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Yeah would also lke to use it, since everything you've put out thus far has been kick ass hehe.

I seem to be having problems installing it on unRAID Server version 5.0-rc8a, usign unmenu 1.5 fresh install downloaded the file but get a error saying "nothing in /mnt so can't install , sleeping for 10 secs" , but i have my disks under /mnt, if i go to /mnt on the machine i can see the drive, changed the config options to reflect it for example /mnt/disk1 but keeps saying that, any idea? Thanks Edit : Ok figured it, had not moved anythign to the disk yet so the ls /mnt/disk* was returning nothing, made a dummy directory and all worked finr afterwards.

Thanks for the information , think i'll pick the samsung ones then , cheers.

glad to hear Havoc , and elkay , did you guys update the firmware tho or ? if so do you happen to have or confirm if the one uploaded by naxland uploaded is the right one ? Cheers , looking forward to use this drives as they seem quite good other than the possible problem reported.

Yeah , is the firmware still needed for recent drives ? Since these are the cheapest 2tb drives in europe i'm thinking about picking them.

Try to see the CFM differences between the fans , also temperature depends on the ambient temp i guess , 30 with a 28ish ambient temperature isn't as bad as 28 with a 10 ambient from what i read.

Gotcha , thanks So it won't matter if i populate it with 4 m1015's as it will still at least work on the pci express 4 slot speeds just slower . Going to order one for now i guess and the motherboard and cpu are on the way , went with the 1240 since it seemed like the best bang for the buck between speed and price

For now i'm using the one included in unmenu

Found the m1015's for almost 40 euros cheaper than the supermicros , i can use 3-4 m1015's and still have same performance on the x4 slots as the supermicro ones right ? it will still function just at a lower speed ? Sent you a message but guess this way others can know if they have doubts in the future as well. Cheers Also what is the max speed i can expect unraid to perform at with a cache drive ? such as or actual read and write speeds ? I guess it will be limited to what a normal hard drive would perform since i believe there's no stripping ? This assuming it's running without esxi and installed on the machine without anything else Cheers

Started using it but seems to have some sort of issue , i used and it still installed everything , any idea why ? it installed transmission and all the other stuff air video ffmpeg etc. Thanks. I get those warnings as after i setup the things and then it starts by installing JRE Cheers Ah after more testing guess those packages i can't filter out unless i modify the script i guess to not download ffmpeg and jre etc

Yeah no rush , 6.7 works fine for now anyhow. Chhers

Hehe cheers , now i know ! I guess if i go the full hba way i'll go with 2 m1015 and 2 super micros or so , or the expander , will wait for your data when you get and test yours , no rush Thank you very for all the info , now to take care of everything , case is here along with 2 caddies need to order the board and cpu and ram now to start running the server. Cheers

Hello first 2 months will probably suffice with 8. at most 16 but very doubtful as don't want to go crazy while the hard drive prices are so crazy. So my biggest doubt is , if i don't want to go the expander way i will still hit a bottleneck right ? in this case a motherboard one. If i bought 3 or 4 m1015 and placed them on the Supermicro X9SCM-F motherboard 2 of them would still be capped at x4 speeds right ? and other 2 would be at 8x . Just want to make sure i can go either way as i still need to do a lot of reading on the expander method so worst comes would like to still have a solution with 4 hba's or 3. Cheers

Thanks yeah i will add as i go. Actually the m1015 is more expensive for me so i guess i'll go with the supermicro. Still going to think about the expander vs more supermicros , either way the 30 drive should be distant if we count hdd prices right now and i'm going to add as i need anyhow. So 4 supermicro 8 ports would be overkill but the motherboard wouldn't be a bottleneck right ? specially since other than parity checks i would not max it probably but want to make sure , even tho 30 drives is in future it would suck to buy another motherboard . The expander thing is still a but confusing to me but will spend some time reading more about it and it will be cleared then. Thank you very much for your patience By the way what read / write speeds can one expect with unraid with a cache drive ? will it be limited to the single disk you test normal performance i figure ? since the raid in unraid is different. Cheers

Nah i will buy as i go. So as long as a motherboard can support it the best would be to go for 4 supermicro 8 port cards or the m1015 ones ? are those x4 as well or ? noticed you have some m1015's. This with the X9SCM-F motherboard , with 4 x4's i wouldn't have an impact with those correct ? But yeah if going 4 supermicro or m1015 is the better option i will go with that , already sinking so much money that it may as well be perfect. All of the things i picked are esxi compatible right ? Cheers