April 9, 200818 yr Hello this is my first UnRaid build and I have very limited experience with servers and linux etc. etc. I completed my first UnRaid build last night consisting of: Antec Earthwatts 430 PSU MSI K8N Neo3-F motherboard AMD Sempron 2800+ CPU 2x512MB DDR ram 2x200GB PATA HD's 1x160GB PATA HD (removed) 1x500GB SATA HD (surgically removed from external.. shouldn't matter) These were obviously all spare parts I had laying around and I was basically doing this build as a test run... I have run into a snag. The original build was with the 3 PATA drives and worked near flawlessly. An hour ago I extracted the 500GB drive and put it in for the 160GB... i'm attempting to Parity-sync right now and it is crawling at a rate of 4,500-5,000 KB/sec. Last night when I synced it went at a nice pace of 35 KB/sec and finished within an hour and a half. At this rate... this sync is going to take many many many hours. Something is wrong and I don't know how to fix it due to my limited experience. I'm not ready to go solely SATA yet and don't have enough space in PATA's for what I need (this is a media server).
April 9, 200818 yr Hello this is my first UnRaid build and I have very limited experience with servers and linux etc. etc. I completed my first UnRaid build last night consisting of: Antec Earthwatts 430 PSU MSI K8N Neo3-F motherboard AMD Sempron 2800+ CPU 2x512MB DDR ram 2x200GB PATA HD's 1x160GB PATA HD (removed) 1x500GB SATA HD (surgically removed from external.. shouldn't matter) These were obviously all spare parts I had laying around and I was basically doing this build as a test run... I have run into a snag. The original build was with the 3 PATA drives and worked near flawlessly. An hour ago I extracted the 500GB drive and put it in for the 160GB... i'm attempting to Parity-sync right now and it is crawling at a rate of 4,500-5,000 KB/sec. Last night when I synced it went at a nice pace of 35 KB/sec and finished within an hour and a half. At this rate... this sync is going to take many many many hours. Something is wrong and I don't know how to fix it due to my limited experience. I'm not ready to go solely SATA yet and don't have enough space in PATA's for what I need (this is a media server). Many time this is caused by a bios option that puts the SATA crontroller in an IDE emulation mode. That is where I'd check first. That emulated IDE mode sometimes uses a PIO method, and is very slow. In any case, we would know for sure what is happening if you post a copy of your syslog. (instructions in the wiki) Joe L.
April 10, 200818 yr Author Well rather than deal with the problem I stumbled upon a Best Buy 1TB Seagate deal for $189.99... after some giftcards, reward certs, and coupons I got it for $106 after taxes etc. Needless to say i'm just taking out all the PATA drives for now and going SATA.... 1TB and 2x500GB drives. I took a quick look in the BIOS before installing the drive and didn't really see anything related to IDE emulation etc. It's probably worded differently... regardless I'm avoiding the problem with the SATA setup it seems. Currently syncing at 60-70 MB/s and moving over data from my other 500GB drive so that I can add it to the array. Thanks for the help and if I decide to upgrade to a registered version I'll probably want to add in the PATA's for the time being... but until then thank you for your help and I don't wish to waste anymore of your time!
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