jeff.lebowski Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Oh man. I have been waiting for this day for the last three weeks. neilt (an unRAID user) told me about this a long time ago, but I was concerned about a server running 24/7, so I went another route. Yeah, that was a bad choice after finding out about the spindown function. I finally decided enough was enough and put together a wish list of goodies, thought about it for a few days, then put them in the cart and clicked ORDER! I took a couple afternoons this week, and built things slowly. Taking the time to manage the cables, and even ordering an 8" 4 pin ATX extender so I can run that cable in the little area between the mobo and the case's side panel. That arrives tomorrow. In the meantime, I was able to do the initial setup stuff today; memtest86 (no errors), then boot from unRAID on the flash drive. I did that, installed unMENU, and got the email notification script working. The preclear on a jumpered 2tb EARS is underway right now. The pre-read is 82% done after 5:20:00. Drive temp is 31C in a 16C room. The speeds started at about 110MB/s, but has dropped to 65MB/s. My big issue is data transfer. That EARS was the only empty drive I had. Between my four machines, I have enough room to empty a 2tb drive, but it's a PITA. Once it's on those machines, then I'll place the newly empty drive in the server, pre-clear it, add it to the array, and start moving data back with teracopy's crc check. Long and tedious. Slowly, but surely I'll get everything on there and protected. The server is going to sit on a shelf in my master bedroom closet. The modem > router > switch is right there, so that's really best. I have to complete the shelf tomorrow while the pre-clear completes. Alright, time to relax now. Looking forward to many years of unRAID use. Quote Link to comment
neilt0 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 My brain-washing experiment worked! Quote Link to comment
Blofeld Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 ....I hope we'll get to ogle your build soon in the Pimp Your Righ thread! Quote Link to comment
jeff.lebowski Posted January 14, 2011 Author Share Posted January 14, 2011 ....I hope we'll get to ogle your build soon in the Pimp Your Righ thread! Once the rest of the parts arrive, I'll finish the build, shoot the pics, and make the post. Quote Link to comment
Bolle Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 ...., and even ordering an 8" 4 pin ATX extender so I can run that cable in the little area between the mobo and the case's side panel. Actually just did the same... a bit OCD... Quote Link to comment
jeff.lebowski Posted January 15, 2011 Author Share Posted January 15, 2011 Damn. The 10th step of pre-clear has slowed to 49MB/s. So anxious! I did get to 29C on the drive, though. We had some kind of a freak 15C weather (normally near 2C, plus we had 3cm of snow on Wednesday), so I opened the windows this afternoon. Server cooled right off. Quote Link to comment
jeff.lebowski Posted January 15, 2011 Author Share Posted January 15, 2011 All done! 63c63 < 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 268 --- > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 270 Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 All done! 63c63 < 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 268 --- > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 270 The new preclear_disk.sh script is now available. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2817.0 and so is unRAID 4.7. Here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=10198.0 They are made to work together. A new "-A" option to the preclear_disk.sh script will create a pre-clear signature that unRAID 4.7 onward will recognize and that will make unRAID create the disk partition aligned on a 4k boundary. If you did not jumper the drive, give it a try. If you did jumper the drive you can either leave the jumper in place and NOT use the new "-A" option, or remove the jumper and re-run the pre-clear with the "-A" option. Joe L. Quote Link to comment
jeff.lebowski Posted January 15, 2011 Author Share Posted January 15, 2011 That drive was jumpered when I installed it. 63c63 tells you it's not jumpered, doesn't it? Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 That drive was jumpered when I installed it. 63c63 tells you it's not jumpered, doesn't it? No, that is the output of "diff" saying line 63 of the smart reports "c"hanged. It has nothing to do with the partitioning. Quote Link to comment
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