Here is why i wonder if it is dangerous. With a share, unraid decides which drive to copy the file to. For this it needs to know the size of the file, then chooses which drive depending on the split rules defined and space left.

 

But when making an ISO file from a HD DVD or Blu-ray, the data will be streamed during the rip process, so you won't know the size of the file untill it ends. As for a Blu-ray it can take up to 50Go, that takes some room, so how does unraid make the choice in that case ? I imagine it chooses one that in the end doesn't have 50Go left, how will unraid react then ?

 

Is it safe to do this, or i should forget about it and rip to my drive and then copy the all ISO to the share ?

 

I ask because the ripping process takes around 1 hour, then the copy that will take some time too. So riping directly to the share will save me a lot of time, but of course only if it is safe.

 

If as i imagine this is not safe, is it safe to make the rip directly to an unraid drive i know there is enough room (like for example \\unraid-server\disk3\Movies\BR\) ?

You can write directly to a disk.  Also, the best way to ensure you don't have the share problem is to monitor your drives for remaining space.  If they are all getting within 50GB, it is probably time to add or upsize a drive.

 

 

Bill

Thanks, that's what i thought.

 

I will try to rip directly to a disc to see if it takes longer, but i guess it will be the same, so i will gain my drive space and the time to copy.

 

I would have trouble to upsize my discs, they are all 1To. I will have to wait for the 1.5To or more, if they are not too expensive. But if it takes 17hours to do a parity check, it's going to take a lot more to check.

If you are full up on 1TB drives, you may want to consider running a second Unraid.  Not only do parity times increase with drive size, but so does the risk of a double disk failure.

 

There is obviously a cost (license, case, mobo, CPU, PSU, memory), but the reduced time and risk may be worth it.  At some point, the cost of the drives far outweighs the cost of everything else - i.e. 16 drives costs more than ~$2500, whereas everything else probably adds up to ~$500.

 

 

Bill

Do you mean instead of having 1 unraid server with 15 discs inside, having 2 servers with 8 discs and 7discs , or having 2 servers with 15 discs in each

 

A second server would increase power drain, heat, space and cost. Not to mention for now my unraid server is half apart and still not working. I will wait first to see if i can make it work 

Well if i have to change every piece of hardware to find the one broken (if any), i might end up with a second server after a while ;-))

I guess if you use a cache drive then it might work better. Rip to it and then the server will write those files to the hard drives later. You always know you have 1T to work with after the cache drive is cleared.

 

Peter

 

PS. The hardware issues you were having are a pain. Hopefully you find the solution without purchasing too many new parts. The lack of a list of working PCIe SATA cards doesn't help.

 

The hardware issues you were having are a pain. Hopefully you find the solution without purchasing too many new parts. The lack of a list of working PCIe SATA cards doesn't help.

 

I thought it was published what does work and what is sanctioned/supported to work.

When those go where no man has gone before, they should update the wiki.