I recently created an unRAID server with x6 2TB drives w/ a cache drive and a parity drive. I would like to come up with a very fast method of transferring my media collection which is on a 1.5TB Seagate Freeagent Xtreme to the server without transferring the files over the network because those transfers only top out at 9mb/s.

 

Has anyone come up with a method of connecting a USB drive to an unRAID server to allow easy offloading? I do not want to include the USB drive in the array, I only want to copy the files over to my array.

 

(If this ever became a feature I think it would totally smoke-out the competition!!!)

 

All help is much appreciated!

 

-Jmac

I recently created an unRAID server with x6 2TB drives w/ a cache drive and a parity drive. I would like to come up with a very fast method of transferring my media collection which is on a 1.5TB Seagate Freeagent Xtreme to the server without transferring the files over the network because those transfers only top out at 9mb/s.

 

Has anyone come up with a method of connecting a USB drive to an unRAID server to allow easy offloading? I do not want to include the USB drive in the array, I only want to copy the files over to my array.

 

(If this ever became a feature I think it would totally smoke-out the competition!!!)

 

All help is much appreciated!

 

-Jmac

Look in the wiki...  We've had it for years as long as the file-system type is one unRAID knows.

Look here

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mounting_an_external_USB_drive_having_an_existing_NTFS_file_system_in_READ/WRITE_mode_to_transport_files_from/to_unRaid_server

and here

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Copy_files_from_a_NTFS_drive

and here

here: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Add_Ons#SNAP

and here

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Add_Ons#UnMENU

Joe: Would the processes listed above copy the files over the array as a whole or just to the individual drives? My goal is to copy over all of my DVD fulldisc backups onto a share folder on the unRAID server called DVD_Movies. Should I copy the files over to the individual disks or to the share folders directly? When all is said and done, the approximate file size for the whole DVD_Movies share will be almost 2TB.

 

Currently my setup has 6 drives (1 Parity, 1 Cache, and 4 Data Drives) and all of them are the WD 2TB Green Drives (EARS).

 

Thanks for the support!

SNAP will allow you to mount the drives outside of the array.  Once mounted, it is your choice to copy them to the share or directly to the disk.  I believe most prefer to copy to the disk directly, especially if you are not certain of your share structure (min free space, highwater).  I believe it is also a little quicker. 

 

Once you have the USB drive mounted, use Midnight commander or Unix commands to copy the files.

 

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Transferring_Files_Within_the_unRAID_Server