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iStarUSA 5-in-3s, fans removed, have two with a third in the future. Love them. Have a single iStarUSA hot swap too in my preclear machine.

Have a C60M1-I I want to use as a backup server with the Silverstone DS380. I had purchased a cheap Syba two-port SATA card (compatible with unraid) for another build and tested it with the C60, however the system does not boot with it installed. I know some mfg's and BIOS's with older mITX boards made it so that only a VGA card could be installed in the slot. Wondering if anyone has any leads on a four-port SATA card that is known to work with the C60M1-I and unraid.

All drives have space available, but the mover failed to move one file last night. The file was copied to the server along with a few others, at the same time, using the same method. I am simply moving it by hand now, but I'm curious why it didn't work. I tried to manually invoke the mover, no effect. Is there a log for the mover where I can check for errors? Or is it in the syslog? Thanks.

Why? There's really no benefit to this. The newer disks will automatically fill up as you add new files, and there's no notable read performance benefit by "equalizing" the distribution of data. I thought I had read somewhere that a disk above 85% capacity took a performance hit. That's why I was trying to redistribute the data.

Thanks. I have been using cp/mv, but wasn't sure if those methods kept the highwater system in place. Wasn't sure if I needed to copy to my local PC, and then back to unraid, for the share rules to be in effect.

I am using highwater on my shares. My disks have gotten really, really full, 100GB free on 4TB disks. I just added two more disks, and now I'd like to spread the files around a little to make some space on the original 4TB disks. What is the easiest way to accomplish this? Thanks.

I have two (with a third on order) of these five-drive units, and one single drive unit. Love them, they're all I'll use. I take the fans off of them. My tower case has five 120mm fans all pulling air out, and the entire case is sealed, so incoming air only flows over the drives. This makes the system very quiet, and my drives never go above 30C during parity checks. I wanted a trayless design for ease, although I rarely swap drives, so in retrospect either would have worked. I know its trivial, but they are (in my opinion) the nicest looking units available.

I figured as much but wanted to check. Thanks. I'll get started now since it will take a few days to preclear all of them -- thanks again.

I know I've read posts about this in the past, but my google-foo is weak today, so here goes. Have a few disks here that used to be in my unraid server, still have data on them (that data has since been backed up elsewhere) and I'd like to use the old disks as new disks in the server. Do I need to format them first? If I just pop them in, will unraid throw a fit since they were previously assigned?

Thanks, I got the 3Ware (3Wire?) cables from newegg when I bought the card. Wish me luck.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124064 I am adding this to another one of my servers after reading numerous reviews.

About to order my first controller to add drives to my server. Have seen a lot of posts about this one, lots of success stories. However in the sticky/FAQ there is talk about newer versions needing firmware and/or other modifications. I know the IBM/LSI M-something-or-ther (M1505? I don't remember) needed firmware stuff, and that wasn't possible on all motherboards. I would like to add 8 drives to my system with a minimal amount of fuss. Just making sure the MV8 is still on the favorites list -- any major issues to know about before I buy? Anyone purchased on recently (I'm using Newegg) and got a version that didn't require any firmware stuff before using? Thanks.

Gang, My kids' XP machine finally died, and the Windows 7 licensing sucks, and I won't be going to Windows 8.1. So I am exploring Ubuntu, Mint, and #! as a replacement OS. My biggest concern right now is that everyone's "My Documents" share under Windows maps to a share on my unraid server, so files are not stored locally and can be accessed from any machine they log into. I'm wondering about the permissions when doing this from inside linux. Its been a long, long, long time since I set up a multi-user *nix system, and have never done it under linux. Unraid server is presently exporting cifs and nfs -- wondering if I can get some advice on how to do this from a new linux desktop, with regard to permissions. Mapping a drive in Windows XP was a breeze and permissions were never an issue. I don't want to spend a day troubleshooting, they will need this system to be up when school starts up again. Thanks.

My trusty M5A78L-M still won't boot off USB automatically (without a kb and monitor plugged in to make it do it) even after two CMOS battery replacements, and it still won't keep time. I'm thinking its getting a little long in the tooth. I've maxed out at six drives, and had considered just getting an 8-port SuperMicro card, but..... Might as well turn this board into a lab machine and upgrade my server for the next few years. Presently running an AMD AthlonII X2 250u -- absurdly low power, but with the integrated graphics on the motherboard, I'm sure a modern solution would draw less power. Plus now I can take advantage and upgrade to ECC memory, an Intel NIC (or two), and IPMI. Looking for suggestions for a replacement. Micro ATX, ATX, strange sizes, whatever, I have a large tower and anything should fit. Again, IPMI would be sweet, as would ECC and an onboard Intel NIC, but it must have at least 8 SATA ports (and not on some strange controller chip unraid won't like, as I've seen with other boards) Any suggestions? Intel-based would be fine as I could use a ridiculously low power Celeron (1150 or 1155) and upgrade to something later if it ever becomes necessary. Thanks.

I have the same MB and an Athlon II X2 250u -- thinking about upgrading to a newer AM3+ MB with 8 SATA and adding ECC RAM. Also curious if it will work with this CPU (and, frankly, if AM3+ will support this CPU)

I went with Ubiquiti Airware. No longer made, unfortunately, but totally awesome, took 30 seconds to set up, and my network speeds are blazing now. For sale: numerous powerline adapters that no longer are needed! Ha! Hopefully as 802.11ac tech improves and matures, Ubiquiti will release versions of their Pico and Nano stations in that flavor, and I can bring my entire network to a whole new level of speed without running wires.

I am evaluating VPN services. Currently looking hard at TUVPN.com -- would welcome comments from anyone using this (or any other) service. As I understand it, I can only connect to my VPN service with one device simultaneously (generally speaking, based on the packages I've been looking at purchasing). I'm good with this because I run pfsense at home, and can run all of my systems behind it. BUT... I also want vpn access to my home, via openvpn, so I can remotely manage my network. This will generally be done using my phone as a wifi hotspot, but I'd also like to talk about my options for securing the connection should I find myself on a public wifi network (Starbucks etc). I have a no-ip account, but as I understand it, having my personal domain name going around a public wifi network to establish a vpn connection is risky. In addition, when my wife travels, I'd like her devices (iPad, iPhone, laptop) to be secure as well. Since only once device can connect to the commercial vpn servers at a time, this means we would need several accounts. So, from a network design standpoint, is it possible to put all of my devices on my home network, via vpn, no matter where they are in the world, and then have all traffic go through the commercial vpn? I am trying to find a way to encrypt and protect devices when they are not behind my pfsense box, without putting information into each packet that a hacker could intercept and use. Comments welcome.

For me these problems are occurring long before it even gets to booting an OS; its BIOS, for sure.

Unfortunately the adapters are installed where furniture is installed, ie, entertainment center (my "network closet") and my desk upstairs (which cannot be moved without upsetting the order of the house, ie, the wife). I'll make do until something better comes along. May just relocate my second server downstairs and run an ASUS 802.11AC PCIe card in my desktop; I had hoped to run wired GigE between the second server and my desktop, but AC might provide "enough" bandwidth. Sad state of affairs, frankly, dd-wrt and OpenWRT both support what I am trying to do, just not enough info on the web regarding modern AC APs/routers for me to pull the trigger on a pair without wondering if I'm throwing cash away. Surely I'm not the only person wanting to do this, and from reading it seems common, just with lesser and slower hardware.

Replaced CMOS battery, still changes date/time between boots (or during service, frankly, system time is wrong every time I log in). Looks like I may have a bad USB port; upgraded a disk tonight and system hanged at "initializing usb devices." Moved the unraid flash disk to a different port, and it recognized it (although it still removed the USB drive from the first slot in the boot priority list and I had to change it to get it to boot). It worked... for about two years. Now suddenly its back to the way it was when I was first building the system (played heck trying to get it to boot off USB first, then one day it just worked and continued to work up until a few weeks ago). May be time to get a new MB.

I just learned OpenWRT supports the UAP-AC. Perhaps there is yet hope.

Right now I have a pair of three-year-old Zyxels of the "200mb" variety. They cross two breakers in a standard 200-amp domestic panel. No surge suppressors. In the old house I had better speeds, in this house my upstairs Zyxel gives me a red LED. Green is best, yellow is better, red is good, according the to the mfg. In other words, green is great, yellow is OK, and red is horrible. This house is several years newer than the other one, as are the household appliances, so I'm not sure what is causing the connection trouble. I am getting 24mb/s tops out of the link. Transferring a couple of movies from my PC upstairs to my unraid server downstairs is something I do overnight. And while the transfer is occurring, all other network use on the PC is essentially useless. I have looked at the new 500mb and 600mb devices from various manufactures, but am not sold on the idea just yet. If my wiring has an issue, or there is an appliance or flourescent ballast generating interference, newer/faster devices may not get beyond 24mb/s either, and I'd rather spend the money on a wireless solution (God knows how long it would take for me to track down the errant wire/appliance dirtying the line), I just can't find anything that would fit. Speed, reliability, price... based on my research I can pick one, maybe two at best. A legit wireless solution in the 6-23GHz range offering 622Mbps actual throughput is $2000 per side, and those devices belong on towers linking buildings or communities... Seems there is no mature consumer-grade, or even "enthusiast-grade" wireless backbone system that is both speedy and reliable. I either get 802.11g speeds (Ubiquity Pico), 1st gen 802.11n speeds (Ubiquity Nano), or 300/450/1300/1750mbps speeds but the latter mentioned are terrible from the reliability standpoint, based on the hundreds of reviews I've read in the past week. I did find that dd-wrt is available for Ubiquity UAPs, which is awesome, but there are various issues between WDS, client-bridge, and client-repeater. Some can't forward MACs other than the AP's (pfsense is my dhcp server, static arp pairings, so that would break), some halve the bandwidth by necessity, etc. The UAP-AC at 1300mbps, even with its bandwidth halved, would be fantastic running dd-wrt, but they are $300 ea and still very much in beta, as many things on the devices are broken. At the moment the house is a rental, and even when we buy it, having an electrician run a bunch of wires and then patch/paint the walls is gonna cost more than a bit. At that point I could almost build two four-port linux-based routers, buy 8 Ubiquity Nano stations, and set up a 4/4 load balancer/interface bonded backbone link Trouble with that is we'll all have cancer in a year.

I am using powerline ethernet now, and performance is dismal.

should i buy buffered or unbuffered? does it matter? i got errors on last parity check and now i am paranoid.

Thanks for this, will definitely be researching this tonight.