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thats the first close up of the cage's side ive seen. restrictive doesnt even begin to cover it. i dont like those drive temps one bit. one drive didnt even change temps at any fan speed. and i didnt realize they made a cut out for a long video card... what the heck??? so for sure add a fam controller, and possibly new fans, to the price. and an (expensive?) modular small power supply. has me considering passing on the case until version 2, or another mfg tries to compete with it personally i'd run the rear fan faster to remove the air brought in from the two side fans. and i hate cases that dont allow the ps fan to face the inside to help remove heat. seems pointless. i do like that the scythe heatsink fits; its one of my favorites and, coincidentally, what im using now in my current tower. definitely looking forward to more build posts and reviews before i buy one.

Excellent, thanks! Will this work with non-APC upses?

How to shut down several systems with one UPS (and one USB cable).... Had initially thought about a USB hub, but it seems these are designed to connect multiple peripherals to one host, not the other way around. Suppose a script written on the machine the UPS is connected to would work, used to gracefully shutdown other systems over the network. With a mix of linux and Windows systems, seems at least two UPS's would be required. One to shutdown a primary Windows machine (and then invoke remote "shutdown" commands on the others), and one to do to the same under linux. As an aside, my primary unraid server will no longer shutdown gracefully on its own. If I use the "shutdown" button in the GUI, it spins down and unmounts the disks, and then nothing happens. ssh'ing into the box, issuing the clean shutdown command, also accomplishes nothing (the process starts, various things happen, but the system never shuts down). This used to work. Now, I have to run the command several times and make sure nothing related to the array is working. Even a 'shutdown -h now' command does nothing. At some point I simply have to power down the server with a long press on the power button. Not good.

Anxiously awaiting 5TB drives as well. Keeping my servers small is key, so upgrading, vs adding, disks is my only solution.

Hope this works itself out.

I really, really appreciate the detailed info, and I'm sure other forum members do as well. I'm glad the board is working out for you. On paper it is simply unbeatable. I must say, with all due respect to AsRock, that I have been building computers for nearly 30 years, and I have never, ever had a mb/cable/drive combo that was that finicky. Maybe I've just been lucky, but if a board (or its controller) can't work with any drive, and any quality cable, then its a one-off. I've worked with $200 PCs and $500,000 servers and everything in between, and none exhibited the preference for drive/cable combo you detail. I am thrilled that you found a combo that works, but I can't risk my data to a board like that. Maybe AsRock reads this forum. Hopefully they build a little more "give" into future BIOS revisions. Their feature set is beyond compare, easily the best in its class, but not if I can expect data corruption because their board decides it doesn't like a drive or cable. I accept that "server class" hardware may be a little more discerning than your average $50 Newegg deal of the day, but wow, I am shocked this product would make it to market with these sorts of issues. Perhaps AsRock was simply trying to lead the market with a board with these features and the issues will be fixed in subsequent BIOS revisions. In the meantime, my hope is that I can spend $250 on an "acceptable" mb/cpu combo now, and AsRock encourages competition among other big names, and more (stable) boards with these features become available in the future.

Been waiting for a thread like this. Anxiously awaiting results. Any tips on brand/model of SATA cables to use to avoid data problems? Don't much like the threat of corruption. Also, a SATA card in the slot slows the system?

how do you like this board? any performance issues as reported elsewhere?

I know there were problems with some of these boards a month or so ago (poor performance on read and writes) Looking at this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157419 vs a mb + 1150cpu + sata card Wondering if anyone has tried these boards lately, or found a fix for the slow speed?

Don't we have rules in this forum??? PICS OR GTFO!!!

Or this? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16842302728

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16842102070 Anyone using this with unraid?

After fighting with an ubuntu install for a few days, I have gone back to running sab/sb on a Windows machine while I try to figure out permissions problems. I'm getting a little confused here. Here's what's happening. If I log into my Windows machine as 'jason' and run sab/sb, with "noboby users" as the owner/group of /mnt/user and /mnt/user/tv_shows, and with unraid user 'jason' having full permissions on all shares, sb can't create folders for new shows, and sab downloads existing shows into the /mnt/user/tv_shows root, not /mnt/user/tv_shows/show. Also, most times sab ends up with an "unpack" folder that may or may not contain the video file for the show, in addition to the newly created show folder, which also may or may not contain the video file. So I am having to manually copy, as user 'jason' under windows, the video files to the right place. I tried to create a user called "nobody" under Windows, and run sab/sb as this user. Also cannot write to /mnt/user/tv_shows If I chown /mnt/user/tv_shows/* to 'jason,' all works well. But then I think I am going against the grain as far as what unraid wants, as I think 'nobody' is the proper owner for all shares, right? Not sure how to handle this.

I should add that I am running plex on this system as well as sb, and here is the only way I could get the mounts to work (from /etc/fstab): //192.168.0.4/movies /mnt/movies cifs username=plex,password= //192.168.0.4/tv_shows /mnt/tv_shows cifs username=plex,password=

I guess I'm confused. How did sb, when run under Windows, have permission to write to /mnt/user/tv_shows on unraid? On unraid, my permissions look like this: drwxrwx--- 1 nobody users 304 2014-04-02 02:18 tv_shows/ The nfs mount on the machine running sb looks like this: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 2 02:18 tv_shows So I am confused where I need to enable access. Thanks for the help!

OK... I know that "bob" had smb permissions since it worked under Windows. Can I mount the share via samba (currently using nfs) and get the same result? Mounting the directory in bob's home dir would mean changing a lot of stuff around on the server. I know most folks run sb on their unraid server, but I prefer a sterile unraid environment. Is anyone else running sb on a separate linux machine?

Just moved sickbeard from a Windows system (where is was running as user "bob") to a linux machine, where is is also running as user "bob" Can't add shows... Permissions on /mnt/tv_shows don't allow sickbeard to create directories. If I log into the sb machine as "bob" and 'mkdir /mnt/tv_shows/foo" I get a permissions failure. Do I need to run sb as 'nobody'? Not sure how to do that either (sb runs on startup) Thanks,

My primary desktop workstation connects to several servers in my equipment closet; i need bandwidth between these systems that is as fast as possible. So I'm looking at adding an 802.11ac Ubiquiti AP to my existing 802.11n Ubiquiti AP. I know the ac can do both ac and n, but I'd like to dedicate the ac AP to a handful of workstations, and run everything else on n. With an iPad and a laptop streaming content from the unraid server, my n network begins to choke. As you said, add a few cell phones or Kindles watching youtube, or the family PC being used to copy a large file to the server, and we begin to have issues. I'd like to get all laptops and wireless devices on the n network, and all workstations and HTPCs on the ac network. Internet bandwidth is irrelevant, as I will never use the speed I currently have to its fullest potential.

I don't read a lot of tech forums, and this one has one of the highest signal-to-noise ratios of all the forums I do read, so I figure I'll ask here. I just moved into a new home, and wiring for ethernet is going to require lots of holes in lots of walls. I am looking at the 802.11ac standard to upgrade from the n network I am running now. But tech sites are saying the standard isn't "standard" just yet, and that in 2014 there will be more finalized plans and more equipment. I don't need a faster network *thisverysecond* but I do need it soon. Wondering if any of you good folks are keeping up on the wireless angle, and if there are new products on the horizon that I should be waiting for. I'm looking at Ubiquiti's 802.11ac AP, along with some adapters from various companies for my most bandwidth hungry systems at home. Comments welcome.

Upgraded two 3TB disks to two 4TB disks; each 4TB disk had 1TB free space about three weeks ago. Now one 4TB disk has 500GB free, the other had 996GB free. All of my shares use all disks, high-water, 50GB min free space, and split level 2. Just thought each disk would be written to evenly, rather than what appears to be happening, one disk getting filled up and then the other.

I appreciate that, but I was really just looking to see if there was a US source for your products. The 8-bay shallow rack mount unit looks ideal for a project I want to do, but I've never ordered from outside the US and wasn't sure what to expect (shipping, taxes, etc). I'll contact you via the site so we're not talking business in the server building forum. Thanks!

Any chance there will be a US-based reseller?

That board with a 13w Xeon E3-1220L v3 and a single stick of 8GB ECC Kingston RAM would be a great combo for the new Silverstone case, Gary, thanks for posting this. I can't find a source for the CPU, but a 35w Pentium G3220T, although stuck with 1333 memory, would let me build for around $350 (not including case and PS)

I've been looking at Supermicro's site, and the only mini-ITX boards with ECC support include an integrated mobile i7 and 2 SATA3/4 SATA2 ports. Is anyone aware of a mini-ITX board that supports ECC RAM, ideally has a socketed CPU, and six SATA3 ports? I know the new AsRock boards do, but you've all read the threads about the issues with them, so.... Thanks.

Depends entirely on how dynamic your data is. But basically you always want your checksums to be current -- I compute and save the checksums along with all new data I store on the server. The once/year validation is simply when I run a full "Validate checksums" for the entire server. OK. May I ask again, how are you doing that on the fly? Or is it a manual process each time you copy a file(s)? My unraid server is the primary file store for everything in the house, including My Documents redirects for all clients, so there are times when a lot of data is going back and forth, between kids saving homework, media files being copied up, etc.