mr-hexen

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  1. so started the switch over. Decided to retain the 160gb as my cache drive since its a single platter drive thats brand new. should be very reliable and low power for 7200rpm.

     

    however, it has all been reverted back to normal, the icy dock MB973 i got was DOA in bay #3. would recognize my WD20EARS 25% of the time, and when it did I got DMA I/O errors constantly in the console.

     

    RMAing it for a replacement, 1 more attempt, then I'm getting it refunded.

     

    any other 3in2 cages people recommend that are short like the icy dock 973? this is (for now) going in a Gen1 Antec P150

  2. my current setup:

     

    Parity - WD20EADS

    Data1 - WD5000AKS

    Data2 - WD5000AKS

    Data3 - WD5000ADS

    Cache - Seagate 160gb

     

    unRAID Plus 4.7

    addons: clean shutdown, transmission, unmenu, mover modifier (_ and sync), mail.

    transmission is installed on /mnt/cache/.transmission

     

    What I want to do is this:

    assign   drive             change

    Parity - WD20EADS >> no change

    Disk1 - WD5000AKS >> no change

    Disk2 - WD5000AKS >> no change

    Disk3 - WD5000ADS >> cache

    Cache - Seagate 160gb >> remove

    Disk4 - WD20EARS >> new addition

    Disk5 - WD20EARS >> new addition

    Disk6 - WD20EARS >> new addition

     

    in english, change the cache drive to the WD5000AADS as well as move the contents of the 160gb cache to this drive, add three WD20EARS.

     

    data is only on Disk1 and Cache right now.

     

    here's what I'm thinking the steps are.

     

    1. stop array.

    2. un-assign Disk 3 from the array.

    3. recalculate parity and start array.

    4. copy seagate cache to /mnt/disk3/   (what is the proper command to do this???)

    4.1 tell user shares not to use cache.

    5. un-assign seagate 160gb as cache.

    6. assign disk3 as cache.

    6.1 tell user shares to use cache.

    7. remove seagate from system.

    8. install the 3 new WD20EARS and assign as needed disk5/disk6/disk7.

     

     

    do i have this right?

     

  3. thanks, it was installed successfully, and works just fine!

     

    I installed to /mnt/cache/.transmission

     

    watch and incomplete folders are /mnt/cache/.torrents/watch | /downloads

     

    when complete, files are moved to /mnt/user/media (cache drive enabled)

     

    then the mover moves the files to the array each night.

     

    thanks again prostuff.

  4. I just finished reading through this entire thread (yes, all 35 pages). I admire the work prostuff and all have put into this package(s), so first off, a big thank you.

     

     

    I have a clean install of unRaid Plus 4.7, and unmenu installed and working.

     

    I have 3 data disks, 1 parity disk, and 1 cache disk installed and working.

     

     

    my goal is to setup Transmission and get it working with the remote webui from google code. not really interested in couch potato or those at this time. Id rather hand pick my torrent files.

     

    After reading the entire thread there are still some install questions/steps that are unclear to me.

     

    1. i need to download all unmenu-conf files for libidn, curl, libevent, openldap, pycurl, glibc, and transmission from the first page of this thread, correct? all files are needed still?

    2. change variables (i.e. install dir, watch dir, downloads dir, etc.) in the transmission conf file via unmenu BEFORE installing, but after downloading, correct?

    3. do they need to be installed in a specific order via the unmenu interface?

    4. the only one that needs to auto install on server reboot is transmission, correct?