Nathaniel

Another quick deal on the N54L MicroServer for us in North America. Promo code EMCYTZT4194 brings it to $290, then Newegg offers a $50 Visa rebate card if you purchase it on September 16th or 17th. I grabbed this server last year for the same price and didn't have to get a rebate, but Newegg has a decent reputation on fulfilling rebates. Definitely a good deal for good hardware, even after adding $80 for the IPMI Remote Access Card. I downgraded my 10-drive system to 5x3TB in here, plus a 128GB SSD Cache drive and I'm very happy. It has enough power to run Plex Server, transcoding 1080P content. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=59-107-921 Here's the IPMI Card at Amazon, since Newegg doesn't have it in stock. http://www.amazon.com/Micro-Server-Remote-Access-Car/dp/B0042AL4R2

The result is really outstanding! Certainly a better use of space than the big mid tower systems I have stashed around.

I was very, very interested in Hyper V 3, since it is very easy to do raw device mapping of individual hard drives to a virtual machine, unlike ESXi which requires fairly obnoxious command line work. Unfortunately Hyper V doesn't pass through USB devices to VMs, so i don't know how you'd boot Unraid. Most workarounds seem to involve buying things like USB over IP devices, which seems ridiculous. If we (or Tom) can come up with a solution to the USB issue, I think this would be a great solution for people who want to maximize the usage of hardware without VT-D.

Newegg has a promotion for 15% off all Seagate Barracuda drives right now (ends Sunday the 9th). Enter promo code EMCNANC33. Shipping will vary, my total cost for a ST3000DM001 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148844 was $134.68.

Thanks Argonaut -- I actually didn't know how to link to a combo deal

Newegg has a Labor Day sale on the very popular Supermicro X9SCM-F-O when purchased with a HighPoint RocketU Low Profile USB 3 PCI card, for $169.99 together. No special code needed.

I work for a major computer hardware manufacturer (not hard drives), and everything Frank says is right. At the moment the WD Red drives look very interesting, but they are also a brand new product line. I can guarantee you the engineers who built that drive are poring through lots of data so that they can change the manufacturing/assembly/packaging to increase reliability. 4-5 months after a new product line like that is out, it's unlikely any more changes will get made unless a glaring huge is discovered. Warranty lengths are a marketing/accounting decision, they don't have any relationship to the reliability of a product from any major manufacturer. I personally use a Seagate 3TB for my parity drive, because it is fast, relatively low power, quiet, and as reliable as any other drive. You could just as successfully use a WD Black or Green depending on availability, price, and priorities for noise/power/speed. I'd recommend waiting a few more months on Reds, if only for the price to come down, as well as for manufacturing and firmware changes to happen. Given the state of the market, I think it would be a foolish economy to use anything other than an SSD for the cache drive. Spinning disks are still a bit pricey, but SSDs are getting bigger discounts every week. The cache drive is most likely to be operating 24/7 if you're doing any automatic downloading. A good quality 120 GB SSD can be gotten for ~$60 pretty regularly these days.

This review/test certainly makes me a lot more interested in the Red: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/Western-Digital-Red-3TB-SATA-SOHO-NAS-Drive-Full-Review

Now the WD have dropped below $150 on Amazon without any promotion. http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Caviar-Green-Desktop/dp/B004RORMF6

I just got my second card from this vendor and it's a little less stellar this time. No bracket included, but it looks like a common size since it is 53mm center to center, a perfect fit for the bracket off a cheap 2-port SATA3 Highpoint 62x controller that came bundled with a 3TB drive I bought last year (glad I hung on to it "for emergencies"). They also sent it in a USPS padded envelope instead of an express mail box, so a couple pins on a header are bent. I have no idea what the header is for but I'm writing to them and asking for a replacement. I'll let everyone know how it goes. Thankfully i don't need this card, I just figured I'd get an extra while they were cheap, so an extra week isn't a big deal.

I know it states no bracket, which is why I mentioned mine came with one anyways. Still, for the price it would be cheaper to buy from them and then pick up a cheap PCI card for $5 just to get the bracket

I just upgraded from Plus to Pro and got a response quickly on the 1st to a follow-up email. May be worth pinging him, it probably slipped through the cracks.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-ServeRAID-M1015-SAS-RAID-Controller-FRU-46M0861-LSI-PN-SAS9220-8i-/190621067260?pt=COMP_EN_Networking_Components&hash=item2c61e6a7fc I ordered one from the same seller ("nationwidesurplus") last week and just flashed it and installed it, works great. It looks like they have somewhat regular quantities, so if this particular one is sold out, search the seller and see if they have another batch or wait a few days if nobody else has a similar price. They seem to put up 5-6 cards at a time. Mine shipped quickly via USPS priority mail and arrived safely in a decent box, and did have a standard/long bracket on it.

run "newperms" to fix permissions on everything in the shares. you're right, it is a permissions issue. because you copied things from the command line, which is the root user, now root owns those files. I think the nobody user is the one that is supposed to own anything on the shares. If you used chown after moving things around you could fix it manually, or just run newperms again. Copying the files through the share interface (i.e., not by logging in to unRAID) si the only way to really avoid the issue, but it will become less of a problem once you have the big things where you want them and stop needing to move them around internally. Also, try using midnight commander by running "mc" on unRAID -- it is a great file manager for arranging things the way you want without having to type on the command line.