argh, I'm in hardware hell.

 

Now I have a bad motherboard and 4 bad 2TB drives.  Well 2 are bad, 2 are just not useable in a network storage application.  awesome.

 

The EARS drives (and all WD non-enterprise drives) are now on the NOT recommended list for QNAP servers (which I am now shopping for).  I wonder if these problematic drives have been causing all my headaches.  Before Unraid, I gave WHS V1, then VAIL a try.  Neither of them were stable for me.

 

So I'm looking at:

 

$400 for the QNAP

$400 min to replace these drives. 

 

yippee, the wife is gonna love this one 

 

 

I'm in the middle of recovering all my files.

 

I have a small issue.

 

All my disks contain the same directory structure (mostly).  But some of the directories are empty on one drive, but full on another.  I understand that unraid was spreading the data across the disks, but I don't fully understand why it is organized the way it is. 

 

I easily copied one full drive onto a new blank drive, onto an ntfs partition.  But now the next 2 hard drives contain roughly the same directory structure.  If I copy the whole thing over, will I be wasting my time overwriting all the data again? 

 

I'm using YAREG to copy files, which is a gui for rfstool.  It doesn't give me any feedback that anything is happening, so I doubt it will give me any kind of dialog box for existing files.

 

I bought 3 Hitachi 7k3000 hard drives to replace the WD ones.  I also ordered a Qnap TS-412.  I may still keep an unraid box going for additional backup.

well that's it!

 

I've successfully recovered and transferred all my data to the new qnap.  3 hdd's in raid 5 for now.  I will use the old WD drives to keep copies on other computers. 

 

QNAP is so dead-simple.  Plug it in, it beeps when its ready (*genious*).  Built the array in a day, transferred the data the next day, installed sabnzbd (push 4-5 buttons in the gui), and I'm back up and running. 

 

Thanks for unraid, it was fun!

well that's it!

 

I've successfully recovered and transferred all my data to the new qnap.  3 hdd's in raid 5 for now.  I will use the old WD drives to keep copies on other computers.  

 

QNAP is so dead-simple.  Plug it in, it beeps when its ready (*genious*).  Built the array in a day, transferred the data the next day, installed sabnzbd (push 4-5 buttons in the gui), and I'm back up and running.  

 

Thanks for unraid, it was fun!

Glad you like your QNAP, but what this broke down to was a hardware issue.  I just read back through the thread and nothing in unRAID was the problem.

 

The 5.0b12 bug did hit you, but had you fixed the issue you were having with your drives and then run 4.7 everything would have been fine more than likely.

 

And for reference, installing SABnzbd through unmenu using my packages is just clicking some buttons also