There is a number of things that can cause the drives to overheat: drive failure, fan failure, prolonged extreme use, heatwave, aircon failure, open window, closed window, accidential turning on a radiator, extra new installed drives, new hotter drives.

 

Since it is hard to establish how much headroom one has in a certain setup, how far one is from the point where the fans cant move enough air to keep the drives at a safe temp, it would be nice to have an automatic shutdown of overheated drives.

/Rene

 

 

I would also like to request a slightly more idiot-proof way of adding drives to an array, instead of a manually typed list of "disk1, disk2" etc.  I don't know if a drop -down box (with multi-select capability), radio buttons, or what else would work, but a more visual, GUI-friendly method would be nice.

 

Also, When I check the free space (from a mapped drive on my Windows computer), I'd like it to show the free space of the share, not the entire array.

 

Also, I'd like to request that you guys work 24/7!  (just kidding, but of course I wait until Saturday to finally purchase, and I've had to suffer through the entire weekend without my keys!!!!  )

- Tally used/free space totals on Main page

 

Any chance of this soon?  Ideas here in this old post - http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=38.msg1847#msg1847

I wish laundry list will be updated to the latest release and beta status.

 

 

My version (if it was up to me) - plus comments:

 

- NTPD (seems simple, why delay?)

 

- INTERNATIONALIZATION SUPPORT (I consider this a bug, not just a limitation, there should at least be a note in the web site about the complications!)

 

- S3 wake up (would be ultra cool and ulta economic)

 

- better attribute support (for example now I cannot make a share "hidden" for some and not hidden for others)

 

- email alerts (in fact this should be in for years if unRAID is supposed to be headless), inc. bad disks, overheating disks, disks reaching full, shares reaching full, parity errors, whatever...

 

- NTFS-3G in (better than "stock")

 

- backup/restore configs to all hard-drives (they are small enough to replicate to all), inc. key

 

- some better support for user customizations (using more hooks on various system states)

 

- some web operated undelete (for quick accident fixes, right after the accident)

 

- UPS client

 

- my "overflow" idea (see appropriate thread), i.e. giving the sense of "priority" of some disks over others when writing data

 

- allow manual spin down/up of individual disks (for control freaks)

 

- save syslog and additional error report data to flash by clicking a button on the web page OR executing a script (for cases were web is dead)... this should be in from Day 1

 

- NFS (for Linux guys)

 

- http server (to allow for more customisations)

 

- someone remake a nice web front end (using css), better graphics and more ticks/menus instead of typing (which also allows for errors)... for example chosing include/exclude disks/users etc. ...also reporting on free space for user shares, some nice totals etc.

 

- UPnP

 

- some well supported media server (maybe UPnP is enought?)

 

...some of those are very easy, don't come on conflict with anything else on the system and could easily be V4.4

 

 

Some good ideas, NLS

 

My top 5 are ...

 

1 - Ability to remove a drive from the array without losing parity protection

2 - UPS client support (so unRAID will shutdown normally in the event of a power failure)

3 - Spin down drives if they get too hot, clean shutdown array if it they get even hotter, dirty shutdown if they get even hotter (3 configurable temp settings)

4 - Cosmetic Web Interface changes (e.g., button to capture syslog, edits to prevent common user errors, better display of disk usage, etc.)

5 - Ability to run VMware on the unRAID server.  Not sure what this means from an unRAID perspective, but have not seen anyone do it, at least not easily.

- Print Server

 

I know Tom spent a lot of time trying to remove the print server functionality, but I'd still like to have this feature.

 

EDIT: Never mind, request removed.

- Print Server

 

I know Tom spent a lot of time trying to remove the print server functionality, but I'd still like to have this feature.

 

I think this has some merit, but with some of todays printers that have embedded ethernet, you can get the same thing without requiring a server.

My HP printer has an Ethernet port and software which handles everything without the need of a centralized print server.

Ditto here

 

Ethernet based printer definitely the way to go.

I completely agree with both of you guys. I myself have, and love, my networked Brother HL-5250DN Laser Printer. However, on the off chance that I need to print a color document, I am forced to print the file to a less-than-reliable laptop connected to an old color printer. For me, a print server feature on unRAID is more than convenient.

 

But again, I do understand that it would be a counterproductive hassle to re-impliment. I just thought that if I could save myself $50 on a stand alone USB printserver that I might aswell try. On that note, do you think I should buy something like this TRENDnet TE100-MP1U or this NETGEAR PS121?

You always have the option of installing the basic slackware software yourself. It boils down to time and effort vs money.

learn a new skill or buy a print server. (I mean this respectfully).

As for the USB print server each seems to have it's mixed reviews on newegg.

I've got plenty of effort, I'll try that route. I completely forgot about a regular Slackware install. Thanks WeeboTech.

I've got plenty of effort, I'll try that route. I completely forgot about a regular Slackware install. Thanks WeeboTech.

 

You do not have to do a full slackware install, only the relevant packages.

Not sure if you need LPR or CUPS.

In the past I got it working with just lpr.

You may have to tweak the samba configuration thereafter if you use SMB style printing. (I've never done this).

I guess I jumped the gun on that request. After further research, it turns out that none of my color printers are linux-compatible anyway.

 

If anyone else is curious about the compatibility of their printer, you can look it up at The Linux Foundation's OpenPrinting Database.

I'd like to see kernel modules enabled to for Universal TUN/TAP device driver support.  I believe this all that is missing in order that we can install the slackware hamachi package.

SLAX is 32 bit or 64 bit?

 

I ask because ram is so cheap, that I would love to have more ram to cache file transfers.

This could be a UnRaid Extreme where you have a mobo that supports 64GB of RAM (cheap ram DDR2).

I know I could transfer 7-8 8GB files at maximum gige speed x2 (if we have nic teaming enabled with a Netgear GS716T 16 port smart switch(or other recommendations). Of course it might be cheaper to just buy an ssd drive for cache instead. Now what if we could do striping(raid 0 ) on 3 veloraptor 15K drives for parity. With a norco 4020 or the LIAN Cube 30 drive case, there is lots of room for it.

RAM won't help.

 

GBit Ethernet, even x2, maxes out before disk write speed on a decent cache disk.

I believe unRAID supports PAE which lets you use ram above 4GB.

 

>> This could be a UnRaid Extreme where you have a mobo that supports 64GB of RAM (cheap ram DDR2).

I'm not sure a motherboard with DDR2 can support that much ram. Most max out around 8GB.

The only boards I've seen support very large amounts of ram are server class boards and they usually use buffered ram.

I believe unRAID supports PAE which lets you use ram above 4GB.

 

Still won't help.  Each application can only have 2GB shared code and 2GB private data.

I believe unRAID supports PAE which lets you use ram above 4GB.

 

Still won't help.  Each application can only have 2GB shared code and 2GB private data.

 

I believe the kernel can use it as cache. I see a difference.

I believe the kernel can use it as cache. I see a difference.

 

Only up to a total of 4GB for the kernel plus buffers.  32bit ints just can't do more.

Is unraid ever going to go to 64bit? Just curious.

Is unraid ever going to go to 64bit? Just curious.

 

Maybe in some 5.0 release. For now unRAID supports PAE which does make use of the extra memory above 4GB for the root filesystem and cache buffers.

I would like to see unraid integrated with LinuxMCE. I think Tom could get more "attention" from his product if it worked plug and play with LinuxMCE.

 

I second that! as well as the open source drop box project.

A GUI disk explorer, and I stress GRAPHICAL user interface.  I came from the world of DOS and so I understand the command line but trying to find and move things buried way down deep is not for the faint of heart.  A GUI DISK  explorer would make UnRaid so much more approachable for the non-Linux folks.

 

JWC