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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

Yes i understand john and i am keeping that in mind. But one question remains , if i need to fill 30 drives + some other for guests or so i would need 4+ sas hba's , and on the case of the br10i they require a 8x pci express 8x port i believe. So it's impossible to do that with any of the supermicros as far as i know. Is the sas expander the thing to do ? otherwise i guess i would need 4x supermicro aoc wich would be quite costly compared to the sas , but one question remains , would the sas be too much of a bottleneck? really inexperienced with the expanders so a bit clueless. So if i added the intel expander + a br10i or supermicro + 6 mb ports or well 5 due to the rmb , i would have well 7 too many or would more ports be shafted? Makes me scared how you treat the expander as just cable management and more ports , then again i would assume 24 drives on a x4 pci express would cap rather easily unless i'm missing something , but then again can't see a viable option for the 4 hba's. Love the 20 and 10 drive unraid idea ! but i'm a bit stumped with the technical side of it right now Shrug Thanks a bunch Actually on some more reading , if i use a sas expander with 24 ports all those drives will only have the transfer bandwidth of one sata port on the motherboard ? then that would be quite bad heh What do you think would be the best idea to host 30 drives + 2 or 3 and be compatible with esxi Johnm ? if i go that route i think i need to use the supermicro 8 port even tho i can't seem to find it easily so probably have to buy in the us + custom taxes , going to order one a time if that's the case to not be hit so hard , i say the supermicro since it uses x4 and the br10i x8 , even then need to see if the supermicro board that i want can power 4 hba cards at x4 speed.

Hard to tell for now since i need to test both , anyway my idea would be to have the 30 drives all together working as raid media on the server with a drive to do the compile stuff. That assuming unraid gets more than 22 drive support sometime , that's why i want flexibility , if i end up needing 30 drives before unraid supports it i will need to have it working on a different system until unraid supports it. Anyway i think the key here is that i would like at least 20 drives all working together with decent speeds to serve my media players at home , also to unpack stuff at a decent speed , doesnt need to be bleeding edge 300 something mb/s even tho i wouldn't mind it , if possible 30 with a spare for cache and parity. Cheers So bottom line is i want 30 drives working sometime down the line , so it would be good if my solution supported unraid freebsd and the esxi option. Will the sas expander and one other 8 port card do that ? or would i need 4 sata cards for that ? shrug i always have to complicate things

Going to use the default unraid one since it looks like all links were removed due to the problem Thanks for your hard work

Sorry , i don't have the BR10i's yet . But i found the br10i for like 30$ and in europe i can find the supermicro aoc 8 port for 100 something euros. But yeah i don't want it to cap the system. So is the sas out of the equation or still good ? so the super micro has 6 sata ports + 8 from some card (what can we find at a decent price that ships to europe? br10i refurb were like 30$ but i don't mind going up to 100 if it's worth it) with an objective for 30 drive plus maybe 3 or 4 on the back. Not sure 100% still if going to go the esxi way or just unraid , above all want to be flexible. Thanks alot for the help , want to make sure this is money well spent for the objectives i have. Thanks for the ram info , going to pick what best suits me from those as well. Damn the 16g double pack is expensive hehe , yeah that one will have to be a later pick

What do you think i need to change Johnm ? how disk instensive hmm , one is a custom linux distro all compiled from source such as linux from scratch , the other is equally large , but yeah it's mostly compiling somewhat of big projects . Also besides that i will use it with sickbeard etc so i would like speed since it will be extracting stuff on a regular basis etc. Also i was planning on going with 2tb drives for now , the case i already bought , i needed something that could blend in the house , so yeah as price goes i know i'll end up at a loss of around 100ish euros in europe with the caddies due to higher prices of the norco here. Does this sound good then for what i need ? Motherboard : SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCM-F-O Cpu : Still going to decide but one of the xeons Memory : Probably starting with 16gb ecc Case : Lian li pc-343b Caddies : Norco SS-500x6 Adapters : IBM BR10I and sas extender Intel RES2SV240 Cooler : People tend to use the default intel one or ? was thinking of a silver arrow or a coolmaster one but not sure if worth it. Thanks for your time

Hello thanks for the info , i already have a case it's a lian li pc-343b wich holds 30 hot swap drives. Mostly wanted to know wich board would be the best to pick and cpu so thanks for the help , probably going with 32gb at first or so Will look into the cpu and sas expander as well , thanks for the information. Also overlooked that topic somehow , alot of information stuff indeed And if the intel expander works fine in unraid it will save me alot of ehadaches trying to squeeze so may sata cards.

Hello , things changed a bit and felt like i would rather not take my case apart later after i do cable management to change the board , so decided to go with the right one from the start. So i'm going with a 22 drive project or well 30ish when unraid allows it. I have some rather big projects that i have to compile on a regular basis , some lasting over six hours on a core 2 quad , so i would like a powerful system to compie it in , if not possible to compile it with just the toolchain available for unraid i would probably use virtualization. I assume the 1155 is the socket to pick right now ? thought about a bulldozer but intel has had the edge for the last years. What motherboard would be the best pick ? going to need 3-4 BR10i's to so i would need matching pci express speeds What would be the best xeon model for this use excluding the ones over 500$ Thank you very much

Thanks will do some more testing and see and update if i still have some more doubts , cheers

Hi , so been testing unraid some more since i'm thinking of buying it and still a bit confused about the user shares . So let's say i have sickbeard and couchpotato on my unraid server , so it downloads from the server to the server , will user shares even make a difference in this case since it's saving it locally and not though a network share ? So my goal would be to download to it as if it was one disk from the server itself and not have to change download locations each time it's filled , also not sure how the indexing would work , let's say i wanted it to be one disk named Media with the folders TV and Movies in it , so from what i read i would have to add multiple sources from xbmc since it seems to index stuff by each disk instead of being able to just add Media/TV on xbmc . Thanks , just a bit confused with how this works

Thanks for the help