You built unraid strong!

Man I gotta say that I have had a roller coaster of a week.

I recently installed plex/sickbeard/SABNzbd onto my server. It all felt good, but I thought that I was under powered running it on a old AMD 939 dual core with 3 gigs of DDR (Yes DDR!) Asus A8N-SLI Delux board (which lucky for me is one of the few Nforce boards that really work with unraid is my understanding).

So I purchased an amazon fire tv (My surround sound doesn't have HDMI and so I went with the Fire because it offered a toshlink and was the best affordable for me) got that setup and then used the hardware from my XBMC server to upgrade my unraid server.

This jump my unraid server to a AM3 mother board, AMD fx 965, and 7 gigs of DDR2 ram. I thought that I could centralize everything by doing so.

After moving everything over got all of the plug in's working, but then I started getting timing out with Plex. I started to disable all of the plugins one by one until I was back down to unraid only running again, but still was having some issues with getting to the tower through the web browser. So I had my buddy who know more about this come over and have a look. We found some files that where somehow corrupted. We figured that was the problem.

So being smart I started to save my pictures and other things that are of value to me and back them up to blu rays (8 disk's latter) I was ready to deal with the core of the server. We decided that I should just start over (yes I know that many people have said that there is no need to start over, but this way I am getting ride of a just that I just don't need anymore).

So I proceeded to start over. I used the New config under Utilies, moved the drives completely around thinking that would solve it, but it didn't.

I pulled the parity and another drive out and using windows 8.1 formatted them, put them back in and the system just rebuilt itself.

So I have to top my hat out to everyone that has worked so hard on unraid. You've damn mad it impossible for someone to maliciously try to break unraid and I have to say that it is ROCK SOLID!

I don't think that I am ever going to have a sleepless night ever about loosing any data ever!