Wondering if that is possible to do with the following setup.

I currently have a HTPC with hardware raid5 totaling 4TB usable storage. I'm looking to build an unRAID server as i'm running out of space and i believe this isn't a cost effective/power saving solution. My Problem is, I rely heavily on Newsleecher... so i need to know if i'll be able to download directly to the server with the software installed on the HTPC

 

HTPC - Win7

Newsleecher installed on HTPC with download folder pointing to unRAID server.

 

Will this work or am i going to have to download to a local disk in the HTPC and then transfer at night to unRAID server?

 

One other question... how long should 4TB take to transfer over gigabitr??? .... roughly

Wondering if that is possible to do with the following setup.

I currently have a HTPC with hardware raid5 totaling 4TB usable storage. I'm looking to build an unRAID server as i'm running out of space and i believe this isn't a cost effective/power saving solution.

 

I understand your point, although your new proposal now has two machines powered on instead of one!

 

My Problem is, I rely heavily on Newsleecher... so i need to know if i'll be able to download directly to the server with the software installed on the HTPC

 

HTPC - Win7

Newsleecher installed on HTPC with download folder pointing to unRAID server.

 

Will this work or am i going to have to download to a local disk in the HTPC and then transfer at night to unRAID server?

 

This should work fine. Although take into account the potential delays involved brought about by transferring over the network and also unraid's write mechanism.

 

This shouldn't affect the initial raw download but if you rely heavily on post processing (par / unrar etc) you might notice an increase in time these steps take to occur.

 

One other question... how long should 4TB take to transfer over gigabitr??? .... roughly

 

Basic maths (which hopefully is correct!) :

 

gigabit raw throughput ~120 megabytes a second : ~10 hours

Average hard disk direct ~70 megabytes a second : ~16 hours

Unraid Cache Disk using user shares ~ 40 megabytes a second : ~ 29 hours

Unraid no Cache disk using user shares ~ 13 megabytes per second : ~89 hours

 

The speed numbers are reasonably reliable but will fluctuate depending on your hardware. I'm also assuming you keep up those rates steadily for the entire period which is also quite unlikely.

Thanks for the quick response.... I forgot to mention that this is a shitty pci-x card running in an pci slot and if i put more than the 4 hard drives on this thing, its going to start coughing blood.... plus i like the idea of unRaid and if anything goes south that i might only lose data on the drives that get fried.

 

Also a server with majority or all of its drives spun down should draw minimal wattage.

 

This shouldn't affect the initial raw download but if you rely heavily on post processing (par / unrar etc) you might notice an increase in time these steps take to occur.

would a cache drive help in this situation?

If you have a cache drive use it for initial download of rars, etc and for post processing. When everything is finished, move the files to the array protected shares.

Thanks for the quick response.... I forgot to mention that this is a shitty pci-x card running in an pci slot and if i put more than the 4 hard drives on this thing, its going to start coughing blood.... plus i like the idea of unRaid and if anything goes south that i might only lose data on the drives that get fried.

 

Also a server with majority or all of its drives spun down should draw minimal wattage.

 

This shouldn't affect the initial raw download but if you rely heavily on post processing (par / unrar etc) you might notice an increase in time these steps take to occur.

would a cache drive help in this situation?

 

Yes. You will inevitably hit the situation where the cache move script moves some of your already downloaded files off the cache drive onto the main array before they've been post processed but this will be an edge case and you can tweak the behaviour of the cache script and newsleecher to minimise this.

 

Or, as btlupin suggested force the initial downloading and postprocessing to occur on the cache drive and only set the final destination for the fully processed file to be on your array.

Thanks guys... cant wait to see this thing in action!

I've never used Newsleecher or anything similar, but there are most likely Linux equivalents. I'd search the forum, perhaps you won't need 2 machines on all the time. the unRAID server can download the news pieces and when you need to watch them, you bring your HTPC out of sleep mode.

Use SabNZBd or NZBGet on the Linux/unRaid box instead of Newsleecher on your WinOS box.

Use SabNZBd or NZBGet on the Linux/unRaid box instead of Newsleecher on your WinOS box.

 

Do these programs support repair and extract like newsleecher does? Do you telnet in and use it that way somehow?? Im a total linux noob

I can't help, but here are a few sources of info:

 

  * nzbget

  * SABnzbd

  * Linux reference

  * How is a Linux console different from a Windows console?

Use SabNZBd or NZBGet on the Linux/unRaid box instead of Newsleecher on your WinOS box.

 

Do these programs support repair and extract like newsleecher does? Do you telnet in and use it that way somehow?? Im a total linux noob

 

I can only talk for SabNZBd given I don't use NZBget.

 

Yes it supports repair and extraction. Once SabNZBd has been setup and is running it is entirely driven by a web interface. Many people :

 

- have it auto scan directories for nzb's

- use RSS to automatically grab nzb's

- Use the firefox plugin to keep an eye on it's status

 

So in actuality you can avoid even looking at the web interface most of the time.

Another vote for SABnzbd. Once you get through the learning and setup curve, it's the most flexible solution I've ever used.

Another vote for SABnzbd. Once you get through the learning and setup curve, it's the most flexible solution I've ever used.

 

I installed the windows client yesterday...... its pretty horrible compared to newsleecher. I do love the RSS feed thing, if only i could figure it out. I use newzbin and i searched for "Dexter - 4x" hit the RSS button and pasted the RSS link into the feed box, then TRIED to apply filters with no success.... one stupid Californication show kept showing up and i couldnt get rid of it.... is there a guide somewhere other than the sabnzb site to show examples on how to use this feature?

I'm running a nightly build of version 0.5x. In the past I've used Newsleecher, NewsBin Pro, and Alt.binz. I find SABNzbd to work significantly better than the other three especially in relation to the post-processing steps.