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Clonezilla can also do this, and it's free. The only issue I've had with it is it had issues restoring to a different sized hard drive. Windows wouldn't boot and rather than investigate I used true image instead. sent via tapatalk

A tutorial/HOW-to for screen can be found here: http://www.rackaid.com/resources/linux-screen-tutorial-and-how-to/

Every gigabyte MOBO I've used that has HPA has the ability to disable it. The issue isn't that so much as it is if the bios gets reset to default (for any reason), and the HPA defaults to ON, you will probably end up with serious issues with your array.

Me and a friend bought 1 each, both were precleared 5x successfully. Small sample size but if enough people chime in we'll have some sort of idea.

Given that it's a gigabyte mobo the HPA issue may bite you.

As far as I know the only drives that have an issue with the load cycle count are WD drives, and the head parking frequency can be adjusted from 8 seconds to 300 seconds by using WDIDLE

I have an XBMC HTPC (running Windows 7) that's connected via known good gigabit ethernet, and I've experienced this issue 3-4 times in as 6ish months. Hard to know what the cause of the issue is, but I know my friend that runs XBMC on a Linux box, and watches more media than I do, has not encountered this issue (even when using a Raspberry Pi device running XBMC). I've decided it's probably a Windows 7 issue.

I can't give you any advice about your CPU but from everything I've seen about the hybrid drives you should stay FAR away. Apparently they offer very little performance boost for the increased cost. Newer iMacs offer some sort of hybrid drive that works well, but it's a mix of 2 drives, a smallish SSD that holds frequently used files, with a larger spinning drive for media/less accessed files. The storage on these devices is handled dynamically by the OS.

Try disabling all the plugins, and rebooting. If that works enable the plugins one by one (rebooting in between each) to find the offending plugin.

My files get downloaded, etc just the same as yours, also without issue. I had sab/sick/couchpotato/transmission all up and running, but every once in a while during a reboot one of them would hang during its start routine, and prevent the array from starting. Many people have experienced the same thing - although I think Influencer has added some functionality to work around most bugs. Another potential issue is that plugins generally download all the requirements at boot, if the resource required is offline, or that file has been removed/replaced with a differently named version the plugin will fail to start. It's all great when everything works, but when it doesn't it's a pain. Sounds like none of this has affected you, which is great. I support a couple unRAID systems which run sab/sick/cp and have only had a couple issues with them in regards to start-up. I probably reboot my unRAID box more than most people to be honest, moreso when I was releasing a version of the transmission plugin.

I've had plugins prevent my system from booting correctly. Moving that functionality from unRAID to a separate VM stops that from happening.

I have an XP VM that moves files to my user shares without issue. My shares just use the default account that's created when the shares are set up (I haven't created any user accounts).

Reread the thread, it's already been stated that you don't install xbmc on unraid. sent via tapatalk

The tools don't appear to work with ESXi 5.1, so if that's what you're running, that's the problem.

Since you're using this drive as your parity drive, you should really preclear it (on drives that have been used in other systems I preclear 5 times, which may be overkill, but makes me feel a little bit better about putting the drive in my array). For my parity drive I also did a preclear x5. For what it's worth I took a drive from a small NAS device (DNS-323), and it failed on the 3rd preclear cycle (clicking).

That seems very wrong. On my ESXi server, with an M1015, these are the speeds for preclearing a 3TB WD Red drive (from the rpt file that's generated) : == Using :Read block size = 8225280 Bytes == Last Cycle's Pre Read Time : 8:00:18 (104 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Zeroing time : 7:06:27 (117 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 20:36:45 (40 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Total Time : 27:44:11 I'd try removing the SAS expander and port multipliers. I haven't had time to read the entire thread, but are you passing your M1015 through to unRAID? I am, so that could account for some difference.

I have OpenVPN on my router, and with it can access my servers behind the router. I mostly just set it up so I could manage my ESXi server that hosts unRAID. With OpenVPN it's like my Android phone is on the local network, so any tools that work via WiFi work properly. Another option is to use SSH tunnels and port forward to devices behind your router. I'm running Tomato firmware on my router, and that enables both these options.

Updating a motherboard on unRAID is easy, assuming the board is supported. I successfully moved from an old Gigabyte AMD motherboard, to an Asrock z77 motherboard (just a quick test to make sure everything worked on the motherboard), and then installed ESXi 5 on the z77, and virtualized unRAID. All data and my configuration remained in tact. Once up and running you should do a parity check (with no correction) to ensure all is good. Moving Windows to another motherboard (especially with a different chipset) is another story. You may need to do an in-place upgrade to allow windows to boot, and will likely have to install drivers for that motherboard. The biggest gotcha here will be making sure you have windows installation media ready for after swapping the motherboard, and drivers (especially network drivers) to get you up and running. If you don't have an optical drive in your computer there are tools for creating bootable USB sticks for Windows Vista/7/8 and Linux. You'd also want a copy of any pertinent drivers on a usb stick, network drivers being the most important.

I was about to say I don't understand the anger about all this, but if you go to purchase a key, there is no version number included. And then when you go to download a version the top listed version is an RC. If memory serves, this is not how it used to be (I remember scrolling down to grab 5.0.14b). Given the way links, and registration key purchases are now presented, things certainly seem a bit misleading. It's a little disingenuous to list a beta/RC of your product first (no matter how stable it is) when there is a stable version available. I don't feel ripped off, and the product does (for me, and several friends) what was promised (all running RCs currently), but I can understand, after looking at the way links are presented on the official website, why some people might feel upset about how the info was presented.

I personally think that usage patterns of large drives may have had an impact on warranties. I had 2 drives sitting in a DNS-323 in JBOD mode running for a few years, and that enclosure only has a 40 or 60mm fan on it, and was quite warm. When I moved to unRAID I copied the data from the DNS-323 and then tried to preclear the disks. Both disks didn't preclear properly, one of them started clicking on the 3rd preclear. Both were RMA'd I think there were probably a lot of users doing unexpected things with consumer level drives, like running them 24/7 without adequate ventilation causing reliability issues, so to deal with that issue they've adjusted the warranty period to compensate. That's just my thought, as time moves forward the drives should become more reliable not less.

How did you set up Sabnzbd (plg file, via unmenu)? Which version are you running? Many people use Influencer's plugin successfully. A friend of mine had problems with Sabnzbd hanging his ESXi server when it was checking PARs - it turned out to be bad memory, so you may want to check into that.

If you are pre-clearing the disks that used to house your data and you have no backups, or don't relish the idea of restoring from backup, you should enable parity immediately.

Just so you're aware there are some security problems with PPTP that have come to light within the last couple of months: https://www.cloudcracker.com/blog/2012/07/29/cracking-ms-chap-v2/

I use SSH to my router and tunnels to access my computers beyond the router. I'm using public/private key files that are password protected to authenticate SSH connections. If anyone wants to hack it they'll need my keyfile that I control, and the password for the key file. It works pretty well for accessing anything that only needs a couple ports open (VNC, access to web servers, etc).

Is this your first time setting up unRAID on this computer? Is your USB drive labelled UNRAID? Can you try a different USB stick? It's kind of hard to know what could be wrong with the amount of information being provided.