217#msg229217 So stick to that please.

I wanted to replace a 1 TB disk with a 3 TB one, so I shutdown the server, took the 1 TB out and placed a precleared 3 TB disk. When I booted the server I saw the parity disk red-balled. What should I do now? Put the 1 TB disk back and place a new parity disk and let it build parity? Is this save?

Are there besides the Supermicro boards other motherboards that have IPMI integrated?

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It's SEGA vs. Nintendo or XBOX360 vs PS3 or mine is bigger than yours all over again. I'm gonna stick with unraid cos it does what I want. I tried flexraid but turned to unraid after that.

In Europe its different from the USA. I live in Holland and RMA's several WD20EARS with advance replacement. I RMAd a Samsung drive through Seagate without advance replacement. When I have to go through a dealer and have to rely on them things can become very lengthy, this is the case with Toshiba disks. I cant deal directly with Toshiba. For me the easiest and quickest replacement it Western Digital. I can have a replacement drive in 4-5 days after which I return the defective one to WD Germany. I have to pay for the return though.

Sorry about that. I get a bit panicky at the moment when I see something unusual in the syslog. The messages only appear when the cache disk is spundown is made and needs to spinup. And I don't see it with other disks. I guess I should rephrase the question.

I have 2 RAID volumes on an ARC1200, one for parity and one for cache disk. When the cache disk is written to I see this appear in the syslog: sdb is the cache volume. Feb 25 17:12:50 Tower1 kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Sense Key : 0x0 [current] Feb 25 17:12:50 Tower1 kernel: Info fld=0x0 Feb 25 17:12:50 Tower1 kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 Feb 25 17:12:53 Tower1 kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Sense Key : 0x0 [current] Feb 25 17:12:53 Tower1 kernel: Info fld=0x0 Feb 25 17:12:53 Tower1 kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 I don't see them when the parity volume is written to. syslog-2013-02-25.zip