I'd like to vote for TrueCrypt for encrypting drives, and the lm_sensors package for monitoring the mobo, cpu temp, etc.

I'd like to vote for TrueCrypt for encrypting drives, and the lm_sensors package for monitoring the mobo, cpu temp, etc.

 

Why do you care about encryption?  Are you that afraid that someone will find out you enjoy watching Legally Blonde 2 or Steel Magnolias?  Or perhaps you don't want your buddies knowing that you recorded every week of Oprah?

 

Seriously, UnRaid is aimed specifically at HTPC use, not general purpose servers where encryption and similar features would be required.  The only security I want is the ability to keep folks from accidentally deleting files and so I could (if I chose to do so) keep the under-18 crowd from viewing certain movies.

 

 

Bill

Different strokes for different folks.  I do a lot of civil investigative work.  I have hundreds of hours of surveillance video and audio that I intend to use unRAID for.  My HTPC is more of an OTPC (Office Theater PC).  ALL of my Windows PCs are encrypted with TrueCrypt.

 

 

Different strokes for different folks.   I do a lot of civil investigative work.  I have hundreds of hours of surveillance video and audio that I intend to use unRAID for.  My HTPC is more of an OTPC (Office Theater PC).  ALL of my Windows PCs are encrypted with TrueCrypt.

 

 

 

Got it.  I wonder what other types of similarly interesting non-standard uses folks have.  I always assume music server, DVD/TV server, etc.  I have heard of a few folks using it for general-purpose document storage, but it is tough to fill up that much space with word or excel documents.

 

Maybe we need a separate thread/poll?  Or maybe I'm just a curious nut-case?  Uh, don't answer that second question.

 

 

Bill

Another situation is photographers that have a lot of "sensitive" images.  Several photographers have had their homes and studios broken into by people looking for images of particular people shot by that photographer.  For example, I shot nudes of a girl in college that ended up becoming Miss Universe.  I still have one of them hanging on the wall, but no one knows it is her.  My Canon 1DsMkII creates 16MB images, so 5 or 6 GB of raw files from each shoot is not uncommon.  I keep several hundred GB of images on my current Windows based server, all under TrueCrypt protection.

 

 

You have my vote for True Crypt on UNRAID. A general purpose server is more useful than a HTPC server any day of the week - and its not much a stretch to get there.

 

Cant Tom use those rent a coder or some service thats available online that lets folks in third world countries code for peanuts to do some of this work for him? also another idea if funding is an issue then sell the features as add on modules. People who want them will pay for them.

 

http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/default.asp

 

Free is great but come on...

Another vote for lm_sensors.  I would especially like a page in the GUI to display this info. 

 

As far as truecrypt I would not hold your breath.  It would be cool, yes, but a prog like that running without swap space could be a bad idea and lead to corruption.  I am looking to follow the instructions elsewhere in this forum and set up a drive with swap space and add my own packages.  I doubt it will be part of the unraid base OS install. 

 

FYI:  I already have a drive with a truecrypt volume that is mounted across the network and I don't have any problems with it.  It is a file though and not a drive encrypt for obvious reasons.

 

I do plan to install a drive for swap and run truecrypt on the unraid box eventually.  That falls under "customization" however.